Legislative Assembly able, but after all somebody had to start the wheels turning and this certainly did it. It will take so long to get anything done, there will be surveys, and ther will be plans and there will be this and there will be that and there will be no action. I always maintain that action is the most important thing. If you can get some¬ body to do something and not just think or survey or plan, get somebody in action. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : There are ten of them in action down there. L. George Dewar : Now with respect to these elementary schools. I think there should be progress made right away in this respect. In 1966 I think there were three consolidations formed. Two of them were formed before the present government took over, they only claim one of those. I couldn't find any in 1967 and I have asked the Minister to let me know how many there are in 1968. Now this is not fast enough. I know he is worried about where the money is going to come from to do all thiss. Well I think he should get going, if he waits for the money it will never be done, never be done. We had the same situation back in 1960. We were told that we should have — right away — that we should have regional high schools, and the budget at that time was only two million dollars for education. Hon . Cecil A. Miller : That is where the ninety-nine million debt came from. L. George Dewar : Only two million dollars for education at that time, and if we had waited until there was sufficient funds in the treasury to build regional high schools and give our young people a chance to get a secondary education it would never have been done. But the money came, the work went ahead, the money came, the work was done and the schools are in operation and you would not dispense with them today for anything. You wouldn't dispense with them at all. The budget for education went from two million up to six or seven million by 19G6. I believe the Minister at the present time has it up to eight million dollars. Several Members: Eight, twelve, thirteen. L. George Dewar : Thirteen million. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : Pushing thirteen. L. George Dewar : That is the new budget coming up. More power to him, the more he can get for education the better, because I think if people can be educated and get a training there will be greater return on the expenditure of that money than in any other way it can be spent. The Minister mentioned that he had a new Deputy, and I am pleased to see that he has quite a well qualified, able appointee. 1 was a little concerned about some of the rumours that were around at the time when the former Deputy re¬ signed. 1 did hear that he was listening on television one evening and found that he had retired, the first thing he knew, because of his health, and that was the first thing he knew about it. Now this seemed a rather strange procedure. Than probably a little later on he discovered, and this is the worst thing of course I could possibly say, I am sorry to have to say it I don't want to utter one word of criticism about the new Deputy I think he is a very fine man, but when he found that he had been supplanted by a former defeated Liberal candidate I don't think it added any extra salve to the situation. Hon . Robert E. Campbell : You had the same in your government. L. George Dewar : Oh no nothing like that ever happened. Several Members: Oh, oh, no, no. Hon . Robert E. Campbell : He's a civil servant. L. George Dewar : Oh, yes but he had resignations and retirements, anything like that happened. Still, a defeated candidate. Hon . Alexander B. Campbell : We have a good Deputy Minister of Education.