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a half or so dollars that the Federal people failed to assume the responsibilitv for and if you were held back in your Department of Government this year to plow.back into the earning community of this Province in some way of credit at a shorter term basis than they’re receiving at the present time. this is only because the Federal Government hasn’t done it and our responsibility to the Province is to pay that. They had this money put in the credit unions, I don’t suppose they’re in a position to handle them but the chartered banks very well could be or some other agency, that some short term monies could be secured at a reasonable rate of interest for your young farmers who’d have a much brighter outlook in this Province than they have at the present time. (Applause) Now, it matters not to me just what the words you were perported to have said last Sunday night, your the Premier, I guess, but it does matter to me just what picture we’re trying to present to the Canadian Na- tion through media of television or any other agency. We have a problem down here. It’s not new entirely. It’s not created by you particularly but we must solve that problem as any other family would without broadcasting it to the nation. We need the assistance, possibly, of people outside our Province to solve this problem but we can‘t go on down-grading what the young people of this Province look to as a future that they want to have, and they’re interested. Young farmers in this Province today are interested. Sir. They want to make their livelihood here. They know they will have to work hard. They know that and delight. possibly, more in seeing a calf or a lamb frolicking or a field of potatoes growing than some would shooting a golf ball from “hell to hackeny” down at Brudenell Golf Course. (Applause) And if we had some of those monies in the hands of our farmers today we wouldn’t have to worry so much about the implementation of the Bankruptcy Act. (Applause) And this is your problem and this is the problem we’ve got to face: until somebody faces it on a more constructive basis than has been done today we’ll still have to accept the, provisions under the Bankruptcy Act not only today but tomorrow. (Applause) When I was speaking about the Premier and his accusation against the Leader of the Opposition, and that goes back and forth each day and it’s quite interesting all right, but I don’t know whether it’s solving our problems, but in such an emphatic manner that he used the other day with the rising and falling of his hands on the desk. with the beads of perspiration on his brow shining through the gold of his cuff links which seemed to create a rainbow around his head.

Walter R. Shaw: It wasn’t a halo.

J. Walter Dingwell: Not a halo as he would suggest or not a crown of thorns as he would suggest the Leader of the Opposition was trying to put there. But lets look through this rainbow just a little bit. Let’s look back a little in our history, let’s look at another scene of a short session of the Legislature called shortly after the present administration took office and we don’t seem to have seen a minibudget and they maintain that the two million dollars overspent in welfare was, in some mea~ sure, the responsibility of the former administration. But we saw nothing there to take care of it or any other measures of economic responsibility and we haven’t seen them yet in this Legislature this year. either, or very much last year but we remember an amndment to an act by the Minister of Health and there’s no question that previous administration possibly should have taken care of that. We see ano- ther amendment to a Legislative Act, I think it was, to bring in the tenth, or add another portfolio among those fine men over there that apparently are unable to do very much for this Province today. Therefore, I think when the Premier gets on his feet, and be has a wonderful and a masterful command of words, I think when he gets on his feet he should attempt to do something more constructive than to criticize. They can’t hear me on the other side. Well, it looks like many other people in this Province today their voice of need hasn’t been very well heard but woe is me when I speak of what I thought of this fine young gentleman when he stood out there in front of that Legislative Building the first of December, a year ago last December. But what do we eventually find? That this Government has abdicted it’s responsibility, refrained from implementing their promises and, in my opinion, and I would suppose in the minds of many other people, have turned over their res- ponsibilities of Legislature or Government to a “jackal-like” society outside the boun- daries of elected representation or civil service. Not only were they unable to gain support from the public but would feed on the juicy feast of political patronage (Applause) after and during the battle. I speak not of those three men who com- prise the Royal Commission on Georgetown. I don’t intend to pre-judge their de- cision. I’m willing to wait. They are the finest calibre that it is possible to find.

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