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it. drop, Mr. Speaker; the raflection upon the honour of one of the Ministers of my Government or against anyone else that sat in this Legislature and it is unfair to

even suggest that.

J. Walter Dingwell: Mr. Speaker, I think there is another direct implication in- volved here that possibly was overlooked. The Minister has asked us, people on this side of the House, people that have been accused of blackmailing, to accept his excuse for not tabling this letter is another indication that we are willing to accept that. I for one don’t approve of this type of principle. Now, I think the nghts and privileges of this Legislature, in all due reference to you, Sir, are being subjected to somethmg which they should not 'be, and if you don’t feel like taking it on yourself, at this mom- cut, to say whether they should be tabled, I believe, you should take a suggestion of the former Deputy Speaker of this House and close the debate until you confer with

some authority in respect to this subject.

Some Member: Mr. Speaker, the last Speaker that was up there mentioned that about a letter; well, this is iipot a letter we are ptalking about, it is a cheque that we are

talking about, ’right now. It' 15 the same thing.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Now, Mr. Speaker, if they will let me carry on with my speech, I will only be a few minutes. Now, Mr. Speaker, if they want more, they will get more and they will get some stuff and proof that they do not

want to hear.

J. Walter Dingwell: Well, we’ll open up the can of worms, Sir.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Well, there is one thing, you have a mouth big enough to eat two cans of worms.

Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, surely this kind of thing can’t go on. You must, Mr. Speaker, with all deference to you, you must stop this thing in this Leg1 slature. It is a terrible accusation that is bein made here and I will tell you quite frankly that I am very much concerned about t e manner in which this man has been allowed to go on. We only want some information and he is not frightening me or anyone else in saying there are twenty-five other cases. If there are, let them come on, and we will have another commission to examine the whole thing, if you wish.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, if you will let me carry on my speech, keep the Opposition quiet, because I can stay here all day as far as that is concerned. But I know there are other good speakers behind me that want to speak. Now, Mr. Speaker, for two more minutes, Sir ......

Walter R. Shaw: I wonder will he withdraw what he said?

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, I might mention about the Tig- nish Fisheries in 'l‘ignish. They are doing a wonderful job with the rebate last year of over $100,000.00 to the fishermen and we have a lot of good organizations to offer to Fishery unions and so and so forth up in my District and we are hoping that there will be something done for District Eight and District Eight fishermen in the near future. Now, Mr. Speaker, I think thatg you have handled this Session so far wonder- full and the Opposition was good to me, they were quiet, they let me speak, and pro bly later on, when the Budget is brought in, my health will be better and I will 'be able to stand up and speak for two or three hours. Thank you, Sir. (Applause)

L. Georg e Dewar: Mr. Speaker, of course, the matter of privilege hasn’t been decided upon that is before the House and I think we should have a decision on that matter.

Henry W. Wedge: Mr. Speaker, I know the Honourable Members of the Gov- ernment side of the House certainly wouldn’t for this, they wouldn’t want accusa- tions made and nothing laid on the ytable. nyody can say anything they like in this House and with no proof. We want to dig into this. We want to find out who the cheque went to and what it was paid for and I am going to ask the Minister of Ag ri- culture to look up his records and find out what is was paid for, whether for grain Assistance or what and this 1s being now used as quite a propaganda. I think this is very important, otherwise we will use everyt rything that we can find, we will bluff every newspaper that we can get, read it, read it, an false words and everything else, and

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