The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 21 Apr 1939, p. 2

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APRIL 21 y m # Brings Ejection Thre at Gallery spectators who applauded | missioner for Ontario. When he, Col. George A. Drew's stern rebuke | had concluded reading, he named | to Premier Hepburn, following a x:)'z\grt":b;'::t':&e:'"dw'hiCh "l had ap-- A s arengh hrg | C e o send a copy «w brief but bitter \'mba! e:\thal\gc, | over to the government side of llh)e were threatened with ejection from | House. t}?pClli':;"lz(mlLa:(u;(; hx Hponke: Jamcbl '"Were you paid for that article?" * ght, after the Prem-- | asked Hon Colin C b a ier had accused Colonel Drew Of | jstay ali ampbell, Min-- ' ' "scattering friends of his th h ister of Edblie Works: f 1 S a ## i $ # the xallf'rg'-" NOe Drp[w',)e lieve I was," replied Colonel P"Elr}neiosx?ll\l?' ':f applause % hich 5_'30' | "Oh, making a little money on the lnge 7 1 '.' urn to his feet with | side," retorted the Premier the government to consider the the accusation {oIIO\\'('(l the Con-- | "I think," said the 0' ositi necessity of giving greater protec-- servative Leader's biting condem--| Leader, "that is robabl hey k tion to the investing public through nation of the Premier for ('harging' rou wiil ieE i l'..p y a remark i £ public throug him with "taking time off from his | 3 "The l(."L:tl('_t his" As the Companies Act by providing work to make a little money on the | _ __\C PCIRt !8 th's," Mr. MHepburn stricter regulations. The Securities site." ' ,:';\_";d'mnrl:!p honorabl.e member Act, he maintained, was only an Colonel Droew was reading from governn l- o cmp]met: %, .lhe' expedient an article written by him and pub-- fen' "na was laking tlmc: i o s s lished by a Canadian magazine in | off his work to make money on the|_ AS Pr00f of his contention that 1933 when he was Securities Com--| Side." he had held a similar view for many 7 "And the point J want to make | years, he read excerpts from the is this," replied Colonel Drew. "I |article he had written in October, wasn't taking time off my work and | 1933. In it then, as now, he said, I wasn't taking time off anything |he had maintained that changes in else, I was simply exercising the|company law were necessary to right that is every one's, 't'o use my | provide proper control over corpo-- spare time at night for the consid--| rations. eration of public affairs--something | Colonel Drew started to discuss | that other members of this House |the building of the ®rew mental | might profitably do." | hospital at St. Thomas, questioning The chamber, tensely silent dur-- |during a time of retrenchment the ing the duel of words, broke into an | construction of so costly a hospital uproar as Conserwative members| when less costly alternative plans pounded their desks, and spectators ' were before the Premier, but he had in the Speaker's gallery joined in | barely started before Mr. Hepburn the applause. '('hm-kn(l him on a matter of pro-- The Premier Jleaped to his feet, | cedure. white with anger. | _ Surely, asserted the Premier, the "Loud applause from the gallery| Opposition Leader was aware that is not permissible," he shouted | WYh@"N a matter was before a legis-- above the din. "It is quite obvious | lature committee of inquiry, it could that the member has scattered | NOt be discussed in the House. Col-- friends of his throughout the gal.| ONC! Drew claimed that the Pre-- lery. | mier had .hlmsolf. brought forward "You--can't lake it:" shouted L""_Erhn_quosnon during the afternoon pold Macaulay (Con., South York). | N8 ; , "You weren't objecting to applause| , Mr. Mepburn, in reply, said that, three years ago." .riur:n;: the al"tm'nrmn. he had dis-- The Speaker ordered that no| ('."'"Sed W".h h.ls collcagues rho.quf_-s- more applause would be tolerated, | U°" of hrm:l'ng to the aH'anon of and that offenders would be ejected | Dx'. Harold Welsh (Con., }Zas.t Hast-- from the House. | ings) that he was transgre.\sxr)g the "I may point out," said Colonel | rules ()f.lhe House by referring to Drew, when order had been l.p_gth.r' hospital, ard in the end the Pre-- stored, "that was one of those re-- | mier pointed out 1hgt he was not so marks that cause applause of that .(-on(-m'nod about strict adherence to kind. The Premier doesn't realize the rules. Colonel Drew could PVO-- % the contempt in which such re-- (~(~pd_, out of order 1hm»1gh he might marks are held. I have such friends | Lfn' ,){. h'e had the consent of the sceattered, not only through !he'i"p,_p'l ol < x s gallery, but throughout the entire He talks so much about parlla- province." | mentary procedure an(j sf"'Ts himself "It is most unfortunate that he P as such an authority," the P.re- didn't have as many friends in his ;]:f'(;il:»;.\hm at the Conservative own constituency during the last |**"** ' election," taunted the Premier. "The same spirit, expressing itself | through the mouth of the same | speaker," taunted the Conservative | Leader. "The Premier has really | shown his true colors in this House | tonight. The Premier has made the I sort of remarks which used to characterize his conduct in the House, but which, I am glad to say, have not been so much in evidence recently." # The Conservative Leader urged

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