Tuesday, April 25, 1967 Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : Ton will be getting your answer. J. Cyril Sinnott : No answer to that question, anyway. In response to these demands from the press and the public in general, the Pre¬ mier remained silent and he is still silent, he has promised us a statement on the Georgetown affair; it is supposed to be coming soon. It had better be good! And he will have to substantiate the many charges he has made about the operation. Several of these charges have already been refuted. For example the Premier said in December that Foods, under present operating methods, is not a viable industry. I resume he though that this statment would stand up. Well, let us deal with it for a ew miuntes. The Government appointed Canadian Plant Processing Engineering Lim ¬ ited of , Nova Scotia , to survey the operation of Foods, but I pre¬ sume, Mr. Miller forgot to show the report to the Premier . The report was sent to him on September 30, 1966, and the Premier should certainly have been in possession of all these facts by December 1st, 1966, when he forced the closure of the plant. Apparently, the Honourable Mr. Miller forgot to turn this over to the Premier or to inform him what might have been in the report. Not only that but as late as December 17, 1966, the CBC broadcast, CBC Commentator had a few remarks to make about the operation in Georgetown , and he could only have gotten them from either the Premier or some person In Government. Because even after this report was received the Commentator had this to say on the CBC and I heard him. " Premier Campbell has released just enough information about the situation in Georgetown to create a muddled picture of mismanagement and financial hokus-pokus in toe affairs of the two plants, both of ?, which are run by Montreal based entrepeneur Jens Moe." He goes on further, " Premier Campbell has all the ammunition he needs; a thirty page experts report on the man¬ agement structure and its activities. The cold print of an external auditor's report, which apparently reveals some highly unorthodox handling of provincial funds ad¬ vanced for use of operating capital, and a few other goodies as well." Now this Com ¬ mentator could only have got this from Government sources either directly from the Premier, or from one of his Ministers , or from some other person in the Department authorised to give him this information. It creates a distinctly bad impression of the plants in Georgetown , and I want to refer to a thirty page report which the Premier suggested was so detrimental to the operation. This is dated September 80, 1966, to the Ministry of Industry, and is a report by Canadian Plant and Processing Engineer¬ ing Limited , , , Nova Scotia and deals first with their on- site investigations. I am going to read only their conclusions because the report is too long and involved. In regard to the general operation of the plant in the last paragraph they have this to say, "It is fair to say that all of the personnel involved in these two field investigations were satisfied that the plant is, in general, being properly operat¬ ed and maintained and, with very few exceptions, is comparable to most existing fish processing plants that we have had occasion to inspect." (Applause) These words speak for themselves and I am unable to understand where this CBC Commentator re¬ ceived these observations which he broadcast across Canada against the plant operat¬ ions in Georgetown on December 17, 1966, two months after they had received this re¬ port Now to go in further detail, the investigators referred to plant operation and this is what they had to say. "From a productivity point of view, this plant was de¬ signed to take maximum advantage of an individual incentitive scheme and while this somewhat complicates material handling methods and employee training, it can be Justified because of the uncertain labour situation in the Georgetown area." He goes on further to say in reference to the system of use down there. "This system is consid¬ ered desirable from a quality control point of view and appears to be a distinct ad¬ vantage over the bulk storage system common to other trawlers." This is in reference to the aluminum boxes which are used to store the fish while they are being brought in from the sea and it is the only plant in the Maritimes which is using that, and as far as I know the first one in Canada . They praise this system without reservation. They go on further to say, "We are advised that plans have been prepared and are going to be implemented for the automation of the unloading procedure by the utilisation of a continuous elevating device discharging from the hold of the ship to a series of belt conveyors which would convey the boxes past the icing station to the holding room. So this wOl substantially reduce the labour fores involved in the unloading operation, and at the same time increase the unloading rate. This would certainly appear to be a worthwhile investment." They go on with their report on the holding room operations by detail, by the processing room operations. In regard to the processing room they have this to say, *ut should be noted that the input weight and the output weight pro¬ vides sufficient information to determine not only the productivity in terms of total —«87—