JUSTICE LENNOX AND THE FRENCH PEUPLE

La lettre suivante a été communiquée à plusieurs journaux et publiée par eux en tout ou en partie :

At the last Sittings of the Suprême Court of Ontario, held at Cornwall, Ontario, the Honourable Mr. Justice Lennox who was presiding same said that "Any man who has lived in this province for twenty years and cannot talk English ought to be deported and if I bad the making of the laws, such law would be passed". Such remark was madc when a young French Canadian said that he did not speak English and that he desired some document explained to him in French.

Dominion of Canada

Province of Ontario

Countv cf iStormont

To WIT :

I, Daniel Danis of the Town of Cornwall in the County of Stormont, Barrister, do SOLEMXLY DECLARE THAT

1. The paper hereto annexed, marked "A" contains the notes rcceived from one Miss M. L. Sager of Cornwall, Ontario, the officiai stenographer or reporter at the last Sittings of the Suprême Court of Ontario, presided by the Honourable Mr. Justice Lennox at Court House, Cornwall, Ontario on the 23rd of March last.

2. The notes were furnished by the said officiai reporter in anssver to my letter of March 30th, a copy of which lettex is hereto annexed and marked Exhibit "B".

And I make this solemn déclaration conscientimislv believing it. to be true and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath and by virtue of "The Canada Evidence Act,"

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Dcclarcd before me at thc Town of Comwall in the Couuty of Stormont, this 9th day of April, A. D. 1920.

Daniel Danis.

Geo. A. Stiles, A. Com. &c.

EXH1B1T "A"