The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 22 Mar 1922, p. 2

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i _ ""V We 7",, - i _ t . A _ I m . _ O . -. in]: a?" with the. Provincial Treas- . . [of the 'l'f.'lut,tdartett'i said that none ' . ' . _ revenues constitute . 'tUni,',",','", tax on the people. He men? Charles IfeCrea, MPP. for Wayetathe land transfer tax, the rail- Sud b Fi _ tax, J,Wo'Qyl','fimi2/ is: "can" . ury, "' trat Cm" au omo i e Sign" tax as imposts amounting to vatlve Speaker, Severely , "if taxes upon the citizens. l Criti . If 1 sad'l,s/dl.1'y,,"'te'tn, with the Provincial . F 101288 anner In I h . es mated increased re- _ . tre/d,.,?",,' the current titrcal year, Mr. i, Which, He Alleges, I nclair said it would be interesting) i Item W D . l :gtlii'ilow er, they were made up. He I 8 ere ealt With 1 an es mated inere: I I tuk0je'0n0,1? from Sierras _ fn Order to Bring a sat. C e gathered there would . . more serious lines. or bigger prong: ' ance on the Credit Side tfi't"i','riu/e, i',1l"/'eee'a,rnie"' or more a "V - A . somew ere in the li uor " i, ,t,'.,',11titt Analyzing the 'f,',.,,,,?,?),'.): CURRENT USED l rer's gures, he could not see " , how the Province was to escape next ro MEAN CAPITAL") beans gent-it of at least $1,750 000 -.---_.__-r-_..r-is. I A . 'lnclair twitted th , ',, In ' Pflt upon its failure to edezcifvievxi?h Bud 1,ththdays debate upon the . -f Government House "extravagance," go. in the Legislature the Con- . - - and noted that expenditures thereon scrvative group "was represented by, ' under. the Drury Government. had Charles McCrea memb even increased by $8,000. "It does bury wh , er for Sud- seemto me," he declared, "that the ff' ,0 followed the 'Liberal Suits.' life 'iS beginning to tell upon the Ttic, w. E. N. Sinclair. No less Yrtit.efl Farmers. Government House vigorously than the latter M M . festivities and participating in last- Crea took issu ,. ' ' r. L' c- 11.181" parties! I am afraid the city '1 e with the manner in life is too much for them." W tich Pi'OVincial Treasurer Smith I He criticized tho Administration had arrived at his surplus In c for its "commission habit." and its menting upbn the bs . om- tremendous expenditures upon law- clear li e, a sence of any yers in connection with various Gov- . me of demarcation between ernmcntal activities. n. S. itobeit- capital and ordinary expenditures, l Ezikmwho wafs on the Hydro-radial he pointed out that it was a dim V I issmn or the Gorernn e t C ts- - I said, had been r1'il'd'"hi,"a'f'i 1013:: tu'lt task lor any member to ascer- 1 equivalent of 16,730 bushels of am the true condition of affairs. He wheat. 13,850 bushels of barley, or had, however, he said, been success- _ 140 cattle, or 400 tons of hay. Pay-, ful in picking out half a dozen items ment by the Attorney-General of! or expenditure l damages secured by a citizen against. nat 7 . C early of a current Rev. Mr. Spracklin in a civil action.' ure, which the Treasurer had in- he denounced as something "unpar-. . eluded among "Capital and Extraor- illelled 1111 the history of the Pym-U dinary" expenditures _ nce." t was unfortunate erht . ' .' . _ he maid, that the Judges 0':an 2i1 lie commenced his criticisms on preme Court Were not as amenable railway annuities and railway sub- to Hon. Mr. Nancy's suggestions a" sidies, amounts which h . t were the Magistrates, else the vet: out, were payable ' e pointed i, dict might never have been given. and clear] l year after year Expenditure of $26,000 on an ad- i . y con d not be described as 3 vertising campaign to relieve unem- can tal investments; unemployment l, ployment Mr. Sinclair declared to be relief grants, he mentioned as l, ' . " out- F I Just so much money thrown awav. lays which should ha . , And When. in connection with th"e out of ordi . ve been paid) 'i: scheme, the Government undertook 4 nary revenue; there was? 1 to insert the series ot advertisements :3 item representing the excess ot I _ in the Farmors Sun, it must he 300nm? purchased, but not used l, h said, have, been done 'simply to give Ere??? fwas not. balanced by an}; something to the friends of the Gov- from 1028. similar sum carried over ernment, and for no other reason ab year; and an item under whatever." i"nestt'1n1a'd"'t',; which, upon exam- on n etail, . . Criticizes Roads Policy. -,nothing properly 2i'rgsta"ti,ierteovtleid, On_ Public Service Commission ex- ital, except, possibly a $500 no cap- penditures and highway construc- ,the purchase of moving Dictuem tor tion costs, Mr. Sinclair proceeded to chines. These items appearzez mla- take vigorous issue with Government said, under "Capital and Fm: " Policy. He mentioned in connection dinary," as follows: 1niiti'tie't"s.' 31:10?- i with the latter the $70,000 per mile 808.40; subsidies, $139 112 ii'.. it l"'; Riggs highway," and went on to . 1te,1t,rs', "0,467.1'i'; ir'iiiiiih2y Sita-l ': charge the department with inef- relief, $219,844.89; 2ied?e1f/liToeunat, gammy in administering the funds. 8145,919.20; total, $696 147 20 ua, e proposed system would - . ' .. . fit the people on the 'el/ICS,',')','),,',.':.' wet,"'. lunerse Totals. sions one iota, he declared. 'h If we add these items which I In listing a number of items of 1.3;: quoted-and I selected them at a . . expenditure which he thought the ch lmo--iPfy,rt is a total wrongfully Government never should ifi'i. afged to Capital and Extraordit dertak ave un- ary which exceeds b 1- en, he named one of $1,285 sand y some thou- for advertising timber sales in 'Th 1 s of dollars the so-called sur- Farmers' Sun. "How many farme 3:503??? aclctording to the Public ers," he demanded, " ' - ' esu S when you subtra ' tender for timber? smirk??? 2 toe,gi11.lnt.g; ..tEee,,rHlt,u,rt from 'lf,', . t ers of The Farmers' Sun? It ea - 1ing,1,Tv',"'g'e,tos,',',' said Mr. McCrea. :body unde h . . . any- . m ' he continued, "that th r eaven can say wh is also char d ere iii',,ti),iiiiiitiiliri, like that should 'lg for f',u'1e'ps"tSttettg,mHo/,r%iyo0/e. n o e Farmers' Sun-other th missi l e y ro Com- on the patrona e id - . r an o charged to the Province. only idea I cat; sesaw which is the The Igydro each year does certain like to know it " it--I would [York on behalf of the Province at Concluding he said: "T . tl,'adft,-Tourr",2iinn/,r data, making esti- present 'iGii'i"ci/s" are Idle'"", Yrmnd' tt?eavtet',,,h",ionge/r'ftad1ititt',, planning to greatest arguments for , o the thin er: an that sort ot l normal conditions in my}: return to shougld Shati Is an amount that . we shall have party Jf,','), tcs, where enue yetewgafid do? (if ordinary rev- ' stead of group Rove ""31"" in- . ex ii n t c assed as capital we shall have men Jem/i',?'-,',,?,.',','.] "'2 'tnodtiatyit,e,1/aehaadvde tgattoiglm f)? . 'J/intu',1"gf1"i" representative ot all $971,216.16 wrongfully charged, and ' ought and different classes i I have no doubt that it one could l, the _community. and all ranks 'l/fl NW? the opportunity-ot if we had I stations of life. Until we return to a Financial' Committee of this House lthat idea we will continue to find to look into the finances of the , Stty growing expenditures year after Province of Ontario-we would find wear. It. is high time we returned not only the items I have given. but to a business administration wh items totalling millions would bei , the affairs of the Province 'will age found charged "D in 'Capital or Atl i, fr,g,"r1 along on more economic; traordinary' under the new coggosl I nes an they have been f men given by -tiiedreasirer of this ' ' T past two years." or the 'Province." . . . . 'I i _ Ar, . . . l _--------------, ' l ___--.------------- ':

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