GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: May 29, 1933

Meeting in Ottawa. Canada's House of Commons had important work before it last week: final discussion of the Redistribution Bill. Total number of seats is to remain the same, 245, but the representation of almost every province is to be reshuffled. Most noticeable change is that the old Maritime Provinces of the East (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) will lose three seats which the West will gain. Action on the bill was impeded by some lively interludes.

Titles. In February, Liberal M. P. J. A. Mercier rose to enquire whether the promotion of...

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