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Since my honourable friend doesn’t like to hear all these things I will prob- ably conclude. I have one more that I see here, there’s a whole lot of them.

' ‘fM_y Government will share in the cost of special drugs essential to needs of the indiVidual." Whose responsibility is that? The Minister of Health or the Minis— ter of Welfare? Both of them out here now they can’t answer this question. The Minister of Welfare took off $1.50 instead of helping out the needy.

_ And’now comes of course all these things that should have been for the Prov- ince havent come about. The government that said they were going to do more

for agriculture'than any other government in the history of the province, and they are deing nothing.

We have been looking forward to the government on its statement of its Economic Development Plan but it is veiled in secrecy and still more delays and the old hymn goes, and it is like the old hymn: “Only a few more years, yes, only a few more years.” It is always the same story.

Some Member: “In the Sweet Bye and Bye.”

Keith S. Harrington: “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” that’s right. (Applause) Walter R. Shaw: Who is your Leader over there?

Keith S. Harrington: Now I have no blame for the man who is heading up this in- vestigation and drawing up the mechanics of this agreement of the Federal Govern- ment, Mr. Gallagher, or I have no criticism of the program. I would certainly hesi- tate to judge anyone or anything. I asked Mr. Gallagher the other day when I was talking to him what kind of an expert was he anyhow? Well, he said, one thing he could do, he could grow geraniums well. Very frank in that respect, so I think welwilllrl all be living in the Garden of Eden or a flower garden. Garden of the Gu f, t at’s it.

Hon. Robert E. Campbell: The Garden of Eden. Walter R. Shaw: You will be fired out of Eden. (Laughter)

Keith S. Harrington: I think he is a pretty good man, and I feel that too he will approach our problems in a sound business way and eventually a program of this nature, when attacked in this particular way, will always be undoubtfully helpful.

And of course, I don’t think that we will ever come to the time in this Prov- ince or any place either in Canada, our Province or individually that we are going to ever solve all our problems. I think that they will always be with us, some prob- lem or another, but we must strive to solve the urgent ones and there are some urgent ones right at the present time. Very urgent. However, I hope that this pro- gram is not being built along the lines of a welfare program, but will attempt to help people who are willing and anxious to help themselves. This is the important thing. (Applause) And of course if it is built along those lines it will mean that all Prince Edward Islanders will be able to participate in it. But after the Welfare Program, of course, it will only be as a means of taking a competitive to cure the ills for the time but once the application of this stimulus that is given into the economy, our old problems will re-appear again.

I am not impressed entirely with the program which was instrumented in New Brunswick nor the one in Manitoba and I feel that the program that will come to Prince Edward Island will be a little different. Because I think we want to help agriculture in general here in Prince Edward Island. It is one of our primary in— dustries and one that is most important of all.

In some of these agreements in New Brunswick, and I have it here and I read it over, and over in New Brunswick of course they have more industries than we have over here. Different ways of earning a living, but yet in the'development program over there they are going to go ahead with the clearing and improvmg of 40,000 additional acres for agricultural production. 40,000 acres. No, I guess alto- gether put back into production clear 90,000 acres more, 90,000 acres more, and out in Manitoba there is going to be an additional 500,000 acres brought into agri-

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