The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 27 Apr 1939, p. 2

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W U I it F eS QOutsi Be High For Outsiders Be Higher Or Will Reduce Grants Premier Hepburn Tells Legislature College Officials 4 # § # 1 ' Must Make Readjustment 'Forthwith' or # # # # # # # Receive Drastic Cut in Provincial Subsidies: Drew Agrees Ontario Pupils Should Pay Less 1 1 ASSAILS STUDENTS FOR 'UNFAIR TACTICS Premier Mitchell Hepburn warn-- j four medical students at Western , j iversity icials last | are paying any higher fees than ei _ Ointario um;crsl ir efticin :' di Ontario residents," he declared. night t.h"' "nites some Teadjust-- The Premier's fiery outburst drew ments in the system of fees were | , mild rebuke from Col. George A. instituted forthwith to increase the | Drew, Leader of the Opposition. cost of education for non--Ontario n 1 rogrrl-fd:::a! the Prlemxex' fShtzl;)ll: * s uk L ave spoiled a seemingly irrefu > f""d'f"s' -more frastic reductions argument in favor of grant reduc» in university grants could be °X-- | jjons by this display of ' personal pected next year. emotion," Colonel Drew said. s 3 The question of university grants | _ "If you were Prime Minister," Mr. ; l . | Hepburn shot back, "and you may and the demonstrations stagedl re be some day, although I hope it's & cently by students of the Univer-- long way off--you'd know what it sity of Western Ontario found itself | is to have organized groups set on unexpectedly before the Legislature .\'"Url to h:'ra'.:s you :\ndly:u:alfcar:rli't}}'\- ; j s . | And you' now why p during the cc;ns:deranon n.l De feeling on the question." & partment of ' ducation fstnmgte. Drew Axrees on Fees. k and the Premier for the first time "When something of this kind revealed the extent of the "PErse® | arouses feeling," the Conservative cution" to which he and his family, | Leader countered, "there are always he said, had been subjected in the | irresponsible x;mups wholcannfot :e j , |taken as a fair example of the campaign of London, Ont., stu whole. Condemnation of the group dents. as a whole should not be the result In a voice bitter with emotion, | of unfortunate demonstrations stag« Mr. Hepburn told the House that |ed by the few. And, if the Premier his wife and children had been | WYAN!S to make political capital of n _ ; | the incident, let me tell him that I made the target of "most unfait | io. there were members of Con-- tactics" by demonstrating students servative families active in what and coupled his attack on thpix-lmnk place. There were also members conduct with the charge that the | Of Liberal families and of C.C.F. a trati had b d'fmmllrs. Cemons _" 1077 _'" een prompte | __Colonel Drew voiced agreement by political motives. | with the Premier's stand in the Bays Students Unfair. l matter of fees. Studenls. who came "University of Western Ontario|'% Ontario to attend university, he students adopted t unfair . | folt, should pay a higher tuition fee r Pred most unfair la""*'l than citizens of the Province. "It is in voicing their objections to lh"' not. unkindness when we say to grant reduction," he said. "My tele.| those from outside that they must phone rang day and night. My wife| Pay a proportionate increase in fee," was harassed by insulting letters :: .'"'d' and some intelligent students even' '(':elo';.o:' ]:'d.(: ::"' Kingston} 8 Cik« ol. T. A. Ki on., Kingston stooped so lo.\\ as to send letters to' agreed that there might be some-- my adopted son and daughter. | thing in the Premier's suggestion "The whole demonstration had a'that non--resident students should political motive. One of the leaders | pay higher fees, but Queen's Uni-- . was a nephew of Senator Meighen | versity was a "poor man's univers-- and another was the grandson of a sity," and he knew of more than registrar who had been retired be--|one student who eked out his term cause of his age." | on little more than a meal a day. Under present cireumstances, Mr.' '"Yes." jibed Provincial Secretary Hepburn said, Canadian universities | Nixon, "when their football team were being made a "haven for stu«-- i comes down here the students who dents from outside the province and |come with them seem to have from outside the Dominion. Eightlennugh to spend." |hundred students at University of' "And paint the town red," added Toronto, 265 at Western and 361 at | the Premier. Queen's, he said, were not Ontario "And wreck the Royal York,"* citizens. "And yet, of them all, only |ended Mr. Nixon.

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