The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 27 Mar 1941, p. 1

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4 g "ah ;' # ,'."i,"*" l im | & ; MARCH . 27 Aim for United Canad im ftor United C anada, F t Politi Is PI orget Politics, Is Plea The call to non--partisan action,} "Forget politics, as Mr. Willkic given in the Legislature Monday by | told us Monday. There is a man Fi e i a% re & 'dav e X::::g"inL{h«}'llll(l,tl:.: n;',\f "1".0',{1.l'}21;::<:i who went out and buried politics be-- lock (Lib., Halton), when in a bud.| Cause he wanted to do something get .debate address he urged mem--| now." ber's to "forget politics." 5s I Tom PB. Murray (Lib., Renfrew t scr\I":oaH]):)r-r.mll;lln"1'.«(l!l".',«lx,'«;lm;l)l(;::rj :?}('l | Smx_th'. declared forest conservation white and black, the sooner we will policies in his district need not go have a United Canada," he said. .hf\\nnd the protection of the timber Mr. Blakelock made a fervent ap--| from fire and insect and discase peal for support of war services| pests. '"They don't need to plant trees "anything which may help us to at.| up there," he said, "the re--seeding of tain victory." | the forest will take care of itself." "We sit in here in comfort," he He approved the Madwaska pow-- | said, "and when it comes to a fine er development, opened last fall at lthin;:. we haven't been asked to give| Barrett's Chute and predicted that practically anything. There was,it would permit the establishment launched this week six appeals in of small industries. The proposal to | one for the National War Services., dam the outlet of Bark Lake as a f I hope every man within the hear--| huge water storage area would ing of my voice will give until it ' drown out 5,000 acres of timber, he 'urts. t predicted. OWtms «.. | DONATES1,000,000 * | Gift to War Services Suggested by City M.L.A. j FROM 1940 SURPLUS W. A. Summerville (Con., River-- dale--Toronto), in Legislature yester-- day urged the Government to con-- tribute $1,000,000 of the Provincial surplus to the Canadian War Serv-- ices Fund. "Would it not be courageous for the Province to give this sum to help smash Hitler?" he queried. ; "Would it not cheer our own men as well as Churchill and the other -- leaders?" in his speech Mr. Summerville charged that the fill of the Rouge River Bridge, under construction, was full of fractures and warned that maintenance and construction would cause a waste of a million a dollars. HMHe criticized the new route selected for Kingston Road s and said that the advice of delega-- tions and of the findings of railway engineers had been disregarded. He also forecasted that the steel in the Rouge bridge would not hold when the waters rose. "I would like to know what the Hon. Mr. Hipel is doing about re--| men of 50 years of age. These men | fresher courses?" he asked in re--|are good citizens, they want to do ferring to labor problems. "I know | something so they can stay off re--| the school at Galt is a success, but|lief, they want no part of a dole, | it is not the young men I am anxious | but what are we doing for them?" _ about. Toronto is the mecca of| He also suggested that a survey drifters. Unemployed people come| be made of the Provincial civil serv-- to our city and are given shelter in | ice, along the lines of that proposed | police stations and hostels, but they | in Toronto. He was certain that soon become charges against the| such a survey and adjustment of city and .that is why our relief costs | salaries would result in a better are so high. I am thinking of the ' morale among the civil servants.

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