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selves. In that respect I sincerely believe that when the Minister of Education got onto his feet to move a motion, this man should be removed from this Assmbly for one full day, and fortunately, the Speaker, of the House asserted his authority and said we will only give him a “high sticking” penalty.
Honourable Gordon L. Bennett: Mr. Speaker, I arise on a question of Priv- ilege. I presume I am the person to whom the Honourable Member from Second Kings refers. I did not move the motion that the Honourable Member be removed from the House. I moved the motion that the matter be referred to the Committee on Privileges. The matter of the removal of an individual from the House is looked after by another party.
J. Walter Dingwell: Well Sir, in your correction then, I hope you are on that Committee of Privileges and see that all concerned are merited the same penalty. However, many of those things have gone by the Board and we are going to be judged in the future in respect to them. Bossibly this disappointment that I have seen, there may be a ray of hope even yet for some of the dreams that I have had and been so disappointed in the fulfillment of them. When I saw a man rise in his
place on this side of the House the other day, more or less in disgust today he would support anything he thought that would tend to continue good Govem- ment, but he would see it first! I haven’t seen him in the House since that day, or a day or two after; perhaps he became so disgusted that he may not come back for a few days, or he may be on some occasion, such as the Minister of Education was when we perhaps continued too long into the spring days for to have the House open. Of course I don’t know, but it may be a legitimate occasion that he is out on. But I don’t see too much hurry to have this Draft Address discontinued at so short a notice, because We adjourned to watch a hockey match, We adjourned in the memory of good St. Patrick, and I don‘t suppose he would care if We continued on for a little longer. I am quite happy that tonight that when the Budget is being brought down, that we will see what is proposed by the Government in respect to the next few months that they will be in office. I don’t expect it to go much longer than that, because evidence is that the people are getting quite concerned. They think that we med a differnt administration; they really believe that this present admin- istration can’t continue very long in the inefficient manner in which it has been doing.
I mentioned this man over here, the former Provincial Secretary ..... Some Member: Don’t make that comment.
J. Walter Dingwell: . . . . so well represented this Province, so well repre- sented in every walk of life that he has entered into, a soldier, a business man. I suppose there isn’t anyone in Prince Edward Island today that is as sharp of mind, as though he wasn’t as well trained as some in that respect in the form of education. But when the Minister, the man from Charlottetown, who was so meanly attacked by a bit of a tid-bit as the Premier called it, that he found in his desk. What was that? Something about Labour Replacement Committee which eventually developed into such a dud and had a little back-firing effect on you people over there. Is this just a tidbit? This is what We find, this is what we see in every effort they tried to present, a little bit of tid-bit, a tid-bit of that, back tracking here. and not much going ahead there. Is this a tid-bit Government? We wonder in respect to that, we wonder in many other respects and We don’t like to attack any man violently. Last year I was accused, when I sat down from addressing this House, of being an angry little boy. I could see the possibility that the attitude you people were taking out of there and trying to get into the minds of the people of this Province, and you did fairly successfully, was it that there was something wrong, there was something wrong with the promotion of industry in this Province. There was something wrong with the people trying to promote those things in this Province. You very successfully did that and the results, I could see, the results would possibly turn out much the same as they were and I wanted to warn the people. I wanted to try and warn, the Leader of the Opposition, did at that time, try and warn you against those practices because we knew, and the people know, now that when you did get into that position that you didn’t have the experience or knowledge to continue and be very effective in producing anything. You tore down a lot, you destroyed people, possibly. I know you are going to get clear of Jens Moe
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