Thursday, April 18, 1967

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: There is a hockey match on to-night and . . .

Walter R. Shaw: I interrupted a statement made. I didn’t ask the Honourable Dan what his opinion was.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Now Mr. Speaker, they got . . . Frank Myers: Mr. Speaker, you have my sympathy.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, I have the floor and anyone wants to ask me a question, I will sit down.

Some Member: I went over to see that cheque and he wouldn’t show it to me. I demand that he table that cheque. I demand that he table that cheque.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: What do you want it for? What do you want it for, Sir? I have it here and I will show it to you. If you demand that this be tabled, I will table it, but I have more that I will table too Sir. I will table more too. In the Second District we had 13.2 miles paved. The truth hurts doesn’t it. The truth hurts. It is all right for you fellows to get up and criticize our Government —- here but it is not right for me or anybody else on this side to get up, or you get up like a mad person and try and get us to take it back, and table this and table that. Sometimes it is a bad thing to table things.

Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, will you get this man on the rails, he's jumping.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Now, Mr. Speaker, I wish they wouldn’t in- terrupt me, I wish they wouldn’t interrupt me because I was going to finish.

Mr. Speaker: I don’t want any more interruptions from anybody. Some Member: All right, Mr. Speaker, I am going home. Walter R. Shaw: So am I.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: You won’t be missed either one of you. I have a lot more things here Mr. Leader of the Opposition that 1 wish to say, but that is O.K. I will be back on again to-morrow so I will finish 11 with you to-morrow. Now in the Second District we have 13.2 miles and I could go own along the line some of them 9.2. I think the Liberal Government, since they took office did a wonderful thing as far as roads are concerned. I know there were a lot of contacts that were given out the day before, a few days before we took office and it was hard to know just what to do with them all.

Now, we have had people criticize The Speech from the Throne. There are eighty-one items here and I have been in this House since 1962 and this is one of the best Speeches from the Throne that has ever been presented in this House. It deals with everything and everybody, from youth to old ple. Old people and widows, and I think this is a wonderful thing. I can down, ere is Number 10, “My Ministers have informed me that the salary scales or Civil Servants, many of them, are lower than in our neighbor Province.”

Some Member: My, My something is going to be done for the Civil Servants.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: I am going to speak as some length on this because one of my good friends from the Second District nearly condemned the work that was being done and is done, and I can show him where nearly $200,000.00 more was spent this year than was s ent last year. But anyway, I can right down along the line, salary increases for ac 001 teachers, vocational training. ere is everythin , there are eighty-one items and if I wanted to deal with every item one by one, I won d be here till to-morrow night, but I am not going to deal any more with that.

Now on agriculture, we have heard a lot here in the House about the potato market and low prices. I know we all feel, because I have a lot of potatoes on hand right now, we all feel as bad over on this side as the Opposition does on the other side about the low price. But you know, sometimes I wonder if it wasn’t the Opposition that made the potato prices low. We had a Member here that came in from Second Queens: he came in here and he is supposed to be a potato dealer. He came in here one day and got up and said about the awful low price of potatoes. They were forty-five cents a

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