Thursday, March 16, 1967 challenged them at the special Session and you will find if they tell it is in accor¬ dance with this that is coming through from the financial expert at Ottawa, the Finance Minister, and they cant get away from that. Tell the story as we want the story told, as the press of this province wants the story told and then we may get some understanding of what happened at Ottawa. As it is, this province faces the most serious situation in its history financially. Now at the Special Session they told us they knew about it and the Finance Minister of this province brought in a statement and he said we are going to get a total of over $19,000,000, and when he was asked if that was agreed to at Ottawa he answered "no". He pulled a statement out of the clouds somewhere and tried to let this House think that we were going to accept a statement of that kind. Does Minister Sharpe at Ottawa agree with that statement? Well here is what he says. Tha transfers together with equalization bring over all payments to the provinces on the following level. Newfoundland gets $75,000,000; Nova Scotia gets over $90,000,000; New Brunswick gets $76,000/100; and Prince Edward Island gets $16,600,000. It is very far from the $19,000/000 that the Finance Minister of this province presented and asked us to accept on that occasion. What is going to happen in this province after 1970? Where we have vastly increased costs, where as I have said we will have perhaps double the enrolment in our universities and schools. What will happen with our vocational schools and our technical schools? What is going to be done with the vocational school that is promised in Kings County? That is something for you men from Kings to think about, and where is it going to be located? What is going to happen to the vocational school in ? That is something for you people in to consider. What will our assessment be in the future years? We asked that the government clearly outline the position facing one column of revenues, and in the other column the revenues from the federal government and our obligations during this period not only up to 1970 and 1971 but after that date. Do you know what the future holds with our limited resources? No, nor the present either; they cannot tell and I will say again the Minister of Education, I admire him for his frankness. He says he was frustrated and he was honest enough to admit it. Now we have these opting-out programs, this whole package-deal and they say we should have them under one control. They should be under the control of this province. I agree that would be a wonderful thing to have all these services under one control, under the control of this province, but can we do it with our limited revenues I ask you, Mr. Speaker , and I ask the people of this province if they think it can be done. We haven't the finances to do it, we are dependent of what the fed¬ eral government legitimacy provides for this province to carry on these services. It is all right for Quebec who comes out $115,000,000 better off from stabilisation and with adequate assistance in this opting-out programs and a great potential earn¬ ing power behind it in industry and population. Most of the other provinces are in the same category but we are the weakest. Industrial expansion is now getting killed, we have less jobs. These representatives that went to Ottawa with the great¬ est chance to a special conference, to my mind, miserably failed. They came back with their ghost-writers and these figures that I have riven you indicate just how they failed. Now they are unable to tell this House what they did actually get. I asked at the Special Session about the phasing-out of social policies. What did they say? They said it was never mentioned, they never heard of it. I stated they must have been asleep and I will repeat they were not only snoozing they were completely un¬ conscious at that conference. The phasing-out process on education is just the fore¬ runner of further phasing-out on social projects. What does this government know about future needs and costs? Take a look at the promised program of this govern¬ ment, then at the phasing-out programs, at the actual revenues that we will receive under the new deal and find out where we stand. What about the expanded program fulfilling these promises and health, education, medicare and pensions? The Premier of Ontario said not long ago, what about new vocational schools? How are we going [to build them in that richprovince. What about these vocational schools that I asked Iabout in this province? The future indicates that by the statements from the Fin- lance Minister that the provinces are to suffer big deficits in the future and the federal government will nave big surplusses and with that dark picture in mind they brushed us off with a few dollars as far as this province is concerned. The present tie is to promote uniformity of treatment they say, but not uniformity of treatment in accordance to the needs of this province. The provinces will then assume full share