Tuesday, April 25, 1967 Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : He got you another seven million dollars. Walter R. Shaw : My oh my, oh my! M. Alban Farmer : Yes, and had you received what you should have received you wouldn't be worrying: about a deficit. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : We would have got four. (Laughter). M. Alban Farmer : It was on account of the inefficient and inadequate presen¬ tation of our claim that you didn't get more. (Applause). Walter R. Shaw : . . . you got it M. Alban Farmer : Now that's where we should be getting our money and we should not have to cut back on our development here at all. We shouldn't have to do that because of the inadequate presentation and the inadequate acknowledgement of our claims by your friends in Ottawa. Walter R. Shaw : Mr. Pearson ! M. Alban Farmer : Now there is a reference here about the increase for the current fiscal year. Remember that in the current fiscal year four months goes to the former government and eight months to this government. If there is a substantial deficit for this year, two-thirds of that deficit is their own baby and they should take responsibility for it. Instead of abiding by the wishes of the Legislature, they went into a spending spree and ran up a great big deficit. Several Members: (Applause ft Laughter.) M. Alban Farmer : These are the boys who are gloomy today and they have no regard . . . WaPer R. Shaw : Pile it on! M. Alban Farmer : ...for the people's money, no appropriations approved by the Legislature', bat by Order-in-Coundl. Very good boys to cut loose with some¬ body elses money without any authority. M. Alban Farmer : Anyway they went ahead, they went ahead. There is one other feature, Mr. Speaker , and I was looking for it in the Budget, but it wasn't mentioned. He didnt come out and say there was no increase in taxes, he hinted at it several places and threatened it but didnt have the nerve to stand up and say, we will put on taxes. But they did put on taxes. When they settled their affairs with Ottawa, every man women and child in this province was taxed; there was a tax of $120.00 maximum on income tax. Some Member : Oh hoooo. M. Alban Farmer : Oh, ho, that is correct, there was a maximum of $120.00 put on, and that was for that supplementary pension, and that supplementary pen¬ sion is tied in with your budget, and in addition to that there is an increase of 1% in sales tax... Honourable T. Earle Hiekey : You are talking about federal taxes. M. Alban Farmer : I am talking about federal taxes as it applies to us and it applies to you and it applies to me, and it applies... Honourable T. Earle Hiekey : This is a provincial budget, not a federal budget. M. Alban Farmer : It's where you claim that you are not going to pay the old age pensioners, the ones who get this additional thirty dollars. You are not going to give them anything, but you are saving that because we are paying it and that answers your 1% sales tax and the additional income tax that will be payable in respect of that particular levy. You will find that everybody, from the First day of January, 1967, is responsible if he is taxable. He is going to pay it, and every¬ body else that uses any goods that are subject to the sales tax increase of 1% across —897—