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servative Party in this Province, we know what it is. They are against Medicare, but the people of this Province want Medicare.

Walter R. Shaw: Where did you get that?

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: We got that at the meeting of the Fifth Dist- trict of Prince Progressive Conservative Party two months ago. (Applause)

Walter R. Shaw: Cadieux must have told you that one. Hon. Robert E. Campbell: Anti-Medicare!

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Now, Mr. Speaker, we will have Medicare in this Province, but this government is not going to introduce Medicare at a time when it would seriously jeopardize the financial position of this Province. We will put people before politics and people before Party, and we feel that there is an area of priorities as well. And we think that the needs of the farmers, and we think especially of the need of education in this Province as having some priority over Medicare, but in that order. In that order, Mr. Speaker, we will find the ways and determine the means to implement these programs. Let there be no doubt that the government fully intends to meet its commitments to the people as well as providing additional programs designed for their benefit.

Walter R. Shaw: Always something in the future.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: It was said by the Leader of the Opposition, as he reviewed the Throne Speech; “We issued that; we started that.” It was par- ticularly amusing when he came industrial pollution. “We started'that."

(Laughter) Walter R. Shaw: So we did.

(Applause)

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Indeed, Mr. Speaker, industrial pollution was started by the former government of this Province. (Applause) And it has been a pretty tough job clearing up the remains!

Walter R. Shaw: You didn’t clean it up, did you?

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: We mentioned, Mr. Speaker, in the Throne Speech . . . .

L. George Dewar: Still polluted. Walter R. Shaw: Still polluted.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Mr. Speaker, as far as industry is concerned, these three or four thousand jobs which were created were all good. But they are not jobs for young people graduating from our schools and universities, working on processing lines. Is this where our Grade XII graduates want to go?

Walter R. Shaw: You want to send them to Ontario, do you?

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Far better, Mr. Speaker, for a young lad with bright promise to go to Ontario, and to take full advantage of his potential in life as an executive or whatever vocation he may lead there, than to remain in Prince Edward Island standing over a pea-processing line, sorting out peas for the rest of his life. This is the point, Mr. Speaker: the former government was convinced that all it would have to do is build a school, or build a building for industry, splashed all over the press for a few weeks with ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and they were discharging their responsibility to the people of this Province. There is more to it than that, Mr. Speaker, there’s a great deal more to it. And incidentally, when they were opening these plants very little attention had been given to the production, to the processing, to the equipment, to the waste, to the pollution abate- ment, to the provision of water, to the labour situation, to the training of labour. All the necessary ingredients to industry other than the bricks and mortar were,

apparently, missing. _54_._