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here in Charlottetown, because I think it is also needed here. We know that the accommodations, while it is clean and meals are good at the present institutions, they are just not suitable for the demand today. I am also disappointed, although I see that Tignish is getting a Senior Citizens Housing Unit and I know that the Minister of Nothing must have had something to do with it because. . ..

Honourable Gordon L. Bennett: Nothing at all.

Henry W .Wedge: . . . . because the people of Tignish were very anxious to get the home for Special Care there.

L. Gorge Dewar: They took it away from O'Leary.

Henry W. Wedge: Oh; they took it away from O'Leary too! I knew that the people from Tignish wanted that, and I suppose that after the Cabinet meeting in Alberton that day they had to come out and make some announcement. The Minister of Nothing went out and said they had to give them something, so he said we are going to build a Home for Special Care. I hope he does not say that he built it like

he did for the Community Center which is ready to open up there, and the rink, and all these things.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: I was out, Mr. Speaker, I was out; would you go over that again?

Henry W. Wedge: I could not repeat it, it was too long. Some Member: Would you mind talking to him again.

Henry W. Wedge: Yes; Yes; I was glad that you pleased the people in Tig~ nish and put a unit for Senior Citizens there, Sir, because they wanted a Special Care Home in Tignish and I know that you would have been in an awful box if you had not done something for Tignish. I made two trips to Tignish and our first pro- gram was to build in Tignish and Souris and we could not seem to get the co- operation. They did not offer the land and we went back the following year and

they offered land. Central Mortgage came over here and they turned the piece of land down.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Will you give me back my portfolio now, Sir? Henry W. Wedge: No, You are still the Minister of Nothing. Honourable Gordon L. Bennett: Terrible; terrible.

Henry W. Wedge: However, I note that the new Board now has a regulation that they must show a need, they must show a need. Some say we built too many. I don’t doubt that. I know that when we built the Alberton Unit, we had a unit vacant for one year. It takes times for people to catch on, but it is filled and I remember when I left the Government that there was seven applications for units there.

Six applications from O’Leary. Why don’t you built another one there? Is that out of your District? But you built one in Tignish.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Government Policy.

Henry W. Wedge: Was there any demand in Tignish? Was there any demand in Tignish? Honourable Gordon L. Bennett: More demand than there was in Rustico.

Henry W. Wedge: Well, it is nice to see that I placed two adds in the news- paper, The Journal Pioneer that covers the area.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: Like the Dew!

Henry W. Wedge: I never had one application from Tignish, but Central Mort-

gage and Housing were willing to go ahead because the clergy and the civic council wanted it. That was when I was there.

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