OUT OF THIN AIR for an "impartial regulatory body" was upheld. Some felt that this issue, a major, often bitter political one involving hours of debate in Parliament, was responsible for the formation of both the Massey and the Fowler Commissions. My father did not live to witness the formation of the Board of Broadcast Governors which was succeeded by the pres¬ ent Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. The BBG was put forward in Parliament in 1958 by the Hon. George Nowlan , Minister of National Revenue at a time when private broadcasting was forty years old. The new Board was given power to make regulations for both the CBC and the privately-owned radio and television stations. It was Lester B. Pearson who voiced in Parliament what I believe these early pioneers would have been immensely proud to hear: "We have always said, and we still believe, that the private broadcasters up to today have rendered a very useful service to Canada . In certain instances they could no doubt have improved their standards, as pointed out by the Fowler Commission, but we on this side of the House believe that, in evidence of some deficiencies—and the CBC has also shown evidence of some deficiencies—the private broadcasters now constitute an integral and valuable part of our national system." In the galleries that day were many of the men who fought hard for equal rights for private broadcasters. In 1947 my father had begun to have problems with his health. Around Christmas he had a heart attack. He was told to stay home and recuperate. His doctor had been very precise, stern in fact. There would be no more dragging heavy duck decoys into the. marshes and no more fishing. He would have to give up smoking. You would find him propped up in bed while dictating a few short letters, no more of the long, lucid, enthusiastic kind he gloried in, just a few short notes. My mother was more fearful than she had even been in her lifetime, and she adopted a fiercely protective attitude. Where the house had been sunny, full of flowers, interesting people and music from early morning until late at night, it now took on a hushed atmosphere. Shades were drawn and only those with good news were allowed in. People whispered 154