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Rh to whether or not an article, which has never been the subject of wny judicial process, is in fact prohibited under our criminal law,

That is one difficulty.

The other is that the volume of these things moving across the border makes it difficeull for them to enforee their own regulations 100 percent, and I think it would be fatr to say thal eustams oflicers exist nainly for the purpose of collecting duties, customs, and excises, and not for the purpose of indulgimg in any form of quasi-censoring of literature.

It is an obligation under the tariff item which they willingly under- take, bui it is not their main task,

Senator Hennines. It nny be of interest, perhaps Mr. Fulton is very well aware of this, but Assemblyman James A. Fitzpatrick told me during the recess today that many people come over the border from Canada to Platisburg, N. Y., which happens to be his home, for the purpose of procuring some of the American published comic or horror books and that they take them back acress the border, smuggling thera or bootlegwing them across, as it were.

Mr. Fuurox. That may be so, Senator. The only comment TI could make on that is that [ regret to say that these things cireulate with sufticient freedom in Canada that | am surpised that they find it neees- sary to come down here for that.

Senator Hunxincs. Like carrying coals to Newcastle.

Mr. Furrox. [ think it must be a very incidental purpose of their visit. I am not in any way questioning that it does take place.

What I want to avoid is giving the impression of saying that wa have dealt with this effectively in Canada and it is only you that have the problem.

My attitude toward it is that it is still a mutual problem although we have made a beginning.

Senator [lpyxrnes. You are certainly eminently fair, and Tam sure want to be very careful in having mace that statement not to cause any misunderstanding on that port,

Thank you, str.

Mr. Futron. That, then, in brief, is the background of the situation with respect to the nature of the problem and the actual legislation, or lack of it, up to 1949. ‘

Tn the fall session of our Parliament in 1949, IT introduced a bill, of which T regret I have no longer copies left in my file. ‘herve is only one copy left in the file of the Depart ment of Justice. There are plenty of copies of the statute in the annual volume of statutes, but of the bill itself, an individual bill, there is only one copy left readily available. So I had our Department of Justice prepare typewritten facsimiles of the bill as introduced.

J shall be glad to give them to your counsel or your clerk for filing at the end of my presentation. ‘This is as best us can be done, a repro- duction of the bill with the front page. This was the inside page, explanatory notes and the back page was blank. It was a short bill, It was introdacsed by way of an amendinent. to section 207 of the code.

I think it is short enough that I can read it to you and you can understand then our approach to the problem of trying to find the method of dealing with this subject.