Legislative? Assembly

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: Mr. Speaker. no wonder the construction of many schools had to be forgotten. No wonder roads can’t be built. No wonder Medicare can’t be embraced. No wonder sufficient machinery for snow fighting can’t be purchased. No wonder welfare can’t be increased. Mr. Speaker. no wonder every proiect which the Campbell Government had hoped to carry out for the betterment of the people had to be postponed. I cannot help. Mr. Speaker, but reflect on the fact that in the 1966 session the business of the House and the effort of the Government and the interests of the people were all frustrated by the frantic manipulations of the Op- position. As if it were not enough to have fallen heir to a financial situation as was outlined last year by our Provincial Treasurer. we were as well frustrated by the antics of the “Four Horsemen of the Apocylase”, death. war, pestilence and fam- ine stalking about in the shades of parliamentary immunity, in the elaboration of half truths and in the art of confusion by questions. I said then, Mr. Speaker, and I say now, that one of the most despicable and most reprehensible misrepresenta- tions of the complete and utter responsibility of a, say, portent lies in the continued assault on the intelligence of this assembly and the integrity of those who would honestly and effectively further the Province’s interests. In an effort, Mr. Speaker, to point the way to a more profitable and constructive use of the time of these gentlemen. I feel that I must chastise them for some of their shortcomings of the past. I felt that it was in some ways pitiful and in all ways disgusting to'hear the Leader of the Opposition address plaintive requests to be informed of the name of this public servant or that deputy or what minister had this or that responsibility and who did this or that when most of them had worked for the Honorable Leader of the Opposition when he was the Premier, or when he was a public servant him- self. This convenient forgetfulness varies strangely indeed with the ability of the same honorable gentleman to get up and spout statistics by the yard. The behaviour of this element of the Opposition has been shocking to us and to the people at large and must be equally shocking to those serious and dedicated members of the Opposi- 1"n=i vhc :iv-e endeavouring to uphold the dignity of the House and to conduct the affairs of the House in such a manner as to earn the respect of our constituents. Nor did I see any humor in the profound remarks of the Honorable Member from Second Queens who periodically astounded himself with the sheer depth of his ques- tions. He regales himself with an absolute scope of humor and after each instance of which he turns his cherubic little smile to the galleries. Will the Minister be retained? What sources does he administer? And so on and on with such drivel. This. Mr. Speaker, this brings me to the point that I’d like to make. Three par- ticular members, these particular Members of the Opposition, these four horsemen, the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of this shabby troup, that industrial Titan from Second Kings, together with his learned soothsayer from Fifth Kings and his beautiful court jester from Second Queens, (Applause) these men, they’ll all get used to the fact that I will continue to say, or read what I write. when the occasion warrants. They may as well get used to the fact that there’s no amount of idle speculation on my literary or other abilities will in one degree diminish my work in exposing them for what they are. You will recall, Mr. Speaker, that, I have repeatedly begged them to come out from behind their veil of parliamentary immunity.

Walter R. Shaw: Who wrote that one?

Hon. Cecil A. Miller. Well, I’m quite sure I did myself but you haven’t always written yours.

\Valter R. Shaw: I doubt whether you did.

Hon. Cecil A. Miller: Too bad, too bad, too bad, Sir. I ask you, if you want me to throw it away but you’ll get a blistering so we better stick to the script. I ask you. Mr. Speaker, I ask this Assembly, I ask the people of this Province to recall very clearly how much time was taken up by these men. How many scores of duplicate questions were addressed by these men? How much confusion was generated by these men during the 1967 session of the Legislature concerning the burning question of that time and the burning question of the present time, the Georgetown scandal. They practically monopolized the session and I ask you, Mr. Speaker and I ask again this Assembly and this Province how many of these men dared show their faces when they were invited to appear before the Royal Commission inquiring as to what

this whole affair?

Unknown Voice: That shows them up. —256——