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Laurier House and Kingsmere (Three- fold relationship - public, political, personal)
House Staff.
Secretarial staff.
Hospitality
Visitors and Guests from abroad, different parts of Canada, and Ottawa; official. (No allowance for by Government).
Arranging for dinners, sending out invitations, preparation of dinner plans.
Record of entertainments.
Acknowledgment of courtesies.
Finances - Upkeep of houses. Taxes - preparation of returns re. Servants. Insurance. Accounts - receipts and expenditures. Investments. Banking, etc.
Family obligations.
Personal friends.
Ingoing and Outgoing Mail.
(Sole responsibility for all this)
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Essentials Not Taken Account Of.
No allowance is made in the foregoing for time required for:
(1) Exercise or leisure.
(2) Reading - either of books or the press.
(3) Travel. (Including time necessary to go to and from Laurier House tp office, or from Laurier House to Kingsmere).
(4) Unforeseen emergencies and contingencies.
(5) Sickness or indisposition of any kind.
(6) Where duties involve continuous work, morning, afternoon and night, or special strain, no provision for rest required to recuperate.
(7) Interruptions due to telephones, telegrams, special messages - not possible to control.
(8) The writing of personal letters.
(9) The keeping of personal records, or for any matters of more immediate personal concern.
(10) No time for though or meditation, or religious observances, other than on Sunday.
(11) No provision for visiting friends, outside social engagements, theatres, week-end rest.
(12) No allowance for vacation or holiday.
No one to act as a general intelligence officer, whose business it is to keep the Prime Minister informed of books and articles he should read, or people he should talk with, or new currents of popular opinion.
No recognition is given in the foregoing to the necessity of some one to act as liaison between the different departments and commissions over which Prime Minister has to exercise general oversight.
No provision for the greatest need of all, which is the preparation of memoranda on special questions on which it is necessary for the Prime Minister to be informed.
In this particular, there is great need for the Prime Minister's Office being supplied with an adviser on economic and financial questions, some one who will have nothing to do with secretarial duties.
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Opening of Parliament February 6th, 1936
Speech from Throne
Legislative Programme Trade Agreement United States-Canada Japanese Settlement Employment, Relief Dominion-Provincial Conference (Report re) Trade of Canada Consolidation of Departments Budget
Mover and seconder Address
Seating of Cabinet
Seating of House of Commons
Speaker of Senate
Speaker of House of Commons
Law Clerk House of Commons
Party Whips
Under Secretaries
