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“Market” that there is still a place for these small farmers and our objective should be to build a Department of Agriculture which is scientific and practical, and double it, if you wish. Send them out to a job among these farmers even if they still live in these areas that are backward. I come back, Mr. Speaker, to the princi le of in- dustrial development. That is the basis. Develop industry and keep supp ementary revenues available to our farm people and our fishermen. That is the sound develo ment that we should not lose sight of. I would like to say that the Premier of th s Province agree to that, because I quote him here just last year in this House. The farmers are important, certainly, and the fishermen are important; but so also are the working men and there must be jobs for the working man in this Province. Otherwise. as the Premier very correctly states, he was referring to me, our main export will be the human beings at $20,000.00 a head. So let’s keep some of them; 1 ts keep as many of them as we can through industrial development. That’s his statement. Yet within a few months of that, the Premier stated in another dispatch that industrial development is dormant in this Province. These are the two statements from the Premier, and I submit here in closing this address. which is only part of what I intended to say, I submit, Mr. Speaker, that the solution to the future of this Province is not based in taking these people off the farm. It is based on trying to establish industries which will encourage these small farmers to produce the things which those industries require. Sending our people out, giving them these alterna- tive avenues of revenue. That, briefly, is my policy and I still stick to that without any of this flambuoyant and dreamy plan that he is trying to impose upon the people of the Province. We are not in the same position in any shape or form as any of those plans that have been initiated and are at a standstill. by the way today, in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Our conditions are entirely different. I will say to you, and I will say this to the Members of this House, and you can remember this in the years ahead if you wish, that there is a great future for agriculture, for the fishermen and for the farm producers of this Province. on their little farms or on their large farms. I quoted here the other day a statement from the state of Kansas where they have made a thorough investigation of the small farms and the large farms and the report was this: That the small farm was a viable earning which was sometimes better than a large one. These are the things that we want to protect here: our farm people and the little holdings they have. building them up, establish- ing an industry that will take their small contributions in the new crops and that kind of thing. In that respect, I do say that to my mind that is a sound policy within the possibilities, the economic and financial possibilities, of this Province.

Mr. Speaker. I am through. Just one word about this session. I am tremen- dously disappointed in this session. We haven’t secured the information that was requested, and I personally offered my complete co-operation and the co-operation of these men that are here with the Government called an Industrial Development. stripped entirely of those people outside of the Government who have no other point in mind then developing political prejudice. Now, if that had of been done at the first of this session, and the things that we asked for were submitted, this session would have been over three weeks ago and we would have made progress. I am disappointed, I am discouraged, because I don’t think any session that I know of has been so disappointing, so barren of accomplishment as this one we are terminating today. And finally, I would like to say this: I bear no ill will against any Member of this legislature. Those things that take place in here. in the tilt and welter of debate may at times seem harsh. Things I have said or any criticism which I have made that are harsh were not intentionally so, and I would like today, to say that I have a great respect for all representatives of the people that have sat in here, not representing the Liberals or the Conservatives, but representing all people irres- pective of their race, their creed. their political standings or what have you. That is the responsibility of good sound men of good heart and mind. So when we go out today. whatever our difference have been. and I have many differences, Mr. Premier, with you on this economic development, know that I am willing to sit down at any time with any committee. or with the Government, or with the Premier. and see if we can’t come to some understanding of those plans, economic and social, and the cultural standards to be applied to all our people.

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Honourable Alexander B. Campbell, Premier and Attorney General: (Fifth Prince) Mr. Speaker, because of the limitation of time, I don’t propose to speak at great length, but there maybe a few thoughts that are worth while puttmg on the

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