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Sault channel, there must necessarily be a substantial shortage 

 in the supply of aluminium for the purp>oses of the United States 

 and the Allies in the prosecution of the war, the Government of 

 Canada will assent to the proposed construction as a war 

 measure. In pursuance of this undertaking, the present appli- 

 cation of the St. Lawrence River Power Company to the Inter- 

 national Joint Commission should be withdrawn. 



(b) The terms upon which the proposed works shall be 

 constructed shall be agreed upon at a conference between repre- 

 sentatives of the two Governments delegated and empowered 

 for this purpose. 



(c) In order that the South Sault channel may be restored 

 to its present status, the terms should include a provision to the 

 effect that the submerged weir, if constructed, shall be removed 

 within twelve months after the conclusion of the European war. 



(d) There shall not be diverted from the St. Lawrence 

 river by the St. Lawrence River Power Company a greater 

 quantity of water daily than is at present being so diverted. 

 This paragraph is not to be construed as admitting any right 

 on the part of the St. Lawrence River Power Company, or of any 

 other person or corporation, to divert water from the St. Lawrence 

 river. 



ie) The Canadian Government, being advised that it 

 would be possible to develop some seven hundred thousand 

 horse-power from the waters of the St. Lawrence river in the 

 vicinity of the Long Sault rapids, and recognizing that any such 

 development could only proceed under agreement between the 

 two countries, proposes for consideration that the two Govern- 

 ments should take immediate steps jointly to prepare a scheme 

 looking to such power development in the interests of the two 

 countries. In the light of this possibility the Canadian Govern- 

 ment is strongly of the opinion that no permanent project by 

 private interest should be permitted at this time that would 

 prevent or interfere with the carr>qng out of such a joint pro- 

 gramme by the two countries. 



6. In conclusion, the Government of Canada earnestly trusts 

 that, by means of such a conference between the two Governments as 

 is here proposed, some mutually satisfactory solution of the matter 

 may be reached; for it would look with grave concern upon any 

 casual or hastily considered project that might have serious results 

 upon the navigability of the great highway that constitutes Canada's 

 main artery of communication and commerce. In this connection 

 the Canadian Government would welcome further information con- 

 cerning the circumstances and authority under which the dredging 

 of Dodge shoal in the South Sault channel, hereinbefore reforrod to, 

 was undertaken; for, even although it should appear, as alleged, 

 that this change in the river bed will have no eftoct upon the na\ iga- 

 bility of the St. Lawrence river, yet, in the view of this (lovernmoiit. 

 it is highly desirable, in the interest of the establishment of sound 

 principles and rules for the development of the common boundary 

 waters, that such projects of private companies should be submitted 



