The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ON CHEESE, HOGS Exchange Board Ruli Second Reading Given S S + & T e $3,500,000 Expenditure een O p p In g OQUurl S+S on Farmers' Subsidies ~ Restrictions of the Foreign Ex-- QUOTAS Di change Board on Canadians visit= SCUSSED ing across the line is "hardening" M o is feeling in the United States against Blessed by both sides of the Canada, Leopold Macaulay (Con,, House, the Cheese and Hog Subsidy South York) declared last night as Act, which authorizes the Govern-- the House considered a $300,000 ment to spend $2,000,000 in cheese item in the estimates for tourist and $1,500,000 in bacon subsidies, publicity purposes. was given second reading yesterday "We're all Anglo--Saxons and we in the Legislature. like to give and take, but for every Agriculture Minister P. M. Dewan dollar the Foreign Exchange Board said that, ow;)n with the promise of cuts off, we're losing $4 in United the 2 cents bonus on every pound v" nEG of cheese produced for Brili.»?h ex» S'lalcs' currency," asserted Mr, Ma-- port, production in January and % aaula_\.' February was down 50 per cent and | * Premier Hepburn said he appre» for March, 37 per cent from 1940. | | clated the fact the restrictions Obviously, he claimed, Ouawa| i"frealed a feeling of antagonism," was worried about the prospects of ib"'t ho didn't know what steps ""lng the llz'm'w) pound quo'a ;COUld be taken to ]lft them. He or the Federal Cabinet would not added that Douglas Oliver, Ontario's have passed its Order--in--Council director of publicity, had admitted giving power to halt the production these restrictions were the greatest f colored cheese for domestic con-- handicap to overcome in inducing sumption. Both the Minister and the United States tourists to visit succeeding speakers asserted that Cavjada. ; the price upswing for milk for proc-} The Legwslmum m_ade rapid prog« essing was drawing milk from the | ress with the estimates, passing cheese factories. "'_0~"° of the Health, Agriculture, On the bacon subsidy policy, the Highways, Prime Minister's and department has agreed, he said, that |Treasury Departments without the $1 and 50 cents bonuses on the ln'u"h comment. . two top grades will be paid only on | _ John Glass (Lib., Toronto--St. An« carcass--graded hogs. Since the ses-- ;']""}*') do_p}ored what he said "were sion opened, strong pressure has anti--Semitic'_ signs through the been brought on the Government. to Province, and he asked that steps permit bonus payments on live-- he taken to eliminate them. "We weight grading. Under the policy, ask people to come here from the small domestic packers will be re-- States and then we insult them," quired to do their own rail grading he declared,. and to pay farmers on that basis. s He said some smaller plants are already buying hogs on that basis, and the department felt that the ")l inciple can be extended. i To questions by Opposition Lead-- | er Drew and Leopold Macaulay | (Con., Suoth York) as to whether or not the Government had made a positive proposition to Ottawa for | a joint solution, both the Minister \ and Premier Hepburn declared that -- co--operation toward raising the basic prices had been refused in confer-- ences. Calls Farmers "Casualties." Colonel 'T. L. Kennedy (Con, Peel) a former minister of agricul-- ture, said the bill should contain a definite time limit for the pay-- ment of bonuses, According io its terms, it remains in effect from 'Foh. 1, to the end of the current fiscal year. "I am not so sure that we should leave all these things to QOttawa," he said. "I am probably the only one in the House who feels this way,. But we pay 50 per cent of the Do-- minion's taxes and it would be ilwno-r for us to pay 100 per cent 10-- | w ards helping our farmers." § ; Farmers, he said, were the first "casualties of this war and casual-- ties get compensation." He said a fvund should be set up, whether it < be $10,000,000 or $12,000,000 to see that farmers are protected." James de C. Hepburn (Con,., Prince Edward) and Dr. Harold Welsh (Con., Hastings East), both |representing legding cheese produc-- \ing counties, backed the act, The 'formor advocated that the basic |price be raised from 15 to 19 cents. \__The subsidy brought the basic price to 17 cents. "IL would advo-- cste and advocate seriously the plac-- ing of a basic 19 cent price, that li: a 4 cents bonus over the present | basic price of 15 cents for every | ;pound exported to the British mar» | ket.". * f | j f