Thursday, March 30, 1967 Now the Division of Youth, Mr. Speaker , which is to be established in Prince Edward Island , will endeavour to give some leadership in the systematic develop¬ ment of constructive youth programs and activities of various kinds, and in turn jive the people who are involved in these programs a voice in provincial affairs, we hope, of course, to examine existing programs to see if there are any weak¬ nesses; in them that can be corrected, and possibly there are new areas which might very well be explored. We shall endeavour to eliminate duplication in programming —we realize that the activities of youth cut over departmental lines — perhaps these various programs can be tied together a little more compactly than has been the case in the past, and at the same time fill any gaps which we can observe in the present program for our young people. In time too, Mr. Speaker , we expect to be able to serve the senior adolescents and the young adults in this province, a group to whom, perhaps, less attention has been' given than to any other segment in society. Their needs, I maintain, Mr. Speaker , are just as great as those of the people who are young and older than them. I must refer briefly to the activities in the Music Division following the de¬ parture of the Director, Mr. Christopher Gledhill , last year for the . Although Mr. Gledhill was granted a leave of absence in April, 1966, no provision was made for his replacement upon our taking office in July. We were delighted that an outstanding musician and a very well-liked individual in the person of Sister Mary Winnifred agreed to serve part-time as Provincial Director of School Music, while still carrying on her regular duties at Birchwood High School. She has as¬ sumed the duties with the same eagerness and enthusiasm that has characterized all her assignments in the musical field. As a Department, and of course as individuals, that a choir from this prov¬ ince, from one of our schools in this province was selected to participate at the National Federation of Music Educators being held at this very moment in London. Ontario , is a coveted honour. It is a privilege which comes to very, very few school choirs m this country. We congratulate most heartily the Kinkora Girls' Choir and their Director, Sister Joan Doyle , for having merited this invitation, and I am sure that they will give an extremely fine account of themselves as they perform in On¬ tario. Which reminds me, we have many young ambassadors leaving this province, from time to time, also in the province of . Bight now we have a Midget Hoc¬ key Team which is acquitting itself well and in Montreal we have a Curling Team which again makes a good group of ambassadors from Prince Edward Island to other parts of Canada . I want to say a word or two, Mr. Speaker , about our vocational program. Perhaps before proceeding with that I would inform you and the members of the Legislature that is was my pleasure this morning to accomnany the Honourable Michael Starr , who visited the Legislature yesterday as he made a tour of the Pro- vindal Vocational Institute, and I am sure Mr. Starr was impressed, as we all are, with the fine facilities that have been provided In this area of education in this novince. I quite agree with the comments made yesterday by the Leader of the >pposition that Mr. Starr is a very personable and a very able individual, and it a great pleasure to meet with him this morning for a short while. I was very interested, Mr. Speaker , in the comment that Mr. Starr made relat- ng to our marathon question period yesterday when approximately two hours of our afternoon session was devoted to questions, answers, debates and so on, much to the surprise and amazement of Mr. Sharp and our other visitors. Mr. Starr , informed me and I might say informed me voluntarily, that in the House of Commons the Suestion period is restricted to forty minutes, and on Wednesday thirty minutes of be time of the House is devoted to a question period. I make this comment, Mr. Speaker , perhaps in support of the ruling which you made yesterday and perhaps u a bit of information that might be considered by any group examining the rules and regulations of this Legislature. Walter R. Shaw : They get their answers quicker up there though. Honourable Gordon L. Bennett : Could be. (Laughter).