§ Mr. REMNANTasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention had been drawn to the official statement of the United States Treasury as to the value of the goods on which duties are to be remitted, and the amount of duties to be remitted, on imports into the United States and Canada under the Reciprocity Agreement; whether, in fact, the statement showed that the value of the goods and the imports remitted were considerably greater on the part of the United States than of Canada; whether this success indicated that concessions were being made without equivalent reciprocal concessions; and whether, even on the United States interpretation, concessions corresponding to those free concessions should be extended to most-favoured-nation countries?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. I would rather not discuss at present the argument contained in the last two parts of the question, which appear to me to deal with matters of opinion rather than of fact.