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“My Government will initiate a new service for dairy farmers b ' ‘ greater control in the operation of their herds.” Isn’t that a beauty! Aygge‘gteg $23; of “bunkum’iI never heard in my life so much in that Draft Address on their assis- tance to agriculture! I wonder that my honourable friend from the Fourth District

didn’t go into these items, he dealt with agriculture rett thorou hl good friend from the Belfast District. p y g y and also my

. And the, let me see. “Exhaustive study of marketing, transportation and ship- ping needs.” Well you better get going on marketing pretty fast, because you didn’t do anything for the last two years on it. As a matter of fact the man we put in as the Director of Marketing has been held under subjection somewhere.

“You will be asked to provide increased financial assistance to meet the d of neglected children." Well that is a good thing. nee S

Just one or two more. “Canada Assistance Act.” “My Government Will inaugurate a program of motor vehicle inspection.”

‘fFive new Fire Brigades.” Well we started fire brigades long ago, that is rural fire fighting.

“My Government has expanded the services available under the Planning Div- ision of the Department of Municipal Affairs.”

“The Ministers have reported excellent co-operation with the agencies of the

Government of Canada in problems of industrial pollution.” Well, that is old, we started that a long time ago too.

Well these are the things. .. “In addition to the measures been specified you will be asked to consider other legislative proposals.” We hope it will not go up to 78 like it did last year.

And then he concludes with an appeal, “Let us as individuals, Canadians, re- affirm our faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women.” Then, (and mark it!), “we will have done what must be done to assure a promising future for Canada.”

Surely, Canada has been a good place to live for the last hundred years. Surely, it hasn’t been built up to be the admiration of every country in the world, because of the lack of those things that are put in that last paragraph. We have a great country, we always had a great country, and it has been built up under both political parties in Canada. A good land of which we are all proud. If there is any— thing else that we can do to make it better, and I see that we are asked to see that Divine Providence guide our deliberations, and I suggest that that is the big thing we must do to make Canada greater than it is today.

I will call it five-thirty. February 27, 1968 (Evening)

Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, when we adjourned this afternoon, I had just about completed making a brief comment on the Draft Address, in which I very heartily congratulated the government on compliments which were paid the previous adminis- tration. I indicated that there were a great many paragraphs in that Address, I haven’t counted them, that were simply a continuation of the policies and the pro- gram of the previous government and in that respect I wish to very sincerely con- gratulate the government on their wisdom insofar as that is concerned.

I would like to say that I wish to deal with three or four special departments in which the government has participated since its election in 1966. I may say that I feel we are living in a time that demands the utmost efforts of all members of this Legislature. Serious problems have arisen and have developed affecting the needs of this Province and the needs of the people. And it is our duty and respon- sibility, whether we are in government or in Opposition, to see that our best inter- ests in this respect are served. If we are to give that service, we must be frank and honest, and it is necessary that we should bring any weaknesses that we observe in the administration of public affairs into the open, and to make necessary comparisons and suggest remedies. Under our present conditions when even the government ad-

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