§ MR. GOULDING (Worcester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the investigations of the Public Accounts Committee of the Canadian Parliament in respect to the Canadian-made rifle which has taken the place of the British made rifle with which the Canadian forces were formerly armed; whether the essential parts of this rifle are not made in Canada but in Pittsburg, Hartford, Attleboro', and other parts of the United States; and whether, seeing that in case of national emergency the Canadian supply of rifles might be seriously affected, he proposes to make any suggestion on the subject to the Canadian Government.
§ MR. HALDANEI do not propose to take any steps to interfere in this matter which is one that must be left to the Canadian Government to settle.