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Some Member: Why didn’t you do it? Hon. Robert E. Campbell: Sunk enough in Georgetown.

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: It is an actual fact that you had promised the City of Charlottetown to pay tax grants in lieu of taxes, or on the other system which you . . . .

M. Alban Farmer: No, we said we were going to have a system, we were going to put in a system of paying the taxes on city properties, that’s what we were going to . . . . that’s what we told them.

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: You told them that?

M. Alban Farmer:.. Yes, we did, we did, and that was, as I say, initiated and started, and the study was made. Now . . . .

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: It can be verified?

M. Alban Farmer: I would think so, I don’t see any reason why it couldn't. Now here, we have, here we have . . . .

Several Members: (Remarks inaudible) Walter R. Shaw: Mr. Speaker, order.

M. Alban Farmer: Here we have these two boys over here who are getting pretty uncomfortable because John Nicholson gets up and says . . . .

Walter R. Shaw: Ha, ha.

M. Alban Farmer: . . . . the intolerable situation of the Provincial govern— ment to recognize their just obligations to the City. I submit that the payment of taxes on the City property is only a fair and just obligation. It has been . . . .

Walter R. Shaw: Why didn’t you do it? Some Member: Why didn’t you do something.

M. Elban Farmer: Why didn’t you do something? The submission was made to you.

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: We brought the submission . . . . Several Members: (Remarks inaudible)

L. George Dewar: Couldn’t do it.

Walter R. Shaw: No.

Some Member: (Remark inaudible)

M. Alban Farmer: You’re guilty; you’re guilty.

Walter R. Shaw: They look guilty too.

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: We are giving them $222,500 this year. this com- ing May.

M. Alban Farmer: I didn’t hear you. Honourable J. Elmer Blanchard: They are going to get $22,500 this year. M. Alban Farmer: For what?

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: A continuation of the grant that we gave, but it was supposed to end that past year.

M. Alban Farmer: What was supposed to end?

Hon. J. Elmer Blanchard: The annual grant given on the amalgamation of Spring Park and Charlottetown.

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