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FEBRuArRYy 23 Budget Adopted, 57--21 I 1 Following Drew's PI To Reduce It by 10 P.C. *# q ® Opposition Leader Urges Government to # # # + Make 'Dramatic Cut'; Premier Replies # That Opponent Offers No Real Solution CANNOT SAVE WITHOUT HARM--HEPBURN » iti "Other countries with a longer An hour's address by Opposition | SConomic Hist oo S Leader George Drew and 4 SWeMLY | sor rid of (heis :g::}gltgb?ighaat?ort\z minute reply by Premler Hepburh | and they did it," continued Colonel brought the budget debate to a| Drew. who (')inled 10 Ontario's close in the I.egislature'yesterda(,\"., ('apila;l T CBt opr $o) HnilLiOns as hb There was no Conservative amend--| _ FPu hink af h ment offered and the vote was 57| lt)r;fii(:'l:l-'dh(:na:t"l':(\::'i d'sj'cl':)(;et °£OL':: «y $ # ® toé.;':::lag:zuozr:feéhfhzudc%?';m.' tries wiped out their obligations by | ment to make a "dramatic cut" in'; the Tlmh[::te dexpedrlenf ';fl il:t'l'atxox::! expenditures, warning that the Pro--| S'MP'® »U° a:'fi"t °"i'l' U rod }:' :';'e| vincial debt was within striking| SW®! ";] Sdgb ':' us roifi,, | distance of the billion--dollar mark.|| Y°ArS the debt has incteased." . | :'ggng'i':urc::t'::t l'?':hefi(;.:r'::.;':' Budget in connectim} with the cost | starting April 1, could be effected,| Of Ruarding vital points in Ontario he claimed. | was a Federal obligation imposed "If I were to move an amendment | :'i-'('m""'wi';"' :th""_g'"'s':';a asC;lo:aei 10 per cent.® said Colonel Drew. "I(| Drew. He hoped the Ontario Gov-- can be done. It is a decision busi--| ernment would take up this m"!"i ; nesses have to make day by day.| with the new Government which They don't say: 'We can't do it' It] would be installed at Ottawa after is a case of doing it or bankruptCy:| Mvarch 26. The amount spent on I am still hopetul that the Premi®r| oyards by the Province, municipal-- and the members of his (}on-rn-' ities and private industry almost ment, who, in the absence of th¢| aqualied the amount spent on the House assume responsibility for e'.'" militia in recent years, he claimed. penditures, will make a dramati¢) a gefense force should be set up cut in expenditures. It must b¢) ynger military discipline, and arm-- really dramatic in order to drive! aq wip adequate weapons along home to the people that the G°V°l the lines of the defense force in ernment realizes the seriousness of England, which was composed of the situation. The time has come' men unfit for active service. c for the public to become tax--C0n~| _ premjer Hepburn accused the Op-- selole: A 4 t + i der of having failed to The Opposition Leader said it wasl g?tscflt'man sli'fi;le constructis'e sugges-- inexcusable for any member of the} };;on ;n the course of his sixty-- Government, or their supporters, tol minute address. take up time with claims of savings| _ @q1p, tells us we are spending 100 is ;r{anou': :l;partmentts.( t ' much money," the Premier said, "Here e amount of money to| .. § ny place 7 7 be spent, & gross of 99 million dol-' "I'a':x:r:c"ioecsa :o:'utu%%?:\ .8D)(,) cr; Te Difficulty of War Years. lars," continued Colonel Drew. "The expect me to go eenv--meenyv--miney-- The --Conservative Leader en-- fact that the Government has bud-- | m: over the estimates and land, dorsed economies in principle but geted for a net expenditure of 88| perhaps at the Department of refused to support them in prac-- ' millions does not mean they have to! llealth;':' tice, Premier Hepburn said. He re-- { \spend that sum. It means nOthing| " phore were no instances in which | Called Colonel Drew's opposition to of the sort. | substantial sa\'ings-('ould be effect= |a& reduction of university grants as ' * | ed wi t crippling important so-- an example. ; t ere ts tma | :-&l" ls':ro\uicos. p.\%r. g}lcp'l))urn said. "A year ago I called attention 'of "Year by year the rate of taxation | The bulk of Ontario's expenditures universities to the fact that they goes up, though there is always talk | wara sat by the demands of the | Were not making the proper dif-- of reduction in expenditure. Th¢ ) _cooj» and not by the whims of the [ ferentiation in fees between local per capita net debt today is $23.65. : go\f:rnmem and outside students," he said. "On-- In the year before the war it was | "The Leader of the Opposition 'tario was becoming a haven for out-- $3.96, and I submit that in the | tells me to be dramatic and make |siders and so we asked the univer-- twenty--five years that intervened | . b.ig Cut in expenditures," he con: | [Sities to revise their fee system. {there have not been sufficient rea=' )pueq "Just how dramatic does he | They refused and we cut down their sons to warrant the huge increase." | pypect me to be? A very dramatic |their grants. No one opposed that Colonel Drew developed his argu-- | ';niny ;; would be to let 16,000 in-- |step more than the Conservative ment that estimated revenue was sane patients out of our mental hos-- Leader." the amount the Government decid-- itals and it would save a lot of The Premier refuted W. J. ed it was necessary to arbitrarily &oney but would he want that?" Stewart's suggestion that Toronto \ extract from the people in order to He éhlllenged Colonel's Drew's had lost money when Ontari.o took meet expenditures. He was inter= pccortion that Provincial revenue !'over administration of the income rupted a little later by Premicr | was composed entirely of funds "ex-- _ tax, declaring that the city had re-- Hepburn, who asked, when the | ;_,c,eg" from the public in the form ceived more in subsidies and by tinancial record was being assailed: | /; ;4xes, The T. & N.O. Railway had absorption of old age pension and "Would you do differently ?" been ba;lly mismanaged by the Con-- _ other social service costs than it "Oh, Mr. Speaker, I am going to :ervative Government, he charged, _ had lost in income tax revenue. do very differently before very 3nd his Administration had taken War conditions made it difficult long," replied Colonel Drew. :he raiiroad out of the red and turn-- ; to forecast a budget with extreme ed it into an enterprise -- which | accuracy, he saigl. but in six budgets would bring $1,300,000 to the Treas-- Gdelivered by his Government, re-- ury this year. The sale of liquor venue forecasts had been fm:'nd and the sale of gasoline to tourists . more accurate than in any ofher also contributed largely to the in~ budgets brought down in the his-- comée of the Province, he said. tory of Ontario.