The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 6 Mar 1929, p. 1

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/2 C 4) &5 J§/¢/- 4 a n« 45-- 6746 t ] 1 ;. . {1C@TS LI\N~G mg | | | U f D f | ' eficit eleton } t | | i _-- IM overnment oselt ( w uen breirerane i ant ioi ts '}ernmeut on financial matters chiefly. A R 'd C and Dr. G. A. McQuibban (Liberal, | A J f , Noertheast We'llington) brought a medi-- | )raz lO urlatl Presenl | cal tinge to the debate with his ap-- | * # { peal for action on the Provincial Health I ncreastng COI'lSUmPllOfl, | Minister's promise of free liver treat-- D i ment for pernicious anaemia sufferers. eclarcs F a t q U h d ? | Mr. Nesbitt, the really sole Govern-- O l W' h Pl d | ment charll;xpion of the Lglay, launched 10 1; jone of his characteristically potent ' ver, o caas in §speeches, replete 1wit,h statistics, and f covering practically eve el -- ' Legislature for Co--pper a 1 { toretipe practicaliy every field of Pro # ® !(6 tive fl'[arkclmg Excellent Affair." | |__ At some length Mr. Nesbitt contrasted | Ne en 'the record of the Ferguson Administra-- | FL + i + | tion with "what the Drury Government l A 7 POWER RA 7 E ; aid," to show that the third Monteith I 9 Budget, which was brought down to the ( a } U R(, E Legislature last week, was an "excel-- | D B Y A CRES i lent affair," and that the Ferguson Gov-- | womeememmmemmmnmemeces | ernment had lived up to all its promises | _ _ With Farquhar Oliver, young U.F.O. ,;eg:ggl ::; &f u';g"fig,,gfi',';'f""'" CxMICS member for South Grey, delivering the.| Mr. Nesbitt was in an unusually | heaviest salvos, Opposition | artillery gmimsc?ltoo moodl. dglg'mg m'm s'.'l&rod | F q $ Drury's * coal--scuttle," the "$2 Emade a rather warm day of it for the chesterfield" on which Hon. Mr. Bow-- | Government in the Legislature yester--> man used to "recline," and several cases | day. orle;-utl;y tgicgv:hemment patronage wét;h [ 'pp s j whic group _ now under the : ue, Russell Nesbitt, member for Lethbridge leadership. He even delved | Toronto--Bracondale, and A. H. Acres.. into whats hbe termed "the shattered \member for Carleton, lined the Gov-- 'planks of the ll)rul'y P'al':l%'" B?bpé'g;e / e > 4 ; e that somebody else was gullty of break-- :unmcnt defenses Flu'rxng the day, but ing promises if the Ferguson Govern-- much of Mr. Nesbitt's punching power ment was not. ; was rather wasted by virtue of the fact Mr. Nesbitt charged 1?{Willia{tnrl1 g'elai:ll)'- | that he had to go on fi +. son (Liberal, North York) w eud-- | ade of s eakersg a Nfsz Kl Wc PS C crately attempting, through statements | P s, an r. Acres, self-- in his speech on the former debate, of : classed opponent of public ownership, giving the impression to the Province ; lived up to promise on matters of Hydro that the Liquor Control Act was Tre-- i policy, and laid down what appeared sponsible for the increased rates in | to be--if not a challenge to the Gov-- automobile liability insurance,. Mr. Nes-- icrnmqnt's present rural power dis-- pitt, in contradicting Mr. Pearson's | tribution system--at least a loud ap-- statements, pointed out that the rate | peal for a definite test of the flat rate in Toronto on a certain type of car | system which so many rural users, he was $19, while in New York, Buffalo, | ' among them, long have advocated. Boston and Philadelphia, whgll'e the;?ii r was prohibition--and no semblance No Daniels Among Them. the 'Pwicked Government control -----t.het _ While Mr. Oliver hnammered the rates were $128, $55, $49 and $73, re-- | Government on practically every line spectively. of departmental administration, he wa:s | most critical of what is being done in |Tribute to Godfrey. ;liquor administration, and what is not _ Much of the success in settling i being done for co--operative marketing. strikes in Ontario which had beer. at=-- Mr. Oliver defined the> Government tributed by Opposition members of the |as shackled to the liquor manufactur-- House to Hon. Peter Heenan, Minister ers; as afraid to curtail the present of Labor at Ottawa, was laid by Mr. {}pcreasi'ng consumption for fear of the Nesbitt at the feet of Hon. Dr. Forbes deficit" skeleton in the family closet, 'Godfrey, Provincial Minister of Labor. |and as inmates of & lions' den, with no _ 1y Nesbitt lauded the principle, aims 'Daniels among them, and the whole and administration of the Apprentice-- Province wondering what _the result ship Act in bringing employers intol | v."m be. In matters of agricuiture the a closer understanding with employees. | Government, he stressed, was merely 'Labor, he stated, would probably be | making "big noise" over the small 'found' coming to Queen's Park more thlngs. and giving no leadership on big 'and more in the future, for Labor had questions Co--operative marketing had . found, he inferred, that it would be 'to come, he declared, if the country 'accorded sympathetic and just treat-- had to kick «the present Administra-- ment. It would not be & wrangling, tion out of power to get it. arguing Labor, but a co--operating, con-- | From William Newman (Liberal, ,eg},'mmg Labor, with the interests of North Victoria) the House heard a 'employer and employees akin. The + strong endorsation of the work -- of \Conservative party, claimed Mr. Nes-- ; Donald McDonald, Deputy Minister of _ | bitt, had always remained true to Labor {(the Game and Fisheries Department ) |;jn ine past, and it would continue to and, at the same time, an appeal for ; | do so in future. an _ organized drive against the ; Much had been made by agricultural wolf menace. R. H. Kemp (Pro---- members of the House of what the rural | gressive, Lincoln) tackled the Gov-- _ | aictricts had to contribute to NIENWAYS

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