Legislative Assembly more Now he says they haven't any. Where did it go, Mr. Premier ? You ought to be able to tell this House. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : Did you say you were in power four months? Walter R. Shaw : The money was disappearing at a tremendous rate. Certainly we didn t get services in this province. The fact is he didn't get that much money from Ottawa. I questioned it last year when he brought a statement in on that, and my contention was proven correct because the question came up on the floor of the Hou»e at Ottawa and they said "We don't know what we gave them." Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : Did your speech say four months in 1966? Walter R. Shaw : I said last April. Oeorge Dewar: Starts at the first of April, Sir. Walter R. Shaw: April, May, June, July; we went out in July. Now I must say that the other Premiers in the Provinces did pretty well that time. They did pretty well. What did Premier Robichaud say after he got that settlement? He jumped up in great excitement and he stated, "Ottawa played Santa Claus and has taken a giant step forward in generosity." He was getting a Christmas present; our men got the "skunk bounty." What a difference! Then Smallwood, pardon me, Premier Smallwood was so excited that he could not wait to get back home. He jumped up and left before the conference was ended with the good news. "We are getting up to thirty million dollars extra," he crowed, "and that ain't hay." Our Premier said nothing. He failed. Now he grumbled; what are you saying now. What does he say? This is your answer, Mr. Premier , this is your statement. "I am not impressed with the Federal government's treatment." That's your statement now. The Federal government that you stood up and praised here last Session in a loud voice. The Minister sitting behind him rambles all over this country making statements that he most certainly cannot know anything about. For he said down at Souris the debt of the Province is ninety-nine millions. He certainly must have had a very unpleasant dream. Ninety-nine million, and my friend over here heard him. And another fellow said it is not; it is 106 million. If they had stayed another hour it would likely be two hundred! And then we come to the Premier, and the Premier said it is seventy-seven. He didn't want to get too far away from the Minister of Fisheries, or from those other fellows, he wanted to stay up there somewhere. Stay up for the man that it was over eighty million three years ago! That's the kind of statement that is going out to this country, and I wonder, what did the external audit say? I am sorry my friend the Treasurer is not here. He is a man for whose truthfulness I have a great respect. He says, fifty-five million. Seventy-seven here, ninety-nine there, one hundred and six somewhere else, and the external audit says fifty-five million. That's the story; that's the story these people are spreading across this country about the debt of this province. They do not say anything about the amounts that we expended to start industry in this Province. You don't say anything about our treat¬ ment of the teachers who came to our government — the Honourable Minister of Education was there at that time — and asked for help and laid the request on table, and we met this request fully — and even the Minister here said that he never thought education would make such great advances in that period of time. I wonder, do you realize that, my friend, Mr. Premier ? Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : It's your speech. Carry on, Sir. Walter R. Shaw: I am going to carry on, and I'm only at the introductory part of it yet. Honourable Alexander B. Campbell : I hope you're not going to tighten the rope any more. Walter R. Shaw : And here's a man over here who is smiling a lot. He made the statement that in five months time we would have a commission Government. No, this man here. Oh, I know who said it. I know who said it. —22—