§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been called to an Act passed by the Legislature of the Province of Quebec, which imposes a licence duty on all commercial travellers, representing establishments that have no place of business in Canada, who visit the province on business; whether this duty is imposed on British as well as other non-Canadian commercial travellers; and whether he will take steps to have this hindrance to free commerce within the Empire withdrawn, or at any rate to secure that a preference shall be given to British over foreign commercial travellers.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. LYTTELTON, Warwick and Leamington)I have nothing to add to the reply which I gave to a similar Question by the hon. Member for the Elland Division of the West Riding on July 17th†. I have not yet received the report which I have asked for from the Canadian Government on the subject.