Legislative Assembly Hon . Robert E. Campbell : Terrible, terrible. Lloyd G. MacPhail : We have seen in recent months, with these two splendid gov¬ ernments, we have seen a slow down on Causeway construction. Someone has esti¬ mated that at the present rate of expenditure it will take sixty years to complete I don't know whether they will ever complete it at the present rate, but anyway. Inspiration Limited, for instance, a company with a low bid on one aspect of the construction, in a statement to its shareholders calls the project cancelled. Of course, we have the assurance from the Prime Minister and others that the program is not scrapped, that detailed plans are being reviewed, they say. But everyone knows that this project is already one of the most carefully researched and carefully studied enterprises that our nation has ever entered. The Borden Town Council apparently think it has been scrapped. On January J .lth, a report of Town Council meetings says, "That since the Causeway plan is being scrapped they want the big sign announcing the construction of the causeway removed." Anyway, we hope they will get going on this project without too much further delay. We have seen enough delay. We have seen, too, the small dairy farmers squeezed out on the new ruling on subsidy. Mr. Greene the Federal Minister of Agriculture in his letter of January 1968 had this to say, "Effective April first the quality premium paid on Grade A hogs will be reduced from $3.00 to $2.00 per pig." Prices go down, the premium comes off. Unemployment insurance rates go up. The unemployment rate in Canada stands at the present time, or the last that I have read, at 6.1%, while in the Mari- times it is 10.9%. Probably higher in Charlottetown . We have seen, as a result of the changes in the Bank , some of which became effective last May, and others effective the first of the year, the prime rate charged by the banks that the banks were allowed a rise from 6% last May to 7% at the present moment. The regular lending rate on most loans has gone up much more than that — from 6% to at least 7%. They did a little here and a little there and a lot here, more somewhere else. On February 7th we read that Federal Fisheries Minister Robichaud , will require registration of all lobster fishing boats in the Provinces for the 1968 season. The boat owners have to pay $3.00 for a license, the boat operators they get them for $2.00, and on top of that, the helper in each boat must pay one. Hon . Alex. B. Campbell : Mr. Speaker , I wonder if I could ask my good friend, the Honourable Member from Second Queens, a question? Is he now campaigning for the Federal Leadership or the Provincial Leadership? (Laughter and Applause) Hon . Robert E. Campbell : First Queens is going to get it. Hon . Alex B. Campbell : Maybe he is going to nominate in Malpeque . Carry on, you're doing a great job. Lloyd G. MacPhail . The government over across seem to confuse the actions of the government in Ottawa with their own quite often and our problem here is to see any action at all in either place, so I tried to point a few of them out and the facts I mentioned deal primarily with the Federal government, but do not despair I am coming to those more directly in a provincial sphere very soon. Hon . Alex B. Campbell : I hope so. I hope you are coming to the end of your speech very soon too. You're boring me. Lloyd G. MacPhail : The Liberal Convention doesn't start in Ottawa until April the third or fourth. Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : Started last year. Lloyd G. MacPhail : And that is a long time ahead, and you know what happened —156—