Friday, April 7, 1967

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: I am going to run in the Cardigan District.

J. David Stewart: Oh no: you are not going to turn down thirty thousand bucks. Oh No: don’t be silly. So there is the opening, Mr. Minister of Tourist Development;

you just can’t miss. You have got the Department of Welfare going for you. You have got the Department of Bonnell’s Beautification.

Honouarble M. Lorne Bonnell: Will David Stewart boost me up?

J. David Stewart: Yes, Golf Courses going for you. Boy, you have got every- thing going for you. You just can’t miss, and just sit quiet, as you have in this session, just play it cute and go along as you are and you are in. And I might say that while I am appointing judges now, I might as well give another appointment. Our friend, the Minister of Labor, who will only be here a short while, he will be stepping across the way. but I know that he is aware of the fact that he would be getting into a nice office. circumstances are not as pleasant over there. But I might say that the pay is slightly better. But again, he can't miss; in a year’s time he will be on the bench, so there is another vacancy for you boys, so get in there.

Some Member: Is be coming to Montague.

J. David Stewart: No, right across the street here, so there are two of the front benches gone in three years.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: And leave a $5,000.00 job with the Govern- ment?

J. David Stewart: Now, if the Minister will look through his files, be will find the plans that I left there for a Tourist Development close to Charlottetown, and I suggest that if he has trouble finding it in his file that the Premier might be kind enough to loan him his number three boy. He is an expert at rooting in files; he will find it for you. I left a plan there for Development at Kinlock and it was predicated on the completion of the highway that is now being completed from Tea Hill back through to Keppoch, and I want the two Government Members form Charlottetown to listen to this. There is a great need in and about Charlottetown, for it’s own people, for bathing facilities which are practically non-existent now due to pollution in our harbour. There is an ideal location; as I say the plan is there, for the develop- ment of about a hundred acre park at the end of the Kinlock road. It would serve two purposes it would take care of the crying need for a beach for our own people close to Charlottetown, a beautiful beach, very safe for children and so on. It will also provide a camping ground, an overnight camping ground for the many visitors who come to and wish to stay in and about Charlottetown. Now, I ask you to give this immediate consideration and plan to have that started this year. It

couldn’t be done in one year, two years, or three years but in the overall plan it is a “must” for this section of the Province.

Honourable M. Lorne Donnell: In other words you want one more park.

J. David Stewart: Well, I wouldn’t call this a park, not in the sense of words. It is a recreation area.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Would you put a word in for Summerside too.

J. David Stewart: Everything is there now, including the two most important Portfolios in the Government.

Now, before getting to the end of these rambling remarks, I would like to put in a word in the interest of my city of Charlottetown by way of grants and land taxes. Again, if you will search through the files you will also find a plan on that which was very actively considered by the previous Government and I think would have been implemented this year. I think we will all realize that the City corpora- tion of Charlottetown is under a very, very heavy load; we have got fire, streets, and the usual amenities of a city this size, a capital city, with very little return from this present Government or any Government.

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