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Henry W. Wedge: But anyway we are in debt nineteen million dollars now since you people have taken over. (Applause) That we will be able to find out just where this extra money plus the extra money they got from Ottawa, that we never got, and when we look around the country and say, well, what did they do? I don’t know about you fellows, but every place I go in the country they say they are doing noth- ing. That’s all you hear, this is the common word. It was a terrible thing when the government left here and said that they had fifty or sixty million dollars debt, but now there is nothing said about it.

Walter R. Shaw: Not a word.

Henry \V. Wedge: It is $84,000,000; he says it is $90,000,000 now. Some Member: $99,000,000.

Henry W. Wedge: $99,000,000 now.

Walter R. Shaw: $110,000,000 tomorrow.

Henry W. \Vedge: Well I have only a few things left here and I know you are get- ting tired listening.

Several Members: Carry on.

Henry W. Wedge: The Minister of Highways is here, and I was going to say I was glad to see the Minister of Highways back on the job, I know he had a very serious operation, and he is a very fine fellow and I hope that his condition will continue to improve.

In our own district of course we are very, very disappointed. We got two miles of pavement in the summer of 1967 and I look back over the records and I find that we got an average of eleven miles per year over the last seven years, so we really got soaked.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: We got none. Henry W. Wedge: We really got sliced there.

When the delegations came down I said it was no use for me to go down there with you, they won’t even answer my letters. I said you go down and have a talk to them yourselves, you can do more yourselves. But anyway they came down here and you hear about the St. Phillip Road?

Several Members: OHHHHHH!

Henry W. Wedge: Well, the delegation came down here and they met with the Minister of Highways, and the Premier, and they told them, go home and forget about it your road is going to be paved. And they came home happy and boy, they were all Liberals down that road. But nothing has been done so these people turned around and wrote a letter to the Department, the Minister, and this is the answer he got. This the pargraph of the answer. “Letter received to the Minister in which he stated no change had been made since your meeting with himself and the Prem- ier,” it was going to be paved, but then it says, “I am, therefore, sorry to state that this pavement will not be done on the St. Phillip Road this season.”

Several Members: Oh, oh, oh. Hon. Robert E. Campbell: Terrible!

Henry W. Wedge: “However, paving will be done on the road called St. Chrysostome. Our finances are very limited this year.” (Laughter) Listen to this. “Due to the fact that the former government spent money for purposes which, in our minds were not in the best interests of the Province.” (Applause)

Several Members: (Remarks inaudible)

Henry W. Wedge: This is the excuses they give. Sure we spent money, we were glad to spend money, we were glad to spend money, but we got somethlng to show for the money.

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