Legislative Assembly Walter R. Shaw : No, you fellows give a thumb-nail sketch of the angels in your department over there. Honourable Robert E. Campbell : They are all angels. Walter R. Shaw : help them! Now, we left a wonderful staff in the Depart¬ ment of Agriculture, excellent men; they are doing a good job. Honourable Daniel J. MacDonald : Sure. Walter R. Shaw : But new employees are going to be set-up to over-shadow the technical and scientific and practical men that were working for the farmers of this province by another strata of government appointments. "Public Works contracts and purchasing contracts by tenders publicly opened." That's a rich one! Nobody would be eliminated the Premier said in his program. Everybody, business men, contractors or any citizen must have a chance to tender, and he would take his tender in before these men and they would be publicly opened and on the basis of these tenders would go the job. What a laugh. They were not in power twenty-four hours until they broke the solemn word and contract on road mak¬ ing of the prevoius Government. We had arrangements to build roads out through the country in different parts where we thought they were most necessary. The day after this government was elected they cancelled these contracts and we intend to examine these practices. What has been done in the purchases of material may I ask? Who is getting the gravy on this anyway? Why were tenders for milk and foods and equipment, and materials, gas and oil cancelled? Why? They can explain this when they get up to speak. These are matters that will be thoroughly explored. In an address the Minister of Public Works referred to the terrible debt and stated the large number of new pavements that we had constructed in Murray Harbour , out in Afton Hall and First Queens. He rushed the job. He went out then after saying the debt of the province was in a disgraceful state, that we were putting in too many roads. He started out and he took in new areas where roads were not considered this year at all, and he laid pavement, and we are going to have some questions on that too. They talk about five-year road building course. Where is it? We started that before we went out, we started the road from Tignish that will go down to Souris . I don't know just exactly what they are doing on that, but there is no common sense at all in putting this in on this wonderful Draft Address . Then they are going to have a golf course for and county. Honourable Robert E. Campbell : It's coming. Walter R. Shaw : There's another one, they all have the same little tune. They have been listening to the same little cracked gramaphone record. Everything is coming. This will be of great interest, I am sure, this golf course right alongside of a closed plant at Georgetown , to the farmers and dispossessed labourers in that area. The farmers who are getting fifty-cents a bushel for their potatoes and, pos¬ sibly the Minister of Golf Courses, I am sorry he is not here, he will likely go out and hire some of those labourers that haven't got a job as his caddy when the quar¬ ter of a million golf course is constructed down among the silent, echo-ridden com¬ plex at Georgetown . They dug a hole down there at If they had put the money that would be spent on that golf course at Brudenell to accommodate a few people like the Doctor here there would never have been any reason to close the Georgtown plant. Not any reason; but they closed it. "To establish new industries in co-operation with private enterprise; greater efforts to encourage our own citizens to expand." Good heaven's I don't know what else is in that wonderful document. Under our Government we had a large number of those plants going, those smaller plants in this province, we can get the list of these all over Prince Edward Island . And we applied the provisions of ARDA and they said we didn't have any¬ thing to do with it. I wonder if they ever read this ARDA catalogue; they will find in there that Prince Edward Islands stands third in the number of ARDA projects that were started in Canada . Number of projects 1965. Newfoundland had forty-nine; Nova Scotia had fifty-eight; we had thirty-six ond so on. Now what is wrong with that? Here again from 1965 to 1966. Newfoundland had only