Tuesday, April 25, 1967

Mr. Speaker, I submit this is a personal battle between the Premier and Mr. Moe, and it is a systematic and rentless attack with an individual who is not in politics.

I believe that you have offered to pay their original lawyers to help you carry on your rentless battle against Mr. Moe and his associates. What is the result of all this, Mr. Speaker? The result is unrest, labour problems, and unemployment prob- lems. I believe the workers and the people of Georgetown consider Mr. Moe their friend. These people can see through your manoeuvres, you have discriminated against creditors. Come on, get up!

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: What do you mean, “Come on, get up" ‘! Leo F. Rossiter: Paid some of them one hundred cents on the dollar .....

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, it was necessary to keep that thing going, to pay for electricity and welding rods and oxygen and a few things, but there has been no discrimination .....

Leo F. Rossiter: Just a second, Mr. Smaker, discrimination against creditors I call it, and that's exactly what it is. Pay the CNR, pay the power bill, pay the tele- phone bill.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, if the previous Government hadn’t guaranteed light bills and paid insurance there would be no discrimination but we were ...... (Applause)

Leo F. Rossiter: Mr. Speaker, I submit that they discriminated against creditors. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Why did you give guarantees to certain ones ?

Leo F. Rossiter: They discriminated against creditors; they paid the ONE freight, they paid, they relieved parts off flatcars in Charlottetown and Montague. Out and out discrimination against creditors.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Right; right.

Leo F. Rossiter: The small P.E. Island creditors having been discriminated a- gainst.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Pretty hard to build trawlers when the parts are on the CNR cars under demurrage.

Leo F. Rosaiter. The big fellow, who can well afford a loss, is paid and our little Island creditors are being discriminated against.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: You know better than that.

Leo F. Rossiter: You have paid, you have made sale of property to deprive cred- itors of their rights. You deny you didn’t sell trawlers, transfer them from the Fish- ermen’s Loan Board to the Prince Edward Island Industrial Corporation, just to deprive creditors of some bills they had against the boats. You won’t deny that. You have lasted out at officials and private people for months and now suddenly you refuse to ta .

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: There will be another day.

Leo F. Rossiter: People know, Mr. Speaker, that our stories from the spring and fall and all through the summer are not true now. at you, as Attorney-General, Premier, can be the instigator of this is almost unbelieveable, really. How many times have you been in Georgetown since this incident happened? Once or so. And I an st, Mr. Speaker, he should go down to Georgetown and talk to some of these peop e. I have been in Georgetown many times.

Several Members: We know, we know. Well we know it.

Leo F. Rossiter: And I Mr. Speaker, would suggest to the Premier that he go down and talk.with the peopie of Georgetown so he can get a first hand knowled e of what is taking place down there. And then on his wa down, or back, he mi t drop in and talk to some of the farmers as he talked wit them before the election campaign, With farmers who were taking potatoes out of their warehouses four and

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