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SATURDAY, JUNE 25 Ontario's Man-At-Law . Kelso Roberts may wear green hats but he's no play-boy BY DON O'HEARN NTARIO'S Attorney-General is a one-time hot firecracker now largely defused. Hon. A. Kelso Roberts QC has been active in provincial politics since 1943. For the first part of this period he was a stormy petrel who fought his own party nearly as much as he did the opposition. But in recent years parti- cularly since he entered the cabinet in 1955 he has been a man of much sweet- "ness and light. In fact he hasn't really . blown his top at anyone since then. Mr. Roberts entered politics via a . legal practice in the minings camps, of Northern Ontario and then what grew to be a substantial Toronto practice devoted mainly to mining develop- ment. This had been preceded by early days in his home-town of Belleville and then education at Upper Canada Col- lege, the Royal Military College and Osgoode Hall. Now a man of 62, he was in the same class at Osgoode Hall with Premier Frost, Hon. W. M. Nickle, Minister of Planning and Development and the late Leslie Blackwell. And along with Mr. Frost and Mr. Black- well he was one of the 37 Conservatives who came into the House in 1943 and laid the foundations for the long regime in power of the party. Mr. Roberts was one of the profilic speakers of those early days but did not get a cabinet nod from Premier Drew. Whether because of this or not, their personal relationship had tones of bit- terness. : Mr. Roberts, still only a private mem- ber from Toronto St. Patrick, took public issue with the government on occasion and feelings got so bad by 1948 that he did not contest his seat that year, and could not have been too unhappy when Mr. Drew personally was defeated. By the following spring, however, he was back in politics up to his ears as a candidate for the party leadership and in the election he took over in St. Patrick again. A more subdued man, he was imme- diately made chairman of a number of important committees including the group that revised committee law in the province. Then in August of 1955 he was named Attorney-General suc- ceeding the Hon. Dana Porter, who be- 'came Chief Justice. ~~ Mr. Roberts takes his job very, very seriously. He has always been that way about everything Lawyer's lawyer Friends tell the story of once having seen him some years ago come out of his cottage in full battle-dress and jump into the lake. He had been retained to act for the estate of an officer drowned in a training exhibition and he wanted to find out for himself just how one made out swimming in battle dress. In his early days in office the direc- tion of the province's highways safety program was his responsibility. He took this so much to heart that at Christmas his personal card carried a rather grim picture of a child being run over by a car. . He is professional "Irishman" and every 17th of March comes into the House attired in a green stove pipe hat or some other equally fitting regalia. He is an extremely hard worker with an unquestioned dedication to his job. He has done a great deal to reorganize the work of the courts, has done a lot to enlarge the size and scope of the Ontario Provincial Police. Every session he brings in a staggering budget of legislation. J : In his apparent outlook he has been very much of a lawyer's lawyer. He has left the impression that perhaps he has a bit too much respect for the sanctity of the legal profession, but at the same time, when various investigations under his direction such as that into natural gas have uncovered matters that could be embarrassing, he has not hesitated about revealing them. - Finally and above all, this man is a politician. He works hard at the busi- ness of politics. 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