CANADA: Scandal in Power

A breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament.

Beauharnois. The Committee had been investigating charges made last May by Alberta's M. P. Robert Gardiner regarding the relations of the Government to Beauharnois Power...

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