Legislative Assembly

Honourable Cecil A. Miller: Mr. Speaker, here is the transcript of what he said. “Well, Mr. Speaker, for the Minister’s information. I will read to him a peraentat- ion which was made to him by six foremen of the Bathurst Marine on March 28th. I had already denied that I had received such a communication. He read it in the after- noon to us. I did not receive the letter till the following morning with the eleven O’Clock P.M. post marked on it at Charlottetown here, so Sinnott’s pony express was faster than her Majesty’s Mail." (Laughter) and (Applause)

Now, just a moment . . . J. Cyril Sinnott: On a matter of Privilege. Mr. Speaker.

Honourable Cecil A. Miller: Never mind your question of Privilege; you have had too much to say already.

J. Cyril Sinnott: You are twisting the facts, you are twisting the facts; that is not true, that is absolutely false.

Honourable Cecil A. Miller: Now, Mr. Speaker may I proceed with what I have to say. Mr. Sinnott made the statement “he’s lying” and it’s underlined. The following morning he came in and he gave a half apology. Here is my point, what I want to say; we have the highest respect, clear of the political scene, for the honourable gentleman. He was a man that started with very little, he has a brilliant mind, he went through school, High School, College and he led his classes. He went through University and he can put a string of degrees behind his name a half of mile long, but he missed the first essential of an educated man and that is, being a thorough gentleman at all times. (Applause)

Cyril Sinnott: A statement like that from Miller!

Honourable Cecil A. Miller: On the other hand. I simply cannot sit here and listen to these brazen attempts to confuse and mislead the public. To an attempt to condone or explain in any way the arrogant, irresponsible mismanagement of this great project by the Minister, the then Minister, the Honourable Leo Rossiter who was res- ponsible for its early planning and implementation. No wonder, indeed. that he was removed as Minister of Industry and as President of the Industrial Corporation early in 1966. He was replaced by the Honourable Lloyd MacPhail, as Minister of Industry and replaced also as President of the Industrial Corporation. Even this did not stop the Honourable Member from 2nd Kings from bulldozing his plane through. He was left as a Director of the Industrial Corporation.

The Minister and President of the Corporation, the Honourable Mr. MacPhail, could only throw up his hands in horror as the Rossiter machine churned on through deal after deal, fueled by the taxpayer’s money.

And now, of course, our patience must be abused by this man and his willing satellite, his new found help mate, the learned doctor, the representative from Fifth Kings in that desperate effort to polish up the image of this industrial “Moses”. This “Prophet of the New Day" who was going to lead Prince Edward Island out of the industrial wilderness into a glowing future. What a (pity that this drive, this energy, this burning desire to be somebody, that all this con] have been so twisted, so miser- ably diverted to the sly designs of a slick manipulator. One can only be reminded of a tragic little figure dancing on the end of the string of a puppeteer.

But apparently the patience of this Government, the patience of this House, will be abused for some time to come. The record of the proceedings to date indicates no hope whatever that the frantic and desperate efforts of these men to justify their course of action will cease or even diminish.

It is not eminently fossible that the meeting 'between Mr. Moe and the Honour- able Member from Secon Kings held in the Nova Scotian Hotel March 7th to 11th very carefully detailed the strategy. Can we not be assured of this, because both the strategy itself and the matter concerned could surely not be the product of the mind of the Honourable Member from Second Kings alone, nor could it even be the product of his mind in concert with the medicine man from Wifth Kings. May I cite some in- stances.

I could refer to repeated examples from the records of the proceedings of this House which would indicate a curiously close ilaison between the Moe interests and the two Honourable Members of the opposition to whom I have just referred and who have

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