The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 1 Feb 1929, p. 1

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i i »Lj 3 f*/v-- j gF7 F p /J d )/ /: e h uL Foster G. Moffat Hopes to See County Free of Bootleggers HAIGH TRIBUTE PAID HYDRQC l With William Morrison (Conserva-- | tive, East Hamilton) relating what his city had accomplished in the way oi | Hydro development and liquor enforce-- | ment. and with Foster G. Moffat (Con-- i servative, South Bruce:) intimating 'what both Hydro and the Liquor Con-- , trol Act could still do in his rural rid-- | ing, the Ontario Legislature yesterday _ ':slippcd through its procedure of mov-- | ing and seconding the Address in reply to the Spsech freémn the Thronc. * ' The stage is now set for the opening | next Tuesday of the doakats proper, with | Liboral Leader William E. N. Sinclair, '\\"no moved yestorday's adjournment, i armed to the tecth, it is reported, with + bombshells for Government policy and _ Governmeont expenditures. t From Mr. Morrison yesterday the House had a "ringing" declaration of faith in the "stupegndous enterprise" of Sir Adam Boeck, and in the Ferguson Government's wisdom of substituting the Liquor Control Act for the Ontario Temperance Act. From his own obser-- vations as a Crown Prosecutor under both laws, Mr. Morrison was able to | pronounce the public in hearty accord with the "control" measure. Asks Government "Why?" | _ In more diffident fashicn, Mr. Mof-- \fat approached his subjects. While \prompi to admit that the LCA. had bzon very successful in Bruce, th> mo-- ment had still to be attainesd, he infer-- red, when that county would be com-- pletely free of the bootlegger. On the Hydro question he evoked the biggest stir of the day, by contrasting Hydro rates in Bruce with those ocbtaining elsewhere, and rather bluntly asking the Government "Why?" | _ Mr. Morrison dealt, at some length, with the Hydro--Electric power situaticn in the Province, tracing the develop-- 1mest; of this great project from the tim-- of Sir James Whitney un to the present fmcment. whon 509 municipalities, in--

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