British Columbia Federationist
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1924-07-11
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note: |lNDUSTKIAL UNITT: STRENGTH OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE FEDERATED LABOR PARTY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PUBLISHED IN IHTEBK8T8 OF ALL WOBKEBS .4 POLITICAL UNITT: VICTORY ISIXTEENTH YEAR. No. 28 FOUR PAGES VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1924 5c A COPY NO POWER IB HELP [Parliament i_ Helpless in Protecting Intereiti of the Canadian People | MOKE LIOHT IS NE0E88ABY | Admission to Important Documents Refused Members of Dominion House |M K. J. S. WOODSWORTH (Centre Winnipeg): "Mr. Speaker, I should like to have a little more light on the atatement which tho Prime Minister made a few minutes ago, whtch seems to me to involve very directly the rights and powers of this parliament. We have been at thiB session refused admission to important documents which have passed between the motherland and this country that bear on the relationship of this country to other nations. Within the past few weeks the government has refused to give information to a committee of this house with regard to the persons present at a cabinet meeting. Within the past few weeks we haye been practically told that We have no right to make inquiries Into the expenditures of the Canadian National railways. Only today we were told that we had In | the Civil Service Commission a body i over which we had practically no con- ; trol. Today, a few minutes ago, we are told apparently that our tax commission ls also a body that Is beyond | our control. Do I understand from | the Prime Minister that this parliament has no right to order an lnveesti- _. gation Into methods of taxation or I' into any matter whatever affecting 1 the welfare ot this country? Th« * Prime Minister quoteB certain (provisions of the Act. As I understand . that Act, the provisions bind officials of the department to secrecy with re- i gard to such Information as comes L before them. But I can hardly un- i derstand that the Prime Minister means that that Act prohibits this ^parliament from making enquiries. i I thought that this parliament …
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (1912) ; The B.C. Federationist, Ltd. (1912-1915) ; The B.C. Federationist, Limited (1915-1922) ; The B.C. Federationist (1922-1923) ; The British Columbia Federationist (1923-1925).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0345236
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The British Columbia Federationist
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text