§ MR. BLACKI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Canada has since 1897 been in direct correspondence with Germany as to tariff arrangements; and, if so, whether the correspondence will be published.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINThe Canadian Government can only communicate with the Government of Germany through His Majesty's Government, but some informal and unofficial discussions took place between Herr Bopp, the German Consul-General, at Ottawa, and members of the Dominion Government, in 1901, of which there is, so far as I am aware, no record. All the correspondence has already been published.