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tioned this the other day and I am convinced that biculturalism and bilingualism will not solve the problems of the world. We need more than that, we have to add a third one, as I say, we have to add bihemisphereism.

Down in India, India and Pakistan were one country at one time, they separated largely because through bilingualism or niultilina'ualism if you wish to call it that. What is going on there now? The forces of Pakistan are belching out over the border into India and slaughtering and carrying off goods and the same thing the Indians are doing against the Pakistanis. This is not the answer. Bilingualism and biculturalism are not the entire answer, we have to look beyond this. Canada is extending aid to these people and as a result of these Common— wealth Parliamentary Association meetings, Mr. Speaker, that aid is being increased. At the present time 65 countries now are helping bridge this poverty gap and this ideological gap between these people! I think we must try to narrow the difference between the conditions of life of human beings who live in different parts of the world no matter what colour their skin may be. If we succeed I submit we will benefit by it, and if we do not respond and measure up to the challenge that is facing this world, and we are a part of this challenge . . . . I can hear somebody say what’s all this got to do with the Legislature in Prince Edward Island. That has been our attitude for too long, we have taken a negative attitude towards these things. I think we must feel that we are part and parcel of all of this great in- stitution which is going to do these things.

Now, Mr. Speaker, I would .like, before leaving London, to tell you something about the ‘House of Commons and the House of Lords, and how it operates there with great dignity and so forth. And of the ritual and the colour; but I won’t take the time of this House to do that now.

We come back to Canada, Mr. Speaker, we leave London and we fly back to Montreal — we had a choice to fly to either Montreal or Halifax — so I went to Montreal. I visited Expo in Montreal, and again we need not dwell on that be— cause many of you have been there. But the part that I want to say is that when we arrived back in Prince Edward Island after all this while and seeing all these people and so forth, I am convinced, and I am sure you are, that we live in the fairest Isle of them all. (Applause) I think that we must get away in our little Province from the spirit of negativism. We must adapt a more positive attitude.

But now that we are back home, Mr. Speaker, and before dealing with some of the problems concerning the First District of Kings, I want to congratulate the Mover and Seconder of the Speech from the Throne. I think it appeared the other day that this took place but it was a little premature.

I want to congratulate Mr. Smith one step further because I noticed in the the Seconder from the Fourth District of Prince, I believe I am right in this, who did such an excellent job which we all know they would do. When you get suc- cessful business people and solid citizens you usually get about what you ex- pect and that’s what we got from Mr. Smith and Mr. Thompson.

I want to congratulate Mr. Smith one step further because 11 noticed in the paper just the other day where his son was appointed Chief of the Inspection Divis- ion of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in Ottawa, so to his son Winston our further congratulations.

But now we are back home, Mr. Speaker, and we have problems here, there is no doubt about it; we have problems in the fisheries, we have problems in the potato industry, and we have problems along a lot of different lines. But I think one of the problems that we have so far as our marketing of potatoes is concerned is that we are looking in the wrong direction. I think that we have been looking South to the United States, a great producer of potatoes. We are trying to sell somebody something that they already have. Mr. Speaker, I think that what we should do in this legislature, and in these Maritime Provinces is to form a Com- mittee of Study, not to look South but to look East. There is certainly no problem for us to ship our potatoes to London, England. London, England is one hundred times as large as the population of our Island, they need what we have here, they need our potatoes, Mr. Speaker. And they need our carrots and they need our

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