Thursday, April 25, 1968 Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : Mr. Speaker , I have fifteen minutes and the Leader of the Opposition ten minutes, and the Honourable Mr. Premier has ten minutes so we will be through by six o'clock. I don't want to take up any more time of this Legislature except to bring out a couple of points for clarification, and one of the points that during the esti¬ mate consideration in the Department of Tourist Development, I was asked about a trip during which one of the Civil Servants in my Department is supposed to have spent nineteen days in San Francisco. I would like to clarify this because he wasn't nineteen days at San Francisco. This gentleman, a Civil Servant, was sent to the Canadian Tourist Association meeting, which was being held in Vancouver, and along the way he stopped at Montreal for a meeting and spent two days there. He also stopped another day at another meeting in the City of Toronto and then he went on to British Columbia to attend the Canadian Tourist Association meeting, and then he went on after that to spend one day in San Francisco with the Federal/Provincial Conference which was called by the Director of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau, and the Director of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau, which was meeting in San Francisco. The cost of that trip to go to San Francisco was $110.00, the cost to this Province and he spent one day there — not nineteen as the paper has quoted. So to clear this Civil Servant from this unfair publicity I would like to clarify that statement. Also I would like to clarify another statement that was brought up in this Legislature. Why did the Board of Trade in Souris receive $400.00. I checked it out to see just how the Board of Trade in Souris got $400.00 rather than the Board of Trade in Alberton and the answer I received was that a man by the name of — well I won't mention his name. There was a by-election, apparently, taking place up in that area after we had lost our former Speaker . No , this was another by-election before that, and they were looking for some money to put out a brochure from the Kings County area. A representative from the Board of Trade approached the Travel Bureau in Charlottetown inquiring for financial assistance to the group. . . . Hon . Robert E. Campbell : They are all leaving, they don't want to hear. Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : He was informed that no such policy was decided and he was told that the only assistance available was to responsible groups in the operation of various community information centres. But apparently there was a meeting held down there in that area just before that election, a political meeting, and at that political meeting this gentleman appeared on the scene and asked some of the poli¬ ticians of the day if there was any chance of getting some money to publish this brochure, and I believe the Premier of the day was at that meeting, and after the meeting was over the Branch Committee was orderd to pay $400.00 to the Board of Trade in Souris , and it is a good thing, and they are getting it ever since, the policy was established. But I guess the only thing we will have to do for Alberton is to have a by-election up there and somebody might make a promise of that nature in that area. This is how the Souris Board of Trade seemed to get their $100.00 over and above the Town of Borden. L. George Dewar : You wouldn't. . . . Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : We will look at them very faithful, Sir----- L. George Dewar: Good, we are putting out a brochure. Hon . Robert E. Campbell : Tell us some more. Hon . M. Lome Bonnell : I hear a lot of talk about one thing or other in the last couple of weeks about the master plan for education, tourism, fisheries, agriculture and as far as I am concerned in my Department I try to get some detail of this master plan, and I didn't feel that anyone was really interested. I think that in Tourism we are in our infancy and there is a great potential for growth. I believe that a plan should be established, a plan with the Causeway in mind or without the Causeway in mind, so that we can prepare today for the day when the Causeway is there. If we don't make plans now, long range plans for this development, we will find ourselves not ready for the tourists when they arrive and they will go back to their respective homes and not be pleased with what they —341—