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lottetown and all over the place. What did he wind up with? He wound up with a great big plant sitting out here on its hands against the advice of the Agricultural Council of Prince Edward Island, which submitted the following thought. They told you, continued the Minister of Industry not to build a big plant. Do you remember your Minister of Industry saying that in 1960?

Walter R. Shaw: My honourable friend is quoting from 1955, and I wasn’t in this Legislature.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Speeches of 1960, Mr. Speaker.

Walter R. Shaw: We are in the dark and I want this matter that he is quoting from tabled.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: It will be tabled.

Walter R. Shaw : The Opposition may at least have a chance of seeing what he is saying.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Thas has been tabled, and will continue with further quotations from the Leader of the Opposition.

Walter R. Shaw: I am referring to the brief that you have been quoting from. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: With the unanimous consent of the House.

Robert E. Campbell: That’s what they wanted, they’ll get it. (Applause).

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Here's what he said, “What did you end up with? He wound up with a great big plant against the advice of the Agricultural Council. They told you not to build a big plant, he continued. You should have known that, he went on. I don’t know what you were thinking about. They told you what to do and you, Sir, didn’t pay any heed to them at all.”

I wish he was in here in the House now and could recall these words. Walter R. Shaw: Who?

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: The former Minister of Industry, your advisor on industrial development in 1960. They warned them, they gave them fair warning that small factories, of which we have a large number, have in the past operated with discouraging results. On the other hand in the opinion of the Council, large centralized plants are not the answer. It was the program of the Liberal Party to begin the establishment of large industrial complexes, and I am happy to say that the one that was established by the Liberal, the former Liberal government of this province is doing very nicely indeed, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Leader of the Opposition, he continued, “You were warned you can’t blame us for that,” he said, “You built a big plant.” Your Minister of Industry in 1960, and I will continue.

“I would want to demonstrate it, the economic soundness of a project before I would give it my support, or encourage private investment in such a project. These are but two of the points which will be my guide in making sound decisions.”

What happened to the guidelines?

Walter R. Shaw:.. Is that not following the advice of the agricultural industry?

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: He had something else of interest to say, Mr. Speaker. He was describing the mess which he and his Government inherited as a result of the 1959 election. He describes it in glowing detail on page 229 of the 1960 report. “What a mess we inherited. Four broken down bulldozers, and $60,000.00 of bills receivable, and many more of the former government’s unfulfilled election

promises. It appears to be the last record of the now defunct Liberal Party that they should seek to use public equipment to obtain votes and to enhance their party’s interest.

Mr. Speaker, what grave and serious problems fell to the shoulders of that _50_