§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies what answer has been returned by the Imperial Government to the Address to the Crown, in September last, of the Senate and House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada, praying Her Majesty, in view of the earnest desire of the Canadian Legislature to foster and extend the trade of the Dominion with the Empire, as affording, from its diversity of climate and production, the widest prospect of rapid and practically limitless increase, to denounce and terminate provisions in certain Treaties with Foreign Powers incompatible with the rights and powers conferred upon the Parliament of Canada for the regulation of trade and commerce, and tending to produce complications and embarrassments 974 within the Empire; and if the same has been communicated to the representatives of Her Majesty's subjects in British North America now in Parliament assembled?
§ BARON H. DE WORMSThe reply is on its way to Canada, but as it is an answer to an Address to Her Majesty from the Canadian Parliament, it would hardly be proper to make it known until it has been communicated in due course to the Parliament of Canada.