Thursday, April 25, 1968 cast, Mr. Speaker , that the year 1968 will see the end of the surveys and the studies and the planning, and see, as well, the beginning of the action. We anticipate a break-through in the development of our resources being as¬ sisted by the FRED program, and it will not be too long now before this Province will submit to the Federal Government a program for their acceptance. The Members of Go\ernment will be meeting regularly, starting in a few days, to consider the full details of the various recommendations that will come to it. And before fifteen or twenty days have passed we will travel to Ottawa and make our representations there. I am certain that I share the hopes of each member of this Legislature, and of every Prince Edward Islander , that our requests will be favour¬ ably considered, that our program will be agreed upon, and that we shall soon see in this Province the beginning of the action which this Government promised the people two years ago. (Applause) RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY The late Governor - General Georges P . Vanier Hon . Alexander B. Campbell (Premier, and Attorney and Advocate General): Mr. Speaker , I deem this the proper time to move a Resolution, which reads as follows: WHEREAS our esteemed and beloved Governor - General , Georges P. Vanier , soldier, diplomat, statesman and viceroy died on March 5th last. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Members of the Legisla¬ ture Assembly of the Province of Prince Edward Island convey to Madame Vanier and the family of the late General Vanier our sin¬ cere sympathy. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the Legislative As¬ sembly transmit to Madame Vanier , together with this expression of our sympathy, the memorial book in which many citizens of the Province have signed their names in evidence of their heartfelt sympathy. I am certain, Mr. Speaker , the members of this Legislative Assembly and our guests that history will confirm that we have been honoured to live in General Vanier 's time and to know him as we did. In his own person he represented the two founding peoples of our nation. Born of an English speaking mother and a French Canadian father, General Vanier , more than any other Canadian of our time, realized that the unity of our country and harmony and mutual respect amongst his people were the essential foundations of our future progress, indeed, our survivel as a na¬ tion. Two months before his sudden death, in his New Year's Centennial address, in his last public testament to the Canadian people, he expressed in words both eloquent and sincere his prayer for Canada and Canadians, and I would like, Mr. Speak ¬ er, to read an exert from that speech. "May I repeat what I have so often said. We are ten provinces, I am proud of each one of them, proud of thir inhabitants, but not always happy that the boundaries between the provinces which at times look more like barriers than happy meeting places. Let us open the windows and the doors of the provinces, let us look over the walls and see what is on the other side, let us know one another. That will lead to understanding. I want to be known abroad and at home as a Canadian, not only as a citizen of one of the provinces. I pray God that we may all go forward hand in hand. We can't run the risk of this great country falling into pieces." And as he concluded, Mr. Speaker , he recited a verse from the Centennial Anthem written for the Canadian Interfaith Council, which embraces thirty-two religious groups in Canada , as follows: "Lead us to walk the ways that love has always taken, Guide, us O God of love, and we will shape the spirit Worthy of a Nation reaching for destiny. So may we show the world a vision of thy goodness Our dream of man, to which all men may yet awaken And share the glory still with thee." -345—