Legislative Assembly And that brings me to a point on which I have been solely distress*] to keep myself silent. Apparently it has become synonymous with second class ittanni to be holding a job of any public nature, unless you were born on Prine . Well Mr. Speaker we think that this is an absolute poisonous philojophy for any member of the Opposition to even mention. We have not, as have our imposition, attempted to go into the pedigree of all of the Civil Servants or pubis officials concerned with the province. We have not even asked ourselves if all of tha mmm- brs of the opposition were born on Prince Edward . I can immediately ttfek of one member who was not. I believe at least one member came to us fron Mather land, brought with him his skills and his energies, and has made a grelt^swtri- bution in his profession, and as a member of this House. We are gratefti. Wa are grateful for having had many people of many nationalities come to settle uaonii us. I number among my valuable acquaintances people who have come from'flbgland. from Holland, from Poland, from Germany, and from other lands. In all eases they have been an asset to their various communities. Whether they rrada their way as ordinary farmers or fishermen or as public servants. Thank tMt other provinces of this great nation are at least more tolerant than some of oir Apposi¬ tion. Otherwise what would our sons and daughters do who go forth fron oar own hamlets to make their way in this country. Mr. Speaker I am sure I anr speaking for most members of this House when I say I have nothing but absolute ligost for a mentality so miserably small as to field the questions that have bem fielded in respect to some of our public servants. Yes and I am going to cite an exact case. And may I say again, Mr Speaker , that I am disgusted that any member should use this rostrum, should use this House, should lurk beneath the protection of the parliamentary process to endeavour to blacken through the inferences of calculated questions the character <f a dedi¬ cated public servant, Mr. Baisley , the acting chairman of the Loan Board. Having reviewed the files I find it difficult indeed to ascertain the concern of the member from Fifth Kings, the learned doctor. The diaiaon between he and his senior partner, the member from Second Kings is too obvious tiroughout this whole session to presume that it should be lacking on this particdar point. For the benefit of the House, Mr. Speaker , I will briefly relate the beta. Mr. Baisley was hired as a result of an investigation of his abilities, and at a result of an interview for which he presented himself on January 22nd, 1965 The de¬ cision to hire Mr. Baisley was made immediately following this interview by three Cabinet ministers and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commissbn. These three honourable gentlemen were: The Honourable Leo F. Rossiter , Sinister of Industry and Natural Resources and of Fisheries; the Honourable A. B. MacRae , Minister of Agriculture; Honourable J. D. Stewart , Provincial Secretary:: and the then chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Mr. Lome Monkley . the three Cabinet ministers acted in their capacity as President and as Directon of the P.E.I. Industry Corporation. They desired the services of a port engineer and shore captain, who would be familiar with the supervision of construction contracts for steel boats and who would be useful in improving the position of tht dragger fleet operating from Prince Edward Island . He was directed to file an application with the Civil Service Commission dated January 22nd, 1965, and was hired with effect from February 1st immediately following. Among his testimomalf he pre¬ sented a letter from his previous employer, Booth Fisheries Canadian Limited writ¬ ten by C. D. Gordon the General Manager and I read the letter. I want you to take particular note of the final paragraph of this letter. "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 11th January 1966 The Bearer, Mr. Leonard Baisley , was Chief Engineer at Booth Fisheries Plant, Petit De Grat, for the past twelve years. In this position he was in complete charge and responsible for all shore mainten¬ ance of a frozen fish processing plant, cold storage and fish meal plant. In addition he was in complete charge of maintaining and refitting a fleet of large fishing trawlers. He is the moat knowledgeable and practical man in this field that I know of and is the most dependable, conscientious, hard-working and stber man —376—