Thursday, April 25, 1968 ince. I am proud of the men that are on this side of the House. I have known them and we have discussed things together, and they are anxious to see to it that this Province prospers. There is just one thing that I would like to say in closing, and it is something that has hit me very badly, and I am sure any decent citizen! That is, the things that are spread throughout Canada , through the press, and on many occasions, unfortunate things that aim at the integrity and the honour and honesty of members of this Legislature, that aimed at the integrity of every member of the past government, that went out across Canada , unfortuna'tely in untruthful, hurtful articles. I won't have time to deal with that today, but surely when we are in public life we should have a high standard of honour to present to our people, and some of these things were not honourable, they were false, they were injurious. I can stand any man on the floor of the Legislature in a Parliament that is strong in his attack as long as it is in the realm of goodwill and fairness and honour. But I have the utmost scorn and contempt for any person, irrespective of who he is, within or without parliament, who would endeavour to take the good name of any fellow citizen from him and cause cruel reflections and reactions from the wives a 'id the children of these men. "Who steals my purse. Mr. Speaker , steals trash, but he who filches from me my good name, takes that which enriches not himself and makes me doubly poor." And I trust as we go out from this Session here this year we may carry with us a sense of decency in public life. No honest man could ever dare to injure the reputation or the character of a fellow man: that is the lowest form of activity in which any person can engage. My last word is that I go out from this House. I go out with many sad reflections, I go out forgetting things that are. I gn out. as I have always done, in a sense of duty and responsibility and honour. That is the message I give to every member of this House, whether it is in Government or in Opposition, that we have our honesty to preserve, we have the goodwill of our fellow man to preserve. May we go forward in that spirit in the next year. (Applause) Hon . Alexander B. Campbell , Premier: Mr. Speaker , I too, wish to extend to you the thanks of the members of this Side of the House for the manner in which you have directed and conducted the proceedings during this Session. We trust that we will find you again next year in the Chair of Mr. Speaker , assuring to each member of this Legislature his prerogatives and his parliamentary right, which you have so closely guarded and guaranteed to the members of this House. My remarks at this time will not be lengthy but perhaps for the purpose of a very briefly summarizing one or two aspects which are appropriately referred to in any Budget Address . I believe that there has been much business conducted by this Legislature dur¬ ing our present Session. Some seventy Bills have been considered and accepted by the House, and many of these measures, most of them, all of them will have some direct bearing upon individuals throughout the Province. Most of the Legislation was in the nature of reform, some of it was in the nature of economic significance. I think that our whole activities this year must be interpreted ■— the Budget, the Estimates, the Bills, the Measures considered — must be interpreted in the light of the financial situation which not only prevails throughout the Province of Prince Edward Island and our neighbouring provinces, not only throughout Canada , not only throughout the United States, but throughout the world. I had the opportunity a few evenings ago of listening to a broadcast given by the chairman of the Federal Reserve Fund of the United States of America. The chairman described the present financial situation of the United States as being the most serious financial crises since 1931. Perhaps the farmer of Prince Edward Island with a small herd and a few hens and so on wonders what that has to do with his particular problem. We know, Mr. Speaker , that the world conflict in Vietnam is having a very direct influence on the financial situation in the United States of America as well as throughout Europe and other parts of the world. And, as the economy of the United States goes, so also does the economy of Canada , and we in the small Prov¬ ince of Prince Edward Island feel the economic and cold financial brush of that very unfortunate world conflict in Vietnam. —343—