§ MR. LEIF JONES (Westmoreland,) ApplebyI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been drawn to the contract concluded between the Canadian Government and the Atlantic Trading Company, of Amsterdam, under which the Dominion agrees to pay one pound sterling for every Continental emigrant sent to Canada; whether lie has any official information of similar contracts having been concluded with British shipping companies; and, if not, whether he will take any steps in connection with this preference given to a Continental shipping company in the importation of alien immigrants into Canada.
§ MR CHARLES DEVLIN (Galway)Is not this a question of purely domestic policy, in which this House has no right to interfere with the action of the Canadian Government? Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware that this subject has been discussed in the Canadian House of Commons, and that the course pursued by the Canadian Government received the approbation of a very large majority of the Members?
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.The hon. Member for Galway has saved me the trouble of answering the Question on the Paper. I could Dot have put my reply more incisively.