§ MR. VANCEsaid, he wished to ask the Attorney General if his attention has been called to the present state of the Mercantile Law of Canada, which sanctions preferential assignments of debtors' effects without affording any means of redress to the general body of their creditors.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsaid, the grievance to which the hon. Gentleman referred was one which came exclusively within the cognizance of the Canadian Legislature, and one for the redress of which Her Majesty's Attorney General had no power to take the initiatory steps.