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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 29 Mar 1946, p. 1

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Mmavych 29 A Not Listeni CrTes No 1S enmg, Talking, Talking That I alking, lTalking That Is Injecting into the Budget debate|R. H. Carlin, C.C.F. member from Aa spirited defense of bingo, A. H.,S"Cdb"t")_'-b ting Ao.the debh Acres (P:C.. Carleton) enlivenefdlim_{onu:':3 ualtqgrngon leweieat?r.du;('_ and at times amused the Ontar'°'C1-eigl1ton (P.C., Ontario), M. T. Legislature yesterday. He confided,Armstrong (L., Parry Sound) and to the House that his wife and,Romeo Begin (L., RUSSGI_"'- Mr. daughter "love to go to a bingo"|C"mght°n' ondorsmg Qntanos pro-- posals to the Dominion--Provincial and, though he was a good "h"""h'*'Conferenco, urged that, since the man, he liked bingo, and a norse|Province's _ future requirements race and a five and ten cent 8*M° / could not be predicted. it must re-- of poker, % 4 % 'tain control over its own finances "I regret," he said, "that ALOT-- |and taxation if it was to progress. ney--General Blackwell ever said| Catet . C anything against bingo. In myj(,ritncize.s Deticit riding I told a hall, which I shalll Mr. Armsirong criticized the $21 not name, to go ahead with its million deficit predicted in the bingo anyway. It's all right to|Budget, but said he thought the make laws, but you've got to break | "deficit" had been put in to give 'em some place." !thc Province "a little better bar-- Mr. Acres suggested that, Sin(-(.i;:aining.powm' at the Dominion-- the law against gambling was Fed. Provincial Conference." He ap-- eral, the Attorney--General shou]d;proved the Government's plan for not attempt to enforce it but should |a farm machinery pool for the leave it to Prime Minister King w)North and the projected Parry send "lots of police" into Ontario. |Sound--Sudbury highway, but con-- Interrupted by the Speaker, who demned extension of the deer sea-- said it was sometimes hard to hear'SOll from two to three weeks. It his remarks, Mr. Acres, veteran of Should be cut to 10 days, he said, 23 years in the House, quipped: !if any deer were to remain in the '"'That's all right, I'm not listen--| North in a few years. ing--I'm talking." | _ Mr. Begin called on the Govern "Never Hurt Anybody" yn'wnt to control increased educa-- _ * s 'tion grants so that municipalities Mr. Acres attacked the 1110\'onlo|1t;\\,ou,(l be compelled to pass on the ; £0l' a 40--hour week and flomand(*(l::bonem to the taxpayer, which,. he How can any labor agitator 'a""iclaimod. was not now being done 40 hours when there's so muech|jp many cases. work to be done? Work never hurt| pp, budget debate will be offi-- anybody." He singled out as "labor cially concluded on Tuesday, but tc agitators who should be in an N"{all intents it was completed lasf ternment camp" the two Labor--Pro-- night with addresses by J. B. Sals-- gressive members, J. B. Salsberg berg (LP., Toronto -- St. Andrew) (Toronto--St. Andrew) and A. A. and G. W. Parry (P.C., Kent West). MacLeod (Toronto--Bellwoods), and Liberal Opposition Leader Farquhar |Oliver adjourned the debate until . Tuesday when he and Premier' |Drew will wind it up formally and \the House will be divided on it. Though 38 Government and pri--' vate bills were advanced last night, 32 through second reading and six through committee stage, consider-- ; lable legislation has yet to be dealt with. Indication earlier in the week | was that the House might complete | its business late next week. Proro-- | gation now depends, however, on | how much discussion Attorney--Gen--! eral Blackwell's new Liqguor Li-- cense Act, 1946, introduced yester-- day, will ovzcasion.

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