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| f Not "Saying Any More." _ _ Mr.-- Raney--I-- | aiee Speaker, 1 will ,?J'r.?.';' J:}i':n:{xbjh:crt' I | e hy vi 4 ho. flos ; any further. One of the corre-[ _ __Mr. Heenan Gdeclared that ai-- spondents agrees that the corre-- | though Hon. Mr. Crerar said he had spondence should not be published ma OS n 106 Osderal measure be-- Beyond that I do not care to go. l cause the development was in priv-- Although Mr. Dewart asked if ate hands and he wanted to get it that referred to the communication out of private hands, he was under from the Chief Justice, Mr Raney a inisconception, because it was al-- declined to state, nor would he in-- ready out of private hands. dicate how many such communica-- Further, the Government member tions he had received. g;?itest)ed at thei (;vay !l';egotlatlona : In connection wi ; § s een carried on by Premier torney--General ;;2e}'2131;et);;'131§s, ?hte Drury and the Federal and Pro: letter of May 29 to ithe O.J.C.. an vincY:ial authorities, nouncin h i y* ( No opportunity, he declared, had cing the exaction from that bee iv < date of the $1,000 per day penalty a dnfl;snen ho OOX PSople of itenora for failure to pay . xyrer x:ace-lrack ]nk e residents at the heaq of the tax moneys. akes to express their QM ~~ | their desires in connection with their ' . | own natural resources. $ | * i _ _Mr. Heenan denounced the mea--: ~eure as one "to regulate Ontario water powers in the interests of Winnipeg," and declared it would es emvlgnney have the eventual effect of killing irdustry up there. The way it KENORAMAN worked out, the Winnipeg people were working one river against the\ r other, and the deal was no good to| 4 them unless they could do it. So | Fl TS HOTLY lorg as the Winnipeg people had no salé for additional power they | would not develop it, yet they wanted -- Ortario to arrange for future needsg. T Bll I Not Much Navigation. ' Mr. Heenan said that if the Gov--| | ernméent wished to bring in a bill uacemmesmcemmemeey to the effect that the Dominion Gov-\ a ernment could regulate the waters in ,ACCUSES Prem'er Of Surren' the interests of navigation, he would « NP support it, because for eight months dermg Ontario's Water of the year up there it was 65 below I zero, and the Dominion authorities Powers to Manitoba consequently would not do much mm reeineocmennre in ts navigating. For Premier Drury's RE < benefit Mr. Heenan stated that the * LAKE OF WOODS MEASU | * __| Winnipeg River was a navigablfe | | stream. ***= f d i -- Premier Drury plunged immedi-- Denouncing Premier Drury's Lake | [ ately upon the opening of his of the Woods Control Bill as a sur-- | 'z(iircrl'resls in:o a review of the long and & e APOT &ht 'on-- | cult story of the Lake of render of Provincial rights f"?dfl(jon Woods situation. The Lake of :g: taining unwarranted concessions to Woods is an international and inter-- the Winnipeg interesis, who sought provincial stream emptying into the § to secure power benefits from On-- + }Jp:):r V'X,m?ipgg Rir\iel'- élpon which ht * s t rers, B e e Dog Rapids, a power tario's northwestern ."ate' powers site. The power sites on the Winni-g Peter Heenan (Labor member for peg Rivér in Manitoba belong to Kenora) last night pleaded with the | <Canada, which controls the natural i Ontario Legislature not to enter resources of the Western Provinces. [into any such agreement as the Pre-- | lOontrol Vested in Province. 'mier had submitted to the House. | | / In 1898 a permanent structure, Mr. Heenan commenced his ad--| the Norman dam, was erected across dress shortly before 11 o'clock and | one Cgithe,opt:inings into the Winni-- | s § * in-- | peg ver, under an agreement be--; e.:ontxm.wd at great length, explain-- | |tween a company and the Province 'ing, with the aid of a big diagram, ; | of Ontario. The Province had the 'the i{xtricate details of 'Provm/cial (3 | right to control the dam, but the and international o'bhgauon.z. ai'"f 3 company could terminate this by one the relative importance _and S18 month's notice if it wanted to use nificance of all the different water the dam for power purposes. This areas on the Manitoba, Ontario and control of the dam, as a result of| United States boundaries. an arrangement with Mr. Backus, Premier Hoodwinked? ;'heiPremierhexp:lair;jed (Mr. ?ackus In effect the member for Kenora | having purchased the originai.comi-- contended that Premier Drury had }Jarg').l}vaslnow vested permanently been hoodwinked by the Winnipeg nl eJ h o nce'1919 Ott ea interests, who, in the agreement be-- "O zn""iry'c A 'a.wa pas:he fore the House for second reflading-\ i';k rfext';)n-";)(:mdcx C(,r:a lng ard sought to have Ontario consent !0 | t c oslst ent' f:))m? members,. two hold up her waters and store them | ?1 con ov Ottawa and two dyfONZ |in such a way as would permit j (t: o_senth: asting vote in thg case 'Manitoba power interests to utilize | o';r;,o'tiey beir?g witi The Domlnic;n B pas: _them, without cost, when they were | pointes. Mr.--Drury claimed thatk= rea"c{{-_em"?otgce). northwest portion of i !Ontarict)i i';.\'t an Ordeg-itn-(ig?:clclas(:tf f the Province," said Mr. Heenan, |-- &A movn h qater, agreed to. LNniS, & "are utterly opposed to this----more'i gmg \otetgind al}. o I-r{::i.m.girr;egelt'ifit opposed even than when the bill was | son at s# poin is i role Mituay, before the House last year--because | "th" was not telling the whole it will interfere with the treaty be-- tion. . 4 ing signed. A some Uneasiness Arises. £o d | _"I am also opposed to it because | Meanwhile, proceeded the Premier,l | it is an absolute surrender of Pro-- * the question of development of power vincial rights, gecialue itItis_sor;t'a;'éo 'sites arose. -- Preliminary agreeme(;lt!l that is surrendering. I * 7 ntered into between the On-- duction of power potentialities in x?i.g éovernment and Mr. Backus by the Province of Ontario." 4 which, among other things, the con-- There was no banking institution trol of the Norman dam was given in the whole world, he said, which j to Ontario. Uneasiness developed,| _ | would take a bond issue of a mil-- id the Premier, among power ' lion dollars for a development ; fiem lower down the Winnipeg and | under certain clauses of the bill | English Rivers, &And eventually they | which he opposed. He impressed' took up the matter at Ottawa. The ' upon the House the importance of 'Premier said that, because of this| _ | fighting the measure now, because easiness, he went to Winnipeg in | it constituted an agreement from \DBecember, 1920, and later to Ottawh. a gw'hich there was no appeal. > and~ eventually negotiations between +