Tuesday,__April 26, 1967

J. Cyril Sinnott: The losses on your current operating expenses having to do with Gulf Garden Foods, the operating of ships and so on, is about $453,000. Your loss of subsidy payments on the three ships which will not be built is 1.35 million dollars, and the loss of down payment on ships which you can’t build is $260,000, which Gulf Garden Foods has already in there.

Honourable Robert E. Campbell: That would buy a lot of oats. (Laughter) Walter R. Shaw: Buy another mill up there.

1‘. Cyril Sinnott: And on top of that, Mr. Premier, you can add the total cost of the Royal Commission.

Honourable Alexader B. Campbell: We just lost three million dollars in the last five minutes.

J. Cyril Sinnott: You didn’t lose it; most of it is subsidy which you will not get.

Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to deal for a few minutes with the Throne Speech.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Oh, good! 1. Cyril Sinnott: It won't take long because there is nothing in it. (Laughter and Applause)

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: The Leader of the Opposition has claimed 90% of it was his.

J. Cyril Sinnott: The Throne Speech, Mr. Speaker, is a recitation of the accomplishments of the Shaw Government. (Hear, hear) (Applause). And he promised to continue those policies; I hope that that promise, at least, will be kept. It seems important to me at least that succeeding Governments build upon the accomplishments of their predecessors. So far this Government has shown little or no intention of carrying on where Mr. Shaw left off, and indeed, if the last six months history in Georgetown is any indication of the intentions of this Govern- ment, it augurs ill for the immediate future of this province. And if the Govern- ment persists in its resent course, it will make it much more difficult for future Conservative adminis rations to again place our feet back on the road to pros-

perity.

The Speech from the Throne is remarkable for its length and, apart from the promise to carry on the Shaw Policy, contains nothing of any importance. The fifth paragraph held forth a bright prospect and I would like to quote it in full. “During the course of this Session, you will be afforded the opportunity to study the framework within which a comprehensive Resources Development Plan will be formulated, and my Government will place before you a White Paper on economic development. You will be asked to approve legislation providing for the planning and implementation of this program."

In due time we received the White Paper and it is even more remarkable than the Throne Speech. It says exactly nothing; it is full of cliches, superficial observations, and lengthy phrases many of which mean nothing. For example, and I am going to quote a few of, them. On the first page it nys this, note the words “within this framework of change there is clearly a need for the pro- vincial economy to expand at a rate s ficient to bring to its population the full measure of benefits of economic growth which prevails generally in Canadian society.” That means. in four or five words, that we need more economic develop- ment. Why didn’t he say so instead of camouflaging it in a whole bunch of words like that. Another paragraph, bottom of page three. This is full of trite expressions also.

Some Member: Item Seven.