Friday, April 21, 1967 do not get private capital starting things today. If you want anything done, if yon want to stimulate the economy, Government must do the job. Government must build homes; if we had not built the homes, we would never get them. We must build the parks, because we would never have parks if the Gov ¬ ernment had not supplied them; we would never have motels and accommodations for the tourists unless the Government came up with the money. And this is the same thing with industry. Now, I didn't intend to dwell on Senior Citizens Housing, but I have the report that was tabled here, and it was very interesting the first time I saw it. I want to thank Mr. Bennett for putting my short report in the front of it. But in just re¬ viewing this shortly, I notice that there is a profit on Senior Citizens Housing for the year ending March 31st of $4,388.00, and I think that is fairly good. This is the third financial report that has been given. There has been a profit each year, and I don't think this is any indication of what might level off in the years to come. We realize that some of the mortgage arrangements have not been completed. There has been nothing paid on some of them and we do know that, through the years, our maintenance cost will go up, so I think it is a good thing to have a profit for a few years to build up a little surplus. When the rate of $50.00 per month was established, we got information on what had been charged in other places and they ran from $36.00 to $67.00. We settled at $50.00 because we felt here, with the Old Age Pensioners with an income of $75.00, this was the limit that they could pay. I know that it will take four or five years before the true picture of the operating costs is determined, so we can't face the figures of these reports for possibly another two years. But I am pleased to see that at least there is a revenue there. Now, I want to spend some time on Housing. I want to congratulate the Minister in charge of Senior Citizens Housing for expanding the proposed Homes for Special Care in Montague and Alberton . I think the Alberton site was a most suited site and I am pleased that they carried out the project on that particular centralized area. I do not know what happened in Montague. I understand that there has been some change there. The former form in purchasing land was that we had people come here, and the landscape artists. We went around town with some of the members of the Town Council, and we reviewed three locations, and the choice of all was the one that we purchased. Something happened after that. I think that the Minister of Welfare, a pretty smart man, we have to give him a lot of credit because I don't doubt that when the appointments to this Board came up, and there were to be Members of the Government included on the Board, I know that the Minister of Welfare will say, "I want to be on that Board and I want Mr. Clark on that Board," and they were accepted. Certainly they are capable men, but they certainly were looking after the Murray River district when they crossed the river with this new building. I do not see it. Is that suitable, that property? It was not the choice of the group that came over here, but the matter that I am concerned about is that we are getting away from the complex which we had hoped to estab¬ lish there. They would have had the use of the common Chapel; they would have had the use of the nursing services in case of an accident, and they would have had the use of the dining-room in case they should not be in a position to cook their meals, and they could receive these at cost. We found that out in Summerside with the . I think we have an ideal setup, I think it is working out very well. The unfortunate thing is that it was not big enough, because I understand there are some fifty or sixty now on the waiting list, and I trust that this unit will be expanded to take care of the needs. However, I want to congratulate the new Board for going ahead with these Homes for Special Care because, having been closely connected with this project, I know and realize the great benefit, the great need, that there is for these Homes, and I think the Minister in charge will agree that when you walk through those halls, although I have not been in there since we were there jointly for the Christmas party these people are very, very happy. It is cIosp to a hospital setup, but still more or less on the home atmosphere of a Hotel. While we were criticized when this was built, it was called a monstrosity, well if this is a monstrosity, I think we should have many more of these homes for our elderly people who lived during the depression years. (Applause) I would like to see one of these, as anticipated, built —252—