Thursday, March 16, 1967

twenty-one; we had thirty-one; New Brunswick sixteen; Ontario thirty-one; Mani- toba fourteen; and so on. Does that look as if we neglected the establishment of the ARDA program in this province? Of course not. They talk about electric power; you would think that was something new. We put in arrangements for electric power the year before we went out.

Any kind of a promise at all — not one of these deceptive promises have been

fulfilled. Where is the promise for free school books? I don’t expect to go into

1 that as there will be plenty said about that without my taking it up. They definitely

promised there would be no delay in getting free school books across to the children up to Grade Eleven.

What happened? They cut it down and I doubt if these free school books even on the Grade they have in mind are yet completed. A child cannot put a slight mark on one of these books now. No, Sir; And I say that it is the most important that children should have the free use of these school books if they want to put their names an them or put marks on the margin because I found when I was at school that it was very convenient to have the book that you were studying out of in the classroom with marks that you could put marks on. But now, if there is a mark on it the book is recalled and the parent and the child is required to buy a new book and at double the prices they were able to get these books under our administration. This is not a policy of free school books from the government, it is a policy of the parents of the pupils buying books and giving the government free school books. That’s what it means when they talk about this wonderful school book policy.

New industries and an Industrial Park, a Minister of Labour, full time Minis- ter of Agriculture, 9. great change for farmers and fishermen, Director of Farm La- bour, improved farm credit and a lot of other things that they are going to do for agriculture were all in Mr. Campbell’s Pandora’s box. There was to be no delay in having this done, it was to be done immediately when the vibrant, youthful man came into power. What, then, have they been doing? Surely nothing of that. Well, I wonder what has been happening down in this Centre. How many additional mem- bers of the government, servants of the government have been employed? We have now as I have mentioned the two classes of citizens called “co-ordinators”, whatever that means. I don’t know how many. I have a list of some of them here, which I will add to and the salaries they are getting is frightening. But they are some of the faithful who have been rewarded and they are now being completely co-ordinated into the government. Stand for awhile in front of that Centre down here and watch them going in. Look, there are more new co-ordinators, and new officials of this government going in and out of that building with imposing looking brief cases under their arms than went in and out of 10 Downing Street during the great war.

(Laughter).

If they were all from this province I wouldn’t mind but they are gathering them up in New Brunswick, the West Indies and God knows where else. Co-ordina- tors at high prices — I mentioned some of these salaries — do you know that a man ho is qualified to go in a high government Eosition, a man that went through Uni- ersity told me not long ago that he would li e to work on the Island. I said. “Why on't you put your name in down here and take the examination." He said “I would foolish to do that. If I did that there is just a certain salary that is assigned to hat particular category.” He said, “Good heavens you can go down to the Govern- ent without taking an examination or anything else and they will give you twice he salary that I would be able to ge ” That is what is going on and the main lection genius who was very conveniently as a matter of fact released from Ottawa is on the secretarial staff. He has his office right next to the Premier and of course t is reported that he is an organizer for the Premier, and he must be because he s out on political meetings speaking with the Premier on political matters, and we re paying that man his salary, Liberals and Conservatives and everyone else in this province. I knew of a case of that kind in this province where a man was getting seven or eight thousand dollars a year to go out — paid out of the revenues of this rovince — to go out and do the political work for the Premier or for anyone else. There are some others too, and I could mention them. There is a co-ordinator, I be- lieve, connected with the Centennial over there; I don’t know how many shekels he is getting, it is reported he is getting eight or nine thousand, and then he has an

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