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|8 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Fri.,

Farewell

: OTTAWA (CP)=—The Settate .+—tlistened as one of its most este- emed.. members and reminisced’ about his’ 50-4 year involvement in Canada’s “| political life

Liberal Senator Thomias Alex- ; ander-—-Crerar—of— Winnipeg, 90 on June 17, spoke to an almost- jfull chamber for, more than an | hour. .

He ‘retires June 1 after 21 years as a senator and from a |political ‘career that began in |191% when he became agricul- jture' minister in the: Borden |Union government. ‘

Other members of that -cab- | jinet ‘*have passed the border

Crerar said.

Standing erect and speaking without text or notes, Senator rerar drew attention to his Liberal: colleagues senators Thomas Vien (Quebec),* 84,. and Charles: Power. (Quebec) 78,— the other two surviving mem- ‘bers of the Parliament of 1917. | SPEAKS FRANKLY

“Sooner or later — ean | |sooner—we will- all »be leaving |

Given By Crevar |

said © ‘goodbye |

ito the great beyond,” Senator |

a ef i Pot Scien ° May 27, 1966. ” New leaders "eould restore ee | prestion,! : OUTLINED PROBLEMS

; —Federal = provincial rela- eec tions “were “mixed up toa : . | dangerous degree:’’ Ottawa

was dealing in areas that ‘had once. been the responsibility sof the - provinces. She should ’ give the provinces all the “standard taxes,’’.° including corporation and personal in-,

ain: Then, sarpareiie it was ome, and keep only s tax

‘and = gasoline, tax revenues, time“to_speak_with “some frank- -=Inflation- remained the—most. ness’, about some things’ he

found disturbing: in Canada to “insidious d.an ger” facing

| Canada. The government, iday, Ye, sailed into Canada, 1966. -must-aim at balenres budgets First was the “failure of Par- |

in good. times. was “te |

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Mament to. maintain “its stand- .. preme folly” to’ ji that the ards

“T -hope to live on to see the prestige of Parliament. fully re- stored,’ But this would -not come ‘until -we have a change in leadership in both the old ‘Parties."”

government could continue its spending levels—“‘nearly _$3,-

000,000,000 a .year on the’ wel-.| fare state philosophy’’—with- out ever balancing a_ budget.

—Labor’ unions had grown _ Powerful and labor was big

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once.” The Civil Service Com- mission had become too pow- erful. Commons questions had got ‘ut of -hand—some 1,500 this year to date. Some need-

less questions tied up “a small army.of civil sérvants.”’ He recalled one question that cost $2,000 to. answer. ;

but. “the public tn- terest in this country should come first.’’ The num- ber of strikes was_ increasing and those within federal juris- diction should not be” tol- erated.

canada had | Bering =the It was anomalous that the most’ over-governed country; — in the world.” The present, CBC spends some $100,000,000 ;

federal departmental ‘reorgan- | a. year “and there’s no gov- ization was not likely to~be of | value ~. because governments | tend to feel they must “give |

the public everything at!

pendiffires—not one little bit.’

He would havea minister re- sponsible for CBC affairs, spe-

ernment control over its eX: |

e(fically tures.

tts capital expendi- Although there were “excellent” CBC programs, a good deal were “‘trivialr tripe.” Senator .Crerar closed on a note of hope for Canada and the opportunity of the 1967 centen- nial. “No country. in the world can. surpass us—not even the

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> .FUR PRICES ROCKET

Fur dealers would not pay $1 a skin for muskrat a few years ago but wholesale’ prices’ were as high” as $3.50 each this year.

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; an 80-year-old in the film

Trade Board. Hears,Report °

: KENSINGTON Archie Johnstone chaired the general meeting of the Kensington Area Board of Trade held in the of- fice of the*Bank of Nova Scotia recently.

The secretary, Ray Stewart, read a letter from the - Hon. Philip cee regarding the all-weather road. ‘The-letter-stat- .ed-that-the--section - of-road*- on which information had been ‘re- quested by the «Kensington Board, wil] be completed as part of the all over program and some progress on this part of the highway a expected this summer. —

The Dace agreed to leave “plans. for the Kensington ~Com- munity Night at the Confedera-

tion Centre, for the next Council |

meeting:

mation of the name of a voting delegate to the annual meeting: Edson Rayner as representative . of the local board, was named by the meeting.

A lengthy discussion took .’ |place with regard to bringing in new members. Also considered | was the problem of unpaid dues. The next meeting which willbe | ‘the last meeting for ‘the “season,-- will-bé planned. at.the.forthcon}.. ing councik meeting.

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A letter from the Maritime Board of Trade requested confir-.,.

“Lady L." The Italian act- | ress starred Wednesday night

at a- photographie exhibit of” her film career, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New. York. (CP Wirephote)

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