Thursday, May 18, 1967

comes. In any event, I think that possibly, the Premier states that he will only take twenty minutes and I should be given forty because of my age superiority.

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: Good, Sir.

Walter R. Shaw: In any event, tomorrow morning we have to meet again. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: No. No.

Walter R. Shaw: Well, what a wonderful balcony, I don’t feel like going home at all. (Laughter)

Some Member: Keep her going. Keep her going.

Walter R. Shaw: The lovely smiles of a pair of ladies up there inspires me, Mr. Speaker.

Some Member: Carry on. Carry on.

Walter R. Shaw: I will just have to keep my eyes away from that or I will keep on. Mr. Speaker, I would move the adjournment of the debate.

Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, down at a meeting the other night, where we had a tremendous crowd of people, there was a large number of women there, and they told me after the reason there was so many women was that they heard I was coming to the meeting. Now I can’t say that the message could not have gone out as far as I my address this morning is concerned, why we didn’t have a very cham- ing representation of women; the gallery is small and we never expect that. Now Mr. Speaker, unfortunately we will be pressured into a very narrow amount of time, and inasmuch as I expect to take at least two hours. I am afraid that the Speaker will have to send his address to the paper or over C.F.C.Y. However, I would like to. . .

Honourable Keir Clark: five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty?

Walter B. Shaw: Oh; that is plenty. I will try and get through by eleven o’clock. It is not easy to readjust remarks that you intend to make, compress them into a short space of time, but I have got to cut the corners this morning.

Honourable Keir Clark: That is going to be hard on you. ,

Walter R. Shaw: Well, I know it is, but it is going to be less hard on you unless I put a pungency in what I am going to say that will hurt. I will try not to do that in this peaceable, lovely spring morning when we are all in more or less of a happy mood to get clear of this session. Now, I would like to say that we are approaching the end of an inglorious and marathon session of this Legislature, and I noted the very brief addresses of men from the Government side. I thought they

were a little subdued in their tone, more or less apologetic and without too much fire, and I could quite understand why.

Budgets, you know, are deceptive things, I think they always are. Those who construct Budgets seem to adopt the idea of making them as complicated as possible, and it is difficult for an ordinary person to segregate the material that is in a Budget and understand it thoroughly, unless you are an auditor or an Einstein of some kind on mathematical matters. But I might say that the Budget that we have today is not very different with regard to those deceptive properties than a great many other Budgets I have seen in the past. I think my friend here from the Second District of Prince and the Member from Sixth Queens pointed out a great many things in that Budget that remain hidden or semi-hidden and some of the errors, and some of the misleading statements that were in that Budget. Of course they are constructive from the standpoint of the Government and they praised and they condemned the former Government for their sins and iniqiuties. In this respect, this one was, I say, no different than any other. The Budget, to my mind, was rather contradictory. I went over it very carefully; it was gloomy, it had a lot of condemnation, it had a lot of prophecy in it, particularly with regard to reckless spending that is going to take place according to the Provincial Treasurer and also a suggestion that, in due course, we are going to have an increase in taxation. That was very definitely in the Budget, so we can expect that increased taxes will follow in due course. Now, I might say that as far as the criticism of the former Government on the financial position of this

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