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I have an awful lot of them from that district that come up to see me. (Applause) They tell me they got nobody representing them in their district. (Applause) And I hope, Sir, if you are one of the men that is going to put your hat in for leader of that terrible party over there, you will have a lot of work to do. You have a lot of cleaning up to do, because remember, when your government was in power and you happened to be the Minister of Education, and you were living in O’Leary and we worked, and we worked, and we worked to get three little streets paved up there and we didn’t get any help from you or anyone else in your government. But after our government was in for two months, the roads were all paved. (Applause) Now, Mr. Speaker, he cannot tolerate that, can he?

L. George Dewar: Some to pave yet.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: Yes there is some to be paved and it will be paved under the Liberal administration. (Applause) And I also say, Sir, that when you were in the government, O’Leary hospital tried for seven years and at least they got permission to do some . . . .

L. George Dewar: Still trying.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: And that is more than the Conservative Govern- ment did for the people of O’Leary. For an operating room the place where you all work and make a little money. (Laughter) (Applause) And also I think it is five beds, I know it is not enough; I would like to see more beds but at least we are doing something, and that is more than you people did in seven years. I will say that the other day you mentioned in the House — I see my two friends are back here so I have to mention this . . . . The other day he said he had approached one of his good friends from the Second District had approached the Minister of Ed- ucation once. My, my, I know he is a member of the Second District and I have approached him twenty or thirty times for stuff for the Second District, as I said before, they say they have no representation in the Second District. (Applause)

L. George Dewar: ‘Have to do something about that.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: It is not terrible; it is awful! (Laughter) Now, Mr. Speaker, I will say that they are real good to me today. Hon. Cecil Miller: They are scared of you.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: It looks that way because they have all gone out. (Laughter)

I will say that the potato situation here is not as good as we would like to have it. It is not as good as we would like to have it. But I will say that the Liberal Government with the co-operation of our good Minister of Agriculture, Dauntless Dan I call him, we should put a bag limit on the potatoes the same as they do with the lobsters and the fishermen. I think this will stop —— I notice my friend over there in the front seat who did all the blowing yesterday, he doesn't like that. But I will say that it is the only way that the people of Prince Edward 15- land, and the potato business, are going to survive, if they only allow so many acres to be planted, and that for all Canada and probably in the States too. We will all have to get together, and not only that we have five or six brokers in Montreal and Toronto and we have two here on the Island. Steinbergs or Loblaws or some of these big stores want ten or fifteen or twenty car loads. And what do they do? They call all the brokers up and they say now look we want ten, fifteen or twenty cars and the one that gets them for us the cheapest is the one that we are going to buy from. And what happens? The brokers don’t care, because they make from $38.00 to $42.50 a car whether they are worth $200.00 or whether they are worth $2,000 a car. So they are going to sell as many as they can.

We should have, here on the Island, one broker run by the government, and we should have a broker in Montreal and one in Toronto, that is what we should have. And every broker on Prince Edward Island should be kicked off or shoved off or pushed off of Prince Edward Island, because they are the ones that are hurting our potato market right here on the Island.

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