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- Marcy 29 . Social Servi Bugbea | "'rhrough',:ll the br:;ts and hear--| * ings," said th « | CROSS DENIE e minister, "could be found the bugbear of social serv-- ices and the wishful thinking that 1 by some sleight--of--hand the Federal (.m'ernme_nt could solve the costs of * such services by the waving of a f wand. Moneys for social services are merely a transference from taxpay-- ers to non--taxpayers in an attempt ::\;?;se the standard of living by .. on"l wommmmmnmm n mm mmnnman Mr, (Ilross \lvarnod the earnings of k % Aa people could not be i % Welfare Minister Tells House rearranging _ the 1'§x12§rea§§?vet;§ Hepburn Government Be--| _ }"@°" the constitution. " He sug-- # gested _ the _ commission might lieves Problems Soluble ;';'g'fv';a:";scfult purpose in indicat-- * e national income might Without B.N.A.A. Chango be and what a fair tax levy ugon Smmmummmmmme ienss that income might be. ; HE SCORES PRAIRIES Denying -- Conservative -- Leader Drew's charges that the Hepburn f administration had fostered Cana-- dian disunity by its Rowell_ Com-- & mission brief, Hon. Eric Cross, min-- | o ister of welfare and Municipal af-- W k I # f fairs, declared yesterday before the A S h legislature that Ontario believed the Or S ' m o c e m e present difficulties could be solved | * within the framework of the con-- ' F Y +h l I I E I ®© stitution. At the same time, he made it | or ou 1 Ipe xp a|ns clear, as did Premier Hepburn | i. hy ces s y when he presented Ontario's case | __The Ontario Youth l'rammg pro-- simple business plan in administra-- before the commission, sitting at | gramt. Hoii" Norman Hipel, Minister | tion," said the minister. "We do not Queen's Park last spring, it was the | of Labor, yesterday Told the Ontario | propore to teach young people un-- povernment's belief that the three Legisalture, would be directed, as |less there is a reasonable oppor-- prairie provinces' anxiety to rewrite long as he was head qf the depa;'t-'tunity of placing them in gainful the basis of Confederation was ment, along a line which had as its employment." prompted by the fact that they were oh,uog'tive the plaqing o.f the largest He recited to the House the num-- either unable or unwilling to meet possible number in gainful occupa-- | ber of training projects which the the demands of their people out of tions. ; department had sanctioned. In the taxation and that they had exhaust-- Mr. Hipel rose early in yester--|1937--38 season, he said, there had | ed their credit. da.\v's sitling to defend the Ontario |been 55,457 trained in the Domin-- Credit Is Good po.lu-_v against attacks which, he |ion under the plan, and of that | "But the Do.minion'e credit was said, had been lm'el]ed at .lho gov-- _numhm 3282 had been placed. Dur-- !good * Nt Cross tolti the House ernment. _ He demed vigorously |ing the same period in Ontario, 2,-- "Ont;u'io c;'odit ";," good ind que-- | charges that Ontario had not co-- .9.:34 had been trained and 1,474 or _ hec credit was go;')d Therefore it np':'rawd with Ottawa in the 35.,% pm'fcent were r;lalcgd'i During the f f C scheme. current season, of 1,674 trained in ;'e)p:a;:lit:n:l:';:: U:)a{t tth::e ::::":: '"The government is following a 'Ontario, 87 per cent were placed. | powers and resources of the Do ' minion so that the West might be delivered from the dilemma in which it found itself." He said he believed the dilemma was a serious one, one deserving of sympathy and one which should be g studied at an interprovincial con-- ference. "But," added Mr. Cross, "it does not follow that Ontario » should immediately and without P question surrender its wealth and resources to the demands of the West, so that in turn its credit might be exhausted as well. It may well be that we serve Canada best by standing firm and that we should insist that all provinces and | the Dominion as well should put themselves on a pay--as--you--go basis before they raid Ontario's resources for the purpose merely of increas-- + Ing their own expenditures or of | reducing their own deficits." ; ' He denied that Ontario sought ' autonomous rights beyond those | conferred upon all the provinces un-- | der Section 92 of the BN.A. and charged that Colonel Drew, in claiming that those rights were sought, was "bad in law and bad in fact." He said the western prov-- inces had conferred about their sub-- | s missions to the commission and had ' started preparations three months | before Ontario knew that such a | 6 commission was contemplated. |