Legislative Aasembly Friday, April 14, 1967 Honourable Robert E. Campbell : Mr. Speaker , I am sorry that I will not be able to go on with what I wanted to say because the Member from First Queens, senior Member , is not here. First of all I would like to speak a few minutes on the subsidy for boats. Now as we all know, these fishermen should be paid and I feel very bad that they haven't been paid before. But I don't think the Opposition should be blaming this side of the House for their mistakes because this has gone on for three years, at least two years and a half. And in that two and a half years the Conservatives held the Government and there was nothing done about it till just before election when five friends of the Second Kings Member were the only ones that were paid. The former Minister of Fish¬ eries, his five friends were the only ones that were paid at that time. Now since that time there have been a few more paid and we are hoping that in the near future quite a few more will be paid. Now in Georgetown , I have noticed since I came into the House here that 75% of the time has been taken up by three Members talking about Georgetown and I know I sympathize with them too because it is not a good thing to have one of these plants closed up, but I don't feel that three Members should take up 75% of the time from the rest of the Members. There are twenty-nine more Members and they have hardly had a chance to speak for their District and different parts of the Island. These three men have taken up 75% of the time. Now as we all know, George¬ town, in the last few years, took up quite a bit of time here in the House; we were try¬ ing as the Opposition at that time to put the Government straight on it, but last spring there was no reason to for them to call an election, none whatsoever. They had piled thousands and thousands of dollars into the Georgetown Plants to keep them rolling, but why was an election called? I can tell you why an election was called. For the simple reason they knew they couldnt go much farther with Jens Moe and some of these other colleagues, so they called an election hoping that they would win. But last year in the House I predicted that they wouldn't win and I am a great man at making predictions. Now, Mr. Speaker , I don't think the Opposition should blame the Government for all their mistakes in Georgetown . This Government is working and working; they have worked day and night to try and get their mistakes straightened out and it won't be long before their mistakes are straightened out once we find out who owns Bathurst Marine, . There are so many people who own it, we don't know who to pin it down on, but things are working out fairly well now. I would like to mention about our R.C.M.P. Force on Prince Edward Island . I think they are doing an excellent job, and as I have said here before we couldnt live here on the Island without the R.C.M.P. We have a detachment in Alberton that is a wonderful group of men. There are five of them; we only had four until the R.CJK .P. took over Alberton . They are patrolling Alberton now and they are doing a wonderful job. I mentioned the other night about all the good things that were going on up in the First District of Prince . I forgot about the boat building factory in Tignish . I for¬ got about two more boat building factories in Alberton . Coming back to the debt of the Province, this is something that the Opposition will not want to hear, but to-day it stands at 161,000,000.00 in direct debt and the indirect debt is around $22,000,000.00, making a total of $88,000,000.00. There is nothing to laugh about, Leader of the Oppo¬ sition; this is serious and I don't think you should be over there laughing. Walter R. Shaw : I am not even smiling. Now if this man wants to go on talk¬ ing, leave me out of it, I am not laughing at him at all although I feel like it some¬ times. Honourable Robert E. Campbell : People laughed at you on May 30th. Walter R. Shaw : That is all right. Keep your conversation more constructive. Honourable Robert E. Campbell : Now, it was an awful thing when the Conser¬ vative Government took office in 1959. Every time you saw one of their faces on tele¬ vision or in the paper, they were complaining about the most terrible debt since Con¬ federation. . . . $29,000,000.00. What happened? What happened in the last six and a half years ? The debt went up $54,000,000.00 but you are not Baying anything about —164—