Laglaktive Aj—mbly down there in Georgetown , the Province knows it But I have been talking to good business men in this Province, some of them Liberal and some of them Conserva¬ tive, and they will say this: he built up credit in the international circles and manda¬ tory places in the world, and he built up a good reputation for himself and if you people had sat down with him down there for about two days, you would have got this Georgetown thing going. There is no question about that. (Applause) And in this manner you cast insinuations and the like of this at the former leader of the Government. He may have been an old crank, I don't know, but somebody from the Gallery railed at him up there. This is something that possibly you didn't endorse or support, you didn't try much to stop this type of accusations against this side of the House. Some Member : Shame; Shame. J. Walter Ding well: It may be, but there is always a little shame in the truth. The Leader of the Opposition wasn't given an opportunity to be on any of the committees of this House and give his knowledge to those committees in his experience, perhaps he didn't want to be, I don't know. But I think he could have given a good bit of support to many of those committees, especially the agricultural one, and I would have been very happy if it had been he and not myself that was on that agricultural committee. But I am very happy to know next summer that when he goes down there to Africa to a place called Uganda that is on the borders of Lake Victoria that he will have a very fine welcome from an Islander that is down there, (Applause) just in the neighboring Province of Kenya. My oldest born will no doubt make some effort to see him while he is down there because that is where she is. Now, we wonder who is running this Province today; perhaps I should open this particular file. Mystery men, men outside the representation of Government, men you would almost think were lusting at the flesh pockets of patronage, men that couldn't get elected or did not have the courage to stand for office, and men who apparently interfere with the running of Government in this Province. I don't believe that, sometimes, you Ministers know what is going on. Now, I have not boo much objection that there are places in politics for political patronage; I think this has always been an accepted thing. I have not too much objection if you take a man, if he is somewhat qualified, and place him in a job that someone needed perhaps just as much. But this is one of the facts of life and is being done. Perhaps it should be discontinued. But it seems a sad commentory on any Government that all that they have to offer people after an election is a job on a snowplough, or working on a highway construction job or something like that. I think that is a sad commentary on any Government that this is the best they can see in the future of this Province. No amount of bush cutting will add anything to the economy of this Province. It is the natural resources we have here, and the industry we might have developed if it had not got such a bad name, this is what concerns me an awful lot of times. I don't blame the Ministers directly; this is a fact we have to cope with in life. I don't blame the Minister of Highways one bit that two such men who used to work for the Department of Highways were replaced. There is still, perhaps, enough Presbyterian blood in me to believe in pre-destination, that it might have happened anyway. But two of those men that no longer were employed by the Department of Highways lost their lives this summer. They had to go out and look for other jobs. One of them was on the ill-fated dragger Iceland II; another was a family man, he had to go and seek employment in New Brunswick and he was killed in a highway construction business over there. I don't blame the Minister a great deal that some of the people that were working on Morell bridge down there and a young fellow came down, I don't believe he knew he was down there, and told the foreman that he had to replace those men, by men of his choice. I don't believe the Minister knew that, I dont believe this young man knew the terms of the contract in that bridge which had something to say in that respect that no one, despite their religion, color, or use of Canadian materials to carry out the work to the full extent to which it is procurable, consistent with proper economy and expenditioua carrying out the work, employ only residents of Canada , in em¬ ploying persons refrain from the discriminations in favour or against any person by reason of his race, religious views or political inclination. I know that the Min ¬ ister does not know that this was not carried out, and this young man came down