ThursdayLFebmary 29, 1968

-School tax. Boy, oh boy, where is that? Mr. Speaker, this is very im— portant, and this is another definite promise, to pay school taxes especially with the costs of education going up year after year. Now I know the Premier will not agree with this as he will say he didn’t promise it.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Oh, no, that’s a promise. Frank Myers: You promised it, yes. Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Did We ever!

Frank Myers: If you disagree with it, it is right here in the Tuesday, May 17, 1966 issue of Guardian. And by the way this is a very reputable paper and it says it loves 76,000 readers, of which I am one, and here is what this fellow had to say. “To relieve the oppressive burden, a Liberal Government is pledged to a far-seeing program which will result in the complete abolishment of all school taxes.” Now that is as plain as anything.

Some Member: Who said that? Walter R. Shaw: The Premier.

Frank Myers: A man by the name of Anderson down in Monticello school. But anyway the point is this Mr. Speaker, there may not have been very many at that meeting but 76,000 people read it. Now there is my point, I think it was very unfair if the government is not going to do anything about school taxes to have that appear in the press.

I think there is something else here too.

Walter R. Shaw: Oh there is a lot of stuff there, keep going.

Frank Myers: There is something here somewhere.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: What is it about, and I will help you find it.

Frank Myers: About your getting millions, and millions of dollars from Ot- tawa. . . .

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Oh yes you look on the top.

Frank Myers: Up around the top.

Walter R. Shaw: The skunk bounty. (Laughter)

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: Tell us something about the Leadership Convention. (Applausez)

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: You will have to smarten up, you will never win it. Walter R. Shaw: You are going to get Cadieux down.

Frank Myers: I don’t know, Mr. Speaker, what to say about that. I often think of this. During the last campaign the Premier — he was young then — I suppose he is still young, but he has aged somewhat since, he was building castles in the air. Now that is about the only way that I can explain it. Building castles in the air. Never thinking for one minute that he would have the responsibilities that are his at the present time.

Now what do we find? Millions of dollars more to come from Ottawa. Poor Ottawa! And Ottawa had to borrow, just a few days ago, $426,000,000 and the debt at Ottawa at the present time is 15.971 billion dollars, and it costs 1.188 million dollars to service this debt. So I don’t see for the life of me how he can get very much more from Ottawa, because they are in a difficult situation up there.

Walter R. Shaw: What is Ivan the Terrible talking about over there?

Frank Myers: Now, Mr. Speaker, here is something that I am not much in favour of, motor vehicle inspection.

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