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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 10 Mar 1944, p. 2

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A brief clash with Premier George, . _ Dtew enlivened the opening re- SON" Seeurity. i marks of B. K. heavens tC.C.F.. To-' I Dealing with social .erit.v, Mr: . ' . . . * I 'rotito \Voodhinei in thc Legislature 1198\6!" said the menf'e ahaudt . . give courageous and intelligent; _sestertiav "M" the Opposition 'leadership to all municipalities irr member denied that ho had ever, jaisine and maintaining standards, said the C.C.F. would take the farms lot services and their administration. aiiav from the larmer. Mr. Leavens till all branches of the welfare pro- was rsaported in the Orillia Packet tgfram. I: advocated the getting up and Times as having made this .0 an a aqua C, 00' un ttt wages "ammo," in an Orillia address. 'under which no employer- shall be "Before rutoring upon the subject iallowed to Ro. Children's allow- I intend to dist-tiss today 1 wish to. latices should be_paid to correct the ali.\'\u'r a statement made by the levil of poverty I." the home, he de- Primo Minister on Nov. 17 of last clared. Mothers allowances, old. vear." said Mr. Lrsavons "lien he '.V.e pensions and pensions for We rose to take part in tho Throne blind should he raised..? keeping Speech drhate. "l wish to stat» em- I\vith modern conditions. Mr. phaticnlly on the floor. of this House Peg,.'.",',', toidnthe House. . that I did not say that the CCH. ; Distressed at the state of agri- would take Ilw farm away [tom the culture. W. A. Gogdl'eiiow (P.C.. . ." Northumberland) tamed it on tanner. . . Prrmier Drew was on his feet im- absence of a manpower policy in mrulitttel.s. 'Canada. He predicted that farm "in the speech referred lo I said 'production would drop this year it was made at Orillia and quoted *through help shortage and urged from the Orillia Packet and Times," the Government to register all said tire Premier. "That newspaper {available help for allocation where . carried these words," continued the tneeded. Paltf .ihroueh reduced quotas, Premier. reading from a com ot the I He advocated decentralization of tor Britain. . Times: 'Farmers could stay on their government and return of more Farmers would better aid tiie'war farms as long as they wished. but control to local councils. Also, he effort by running their farms: than could not will them to any one else.' (felt, so many Wartime Prices Board opt-rating the stockyards, was the That statement stood uncorrected Pofficiais would not have been opinion expressed by Roy Downie. in tho Packet and Times," concluded 'needed if the public had been; tLih.. Lambton), who commended the Premier. properly educated through CCY, much of the Government',, legisla- . tron. Farm labor camps for high Family Ownership. papers and in other ways of thei _ . . . ' . . . .., school pupils. he said, had proved "I still deny the truth ol that re- need for rationing. He advisedf helpful in Southwestern Ontario in port." retorted Mr. heavens. "no against too much social legislation providing farm help and he urged matter when- it appeared. What I as likely to interfere with private their continuance this year did say was that under security of initiative and, while praising the g tGov . . . [ tenure tht CCF. "mild nol only work of the Federation of Agricui- "083,19 l \lentgietntls. t d tl t' not take the farmer's land. tru ture, counselled that body to "keep ti ll m: o )) (l, I' "Te t.V\:e§ "outti also make stilt'.iil8i no one out of politics," a mistake, he said, fi",'.)',",',;' Eli's, t (f'a'7,Pl?eeon, g, B e; else would tak" it either. I also, which proved costly to the farmers I _ '... o ay, tf.'f.ff, en-I . . . nett tCCF Windsor-Sandwich) del said that M'k'lltll} oi tenure 'lll(it'l in the UFO. movement. ciared' Gii/'ci; a; a man is out of; it SIC!'. (.owrnmerit would auto- Attacks Packing Plants. a job a child hungrv a farmer in; matiolly pass on trorn one genera» . . . ' . . ".' _ lion to another on the family farm.t Farmers are not the individual. _tteed of machinery, Juet so long an is stranee that the pump Minn ists some claimed, George Lock- must budgets go unbalanced. If we m" and "m"? on the Government) hart tC.C.F.. Rainy River) told can unbalance our budgets to meet item-hrs and the Liberals in this the House, stating 450,000 out of (the "m5"8'-'"Q" ot war, Ive can do it House have suddenly become so coll. 675.000 belonged to some agricul- if) meet'the emergency of peace. cerniad about the security of the tural or co-operative organization.: You 'y,' "Ham 'ig, golf standard farmer and his farm." remarked Mr. He attacked packing plants as a 2:119:19 Go den Rule at the same [mavens "They were all strangely 'monopoly and urged they be takeni . c. ' " . . ,silettt when, during those horrible over. However, taking over. the, tif/of,",',',,',-',',-'):),':";,,',"',,,'":',',,,:,,":;,',:',': ten years of depression. thousands stockyards by the farmers, he be. "Wm "iii,' added: "For thin teasin- ot farmers and homeowners 10.3" lieved, "doesn't look like a healthy we have opened 'u a second from their. farms and homes, which In idea at the moment." . -/his, Home ndp , 'ill " -ses re tresented the labors . m 'l f a we WI open " mas '8 ' He made a plea for aid for the manv in this countrv as ar d d ta lifetime." . . - . . . . . .. re nee e , o tourist industry in the northwest _ tl t wl en f. t . f it "liaven't vou heard of the . . if? m n ree en erprise a S . . through highway improvement. and i as it I' m d l . .. l , Farmers' Creditors Arrangement . . . . 8gRItt, ".' V an always ms, we .tl i d " ent' claimed 25 million tourists are "ill be in a position to make an . ' _ . . Act and "' Farm foa.n A ju: m within one day's travel of Fort -p(-onon}\' of ah d d I, Act?" asked Provincial Treasurer , . un ance an su Leslie Frost t Frances. He commended the Gov- {it-tency for all." ', di' havek isut thrv have nothing,) ernment on its Agricultural ft, Traditional type of goverenments lo do with it " replied Mr Leavens.' mittee of Inquiry and suggested a; must go as outmoded, he declared, "The acts did. not operate in a great: similar body should operate acrosst and la'oeiled the Drew Government's imanv cases and thousands otl "Canada. He was sharply critical of, "22 points," so far as security was 1rarniers losl'their farms." i the Federal Government asking» concerned. "a presentation ot'halt- farmers to increase stock produc-i measures. half-solutions-a panty- tion, then permitting (kitted hornet waist product ion."

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