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« ' Mar 25 Sinclair Wrathful Of Cabinet Attitud In Explaining It + & % % ¢nts that we don't know what the Charges Ministers Cannot 5... are going to be. For the s + h + honorable the Treasurer, according to Explam POSIthl'I With-- his own statements, doesn't know wghat 667 * they are going to be himself." out Makmg LOl'\g-Sllf' "'lr'lz': Gevernment," Mr. Dunlop had * 'I +. explained earlier, "recognizes the situ-- fermg EXhlblthfl" ---- ation which ('onl'rontsotghe people, but 4 we must make both ends meet. It Amusement Tax Law looked to me as though tickets of + 25 cents might stand a tax of one Dl'a"'S ]' Ire cent, but very serious objections have ; been raised and the Government has fe tssn teen urged to leave tllu.*Se tlcltfet.s fti'ee Y a ~ ' of tax." He added that motion--pic-- TI(/KLTS TAX'I'REE ture--theatre owners throughout the we Province were suffering as greatly as UP TO 20 CENTS' other individuals, since they had been Smmmmmmommemnoetmmemerey | lately put to the expense of installing ks j | sound equipment, and fulfilling the Taunted by Provincial Treasurer || firefighting regulations of the Legis-- Dunlop with the claim that Opposi-- :| lature. A j tio R 4 It was at this point that he an-- n_.n. .members were quile prone ' toil nounced that movie--theatre tickets criticize the Government's taxation | of 95 cents and under would be policy but unwilling to offer con-- exempt from the tax. o struciive suggestions on how to avoid N. 0. Hipel (Liberal, South Water-- taxes in thoese financially difficult loo)----How is that going to affect times, Liberal Leader Sinclair "blew < amatour sports in the Province? off" at white heat in the Legislature Mr. Dunlcp--I am not surs about Just before the dinner hour lass eve-- -- that. ning, characterizing such statements Ho added that he was not certain as the Treasurer's as "a lot of clap-- -- that dance halls would be exempt trap," and charging that it ill be-- from the tax. came Government Ministers to talk Hon. H. C. Nixon--I know of one "such stuff" when none of them could | Gdance hall which is used far more. stand up in the Houss and explain | frequently for movie pictures than for his department's position withou: mak-- | dances. # ing "a long--suffering exhibition" of it. . .. Mr. Dunlop--Thcose halls are all| "What do you people think we ars | liconsed. | paid our indemnitiee for?" clicked Pass Around the Hail. | Mr. Sinclair when Mr. Dunlop asked D. J. Taylor (Progressive, North | him if he could make one constructive Grey) pointed out that in many rural' suggostion regarding taxation. "For districts it was the habit, at such years you people have bsen standing organizations as softball clubs, to up and giving us this claptrap. There charge no definite admission fee, but is not a man among you who can ex-- for a hat to be passed round, with plain his department without making the understanding that ten cents was a long--suffering exhibition of it and _ the gencral contribution getting help from somebody elss. | Mr. Dunlop reiterated his thought we's human over here, like all of you, | that the economic strain of the pres-- and surely we deserve some credit for | Cnt time was worse even than that of being elected and sent here to rep-- | the war yvoars. '"It is easy to criti-- resont our constituencies." cizc taxes," he added, "but it is neces-- Ordcr--in--Cerneil Authority sary to raiss money to make the ( recr.in--Corncil Authority, Budget of the Province of Ontario Mr. Sinclair's outbuict casme dur-- balance, and we mean to do that if ing the committes stage of the Gov-- | we can." ernment's bill t> amend in> Amuse-- 4 ments Tax Act to the exton: iamong ciber things* of granting the> Treas-- urer authority by Order--in--Council to regula't> the increases which the Gov-- l * ernment proposes to effect or. present scheduies. While Mr. Dunlop served | definite ncotice that there would be no | tax placed on movie--theatre admis-- * sicns up to and including 253 cents, and brcaaly intimated that amateur sports would also escape it, he failed to satisfy the Lib--ral Leader on the quection of Order--in--Cquncil powers. and was told plainly that his bill * was noth'ng loss than a "blank cheqgue" allowing him« (if he so ds-- sired) to put a 50--cent tax on a 25-- ticket, and was. generally speaking, "a no--good affair." "So it's good--bye to baseball and gooua--bye to athletic parks for our boys and girls in the country this year," asserted Mr. Sinclair. "They might just as well go and hoe potatoes or sit on the veranda." Seventy--five per cent. of the people were in open rebellion, he folt, against the increased tax. The theatre people had prots'tsd, but even they j were not sure where they stood in the matter, notwithstanding that the actual bill itself was not to apply to f their low--pric> admissions. The wea-- ther was still too cold, he submitted, to get th> point of view of bassball and softball fans, but when it was cob-- & tainable, the Government, he felt, would hear something. No Limit, He Claims. "This legislation in ro way limits the amount of tax you impose," he told Mr. Dunlop, "and we might as we'l go home and toll cur constitu--