The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 6 Mar 1941, p. 2

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* "Cy C 'W ; Says Packers' Profits Increase. The cheese and hog subsidies in-- | stituted by the Government were f all right to a certain point, but they were an ineffective best. He twit-- * t _ ted members of the Liberal Party N N EDED on the change of their viewpoint 1 from 1936, when they opposed sub-- sidizing certain sections of the farm-- ing community. + M FRO T SAYS "The farmers nced more radical t t action than they are getting from either the Dominion or Provincial P Government. Bonuses are helping * t14. & in the face of a very bad situation, COI'\SONO*IVO Criticizes but this cannot be cleaned up with-- out a conference at Ottawa. The S.*"!d Hepbum Took on farmers have no control over the Sirois Recommendations foreign markets, although they . think they should get a reasonably fair profit, We can give them some RAPS DEBT INCREASE control over the domestic market * so they can get this profit, I honest-- e t | ly think the people of Ontario want Endorsing the motion of his\ the farmer to get a fair deal. Leader that another Dominion--Pro-- "It is, indeed, a curious situation é vi'ncial conference .shou.ld be «-a.llorl :::ltir:g.afiaci';?t"se'asfgg ;tgg'tl?le\'vl:i!l.: without delay to deal with questions the farmers are leaving the farms ' of great importance to the people because they cannot make ends of Canada, L. M. Frost, Conserva-- _ meet. tive memb'cr for Victoria, cha'rgod 0 n131lb;hcrsc-it?frifidmr?:leamscotr:}::'ef\z: that Premier llepburn had missed between the Dominion and Provin-- | the greatest opportunity of a gener-- cilal Governments. We should get ation by leaving the Sirois Confer-- tggether ':T""Rly and thresh out ence in Ottawa when he did. While -- *"°S® auestions. there were certain aspects of the Sirois recommendations with which he did not concur, particularly those of a financial nature, there were other recommendations on matters of vital importance which were not given consideration at the Ottawa conference and which probably will never be aired in a conference. i "Agricultural problems need more M I radical treatment than any which May Send Summonses by a' has yet been suggested by the Gov-- & i ernment," he stated. "Other people # B II P besides the farmers are bewildered In Trafflc Cases ,f I asses by the constitutional bottlenecks P He samitied 1hat the Bireis Com Ander on amendment 50 Bc iShange iof ibdSneases nE conilore mission was sent out on its voyage Summary Convictions Act, aimed at i:':ldlggcfl?o })?'Qsinr;.\:s Brokers' Act, undcr. most inuuspic_ious conditions reducing the amount of costs in | 1941, and in general principle and ar-- ?nd nghtn from the t:(rlng that a con--, traffic court cases, summons forli rangement follows the Coliesction e':lret:c';ans:e.sufif:\:::\'c:'.t ;'edspgfifi?é violation of the Traffic Act shall be | 'fi"fl'l"",fi"_lgL out, that no report brought in by a' served by prepaid post. commission can be immediately The bill was introduced in the adopted, as constitutional changes Legislature yesterday by Hon. Gor. ':':\,:ecol::m:'z;\i::.uu Of oonferences don Conant, Attorney--General. The "The Prime Minister of Ontario! summons "shall have endorsed upon : had a great chance to give leader-.' its face a notice that if the person 's::: :'0 l(;whpeople of Cl'jmf'da' If he| summoned does not appear in per-- has a S:reatlspe;:'(s?;f::;;\.':.\'hca'l:loulll:;: son or by his representative, he \.v;ll have done a lot toward improving | be served personally or by leaving ,conditions in Canada. The Sirois re--| the summons at his place of abode." ~ port recommends many more things Where a person does not appear |than just financial matters. And| in answer to a mailed summons, a | some of these are of the greatest new summons Is to be served with-- | importance to the people of Canada. in ten days of the date of trial men-- | _ *"We have a very, very acute fin-- tioned in the original summons,. Pro-- |ancial condition in Ontario at the vision is made that a summons may present time," he continued. "We be proved served by the affidavit are faced with heavy war expendi-- of the person who mailed it. tures and also by the highest tax > A second bill introduced by Mr. rate in the history of the Province. ! Conant provides for the liconsing During the past thirty years the 'of persons who act as agents for dead debt of the Province has in-- w----_-- is creased from six to 509 millions, and 100 millions of this has beer since 1937. New taxes are being ; added each year." He pointed out a number of cases where constitutional -- bottlenecks prevent Provincial Governments| «_ delegating powers to the Federal | Government or the Dominion dele-- gating certain powers to the Prov-- iInces. Among these he listed old age pensions, minimum wage laws and the regulation of the economic marketing of natural products.

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