Wednesday, February 28, 1968 Hon . Alex. B. Campbell : Well, it's assuring to know what kind of tactics are being played around the Province, Mr. Speaker . We are capable of killing the chances of this Province of achieving anything if we keep back biting on the only prospect that we have to make any sensible development. Walter R. Shaw : I don't understand what you're saying. Hon . Alex. B. Campbell : And so, Mr. Speaker , if there is anything that the Leader of the Opposition said that invites my full support it was his statement the other day that we, members of this Legislature, should co-operate fully in whatever way possible to promote the task of attempting to build up this Pro¬ vince. I invite every ounce of co-operation which the Opposition can manage to offer in this regard. I want to make another point very clear, Mr. Speaker , about the development program. Our task is not simply to imitate what our neighboring provinces are doing today, or in fact imitate any other province, or to imitate On¬ tario. Our task is not to try to do through this program what Ontario is doing today in education or what Manitoba is today doing in agriculture or what British Columbia is today doing in fisheries. If that is our aim and if that is our goal, we'll find in ten years time that we're fifteen years behind their ordinary de¬ velopment. We'll still be behind. So it has been necessary, Mr. Speaker , to have the advice and the guidance of people who know what Ontario is doing and where it's going and where it's likely to be in ten years time; and to know where agriculture is going so that we can aim, not at the problem today, but also at the problems of tomorrow and ten years time. If we're going to try to catch up with the rest of the Maritimes, and if we're going to try to catch up with the rest of Canada, it's no good to just aim our total effort at trying to imitate what they're doing- today. With great relish, Mr. Speaker , the Leader of the Opposition recited the many election promises which we, as members of the Liberal Party, made prior to the previous election. I am not one to shy away from whatever promises, and from whatever platforms I stood on as Leader of a Party before the last election. I know that it is given to the great delight of many audiences around the Pro¬ vince, as he goes around "harping" on the unfulfilled promises. This is what Op¬ positions are supposed to do, remind governments of their committments, remind them of the broken promises. As a matter of fact, as a member of the former Opposition of this House, I took great delight in reminding the Leader of the Op¬ position in 1966 of his promises of 1959. There was a spread of approximately seven years. Still the unfulfilled promises! Walter R. Shaw : Terrible! That's terrible! Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : Mr. Speaker , I will say to this House, and to the members of this House, that I have every confidence that the platform which we announced in the spring of 1966 is capable of fulfilment. (Applause) Walter R. Shaw : That's a joke! Hon . Alexander B. Campbell ; And somewhere in his speech, I forget the exact words, he said that this government has no intention of fulfilling these promises. Mr. Speaker , we have no intention of fulfilling these promises if it means the financial ruin of the Province. We will not put Party before people as far as we are concerned. (Applause) Walter R. Shaw : That's a rich one; who put that down for you? That's a terrible admission. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : And, Mr. Speaker , we have every confidence that our program is a good program, the platform upon which we were elected, and we are making every effort to implement it. Let us come to the subject of Medi- care. It is not in the Throne Speech this year. Walter R. Shaw : You should not mention that one. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : But it is a program that would benefit a great many people in this Province. We know the policy of the Progressive Con- —53—