Tuesday, April 25, 1967

Now, I think it is too long and I don’t think the Election Act will cure many of the ills that took place in the last election. Honestly, I don’t think it will. Too long we have hid our heads in the sand in respect to how elections are being run. I heard not too long ago, and he is the President of the Young Progressive Con- servative Association on Prince Edward Island, challenge the people at an assem- blage of all Conservatives, I would say, and there was a huge amount of them there, that many of those practices that are taken place at election time be in some manner halted. I think the same movement is underfoot. and I hope it I hope it is, and I know it is amoung the ranks of the young people in the Liberal Party. We know the Allied Youth of this Province are opposed to the use of beverage alcohol to this end, and it is no use any longer to hide our heads in the sand whether we are personally responsible for it or not, and the buying and sell- ing of votes, the right to vote. Now, it is too long that we have appealed to that type, to people in this Province, it is too long we have appealed to the stupidity and not the intelligence of the people. So I would like here today. following much the same manner that the Junior Member from First Kings did in his appeal in remembrance of those that had gone before, those that had been lost in the Ice- land disaster. I would like that each and every Member confirm that he will go back to his poll chairman, to his political organizations, and say, I will have noth- ing further to do with it; I don’t want you people.” I have talked to poll chairmen of both Liberal and Conservative and they are agreed that this has gone to the limit where something has got to be done in respect to it, and I would like to think that each one here assembled today would carry that message back to their or- ganization and their poll chairman. I would like, in the manner in which the Junior Member for First Kings asked us to stand in respect for the dead, I would like us to stand today in respect to the living and I would like the Premier of this Province to stand with me and others as well in this Legislature to carry that type of message back to their organizations and their people. Will you do it Sir?

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, I have carried that message now for three elections in Prince County. and I will hope to carry that message throughout the Province with the Honourable Member, all Members of this House.

J. Walter Dingwell: Will they all stand in that respect? Will the people of this Legislature stand and affirm themselves that they will try to run future elections in this Province with dignity and respect of their fellow man?

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: We stand to that principle, Mr. Speaker.

J. Walter Dingwell: That is all I am asking you to stand. I would like to further have you cross this floor and meet in a further respect in that matter that this quorum of appointed people shall conduct themselves in dignity and honour in the future days of this Assembly. (Applause)

Leo F. Rossiter (Second Kings)

First, Mr. Speaker, in articipating in this debate I would like to congratulate you on your appointment as peaker of this Assembly. As you have been presiding for several weeks we can trul say that you are unbiased and rule with a very unbiased attitude, and for this we tha you very much.

I would like to also co tulate the Mover and Seconder of the Speech from the Throne; they did a splendi job, both of them, for the material they had to work on, practically nothing, and a very commendable job was done by both men, due to the fact they had very little to work on. I refer to the junior member from First Kings who is always quite capable of dealing with a matter of this kind as well as his col- league sitting next to him.

Dealing first with some matters in regard to this document here, a very verbose piece of material, very little in it. I would like to deal first with some of the matters of agriculture. Agriculture in this rovince, Mr. Speaker, I am sorry to say, is in a very sorry mess today with the co usion that has been created in the milk business, the Minister is sayi one thin and the managers of the processing plants are saying something else and e federa Minister of Agriculture is saying something opposite to both of them. The farmers are so confused, Mr. Speaker, as to what is going on in the recent milk subsidy that they are at their wits end to know. The Minister says

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