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ing uestion. But these are the things that are putting doubts in the minds of the people of this province. The lack of accepting responsibility, the evasion of the ques- tions that have been asked.

Honourable Alexander 3. Campbell: You got the answer, Sir. You got the answer.

M. Alban Farmer: I got the answer, yes; but it was after a long time. The first time I asked you knew or could have known in ten minutes who it was.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: The answer was that there were four peo- ple.

M. Alban Farmer: I know at that particular time though.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: You will ”be happy to know, Sir, that the bed-bug situation in Queens County jail is being cured at the present time.

M. Alban Farmer: Well, that is very encouraging. I am glad that they are doing something for the tenants as far as justice is concerned.

This province and the people of this province had reason to feel that the Cause- way situation was taken care of. However, recently it looks as if we are in for more trouble there. It seems that we cannot depend on anything that has been apparently settled and apparently established because the things seems to back up and break out again on the same old merry-go-round. I do not know what the position of the Government has been on it. I have a notice here, January 7, 1967, a notice in the

aper. “Officials of the provincial government will leave for Ottawa on Monday to bring up various aspects concerned With the construction of the Northumberland Strait crossing before the federal government." Now this was after we thought it was all ready to go. “The delegation will include John Mullally, Provincial Liason Officer for Federal-Provincial Programs, Honourable George Ferguson, Minister of Public Works and Highways; Gordon White, Deputy Minister of Highways; Stan Bishop, Provincial Planning Officer." The order of priority here seems a little bit out of place to me.- The delegation will include John Mullally and then Honourable George Ferguson. I thought probably Honourable George Ferguson should have been first in that particul- ar instance, but no, he wasn’t.

Now there was another item that I would like to discuss briefly and that is the agreement at which the Premier and the Provincial Treasurer dealt with our tax-shar- ing arrangements. When they were there new agreements were brou ht u and this will no doubt be one of the matters that we will have to deal with w en t e Budget is brought down tomorrow evening. Bit there was one other item there that I thought should be dealt with, and we don’t seem to be able to get any report on it. That is our 2.5 million dollars being an allowance for a Centennial project. There has been no satisfactory answer why that hasn’t been stressed in the Speech. The 2.5 million dollars was 'ven all the other Provinces and they built different types of projects for it. In New runswick they bui t an office buildingh similar, or to some extent similar, to the one that was built here. I submit that if t e Premier is, as he represented in the election campaign, in line with the Prime Minister and the government in Ottawa, all he has to do is 0 up there and ask for things and he will get them. There was one thing that shou d have been asked for; it doesn’t appear to have been asked for. There is one thing which could have been gotten: that 2.5 million dollars because the Centre over here was built as a national shrine, a national project, and while there was a share came from all the other provinces, and of course this province did con- tribute substantially to it, all the other provinces then turned around and got 2.5 mil- lion dollars which we never got. I submit that’s there and it is there for the asking. I submit that it should have been asked for.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: We were awfully surprised that you fellows didn’t get that sewed up before you started building.

M. Alban Farmer: You were su rised that it was not sewed up before you started building? It wasn’t sewed up use we couldn’t seem to persuade them. They all admitted that this was a national shrine but they did not seem to want to admit that the money should have also been credited to this province the same as to the other rovmces. Our applications have gone in there and have been there, and that should ave been press and we should have got that 2.5 million dollars. If

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