§ MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GOREI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the amount per ton granted by the Canadian Government in the shape of bounties on the output of the Canadian steel and iron industries; and what representations have been made by His Majesty's Government to the Canadian Government with a view to the reduction of any such bounties.
§ * MR. LYTTELTONChapter 6 of the Canadian Acts of 1897 fixed the bounties on iron and steel as follows:—$3 a ton on steel ingots manufactured from ingredients of which not less than 50 per cent. of their weight consists of pig-iron made in Canada; $3 a ton 196 on puddled iron bars made from Canadian-made pig-iron; and on pig-iron manufactured from ore, S3 a ton on the proportion produced from Canadian ore, S2 on the proportion produced from foreign ore. During the year ending on the 30th June next, the bounties are fixed by a subsequent Act at 90 per cent. of the above rates, and they will be gradually reduced to 35 per cent. of the above rates in 1907. No representations have been made by His Majesty's Government to the Canadian Government with a view to the reduction of these bounties.