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driven over one hundred miles, and were very sore, I am sure. to find out that they didn’t have a vote there. They did this quite innocently. but there were others who arrived who were not quite so innocent, and I can give their names also if you want them. In all of the 75 voters, there were only two who insisted upon voting and nothing was done about it. The May 30th election rolled around and it seemed necessary to guard against the same thing, so we made some arrangements to find out who these people were and in the Fifth District of Kings there were twelve voters arrived that voted who should never have voted there. They defeated the Government as a result, and I hope that it never happens again. And if does, if it takes every penny I have got I will see them in Dorchester.

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J. Cyril Sinnott: Now there are a couple of things I want to mention, Mr. Speaker, and then I will sit down. There is in Canada a feeling of anti-Americanism. I detect this every so often on CBC news broadcast, the programs which we some- times see on television, the undue emphasis which is being placed on anti-Vietnam demonstrators, and if one looks at these programs, the odd thing that strikes you about the anti-Vietnam demonstrators is that they are all these long-haired in- dividuals and beatnicks and so on. Yet they are given undue prominence by our com- munications media and the effort on the average population, I think, is to suggest that the Americans are not the defenders of the freedom, and so on and so forth. Now this attitude of anti-Americanism extends not only to the common people but it also seems to be prevalent in the House of Commons, for the Prime Min- ister and the Minister of External Affairs, every now and then, feel constrained to speak out against the programs and the Foreign Policy of the American gov- ernment. Now it is my opinion that we should support American Foreign Policy and get behind the war effort in Vietnam. For the information of the members of this House eight Islanders went to the United States, volunteered in the American Marine Corps and are now fighting the Communists in Vietnam. Now another thing in connection with this that I don't like, and that is the welcoming of draft dodgers to Canada from the United States. This, in my opinion, is a terrible thing, and should have been brought up in the House of Commons before this. Not only are they welcomed here but everyone seems to be interviewed on television, or some person who is sheltering him is interviewed on television and portrayed as a defender of freedom. Now everyone knows, or at least I know, that United States is the only defender of freedom in the world that we can rely upon. I think the sooner that this sort of thing is stopped, the better. Allied with this is what seems to be an underhand attack on the Monarchy and British tradition in Canada. This is another thing that I don’t like and I can speak freely about this because filere is not a drop of Anglo-Saxon blood in me. I am wholly Irish, except the MacDon- ald’s are in there somewhere, which may make a bad mixture — Scottish and Irish — I don't know. It seems to be the underhand policy of the federal government to sever all ties with what might be termed our British Heritage, not my heritage because I am not British. But we do have a British Heritage. The British Em- pire, in my opinion, is the best thing that has ever happened to Western civiliza- tion and it is the source of the only civilization that we know. It has been responsible for civilizing over half the world, it has given us our system of laws and our language, and it has given us the great American Republic to the south of us, with the same traditions as we have. I was most pleased to read in Hansard the other day Honourable Angus MacLean’s speech in the House of Commons and I can’t do anything better than refer the honourable members to the speech which he made the other day, which is now in Hansard. I hope everyone will read it.

Now, Mr. Speaker, I have only one or two other things. The Minister in charge of Centennial projects announced a few days ago, in the Throne Speech in fact, that there were a number of Centennial projects being promoted by the govern- ment. I have one which I would suggest someone on the Government side promote and it will require some co-operation with other bodies. I think that the remains of the Fathers of Confederation should be all gathered together into one park and buried together and have a memorial cairn erected above them. This would be an attraction, it would be something that we could look to and point to our children, and would last for many, many years. This would require, of course, the co-opera- tion of the families of the Fathers of Confederation, and also the co-operation of

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