The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 28 Feb 1934, p. 2

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s $ Febraary 2® f ¢ Toward the close of his speech, Mr. < Campbell protested low tobacco prices % paid last year to Western Ontario growers: advised the Government to f assist townships in road--improvement projects, and pushed further the Lib R eral criticism of the January loan 7 flotation, the loan that "went ovg' with a bang, and the echo is still resounding on the street corners whel;e k several small investors are tollin« the ,; experiences in regard to trying to g* * some of the loan at $97. agh rogy Co ative J h St. Denis (Consery » Prescott) made the only French-- -- f Canadian contribution to the debate + just before the afternoon aessm adjourned. The member for F testified that personally he had shown confidence in the agricultural M"SB":;{ + by adding to his farm holdings. after quoting the price which he re-- ceived for cheese, Mr. St. Denis saidL; "I readily admit that the Iarmerms not getting sufficient return for prc-;g,uecwconservative member lauded e both the Minister of Agriculture aneg the Government for what he term their active and sincere attitude to-- ward rural problems. . '"The trouds * with our farming industry a.t. Agr * present time is not production; it is consumption or marketing." he said, contending that the Government had assisted in solving this problem. _ . | _ Although citing the merits of his | home county, Mr. St. Denis brought j | Glengarry into the picture, stating he could cope on equal terms with the 5 present member's (J. A. Sangster) e se m en n nmme cce mm m nerinam mm e mre ies on ontoccmnme ns mnmemmmmmmmnmmomess «.. -- a omm mmtinmncmme s > Gaelic. The two reprelt;e;;t:e%ve:mfif » i exc * * it nsciine hones fie Hoies fhow. Member Speaks in French In Ontario Legislat WWe uie ii en ons (A+ omm Tory Representative From Prescott Addresses Two Dozen Words and House : r Gets Surprise -- Gratitude § Expressed for Good--Will The Ontario Legislature was stirred from the silence of late afternoon s sommolence yesterday by two doazen words in French, To a hal{f--empty House, which was awaiting ad-- jJournment for dinner, Joseph St. Denis (Conservative, Prescott) ex-- * pressed gratitude for the Legisiature's good--will (bonne entente) and co-- operation in the language of Moliere € and. Voltaire. The member's speech, because of his accent, had been prac-- j tically a total loss in the Press Gal-- lery at the opposite end of the Cham-- -- ber. .But Mr. St. Denis took pains * to signalize his change to French by f * asking the Speaker's permission to use that tongue. "Je remercie tout i les membres de ce Parlement qui ont fait preuve du meilleur esprit de co-- peration et de bonne entents," the member for Presccott is quoted as say-- Ing. He also employed the phrase "merci beaucoup." Veteran observers claimed that a decade had elapsed since a formal speech in French had * seen made in the Ontario House, and | ' 'hat had been made by a visitor froml Jttawa.

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