Thursday, May 18, 1967

,make statements of that kind. In three years he’s going to balance the Budget. This ,year he’s got ten million dollars more revenue and he is prophesying they are going to go in the hole nearly three million dollars. But read, and I am not reading it. I 3have not the time, read page thirty-seven and page nineteen in this'man's presenta- tion and there are the words; the only way we can meet these things is by taxation. he tells you right there. If he is going to meet the Budget that he is putting out this year of a deficit of nearly three million dollars, he says, I have got to put on taxes to meet it, to balance it. Nothing could be clearer than that and I rather admire the frankness of my Honourable friend in making a statement of that kind. But I don’t think he is fooling anyone: I don't think he is fooling anyone. .Now, I am not going to criticize the late Government, and I am not going back into history like some of these men did, just like my honourable friend, the Minister of Health: he loves to do that. When he gets back to those ancient days, he looks happy: when

he gets up to talk about the present day things he looks as glum and gloomyras a north wind in the middle of January.

Honourable Keir Clark: You left her in an awful mess.

Walter R. Shaw: You are not too happy right now, and I am not going to men- tion that in these years that we were in, we had assets, this has been mentioned before. in our schools. and in our roads. and in conditions. and in industrial develop- ment. These were all there and you can’t deny that. Every farmer in this country today is trying to go out and buy land to improve his livestock and going in debt. And what for? In order that his assets may be more valuable and in future the conditions of his farm might be better than they were before. That is true on the Government level as well. And that is what we have done. In spending this money, we spent it in investment for value to the people of this Province. Now I am not going to say anything more about these high salaries; this has been discussed during the session and I am sure that we have all been amazed and the people of this country have been amazed at salaries up to $22,000.00 or 323.000.00 for people coming in here. I think they are connected in some way with some incomprehensible plan which the Premeir is trying to place before the people.

Now, I was going to say something about the Minister of Education, but I have not time.

Honourable Gordon L. Bennett: I’m glad. (Laughter)

Walter R. Shaw: And it is a good thing for you. Well, here is something that he did say, Mr. Bennett on May 27th, I have to cut the corners again, over C.F.C.Y. “The future outline by the Premier may be bright for him and his friends and rela- tives, but for you the future is dark and honest.” My future is not bright for my friends. Yet he has raised his own salary up to quite an amount in this session. and then he says, “My awareness of some of the inadequate educational policies of the present Government is one of the reasons for my entering politics.” (Applause)

All I can say to my Honourable friend is that he should have crawled out of his shell and out of the cloister down at Prince of Wales College and get into the stream of life and look what is being done for education. This is the very man, and I will leave it at this, that we heard outline the terrible condition that existed in this country under a Liberal Government in which he was almost half starved He didn’t just use those terms, but he was very much embarrassed by the low salary he got and we improved his salary at Prince of Wales College and the teachers of this country did, we gave them the raises. We improved education and he had no business making those statements at all, and I hope Mr. Minister of Education you will behave yourself after this and try and use. . . .

Honourable Gordon L. Bennett: I'll do my best.

Walter R. Shaw: . . . .terms that are more in keeping with the truth of the ex- position. Now, that's that. Let me see what I have got here. Oh; I will not mention

the schools and the vocationals. I am going to skip some of this now because I want to give the Premier five minutes.

Honourable Keir Clark: Mention Dorgan. Tell us about his father’s. . . .

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