Manitoba Hansard — Sitting 20 (27th Legislature, 3rd Session)

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Manitoba — Debates (Hansard)

�--------�--------------- 1 THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA 8: 00 o'clock, Thursday, August 27th, 1964. Opening Prayer by Madam Speaker. MADAM SPEAKER: Presenting Petitions Reading and Receiving Petitions Presenting Reports by Standing and Special Committees Notices of Motion Introduction of Bills Orders of the Day HONOURABLE DUFF ROBLI N, (Premier) (Wolseley): Madam Speaker, I have a message from His Honour the Administrator of the Government of the Province of Manitoba.

MADAM SPEAKER: The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba estimates of further sums required for the services of the province for the fiscal year ending the 31st day of March, 1965, and recommends these estimates to the Legislative Assembly. MR. ROBLIN: Madam Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Minister of Industry and Commerce, that the message of His Honour the Administrator of the Government of the Province of Manitoba and the estimates accompanying the same be referred to the Committee of Supply.

Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. MR. ROBLIN: Madam Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Attorney-General, that Madam Speaker do now leave the Chair and the House resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the Supply to be granted to Her Majesty. Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried, and the House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply with the Honourable Member for Winnipeg Centre in the Chair. MR. ROBLIN: Mr.

Chairman, I think that the estimates that are being distributed now are fairly self-explanatory though I'll be happy to give any information I can on any particular iterri. They consist first of all with the expenses of the present session of the Legislature and then they make provision for the various expenditures that have been proposed by the govern ment for the last three months of this year, the rebate of local school taxes, The Civil Service Superannuation Act, The Teachers' Pension Act, the Water Control and Conservation allowances and the allowances for highway work and municipal grants in lieu of taxes.

There is one final sum that has not been mentioned so far to which I direct your atten tion, and that is one with respect to $650, 000, the very last item on the second sheet. When we come to that item --I'm sorry, this appears up at the top of sheet 2 under Education. When we come to that the Minister of Education will give an explanation of a new project which his department has begun and for which this appropriation is sought. MR . CHAIRMAN: Resolution No. 1. Legislative printing and binding, $14, 000.00 - passed. Indemnities, Members, $67,200.00 --passed. Speaker, $2,400 --passed.

Expense allowances, Members, $33,600 --passed. Speaker, $1, 200 --passed. Travelling expenses and living allowances, $7, 200 �-passed. Salaries, $11, 800.00 --passed. Supplies, expenses, equipment and renewals, $6, 000 --passed. Operation of recording equipment, $250. 00 - passed. Total, $143, 650.00 --passed. Rebate of local school taxes in accordance with The Revenue Act, 1964, $2 1/4 million --passed. Civil Service Superannuation Act, $35, 000.00 --passed. Teachers' Retirement Allowances Fund ...•.. MR. GILDAS MOLGAT, (Leader of the Oppo sition) (Ste. Rose): Mr.

Chairman, what is the rebate of local school taxes? MR. ROBLIN: It's the su�n that we approved for the first three months of 1965. They're on a different year. They're on a calendar year and we're on a fiscal year. That is the same explanation for most of these i·tems here: MR: CHAIRMAN: Teachers' Retirement Allowances Fund, $220,000.00 --passed. Provincial Buildings and other projects chargeable to Capital Division -Land Construction, Alterations, Renovations, Furnishings and Ground Improvements, $650, 000.00 ....• . August 27th , 1964 Page 349

MR . MOLGAT: .•.... these projects, Mr. Chairman? What's covered here? HONOURABLE GEORGE JOHNSON, (Minister of Education) (Gimli): Mr. Chairman, I would explain that the Teachers' Retirement Allowances Fund, last year when we passed the estimates we passed the sum of $43, 000 which seemed very low, and the Deputy Minister and staff went into this with the chap in charge of the Teachers' Retirement Allowances Fund and it has since. turned out --when we questioned it he checked it and thought it was all right--it has since turned out that the

interpretation of that new legislation was misunderstood by the Retirement Fund and should have read $263, 000, so we need this $220, 000 now for that pur pose. This incidentally was something, as I say, we questioned at the time and went into but it wasn't until after the session and some couple of months later that the error was recognized and must be corrected. The second· matter is: these moneys are being asked for at this time to permit us to proceed with the proposal for the improvement of educational services in isolated locations north of Township 22.

We have been negotiating with the Federal Government --the Depart ment of Public Works and Municipal Affairs have been negotiating for the Cranberry site, a radar base which was abandoned recently as members may recall. We have looked into this very thoroughly and feel that we will need a sum of money set aside to purchase this site, if possible, from the federal authorities and try and·develop a secondary school program for the several isolated schools that are now in operation in that far-flung area.

As members know, we have throughout the north country several remote school districts --small school districts called remote--plus the special schools throughout the north and we have been working for the past eight or nine months and have determined that it would be highly desirable to develop a secondary education program for these schools. These moneys in particular are required, as I say, to negotiate for the properties con cerned to see if we can obtain this which would be, we think, an ideal location.

The buildings are in excellent shape but it.would also need some funds for renovation, that is a readjustment and equipment and so on to put such a school in operation. These moneys will enable us to get on with this job and we would hope that if everything goes well to present to the regular session of the House the necessary legislation and organization and budget to present to you at that time for the continuing operation of such a northern school.

Members will know that most school districts and special schools I have mentioned are not in school divisions nor at the present time is it practical to graft them on to existing divi sions as none of them is likely within a reasonable time to operate a high school of more than one room, and most have no prospect of developing a high school at all. As members know, these organized districts of which I refer, called remote, have very low assessments and the special schools have no formal assessment of any sort.

They come right under the direct directipn of the Minister of Education --approximately 30 such schools. Our surveys indicate that of 3, 018 children in the areas and the districts I'm talking about, we only have four in Grade 12 and we have about 60 above the Grade 9 level altogether, approximately. We think that this is a very necessary project which we will have to get on with as quickly as possible and this is the reason for the request at this time for the funds to acquire property and put it in shape for a target date of September, 1965. MR . MOLGAT: Mr. Chairman, the Minister has mentioned Township 22.

I regret that I don't have a map here in the House. Could he indicate to the members approximately where Township 22 is? Secondly, how much of this item is accountable for the Cranberry Portage site? MR . JOHNSON: That's why, Madam Speaker, in one sense this is a bit of a guesstimate. We are not just sure what we can acquire that site for. We hope to make the best proposition possible.

I could possibly indicate to the honourable members --I have a map here and Township 23 is from about the top of Lake Manitoba across this way affecting the constituencies of both the Leader of the Opposition and myself--we're looking after each other again. There are about 23 of these remote districts in red as you see. The green are all special schools throughout the north, so this gives you an idea of where we're starting from at this time. MR . ARTHUR E. WRIGHT, (Seven Oaks): Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask the Minister a question.

Inasmuch as some of these buildings at Cranberry Portage have ceiling heights up to forty feet, do you propose using these buildings at some future time for vocational training? Page 350 August 27th, 1964

'-----------·- MR . JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, I have had the opportunity of visiting the site. There are two buildings I guess that measure up to the measurements you give. One of them would make an excellent --part of the one large hangar would probably be used. for classroom space, part of it, and the other for vocational high school type of training. The glory of Cranberry site of course is that it would be approximately 40 miles on an excellent road to The Pas trade school which is being developed. The dormitory accommodation is first class, and the recreational facilities.

The two buildings, one is a recreational facility --one of the high buildings--the other one, the old helicopter building would have a multi-purpose use. MR . CHAIRMAN: 650, 000 --passed. Total, 870, 000. Water Control and Conservation, (

c) Operations •.... MR . E. R. SCHREYER, (Brokenhead): Mr. Chairman, I would ask the Minister of Agriculture if this figure of $125, 000 is exclusively for projects to be undertaken as authori zed by the legislation we just passed or is it for something else? HONOURABLE GEORGE HUTTON, (Minister of Agriculture ), (Rockwood-Iberville): No, it is to cover the new program for the portion of the year where the municipal budget or fiscal year begins .Imuary 1st, while ours begins the 1st of April. MR. SCHREYER: Just one subsequent question, Mr. Chairman.

Does the Minister anticipate any saving at all from the possible discontinuance of one or two or three DMDs? MR . HUTTON: Mr. Chairman, I can't answer that yet because I don't know what the attitude of the Drainage Maintenance District boards will be. It may very well be that they \\OUld like to stay in existence for a year even though their responsibilities have been greatly limited just to see how this operation goes.

I would hope that by the regular session this coming winter that we would have had an opportunity to meet with the Drainage Maintenance District boards and we would be in a better position then to tell you what their attitudes are and what they intend to do in the future. MR. CHAIRMAN: Main Trunk Drains -Construction and Maintenance, $125, 000. - passed. Highway Maintenance, Aids to Municipalities and/or the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, Work in Unorganized Territory and Operation of Ferries, (

j) Com munity Connector Roads, Construction and Maintenance, $1, 000, 000 --passed. (

k) Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg -Assistance re Construction and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, $750, 000 ...•. MR. SAUL CHERNIACK, Q. C. (St. John's): Could we get clarification on whether this is a direct payment to Metro for its 1965 program or is it work which the province proposes to undertake and do on its own, or is --well, let's start with those questions.

HONOURABLE WALTER WEIR, (Minister of Public Works), (Minnedosa): This is the sum of money which will look after, roughly, the first quarter's contribution of what the province will anticipate spe!J.ding in the Metropolitan area during the summer under the pro posed new co-operative agreement whereby we'll be paying certain mileage grants for main tenance and 50 percent of the total construction of the Metropolitan streets. MR . E.R. SCHREYER: Could the Minister tell me if somewhere in this appropriation there is buried some money to pay for the cost of salvaging a particular house that he knows about. MR .

WEIR: Mr. Chairman, the answer is no. MR. CHERNIACK: Mr. Chairman, I think the Minister said that it has to do with a summer program. Is that correct? MR . WEIR: Mr. Chairman, it's an annual program and as is normally the case in Manitoba most of our construction is in the summer time, but maintenance goes on all year round.

This sum of money is here, there will be expenditures go on, and the fiscal years of Metropolitan Winnipeg along with the other municipalities being the end of the calendar year, we hope to be able to establish the street network so that we can make our contributions starting the 1st of January instead of March 31st, our own fiscal year. MR. CHERNIACK: ...... is then calculated on the basis of a quarter of three million dollars for the year? MR. WEIR: Approximately, Mr. Chairman, yes. MR.

CHERNIACK: What was expected to be spent by the province in this category prior to the plan to take over more of the Metropolitan burden? August 27th, 1964 Page 351

MR. WEIR: I'm not sure that I understand the question, Mr. Chairman. It has varied. We have looked at each individual project each year. It runs in my mind that on top of the annual grant the provincial contribution has been in the neighbourhood of a million dollars this year on streets besides the contributions that have been finishing up on the St. James - Portage Avenue complex and the start which is taking place this fall on the St. Vital Bridge, and I'm not too sure of the dollar breakdown there. MR. CHERNIACK: I'll be a little bit more direct then, Mr.

Chairman and ask, to what extent is this an increase over the average for the last four years of Metro work? MR. WEIR: Mr. Chairman, I would say that over the average it's considerable. I would think probably it's an increase of --the total year will be an increase in excess of half a million dollars on capital works and probably, depending on the number of miles of Metro streets, probably half a million dollars or better on maintenance grants which they didn't receive before. On the average, Metro expenditures have been climbing since its inception.

The first year there wasn't too much, the next year there was more, the next year there was more, and we have of cqurse the biggest year, I think, this year that we're in now. MR . CHERNIACK: 1s there any appreciable increase over this current year? MR. WEIR: Yes, Mr. Chairman, I would think at least $1 million. MR. CHAIRMAN: $750, 000 --passed. Total, $1, 750, 000 --passed. Administration, (

c) Grants in lieu of taxes, $300, 00 0. 00 --passed. Call in the Speaker. Madam Speaker, the Committee of Supply has adopted certain resolutions, directed me to report the same and asks leave to sit again. MR . JAMES COW AN, Q. C. (Winnipeg Centre): Madam Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Lac du Bonnet, that the report of the committee be received. Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. MR. ROBLIN: Madam Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Minister of Education, that the resolutions reported from the Committee of Supply be now read a second time and concurred in. Madam Speaker presented the motion. MR . CLERK:

(1) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not exceeding $143, 650 for Legislation -Legislative printing and binding, $14, 000; Third Session of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature -Indemnities, Members, $67, 200; Speaker, $2, 400; Expense Allowances, Members, $33, 600; Speaker, $1, 200; Other Assembly expenses, Travelling expenses and living allowances, $7, 200; Salaries, $11, 800; Supplies, Expenses, Equipment and Renewals, $6, 000; Operation of Recording Equipment, $250. 00; for the fiscal year end ing 31st day of March, 1965.

(2) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not excee<jing $2, 250, 000 for Treasury -rebates on local school taxes in accordance with The Revenue Act, 1964, for the fiscal year ending 31st day of March, 1965.

(3) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not exceeding $35, 000 for Provincial Secretary- Civil Service Superannuation Act, for the fiscal year ending 31st day of March, 1965.

(4) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not exceeding $870, 000 for Education -AdministratiOn, Teachers' Retirement Allowance Fund, $220, 000; Provincial Buildings and other projects, $650, 000; for the fiscal year ending 31st day of March, 1965.

(5) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not exceeding $125, 000 for Agriculture and Conservation -Water Control and Conservation, Operations, Main Trunk Drains -Construc tion and Maintenance, for the fiscal year ending 31st day of March, 1965.

(6) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not exceeding $1, 750, 000 for Public Works -Highway Maintenance, Aid to Municipalities and/or the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, Work in Unorganized Territory and Operation of Ferries; Community Connector Roads - Construction and Maintenance; Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg -Assistance re Construction and Maintenance of Roads and Bridges, for the fiscal year ending 31st day of March, 1965.

(7) Resolved there be granted to Her Majesty a further sum not exceeding $300, 000 for Municipal Mfairs -Administration, Grants in Lieu of Taxes, $300, 000 for the fiscal year ending 31st day of March, 1965. Madam Speaker put the question and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. Page 352 August 27th, 1964

MR . ROBLIN: Madam Speaker I beg to move, seconded by the Minister of Agriculture and Conservation, that Madam Speaker do now leave the Chair and the House resolve itself in to a committee to co1;1sider of Ways and Means of raising of the supply to be granted to Her Majesty. Madam Speaker presented the motion. MR . MOLGAT: Madam Speaker, before we pass this motion I would like to speak for a moment on a very serious situation in the Province of Manitoba, namely, the situation at the Town of Thompson.

I understand that the strike, continuing as it is, is now going into further effect and that today certain financial institutions were forced to take foreclosure steps on certain buildings that are there, and this situation, if it is allowed to continue, will I am afraid deteriorate to the point where Thompson may become a ghost town. Now some two years ago the government acted to assist another location in Manitoba, the Town of Bissett.

I realize that the problem in Thompson is much larger than the problem in Bissett, but it seems to me that the situation has been allowed to deteriorate steadily and that no action has been taken by the Province of Manitoba to assist the people of that town. The first steps of course were those of strike and this affects the largest number of people in the area.

I realize that the government cannot interfere in the proper and rightful rights of workers to strike and I am not suggesting that they should, but there are a large number of people there who are going to suffer very much from this strike, the first ones of course are those who are working for the company. The secondary effects axe going to grow and grow and, unless steps are taken, I am very much afraid for the future of this great industrial centre in the Province of Manitoba.

I am told that if the company proceeds to shut down its furnaces they will need a matter of months after that before they can be put back into operation. I understand that there has been a request made to the Province of Manitoba and the government for an investigation into the cost of living factors in Thompson and some analysis of the situation there. I understand further that this has been turned down by the Province of Manitoba.

It seems to me, Madam Speaker, that we axe facing here a very serious situation in deed, a town of some 8, 000 pt:lople, a very important segment of the industrial strength of Manitoba, which is on the verge of collapsing. I submit that the Province of Manitoba should be taking much more active interest, much more definite steps to assist in this situation. I think that the Federal Government has a responsibility as well and that the Province of Manitoba should at this time approach the Federal Government to make sure that the fore closing on homes and on buildings does not proceed.

I think we would be entirely fair to ask that a moratorium be imposed at this stage in Thompson because, if this is not done, I fear the people who have gone up there legitimately, invested their life savings, attempted to create something there, will lose everything and that we will be faced in a few months, because un doubtedly it can not remain closed, it will re-open with much greater costs, with others coming in at a later date and picking up assets at a very much devalued situation.

I think that the time has come when we must ask for a freeze on the situation at Thompson, must ask all of those who are connected with it to re-assess the situation before this becomes a national emergency. HONOURABLE OBIE BAIZLEY, (Minister of Labour) (Osborne): Madam Speaker, have told the honourable members of the House the action that we in the Labour Department and on behalf of the government have taken. True, it is a regrettable situation the way numbers of people --with side effects of a labour-management dispute of this magnitude-- the way they are affected.

However, I must say that there has not been any request as far as I know to the government for any assistance, any intervention or any interference. Madam Speaker, as I have told the honourable members, when the parties make a request or there is an indication that we can be of service to them,� we are prepared to move in and offer our services. MR . MORRIS A. GRAY, (Inkster)": Madam Speaker, I am glad that the Leader of the Opposition has raised this question again. I raised it two weeks ago, a week ago, and it seemed to me at that time that the Honourable Minister was simply going by the book.

We cannot do anything; the law is this; we cannot interfere. But at the same time, however, a town located in your province dealing with a labour dispute, you being the Minister of Labour could have August 27th, 1964 Page 353

(Mr. Gray, cont'd) .•.. taken a more serious attitude than you have in the last two weeks when this matter came to your attention. MR. RUSSELL PAULLEY, (Leader of the New Democratic Party) (Radisson): Madam Speaker, I just want to say one word. I was intrigued by at least one remark of the Honourable the Leader of the Opposition. As my colleague has pointed out, he acting on behalf of the New Democratic Party has raised this question at least twice in the two-week session that we have had here.

I was however intrigued by the point of the Honourable Leader of the Opposition dealing with the moratorium on debts in the Town of Thompson. I think this is a very impor tant point. Now I am not sure whether or not this is within the premise of the Province of Manitoba to declare a moratorium on debts, whether it would require representations to be made to the government at Ottawa, and maybe under their legislation something should be done.

But, Madam Speaker, may I suggest to the First Minister, or the Minister of Labour in this parti cular instance, that notwithstanding whether or not we have the power in the Province of Manitoba or not, that an appeal be made to the holders of the mortgages on the homes, be it National H:JUsing or the subsidiary company, as I understand it, of International Nickel. I believ e there is some loose connection in so far as the housing development in Thompson is concerned back to International Nickel.

I am suggesting that maybe an appeal, a direct appeal, may be made by the Government of Manitoba to those concerned to stave off any attempt at foreclosures in order that there may be some semblance of at least a little bit of stability in the community of Thompson. Madam Speaker put the question and after a voice vote declared the motion carried and the House resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means with the Honourable Member for Winnipeg Centre in the Chair. MR.

CHAIRMAN: Resolved that towards making good certain further sums of money granted to Her Majesty for the Public Service of the Province for the fiscal year ending the 31st day of March 1965, the sum of $5, 473, 650 be granted out of the Consolidated Fund. Call in the Speaker. Madam Speaker, the Committee of Ways and Means has adopted a certain resolution, directed me to report the same and asks leaveto sit again. MR. COW AN: Madam Speaker, I beg to move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Swan River, that the report of the committee be received.

Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. MR. ROBLIN: Madam Speaker, I beg to move, seconded by the Honourable Minister of Public Works, that the resolution reported from the Committee of Ways and Means be now read a second time and concurred in. � Madam Speaker presented the motion. MR. CLERK: Resolved that towards making good certain further sums of money granted to Her Majesty for the Public Service of the Province for the fiscal year ending the 31st day of March 1965, the sum of $5,473, 650 be granted out of the Consolidated Fund.

Madam Speaker put the question and ruter a voice vote declared the motion carried. MR. ROBLIN introduced Bill No. 15,

an Act for granting to Her Majesty certain further sums of money for the Public Service of the Province for the fiscal year ending the 31st day of March 1965. MR. ROBLIN presented Bill No. 15,

an Act for granting to Her Majesty certain further sums of money for the Public Service of the Province for the fiscal year ending the 31st day of March 1965, for second reading. Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. MR. ROBLIN: Madam Speaker,. I move, seconded by the Honourable Minister of Welfare, that Madam Speaker do now leave the Chair and the House resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole to consider Bill No. 15.

Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried and the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole with the.Honourable Mem ber for Winnipeg Centre in the Chair. Bill No. 15 was read

section by

section and passed. Page 354 August 27th, 1964,

MR. CHAIRMAN: Committee rise and report. Call in the Speaker. Madam Speaker, the Committee of the Whole has considered Bill No. 15, directed me to report the same and asks leave to sit again. MR. COW AN: Madam Speaker, I beg to move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Turtle Mountain, that the report of the committee be received. Madam Speaker presented the motion and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. Bill No. 15,

an Act for granting to Her Majesty certain further sums of money for the Public Service of the Province for the Fiscal Year ending the 31st day of March 1965, was read a third time, by leave, and passed. Bills No. 11, 12, and 16 were each read a third time and passed. MR. ROBLIN presented Bill No. 2,

an Act to provide for the Imposition of a Tax on Purchasers of Land and Certain Products and for the Reimbursement to Property Owners of Part of the School Taxes paid in respect of Real Property, and to amend Certain Acts of the Legislature, for third reading. Madam Speaker presented the motion. MR. PAULLEY: Madam Speaker, just before the final motion is put on this Bill, want to raise my objections once again to the method and the type of the tax that is going to be imposed on the citizens and ratepayers of the Province of Manitoba.

It is not my purpose to go over all of the ground that has been covered in the two weeks since we first met, but I don't think that I could allow this last opportunity that I will have of rising in protest against the imposition, as I consider it, of a sales tax, albeit a selective sales tax, on the Province of Manitoba, without once again raising a protest. After listening to all of the debates that have taken place in this Chamber, the rebuttal of the Honourable the First Minister in his capacity as Provincial Treasurer, I am more con vinced than ever that this is not an equitable tax.

There is no equity at all and the people of the province 'least able to pay the taxes are those who are going to have to pay the greater burden. The reduction in the amount of the rate of income tax is relief to those who are in the category of paying income tax. The taxes however, particularly the 5 percent tax on our ser vices and our commodities, will affect the vast number of people in the Province of Manitoba who earn insufficient to pay income tax at all.

The raising of the amount of revenues which we are going to receive from our natural resources by an insignificant sum of $400, 000 leaves much to be desired, and I protest that we are still going to continue to allow the exploitation of our natural resources, which are irreplaceable, without benefit accruing to the degree that it should to the ratepayers and taxpayers, and future generations may I say, Madam Speaker, of the Provin1Je of Manitoba. So with this, these few words, Madam Speaker, I again protest the imposition on the taxpayer of Manitoba as contained in Bill No. 2.

MADAM SPEAKER: Are you ready for the question? MR. DOUGLAS L. CAMPBELL, (Lakeside): The mover of the motion is not in his seat. Madam Speaker put the question and after a voice vote declared the motion carried. MR. PAULLEY: Yeas and Nays please, Madam Speaker. MADAM SPEAKER: Call in the members. The question before the House is Third Reading of Bill No. 2. A standing vote was taken, the result being as follows: YEAS: Messrs.

Alexander, Baizley, Beard, Bilton, Bjornson, Carroll, Cowan, Evans, Groves, Hamilton, Harrison, Hutton, Jeannotte, Johnson, Klym, Lissaman, Lyon, McDonald, McGregor, McKellar, McLean, Martin, Mills, Moeller, Shewman, Smellie, Stanes, Strickland, Watt, Weir, Witney and Mrs. Morrison. NAYS: Messrs. Barkman, Campbell, Cherniack, Desjardins, Gray, Guttormson, Harris, Hryhorczuk, Johnston, .Molgat, Paulley, Peters, Schreyer, Shoemaker, Smerchanski, Tanchak, Vielfaure, Wright. MR. CLERK: Yeas, 32; Nays, 1"8. MADAM SPEAKER: I declare the motion carried. MR.

MOLGAT: Madam Speaker, is it the intention of the government to proceed now with the Bill No. 3? August 27 th, 1964. Page 355

HONOURABLE GURNEY EVANS, (Minister of Industry and Commerce), (Fort Rouge): I think my honourable friend should direct that question to the First Minister when he is here. MR. MOLGAT: Madam Speaker, the First Minister seems rather hard to get hold of the last few moments. MADAM SPEAKER: May it please Your Honour: the Legislative Assembly, at its present session, passed several bills which,.in the name of the Assembly, I present to Your Honour and to which bills I respectfully request Your Honour's assent. MR. CLERK: No. 2 - No. 4- No. 5 - No. 6- No. 7 - No. 8- No. 9- No.lO - No.ll No.l2 - No.l3 - No. l4- No. l6 -

An Act to provide for the Imposition of a Tax on Purchasers of Land and Certain Products and for the Reimbursement to Property Owners of Part of the School Taxes paid in respect of Real Property, and to amend Certain ·Acts of the Legislature.

An Act respecting Joint Stock Companies and other Corporations.

An Act to provide for the Relief from Certain Unconscionable Transactions.

An Act requiring the Registration of Mortgage Brokers.

An Act requiring the registration of Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Salesmen.

An Act to amend The Queen's Bench Act.

An Act amending The Department of Agriculture and Conservation Act.

An Act amending The Department of Municipal Mfairs Act.

An Act to amend The Metropolitan Winnipeg Act.

An Act to amend The Municipal Act.

An Act to amend The Civil Service Superannuation Act.

An Act to amend The Teachers' Pension Act.

An Act respecting the Town of Steinbach. In Her Majesty's name, His Honour the Administrator of the Government of the Province of Manitoba doth assent to these bills. MADAM SPEAKER: We, Her Majesty's dutiful and faithful subjects, of the Legisla tive Assembly of Manitoba in session assembled, approach Your Honour with sentiments of unfeigned devotion and loyalty to Her Majesty's person and Government, and beg for Your Honour the acceptance of this bill: No. 15 -

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain further sums of money for the Public Service of the Province for the Fiscal Year ending the 31st day of March, 1965. MR. CLERK: His Honour, the Administrator of the Government of the Province of Manitoba doth thank Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, accepts their benevolence, and assent� to this bill in Her Majesty's name. CHIEF JUSTICE OF MANITOBA CALVIN C.

MILLER, (Administrator of the Government of the Province of Manitoba): Madam Speaker and members of the Legislative Assembly: You have now completed the work of the Third Session of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature. I wish to commend the members for their faithful attention to their duties which, on this occasion, were concerned with some particular matters I placed before you in opening the session.

I thank you for providing the necessary sums of money for carrying on the busi ness of the session and I convey to you my appreciation of the care you exercised in examining the measures which were laid before you for the general welfare of our province. In relieving you now of your present duties and declaring the Third Session of the Twenty-Seventh Legisla ture prorogued, I give you my best wishes and pray that under the guidance of Divine Providence our Province may continue to assure to all its people the fullest possible measure of health, happiness and well-being. MR.

EVANS: It is the will and pleasure of His Honour the Administrator of the Govern ment of the Province of Manitoba that this Legislative Assembly be prorogued until it shall please His Honour to summon the same for the despatch of business, and the Legislative Assembly is accordingly prorogued. Page 356 August 27 th, 1964.

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