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l'ccnse plates—potato bags in quantity lots—bales—stamped with P.E.I. stamp going across on the car ferry, and I don’t suggest that they were going to be filled with onions. (Applause)

The young farmers want some answers to the agricultural problems as they face us today.

Hon. .Alexander B. Campbell: I wonder if the honourable member would permit a question.

J. Walter Dingwell: Yes, Sir.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: If some young farmers saw this on the boat last week and thls could have very serious consequences, why on earth didn’t they, did he not bring it to the attention of the government or the police or something? This is very serious. Mr. Speaker, instead of leaving it for weeks, before being brought before this Legislature. 7

J. Walter Dingwell: He was possibly unaware of the fact that perhaps it was not a continued practice, and I didn’t become aware of it until just last night.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: This is not last night. . ..

J. Walter Dingwell: And you have inspectors at Borden and I don’t know, it might have been quite legitimate. It may have been a New Brunswick license plate and he may have taken the bags over there and was going to bring them back, I don’t know. but I think we should look into those things. This is a serious nature to those young farmers, this is a serious consequence to the potato industry in this province. It is a prevalent practice, and that’s why I am interested. If you have a question I’ll answer it as I will any other, but, Mr. Speaker, I have the floor at the present firm and I intend to hold it for a few minutes yet.

I know I disturb you people over there, and I did it only with one reason in mind, as a challenge, as I stated in my opening remarks and will in my concluding ones, but the challenge is not, and I even intimated that the problems that we are facing today here in Prince Edward Island have been problems under successive governments that have failed to solve many of them, and this, therefore, is my contention. and this therefore, is my appeal to people to evaluate a thing on its merits not on its “gimmicks,” if they had any. I don’t know whether you fellows would be over there at all or not today.

You know, there is something that we don’t like and I don’t know what the Premier said about this when he rises in such anger about a few potato bags.

Expo deficit figures revised six times rose from $47,534,000 to $210,665,000 and we say there is no money in Canada, and no money in Prince Edward Island. It is not the lack of money, and I don’t suggest but that this Expo was not a very fine thing and will do very much good for Canada. But I do suggest it is that much of our money not even here provincially, not handled to the best advantage to assist the people who are in need, and that is therefore why I suggest that so many of our agricultural people weren’t too concerned whether they had a golf club or not.

Hon. Daniel J. MacDonald: I was wondering about those bags that were seen on the truck. Could you indicate to me whether it was bags, bales of bags?

J. \Valter Dingwell: It was four bales of bags according to what I was told, loaded on a half-ton truck with a New Brunswick license plate going away from Prince

Edward Island. Hon. Daniel J. MacDonald: Jute? J. Walter Dingwell: Jute, I understand.

I think our young people are the finest in the world, I believe they need more challenges and less handouts, more assistance and less suggestions, more getting down to earth and resolving their problems rather than a free ticket to Ontario or Quebec. And in this connection I wonder what we can expect? And I believe there may be some merit in this new plan which is to be introduced in this Provmce under

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