Wednesday, March 15, 1967

dence that this Opposition wishes to destroy this Governmnt. Heaven knows, they are doing that themselves without any help from the Opposition! (Applause) But our aim is to co-operate fully with the government to promote our overall interest, and we shall continue to do so. . . .unless, of course, issues may arise in this parlia- ment with which we cannot co-operate, issues of evasion or indefensible nature to which we cannot give our support. We do not challenge the Government of this province in its legitimate aspirations. But we do, however, express very grave con- . cern after considerable experience in this province with our economic conditions. We express that concern and we feel that we must take our stand firmly and com- pletely, not in defence of the Government, not to destroy the Government, but in defence of the people of this province who have elected this Legislature. We repre- sent these people and we shall not hesitate for a moment to recognize our full respon- sibilities and promote, with ever legitimate means in our power, our obligations to those who have placed their confidence in us as their representatives.

I would like to congratulate the Mover and Seconder of the Debate. Good fellows; they both gave us a nice thumb-nail sketch of the glories and the wonders of the men who are in Ministerial positions. They would make good biographers and I would suggest that perhaps they might take up biography in their spare time. It might be the particular niche in life from which they would have a great deal of

success. I never heard in my experience in this House such fullsome examples of unadulterated masculine. . . .

Alexander B. Campbell: (Remark inaudible).

Walter R. Shaw: Now you just keep quiet. (Applause) If you want me to cut this down. . . .I am looking at the speech that you. . . .this monstrocity! I am going to talk about this now, since you reminded me of it.

I had not intended to say very much. This indeed is what might we call a marathonic monstrocity! Linguistic extravaganzas! I would like to say something else of which my honourable friend reminds me. Why does he call the debate on this address without giving the Opposition any time to study it, if it is worth studying. He knew very well in other years, when we were in the Government, that we would adjourn the House on Thursday, and give the Opposition four full days to study the Draft Address before coming back to the House to discuss it. Did he do that? No, he didn’t give us ten hours to do it. He knew yesterday, after this House closed, that we had no opportunity of studying this Draft Address. We had our dinner last night with the Governor, with His Honour the Governor, and a most delightful oc~ casion it was. We had no opportunity this morning to study this address.

Sme Member: You should have got up early. . . .

Walter R. Shaw: I was up early; I was up earlier than you were. I was get-

ting my speech ready this morning and I couldn’t sleep very well. And you will get it before you are through with the whole thing.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Is this a seven day speech you are giving before you get to the Throne Speech?

Walter R. Shaw: I will be very fortunate, and so will you, if I get through in seven days! (Laughter) (Applause) Not only this what I have written down, but I have a lot up here, Mr. Premier, that perhaps you won’t like to hear before I am through too. That will be supplementary to what I have to say in this Draft Ad- dress. But no, they didn’t give us that opportunity to study it, and I might say, with a cursory examination this morning, that these three pages, I marked them down, I put an “X" opposite the paragraphs that referred to what the Conservative Gov- ernment had done in this province during the last seven years. Look at the X’s. There is nothing that you people have in here that you are doing yourselves. I haven’t anything here — only a question mark after some of these things. Here’s one here. “My Government will institute a program of research to be designated P.E. Island “new-start”. I would say that it chould be called P.E. Island “full-stop", because you came to a full-stop as far as this Government is concerned. Ninety-five per cent of the material in that Draft Address refers to the work that the Conservative Party

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