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h( BA 4 a i taids 1i c uc dn tA hedc tnt PE 000; Hydro, $636,150. The accounting of a mother's al-- lowance item of $478,000 was also vigorously attacked by Mr. Nickle. It was charged to "extraordinary," Mr. Nickle inferred, because it was |;:1e first time the Government did ) \Hon. H. C. Nixon Speaks. $239,000; loss on payment of Treas-- ury bills, $80,000; interest charged against capital, $823,000; super-- annuation payments, $230,000;, ap-- propriation for Labor and Health, $478,000; other departments, $430,-- . Premier Drury's policy toward ~orthern Ontario was severely criti-- cized in the Legislature yesterday afternoon by Malcolm Lang, Liberal member for Cochrane, speaking in the Budget debate. Ho declared with emphasis that the Premier's public announcements that the Gov-- ernment spent practically a million dollars more on Northern Ontario than it received from that part of the Province in revenue had 'done much to foster the cause of --the secessionists. On this subject he said he was not a secessionist, but that there was a strong feeling that way in the North. He thought seces-- silon would be the best thing if Mr. Drury's utterances were a fair indi-- cation of his attitude toward the North, Hon. H. C. Nixon, who took up the Budget debate earlier in the even-- ing, dealt for an hour with expendi-- tures of his department, noting in -- creased expenditures on hospitals and charities, etc., and declaring the absolute necessity of such increased expenditures. C o2 h l 00 t c M m Mr. Lang also made severe criti-! gism of the Government for its lack wf grip on Provincial affairs. He averred that the Government should ; give the people another chance to | speak at the polls, and declared that | such an election would result in the' return of a real Liberal Government. He was convinced that the great majpority of the people of Ontario were today '""individuals of Liberal thoyght." -- _ hok e ie on Ne . _ Malcolm Lang, Liberal member for Cochrane, took up the. debate after R! M. Warren, U.F.O. member for North Renfrew, had ~--concluded is remarks, begun in the House on 'FPuesday evening. Mr. Warren said that if, as indicated in newspaper HAS GREAT FAITH IN NORTH'S FUTURE reports, the' business men of On-- tario were bent on getting back to the two--party system, the farmers of Ontatio were sufficiently aroused to keep the fight from being one-- sided.: es' ~" o n halln? td detnddadatntdrt During his address Mr. Nixon de-- clared it was not the policy of his department to sell -- prison -- labor products in competition with ordin-- ary commercial products, although in one instance, the sale of a quan-- tity of bricks from Mimico, that policy had not been adhered to. Passing on to the corrective in-- stitutions, he declared that Bur-- wash, Gueiph and _ Whitby institu-- tions would stand as monuments forever to the memory of Hon. W. 4. Hanna. He dwelt exhaustively with the works being carried on and the eorrective efforte being put forth. a91GCOU E * " Mr. Lang opened with some rather severe criticisms of,, thf,.p,dq:g;'m,p, Mr. Warren, who had just pxjecedeg him, and expressed the opinion that the member for Renfrew had added very little material of a weighty M. Lang Scores Premier's Northern Ontario Policy --Requests Him to Re-- sign and Give People Chance to Elect Liberal Government They Crave '"No Government have a right to carry on, dallying along, as at present, appointing commis-- sions, taking no responsibility unless absolutely driven upon them, admit-- ting themselves that they never ex-- pected to be placed in the position of governing the Province when the people were voting the last time. Then, for goodness sake, give the people a chance to speak again. I have confidence that the result will be the return of a Liberal Govern-- ment in fact, liberal in tendencies, liberal in thought, and liberal in mind, because the people . of the Province, to my mind, are composed largely of individuals of liberal thought today.'" | _ In indignant terms he took the |\ Prime Minister to task for his utter-- ances, once in New Ontario and once at a Toronto function, that the Gov-- ernment had expended during -- a year practically a million dollars more than it had received in actual revenue from Northern Ontario. If People Want Liberalism He went on to say that, while he himself was an anti--secessionist, there was a real feeling among a portion of the north country popu-- lation that such a move was desir-- able. For Mr. Lang's part, he de-- sired old and new Ontario to re-- main one and undivided. But, he declared, he had taiked to men from the north who, with the Premier's statistical contrast in mind, -- had said that if the Toronto Govern-- ment took a no more long--sighted view of Northern Ontario than that implied by the Premier, then seces-- sion was the best thing. '"We know thefll\"(-)-r:t"r;'.oountry its unlimited wealth," declared Lang.. < '"'We can govern mirks > _ _ ZHEPnicu: weaith, declared Mr. Lang. '"We can govern ourselves,. We would understand ourselves and understand each other." Instead of a deficit from Northern Ontario administration, calculated Mikaw O 22. uC _1 VR Mr. Lang, older Ontario actually reaped a surplus, and he went «on to show how he arrived at <that opinion. L tadls is Avaithvetificr d slsc s is t 30 44 the Premier had made a studied at-- tempt to incense the people of North-- ern Ontario, said Mr. Lang, "~fhe could not have done so more effec-- tively. North Ontario Offended Proceeding with a vigorous pre-- sentation of North Country poten-- tialities, the member for Cochrane analyzed statistically New Ontario's mineral production over a period of years, and expressed the conviction that the stores of wealth had only been scratched. He was particu-- larly optimistic of the future of the gold mining industry, setting the cur-- rent year's estimated production fig-- ures at $20,000,000, and the expected annual production of five years hence at $35,000,000. _ Touching upon Provincial <fin-- ances, Mr. Lang gave the Govern-- ment due credit for its imnrovement in educational facilities in New On-- tario, where, he said, they had long been sadly needed. Neither, he de-- clared, would he criticize expendi-- tures upon Chippawa, which he looked upon as a great asset to the :| people of the Province, and a pro-- Ject that was destined in the years to come to repay many--fold the ex-- 'penditures and energies spent upon + it; nature'to tme arscussiun. ++ne Coch--| rane member particularly resented\ the accusation, made v~against some Opposition members, of unnecessar-- y criticizing the Government and delaying the Legislature's progress. Mr. Lang asked just what was ex-- pected of members facing the Gov-- ernment. y | D North country and Ontar_in a--(-;tiglvl;