Tuesday, April 4, 1967

plant which produces more butter than any other factory on Prince Edward Island. Almost a million pounds last year of butter was produced by the creamery. We understand that the producers of milk are rather dissatisfied with the deal that they have received with the respect to the subsidy at the present time, and we will certainly expect the Minister of Agriculture to do everything possible to see that the benefits that these important producers of fluid milk received a year ago are not taken from them by the actions of the federal Department of Agriculture. I under- stand that there is great dissatisfaction among the producers of milk not only here but also in other parts of Canada. I think that the agricultural producers should get a fair return for their labour and for their investment. We have all the other classes of society demanding that they have the benefits of the new type of economy where everybody is supposed to be affluent and we certainly expect that the agri- cultural people will enioy the benefits of this affluent society also and receive a fair and profitable return for their products.

I was also going to mention a matter which I think the present Government should feel a bit ashamed about, Mr. Speaker. and that is with respect to the new office building that was erected during the last two or three years. As you probably know, the previous Government decided to honour one of the foremost citizens of this province. a man who has given himself and his life's work in the service of the people of Prince Edward Island, and one who has certainly had a wonderful career in that service. It was against the protestations of himself that the previous gov- ernment decided to call the building “The Shaw Center”. (Applause) Now, Mr. Speaker, I think it was one of the poorest examples of political manoeuvering that has taken place in the history of this province that when the present administration came to nffice they saw fit to do away with the name that had been applied by Order- in-Council by the Government of this province to that institution. It hardly seemed creditable that responsible honourable men would take that course of action. I won- der what would have been said if, when Mr. Stanfield assumed office in Nova Scotia, he had decided that the bridge over to Dartmouth from Halifax was improperly named and said that it should not be called the “Angus L. MacDonald Bridge”. What would the people of Nova Swotia and Canada have thought of that? What would the

ple of Canada, Prince Edward Island have thought if the centre in Londan, Eng- and for the business of Canada, which was named “Macdonald House” and I might say that I visited, I had the privilege of visiting this MacDonald House on Grosvenor Square in London the first of July last year where there was a reception held by e honourable Mr. Chevrier the Canadian Ambassador to England. I thought it was fitting memorial to that great Canadian Sir John A. Macdonald. and there was ever any attempt by Sir Wilfrid Laurier or any other Liberal Prime Minister of anada to change the name or call it some senseless name such as The Canadian usiness House in London or something like that. It is still known as Macdonald case. I could also cite another example in Ottawa where there is a certain building, me of you get letters from this building once in awhile, called the Brooke Claxton uilding situated outside of Ottawa. There was never any suggestion that this uilding's name should be changed under the previous government in Ottawa. I see t is situated in an interesting place too, they call it Tunney’s Pasture, and I just onder that the present Government here didn’t change the name of the location down onder to “Campbell's Pasture”, it would have been a very good handle to put on it.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: A good Scotch name.

L. George Dewar: But anyway it has become known as the “Pab Building" hich I think is a very prosaic name to give to a building of that nature, and I would ertainly admonish the Government to consider the error of their ways and reconsider lling it after the honourable gentleman who sits here on my left and who, I feel, s very worthy of any honour that might be done in this respect. (Applause)

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: When was that Order-in-Council passed?

L. George Dewar: It was passed before the previous administration went out f office, I am not sure of the exact date.

It gonourable Robert E. Campbell: 'IVventy-seventh of July, the day before we 0 0 me.

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