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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 7 Apr 1938, p. 2

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J Apsil j P"l 7 M.L.A.'s Not to Be M.P.' .L.A. s Not to be M.P.'s, B M.P.P.' ' ay become M.P.P.'s @ommmmmmmmemmmmmmece c mmn c Balked by Opposition in the Leg-- islature led by front benchers of his own group, in his attempt to 'have members of the House desig-- | nated as "M.P.'s," Col. F. Fraser | Hunter, Lib. St. Patrick.hfon;;;;\ted s sadly to withdrawal of his on H S + assu);ance that today, there would ouse l S be passed in the House, a resolu-- k tion designating the titular distinc-- T " I 30 | tion that is to be used. | e e i Col. Hunter, interviewed after | the House had adjourned, stated * ces mmmmmmmnmmem smm &a;n?:;]:;'oglldp?'a'e 'E'::}li;:e'i':'b;:f The Ontario Legislature adjourned béte. both Premier Hepburn and at 1:30 'h.ls (Thu.rsday) morning Hon. Harry Nixon, Provincial Sec-- after passing estimates totalling retary, indicated their preference $10,000,000 and with the prospect of to the term "M.L.A." heavy day and night grinds before Premier Hepburn, in opposing the ali busn}ess is finished to enable "M.P." bill, declared that he would prorogation to take place on sched-- like to see ended the custom of vule Friday. designating cabinet members and The Departments of Health and former cabinet members as "Hon-- Fish and Game were dealt with by orable." the Legislature, but the hxghway "We are building up too much estimates struck a snag late in the of a glorified parliament with night when Opposition Leader Leo-- these titles," said the Premier. He pold Macaulay charged the Governe suggested that the situation should ment with authorizing capital exe be clarified by resolution. penditures amounting to $20,000,000 First intimation there would be for road work a few weeks before House opposiiton to the bill, came the October Provincial election. from Mr. Nixon, when it was -- Mr. M's'a.ca_ula_.v dei.crlbed the situg« ' brought forward in Committee of tion as "iniquitous. the Whole House. Nothing wouid be accomplished by putting Legis-- lation like that on the statutes, he | held. "I myself am extremely proud of being M.L.A. and distinctly prefer it to being an M.P. It does seem 1 | to me that M.L.A. is the proper ap-- pendage and that it would be ab-- surd to place such a bill as this on the statutes," he said # # « Use of Planes by Fishing Parties Roundly Condemned by Macaulay Nheividi n tisedepree ie ievee ie ie ie ym es s Use of airplanes by fishing par-- George H. Challies, former Min-- ties was roundly condemned by ister of Game and Fisheries, ad-- Opposition Leader Leopold Ma-- mitted the correctness of Hon. caulay, in the Legislature, last Harry C. Nixon's statement that night, as one of "the modern there was good fishing in Grey practices" which was rapidly de-- County, but attributed this con-- pleting _ Ontario's lakes and dition to the fact that Grey streams of the finny fellows. County was the home territory of % Mr,. Macaulay informed the the Deputy Minister of Game and House of one plane party which, Fisheries, and that a fish hatch-- last summer, came out to Dwight ery had been located there since from the backwaters of Algon-- the Liberals had come into power. quin Park, so laden down with "They get fish and elk up fish that they had to move their there," said Mr. Challies, "but catch to the icchouse in wheel down in Eastern Ontario, where barrows. Sturgeon Lake, as a I come from you don't find many fishing water, was no longer any tourists writing home about their good, said he. The only person catches." y who could catch fish there, he Colonel Fraser Hunter, Liberal, P added, was Sir Joseph Flavelle St. Patrick, floored the House "and he get's pretty near every-- with laughter when he declared: thing he goes after, anyway." "there are so many fish up in . Good fishing was a great draw-- Grey, they're now eating the Ing card, he said, for tourists, but chickens." only tourists who went to deluxe A half dozen Liberal members resorts got any fish. The little | testified to the value of the fish tourist, he said, didn't report good porpagation policy of Mr. Nixon's catches. Department.

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