Tuesday, March 5, 1968 Memorial to Sir Winston Churchill . It seems that it was his last request that that great country of England and the Commonwealth try and keep pace with the scientific age. It was decided that after he died that they would build a university as a Memorial, a National Memorial to Sir Winston Churchill at Cambridge . And there it stands. They sent out to the different parts of the Commonwealth and they said, "We want you to send us something for this building." And from Canada , and British Columbia they sent some of the beams which you will see overhead in the library of that great university. But as important as this, I don't think we should be taking up the time of this Legislature, so back now to , to Westminster, which was the reason why I went on this mission in the first place, to see at first-hand what transpires in other countries. So we went to visit the House of Commons again, and the House of Lords and then we settled down at Westminster Hall, which is right next to the House of Commons, and we took part in these debates representing all of these various countries. Twenty-eight members of parliament and one lonely legislative representative from the Legislature of Prince Edward Island . And we discussed aid and trade and democracy in our country and so forth with these people. I consider this trip, Mr. Speaker , was most worthwhile, because these people in these other counrties certainly drove home to me what they think about us in the so called affluent society. They say that we in the Continent are the affluent society and there are 16% of us in the world against our 84% who are suffering under deprivation and the various hardships of poverty and the struggle for something to eat. They have already learned, particularly since the last war, what goes on over here, because of the rapid means of communi¬ cation, television, radio, fast aircraft and so forth. They are beginning to catch on. And they know now that their average income is $170.00 per year, while ours in United States is $4,554, and in Canada it is somewhat less, and they are looking to other parts of the world for ideologies to close the gap between this 16% and this 84%. It is up to you and to me as legislators of government no matter where it is to look toward these ideologies because new winds, Mr. Speaker , are blowing over Africa and Asia, and if they can't get the ideologies they want from a demo¬ cratic society they are going to get them elsewhere. And if they don't get them from us, I know they are talking to these people and by the end of this century, you and I as legislators in every province, or members of parliament in any country will go down in history as the authors of our own destiny because we did not take advantage of a situation when it arose. I think, Mr. Speaker , that we must assess not only our Liberal Party but our Conservative Party and all Parties in our democracy, where we have been and where we are going. When we appoint our next Prime Minister for Canada, I think that he has to be a man who looks out as well as looking in. We have to have a man who is going to look in to the problems of Prince Edward Island and the rest of Canada , but unless we pick a leader who is going to look out to take care of some of these problems outside of Canada . It won't be long until the problems in Canada will not matter any more. We believe in our society, but we also must not take, Mr. Speaker , this short¬ sighted viewpoint of it, otherwise it will be too late. I think working for this kind of thing narrowing this gap between the "have-nots" and the "have's" is go¬ ing to be a great and rewarding challenge and more rewarding as the time goes on. Because many of these people in Asia, I listened to them from Pakistan and Singapore and so forth, they think that we are great in Canada . But they think that we are great in big bombs and robots and launching pads and this type of thing but still small in ideas. Unless we can reach out and touch these people, Mr. Speaker , I am afraid that we are going to be too late. I can tell you something about the Africans, but the Honourable Leader of the Opposition did such a fine job of this in his book that I won't spend any time on this part. I want to relate some more thoughts to you on what these Asians and these Africans said at this Conference. They are of the firm opinion, Mr. Speaker , that we in the Continent have greater capacity for and greater foresight in anticipating some of the problems of outer space than with dealing with the realities of terrestial matters. We talk of biculturalism and bilingualism. I men- —121—