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I was told yesterday of a man that was up in Upper Canada, who said that the brokers sit with their feet up on the desks and they laugh at P.E.I., they laugh at P.E.I., because the farmers are foolish enough to sell their potatoes below cost and this is something that is true. We cannot do one thing and it is about time that everybody woke up and that .includes you fellows over there too. (Applause) Let us help the farmers. I will say that right today the farmers of Prince Edward Island don’t think too much of the Opposition for the way they carried on the other night. You can laugh, you don’t care. I think I have said enough about potatoes and the quicker we all work together and start the better for ourselves.

I have heard some talk here about the upgrading classes and additional vo- cational classes. We haven’t got as many as we should have but we still have up West, in O’Leary and Alberton, Tignish, we have some upgrading classes; we have some carpentry classes and we also have welding classes which I think is a wonder- ful thing.

Now the other day, the other day somebody mentioned about something over $2,000,000 that was spent in 1966. I can assure the Opposition that I know where some of this $2,000,000 went to. You can’t set up places in Summerside and Char- lottetown and all over the place before an election without it costing money, and you can’t send money to people that don’t want it without it costing money. Now that is what happened with the $2,000,000; it was spent before the election and then they wonder where a lot of the money went in 1966 and as of March 1967. I can tell you, all you have to do is look in the highways book and you can see all the contracts that were given out before the 28th day of July, and before, my good friend here, the good friend back there, before the election. That is where all the money went to. Talking about money that was spent so on and so forth. You people were in government for five years, seven years and the direct and indirect debt at that time was over $50,000,000. That was a good party! And here is some- thing else too, we have a man here in the front row, I call it the horseless driver, but he is getting all the blame, a man from Second Kings, I believe it is. Yes, Second Kings, he is getting all the blame for all the mistakes that was made in Georgetown. He doesn’t deserve them all; he deserves some of them. I blame it all on the Conservative Government every bit of it.

J. Walter Dingwell: You said it right first.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: You don’t like it do you, Sir, Yes, Sir, I blame it on the Leader of the Opposition and every one of his Cabinet Ministers .— I don’t blame it all on this fellow, not at all. What happened? When there was a vote taken here a few years ago one man on the Opposition stood up and voted against his own government, and what happened?

He was disowned and some of them are still holding it against him; they are still holding it against him, because this man was an honest man.

I blame it on the Minister of Industry as much as the Minister of Fisheries, the Minister of Education. I won’t say Minister of Agriculture because he is not here, as you people said last year, to defend himself. I am not going to say a word about him. It was the Conservative Government caused every bit of it.

Then the other day a speaker from the Second District of Prince got up and started condemning the Welfare Board. ,He said they were favouring people. I didn't like it a bit because I don’t favour anybody, I use everybody alike, and every- body that is on the Board, the general Welfare Board, will tell you that I use every— body alike. I won’t give them money because they are Liberals or Conservatives, I am one of the Committee. He also talked on about the general welfare system, it wasn’t enough, it wasn’t enough. I have a sheet here where one woman was getting $105.00 under the Conservative government, and she is now receiving $155.00. I can go right down along the line. Another one was receiving $135.00 under the Conservatives and today she is receiving $165.00. I can read down along the line for others.

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