Tuesday, I‘Teibruary 27, 1968

the famous snow clearing policy he particularly acclaimed chan

times since they came in? And they are no nearer a solution noéeithhgiitera E13311 member of this Legislature knows the existing conditions. What about the'lack OT sanding on the roads this year that even funerals could not progress alon the highway Without some of their cars getting into the ditch? What about this fgmous forward step in education, the consolidation? What about those fifteen consolidated schools that they boast of bringing into operation? What about the cancellation of consolidation after they had gone out to some of these districts and said “you are going to get it right away? We want to know about these things we want to know where these schools are located because nobody else seems to.know or have any knowledge of the twenty-one new industries, Mr. Premier, that you stated over

TV. were established in this Province b this G t ' about them, too. y overnmen. We want to find out

Alexander B. Campbell: Open your eyes.

Walter R. Shaw: They wish to convince the people that something is just around the corner but when you get around the corner you don’t see the Premier or anything else. They go around telling fairy tales that no one believes. Every day they dig up new stories, new promises that in a week or two something of value is going to happen. We had an old fellow out home who was a shoemaker and every time you took shoes to be repaired they’d ask him when they’d be ready and he’d say “Next week” and he got the name of Next Week. This is the “next week” Government. Every time they come out in public they say, “We’re going to get something for you next week”. Well, sometimes it’s two weeks later. Now, the latest is the admission that the Government is helpless to open any of these fine projects and particularly Georgetown. I think you admitted the other night that you’re now in a position that you can’t successfully re-activate that plant. The latest safari has been to Chicago, but nothing doing. One highly publicized trip was to Toronto. Mr. Speaker, I am sure you remember that. There were great splashes in the paper all over this Prov- ince. The Premier’s picture was there and he’s still smiling. Now I think he shouldn’t be smiling today. I think he should have a very sour look on his face after that record and there were great tales from those fellows from the press, they wrote such wonderful stories about this trip to Toronto. He was going up and he’s going to talk to the people in Toronto. I tell you St. Paul never had greater publicity on his trips to the Galatians and the Phillipians than our Premier fabricated on his trip to Toronto. He was going out on a Safari of salvation, so the Premier told us. and the Toronto papers were well filled with his assistants and co‘ordinators, of course and they met with hundreds of business men, we are told. At one meeting he kept going until twelve o’clock at night and the rest of his fine squad kept going 'till three—thirty in the morning. Well, I had enough experience of those trips to know what you do after twelve thirty at night. If they didn’t know they wouldn’t have laughed and neither would you. Three-thirty in the morning and they kept the businessmen of Toronto up telling them those strange stories of the wonderful at- tractions and opportunities in the Province of Prince Edward Island. And then, what happened, he came home and he told us about these sessions. Wonderful ses- sions. He said among the greatest tooting of trumpets and splashes in the paper and his pictures again and again, of the great success achieved. How deeply im- pressed, he said, were the moguls of Toronto with the fine results of this expedition on the Island’s industrial attraction. In two weeks time, he stated, we shall have great news, glad tiding of great joy in the form of economic salvation for this prov- ince. Well, that is before I went over to Africa and I was overjoyed with that story and I was thinking all the time I was over there what a wonderful change there’s going to be on Prince Edward Island. When I got back the first question I asked, how many industrial organizations from Toronto have decided to settle in Prince Edward Island?

Honourable Alexander B. Campbell: One has a plant up West, Sir.

Walter R. Shaw: And nobody had heard the first thing about it from the time he made the pronouncement up to the present time. Now he tells us right in his seat over here that there’s a tremendous development up West. I wonder where? I won- der what it is? It would have been better if they stayed home and stopped their bluffing. There are more serious problems, particularly among the farm people of this Province. As a matter of fact, the Premier didn’t seem to care about the prob-

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