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t -- FEBRUARy 26 \ne proguces, pIus & reasonaD!®¢| | He stressed that Ontario in its| Abitibi deal, which helped us so profit. But that can be done Only DY | | opposition did not stand alone. W®!l in the election of 1934, but it | the joint action of the Dominion '"Quebec would never be agreeable -- Pales into insignificance with ~the | ' and Provincial Governments. SP8*| | to any change of the British North | PropOSition we faced in Ottawa. This cial assistance by any one GOVv@Nt| | America Act that would centralize 'was the biggest bond deal in Can-- ment is undoubtedly of temporary power at Ottawa. 'This I found out. |adian history, and history will show benefit, but it does not give the The first thing I wanted to know | that we were right. farmer any assurance of stable or when I went down there was what ' "When we cancelled the Hydro adequate prices. ' Quebec felt about it. Quebec stood | contracts it was said that we had \| "That," added Colonel Drew, "was in the background but if dragged |destroyed the credit of Ontario, but --|another extremely important """'l out in the open stood firmly with |what are the results? We won't \| son why the Ontario delegates had | | s," deal with the reduction in price, --|no right to walk out of the confer= He quoted Premier Bracken as |but we wore able to reduce rates --|ence. This subject certainly should saying that, in the matter of future |and service charges so Ypat Hydro have been discussed." borrowings under the report recom-- |is now available to "thousands ;} A clear understanding -- should mendations, the Provinces would |of farmers who could not get it have been drafted between the not only be permitted to borrow | before. As a result we are blessed Governments to protect the rights on their own rights but also upon |by the farmers of Ontario. of labor. He hoped the House would the credit of Canada. This condi-- | Won't Call Election. not be told that Premier Hepburn '.tion. he likened "to the prodigal | "Then there was the matter of and l"l'emiel'l Aberhart of :"b':::: ison putting his father into bank-- 3\1r ]l"i]llam'cecont'ract It had a were the only ones concern it ruptey." maires . n mnanany * h \the future of Confederation. He did ' The Premier claimed it was ob-- ll(lau_ae_ f\} hexgh,\; .he f coshclbs(\:vllt;':fl not believe there was any MOT® _ | vjous from the start that the two p?";ld";m, ?allo i de'fher "surprising a spectacle than th¢e _ | conflicting points of view. as ex-- v«'o'\a Hla. calus'e remostres.aid w: \ ' teaming off of the two Premiers. 'pressfld by Quebec and the Prairie| | **" anotlher. Ci@use Ua't o StaL "Now we see him (Mr. Hepburn) |provinces, could not be met should agree to pay ml nited Sta e; in his role as Provincial Treasurer Mr. Hepburn questioned the wis-- funds. We }.Md i l c-au"fi?movef _ walking hand in hand through the dom of the Federal Government!|"*"4. *° saved Ontario m;' '°"5b{' / \same bewildered maze with the Al-- selecting Dr. Sirois as a member of dollars. 'I say 1to m}):' 0"}:;"_ e | berta's silver--tongued . apostle of the commission, in that the latter friends, 'Don't tak'e this erificisn economic lunacy," said the Conser-- was also a director of the Bank of tog much to heart. t \ vative Leader. "He charzed Mr: _ Canada. He claimed the bank was I wish to inform the Leader °t | HMepburn with inconsistency, . N loaded down with City of Montreal 1hg Opposition that _ we ;'t;e n;)u i favorinzg 'rubber money' en the bonds, and these figured in the g.ol.ng to call an election. e w \ hand and demanding the last cop-- proposed deal. finish the session. I know we have ' "How they cloaked this whole ithe mphdenoe of the peoglle and 2 per, on the other, in dealings with business with patriotism!" Mr. Hep-- i;:'flio'::)hd support of the rural popit« \ _ the other Provinces. burn exclaimed. "These men should |**,}°°"°¢..__ 4 sn it The Premicr reminded the Legis-- have been immortalized long before | , "During the session we will intro-- ' lature that since collapse of the the conference took place." 'd"f"'d ah\"'u";'hc'w;"fh?;ias(';'tre': f_i'c"u'}: Sirois conference their has been & _ GCritical of John Bracken. !:3;: rIthu,e \;'ill .include agmong by--.clection in Alberts. Taking a slap at Premier John |others, the bonusing of bacon and '"The people answered anrllha\-.r Bracken of Manitoba, he said that !vheesg and pvrmic:ion for the Gov-- J | sreat confidence in the peopl€$s _ premier Bracken, in 1939, had tried |arnment to subsidize some of the ! .n{;l:mm;:r;-- h.~m;_tinum| tdhc; f:cm\l\car; to negotiate a barter deal with Ger-- [grain pited u'p a't th;r 'Head of the "Mr. --Aberhart's candidate ' anvy. o o oia a o | lelected by a substantial majority. m"T'hcse are some of the men who {\'gz";: g']'g (f)ox:t;'r];omh'l"hhe(;;ealrsean:(':::- | !If a by--election were to be held in [ are exponents of national unity," h8 |sary because of the deplorable con-- ' Ontario I am confident the result 'proceeded. "The men who helped }iitfons int6 which agriculiture was | . would be the same. s \break up the conference as quick @S | grifting several weeks ago. There ' "Can you find any meat in whati \they did achieved more for national 'was ho talk of agriculture at the ' _he said?" demanded Mr. Hepburn ;uni.l_\' than any one else." !contcrence at Ottawa--all there was 1 in passing judgment on Coloncl | 'The Pominion was asking the 'wn D orag ' |Drew's speech. ""L challm'\gc any 'Px'ovincos to relinquish _ certain (")\s he s'ession progresses wewilt i \member of this House. You are powm's-in pt'l'pell}it.\'. not simply as bring forward more constructive | supposed to represent the concen-- ,a wartime expedient, Mr. Hepburn [ UHE._EM"IUL 1 ie Soy that in \ . trated brains of Ontario." .. |argued. Ontario would have had n¢ |/;? mese the Government has but f Mr. Hepburn observed that if [ subsidy, while Quebec would have | --,, thdught in mind. 'The one dulty Colonel Drew had been present a@t |received an irreducible amount Of | ; n in;s country and this Legisia-- the conference he would have been | s3 000,000 annually. He repeated the TE A8 6 help. in the prosecutioh willing to stay there until "dooms-- |claim that acceptance of the recom-- (| /; ;p, war and to do to the utmost _ i _day," adding there were Many |mendations would have meant an ;" pat Churchill asks of us," he S&i0 other "vocal men like himself{" who. |increase of six mills on every tax { le) w -- would have liked to have lingered lratp in Ontarin. Resents Hephurn A"'Ck. o there and talk. §' "The Dominion Government laid Halifax, Fohbh. 25 (CP).--Premier He said he agreed with Prime| : Hopburn's charge that the lat::_l_)_r. Minister King that there woere| great stress on the fact that it was wone-- serious doubts as to advisability of| going to take over the cost of em--! Joseph Sirois, chairman of the Sirois calling a conference of this nature| ployables on relief," the Premi®®! report on Dominion--Provincial re-- ) _in wartime. and related how the | continued. "If there was an all--out lations, attempted to cloak "busi-} Prime Minister turned to him when | war effort there would be no em-- ness in the atmosphere of patriot-- 4 '\ adjournment was proposed and| ployables on relief." i e \ lism" drew a reply tonight from asked: "What do you think, 'Mitch'?" He claimed that the really big nem' 'p,-of_ R. A. McKay, a member of| c "He still calls me 'Mitch' to my | is the cost of caring for unemPlOy*| |ine board. | \ face," Mr. MHepburn laughed. "I | ables, and, further, tha[ men \\'ercz'; \ "I strongly resent Premier Hep--. i don't know what he calls me behind | on relief because the Governments \burn's attack on the late chairman | ' Imy back, but I don't think it is clung to an orthodox system of {i-- 'of the commission as reported by| $ "Mi'('h'-" | na"}t"'- ho discusseditnis thing .'}I;he Car:iadian Press," Professor Mc-- | i f | "Anvy one w souss ms tay said. j E" lAccounts lor increntes. in an intelligent manner, like Ahgr-; "The name of Sirois has alwaysl The Premier said he had told Mr. |)" 5" 'Wo; qamned," the Premicr| | tood for personsi intesrity, abeor | King that while alluthe Ministers | /gaeq i | i;u(t)g digilntz::e;tedness fiizg. honor§ " | should be in their offices, carrying Th rables on relief," he C en regses s _ | out their duties, "we shopld not ad-- mn'{'il:'eu;ldnerr\;zlenr_\rab'l)z' squargly . 0n | '::'a(?uxl)uihnhchir:;f)':-(\)'nSlctl)éls'[tXt.e ItP;vel:rl'i:'gl N | journ--we should go on." \ our doorsteps. We are meeting tD€®] |r;|_uur's attempt to besmirch hisI ' "I think we did this country a 'rnproscmali\'(" of the municipali--| | P ho ' C | great service when we said no. ties in this regard tomorrow, and if |'".°$°'a'<a ree with the recommen-- _ | When the conference was predicated | _;" j )q agreed to the PTOPOSA!S of i a t'ooms l;a[gthe report is one thiBg [\ | upon the Sirois report we said nO |me girgis report what COuld We 40 $ Sug, st the vl1£irman would take _ | and retired," said the Premicer. hui Say u; them: 'We have no money, to .?uzze\ i his pubjic posiGOR ie % The Conservative leader, he claim-- | _ _ w nave to take it out of direct :fdfa'mtag.e. t: 'r{terr)ests is ¢iuite ane * ' ed, needed enlightenment on finan-- taxation' The situation would be sm\r-'"pxhulie.dn _ cial matters, "Every dollar increase |,, same in all other matters of _ other," he said. é * in the 1939--40 deficit can be ac-- sociai retorm. We would be de-- _' .counted for in the way of a con-- prived of all sources of revenue, _ crete asset," said the Premier. and would not be able to help. _ Highways were an income drawing |" «; ajong with some Othetrs saw asset "and now we are goIng 10 |ine evil of centralization. I see, be-- §) | cash in on the coupons,' ing developed in Ottawa, an auto-- 4 When barred from the air in ex-- cracy. This Province will stand \| plaining his stand at Ottawa, we | coourger to shoulder with @U®DCC ? "carried a very full rep_ort in the :\t there are any Signs of the usurp-- : __| advertisements," he continued. "We ing of her powers under the B.N.A. _ | received thousands of letters. com-- KCt _ al mending us for it and expressing This is not the first time that I thanks for the opportunity of TeAG+ |nove been attacked by the CaPMAIS ing in detail everything that was tic press. There was the CaS® of the / said." mss