Monday, April 24, 1987

ate enterprise to do what they can to get tourist attractions established in Prince Ed- ward Island. Also we are, as a, government, establishing a golf course in Brudenell, we are surveying Prince County trying to get an appropriate site so that all of Western Prince will be happy with the site, and we are waitin for the Acres Report to see what they say and how they will assist us in financing t is golf course in Western Prince. We have already projected the Brudenell If course through ARDA and we are ing to et substantial assistance from the f eral vemment in the construction 0 this go course, and I feel sure that we will be ab e to get it under the FRED Program,

when the FRED Program is established.

Walter R. Shaw: Might I ask, pardon me Mr. Minister, might I ask what as- sistance ARDA would give on that and also in the other . . . .

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: I hope, Mr. Speaker, that we will get at least 50% through ARDA, but we are anticipating approximately 70% of the cost through

FRED. Walter R. Shaw: That is the total cost?

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: Total cost.

Walter R. Shaw: Well that is a very good thing, I appreciate that.

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: Now I feel that the tourist trade in Prince Ed- ward Island will be something that we can’t even imagine today once that Causeway is com leted. I feel that we must plan now for the day and, if we sit back and rest on our merits, when the Causeway is completed we will find ourselves swamped with tourists and we will find that there will be road signs and honky-tonk signs, and we will have nothing but a Coney Island here unless we control it today and plan it so that we will not have that in the years to come. (Applause) Also under the Department of Tour- ist Development I have established a new Division, a new Division called Rural and Urban Beautification. A lot of people wonder what this Division is all about and maybe I could take a few moments of the time of the House to explain. First, 1967 is our Centennial Year, a year in which we expect many visitors, a year in which we would like to leave a lastin impression upon those visitors, and a year that we, as Islanders, would like to remem r in the years to come. And for that reason we have established a Division of Rural Urban Beautification whereby we are trying to collect all the old car bodies that are scattered throughout our main highways and have them hauled away to appropriate sites, crushed and buried. I have approached the drink bottlers to ask for their co-operation in the stopping of the sale of non-refundable bottles. I found that the roadsides were getting littered with non-refundable bottles, the beaches, our parks, and playgrounds. Children would not pick them up 'because they could not get anything for them, they were getting broken and we were having nothing but glass hither and yon. And let me say, Mr. Speaker, that the bottlers in this province oo-oper- ated 100% and I have my doubts if you could buy a bottle of drink in Prince Edward Island today with a non-refundable bottle.

Walter R. Shaw: That’s a good move.

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: It was done without any legislation, but by the full co-operation of the drink people concerned who acted in the best interests of the province and in full co-operation with my Department.

My division of Rural Beautification also acts as a co-ordinatin division, a co- ordinating division of all Departments of government. I am the co-ordinator, and may I say that all the Departments of Government have co-operated 100% with my Division so that each Department knows what the other Department is doing. In other words, Mr. Speaker, in my Division of Beautification I might be trying to beautify a certain intersection of road, and at the same time the Minister of Highway might be deciding to un-beautify it. But now under co—operation and co-ordination this all comes under the Djvisigndof Beautification so that somebody is not destroying what somebody else 1s rymg 0.

Walter R. Shaw: I think you should be the Premier.

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: Well now that’s good and maybe someday, in one hundred years from now, I will be. (Laughter) But I am afraid, Mr. Leader of the Opposition it will be a hundred years from now before I will be there.

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