Thursday, February 29, 1968

ready market for it. What happened I don’t know. It is very unfortunate if anything has happened to it.

Walter R. Shaw: Didn’t pay for its potatoes.

Frank Myers: I know that, because it was a wonderful opportunity for the farmers to sell the small potatoes.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Hear, hear ! (Applausez) Walter R. Shaw: Why did it close ? Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Oh don’t worry about that, Sir. Walter R. Shaw: I am not, its your worry. Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Why do you smile ? Walter R. Shaw: You are smiling, I am not.

Frank Myers: Mr. Speaker, here is something that is very near and dear to me. And they go on to say, “And recently we were successful in convincing the Federal Government to suspend the ferry rate increase.” Well it went into effect anyway, it happened during the 19305. My Dad was in Ottawa, and we had it lowered at that time, and now it had to be the Premier of this Province last year to have it raised. Well it is just very unfortunate indeed and why he was in such good terms all along with the Federal Government at Ottawa why they didn’t listen to him.

Walter R. Shaw: No he wasn’t.

Frank Myers: He can’t be on very friendly terms up there. Walter R. Shaw: No indeed.

Frank Myers: I am sorry to say, Mr. Speaker. . . . Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Sorry about that, Sir. Frank Myers: Yes, I know you are, yes indeed.

Now there is something else, unemployment. It seems just too bad we have un- employment. There are five hundred unemployed in Canada at the present time — six percent of our labour force. Is that right, Mr. Minister? When I am looking at the Minister over there, the Minister of Labour, it reminds me of the wonderful job he made over in Moncton last fall. The three of us were on the platform. (Applause) It was a meeting I will never forget. (Applause) When I went there that evening the place was lined with policemen. (Laughter) They were all gone before the gen- tlemen came, but anyway I found out afterwards why they were there. As you gentle- men heard there was a bomb scare took place there, they said there was a bomb plant- ed somewhere in the big coliseum, and the police searched every inch of it but there was no bomb. They are a rough outfit over there aren’t they? (Laughter) I felt very sorry for Mrs. Rideout, a nice lady she was too, the poor dear soul stood up and tried to speak and they booed her and she couldn’t get a word in at all.

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: The Tory Mayor of Moncton. Frank Myers: No, no. (Laughter). Hon. Cecil A. Miller: I was there as well as you.

Frank Myers: I was there, I was there, and I could hear her saying to her- self. . . .

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: You kept very quiet. I could hear her say to herself, what will I do now. But they quietened down and they listened to her, and I repeat Mr.

Speaker, I was very proud indeed of the way the Minister of Labour presented a case for Prince Edward Island.

(Applause)