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Respons ibility For Conference Failure On The Sirois Report

Onus Placed O

Provincial Leaders In Eloquent Address By Mr. McPhee

Qpeuking in the Provincial Le- glsialuze on April 8 lll tile BlltlLlVI» debaw, I\ll‘. ll F. l\I<'Pil(\‘, ‘Pinrci District .1 Yang's. l‘v.'\'lt.‘\\\.'d Prem- ier Clillltlb“ swtelmnzs with re- t.ti.t.ll.- of tile Domin- ll (‘(l'l\‘l'L’il\'E on tllc

'- "ated where . not. only on

"s of (llrzlrlt), . ll Columbia, but on the Prune _\l".l slur of Cwltliiﬂ

1 . Preluiera tin-

: Campbell) illl‘ Dominion icy of hav- TBDLISOIIiIIIiOII. reply to the Got‘- leadol- on this question

OYYIHKBIID was Ono of the high spots in the

debate, and won grudging f-P‘ plallsu from g\\'.'(‘1‘llll".€ll§ supporters, asttc endorsation y

from Ll;- (lulu t vtlYe-“llrlzvs. i Ml‘. .'\f.l’I e slmssvd. the serious] inlpor of the Bllcigct wit-bate

non for the most im- . of the session, narnll" rltiun of the Estimates. -e said, ' v0 con-

llg . s ilTI-i Fast, the state t. in considering the we shotlld vote, and the. people to provide wall, the record of the in rotation to its ex- n the past. occasion there is an- rrltlon: we must look 1- tilings ag-ainst the . of the War. l _ gptlFCh of the Premier in us into Supply was char- ' of his speeches in this. was evtcllent in style and but I do not think that ‘ if speech," Mr. Mc- vd. “Condensed a. have made all ex-

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prt-anlble to a. Budget ppm-an. I: in‘ to deal with a grcat man’; t gs the Premier is bound to -: with in n Budget. ad- dress. slit-ll as the details of our

sources of revcrluns. and of the

Provinces ability to furnish them, also the ale-lit 1n

record of the Govern-

rcft-rence to various de- ts, and the purposes 0f the IPPS. Othc-rlvlse the speech out. It. was unfortunate- ;, lnrov-qllartcrs preamble 141d one-quarter Budget spec-ch.

No Oltawa Conference

"I" e Prclnitvr did refer at con-

.‘ l to one matter, the .. and the Dominion- conicrcnce called to con- am not suysrest-ing that it xvi... m»: quite prc c-r for the deal as he did xvii-h that ac rwulr - or the lack of the conference dollbcr- . of course, a bearing on I. n will very short- that is the matter

ouch this . we mus/t rely so‘ financial

problem lV resour s‘

own . that with the lllletlp of provincial and Dominion governments as we find them, there is apparently no hope for any sympathC-‘ic consider-

ation o.‘ the difficulties of this Province lvrlllr Confederation, and that we lulzst find the solution o.’ our financial problems alone. I think that. so far as the Slrois re- port has a bearing on our deliber- mﬂons, this in the conclusion we tnluat reach.

The Ircmlr-r gave us n very de- tailed and officially um-eot account. of what had happened. I was a little disappoinwd, because I was hyping that he would have given ll the hazvpcnlmca “of the record.“ When these Liberal Premiers got together, there must have been many pas-macs that would be

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‘men were to blame. The Dominion

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interesting and of assistance to us. But we got the official text, and with that we must be content.

The failure of the conference is, of course. a. matter oi’ great rc- grct. One does not have to sub- scribe to all the findings of the Report or even to any of them, to be bitterly disappointed that the conference concluded as it did. Consider the great expense on all of Canada incident to the pre- paration of this report; the expense incident to the Conimisloul itself, and to the provinces in preparing tileir claims; the lengthy period ‘involved and the supreme import- kance of the objectives; — all this lelrlmlsc annexation and labor, land the only result is disillusion- llnent and an extension of that dis- Illnily which unfortunately during the past few years has xre or less separated the provinces one from another.

Villium In Tho Drum

_Il'br this failure the Premier blames three men: Hepburn, the allcqed arch conspirator. Aberhart and Pattllllo. These were the vill- Inns who wrecked the show. I certainly do not intend to say any- I thing in the way of extenuation of ~11? Dart they played. None of the things the Premier or the leader of the Opposition said In this con- nection were too strong, becauge it was quite apparent that; the” men put. before the general good of Canada at this serfous time their own personal and political consid- eratlons,

3"?" $011811 that is a0. I cannot Ptzree with the Premier that these lncn lvere alone to blame, other

Government was to blame for the failure oi’ the conference. The Prime Minister himself, I thin Rplmracheti the conference with very little enthusiasm. Before all these provincial Premiers, with their lmgﬂhy’ retinues, were called to Ottawa, the Dominion Govern- ment should have ascertained what their attitude was going to be.

Premier Campbell: "They did,"

Mr. McPhee: "I don't think that I can time with that. I dont think that there was any agreement from the Province of Outer: that; its re. presentatives were going u; look favorably upon this report. I don't think there was any agreement from Alberta. I do agree that there was a statement by the Premier of British Columbia to the effect, ma; he was prepared to discuss the m. port. and it was only when the 011191‘ ‘bad boys‘ sot hold of him that he repudiated It. But 5Q (a; as the other Premers are concern- cd. I don't think there was any. thlnrr to indicate that there would be agreement.

should Have Known!

“Moreover. the Prime Milnlster had every reason to know the type of man with whom he was dealing. He had worked with Hepburn, hand ﬁnd ylove. to defeat Bennett. He should know all the twists of which he was capable, because be used them.

‘Wit-h Hepburn tumirlg th 1 _ against Mr. King himself, inﬁrm reason to know him still better: and he should have made sure in advance before these pmvﬁlolgl Premiers were called in with their retlnues. what the BLI-‘Ihldg o: m; great province 0d Ontario mg m be) was go-

Premier Caznpbell: "Might 1 u]; my hon. friend n. question. Does my hon. friend mean that, he should have ascertained in. advance w)“; the attitude on Ontario was going to be s the adoption of the or the discussion od the m.

Mr. McPhee: “Toward the adopt- -lcn of tho report."

Premier Campbell: "I admit It was understood that the Govern- ment of Ontario was more or lea ODDOMd to the adoption of the re-

port." Mr. McPhee: Not ‘nloro or lees.’ M I so on I will explain u; m,

‘Premier what I mean. That is the Jnint: that tho Prime Minis.

were also at least

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t Ifflllt-lcnl conference. The real cause

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THE CHARLQTTETOWN GUARDIAN

HON. H. F. McPHEE

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m THEE i” w IYITISGOVCITIIUEIW that it should be a purely political conference. Th! failure, so far as that- is con- oerned. rests squarely upon the shoulder: 0d Mr. MacKenzie King and his advisers.

This was not an ordinary Dc-

mfnion-Provincial conference called to consider ordinary administrative problems. It was called to recast the framework oi’ Confederation. Any Canadian should admit at once that for a conference of that kind, the participants should not be designated by their party stripe: that the mere fact that we have a government representing slightly more than 50 per cent of the elect- orate should exclude the remaining portion of the people from repres- entation. Does anyone think that if the representation drom Cmtarlo had consisted, not. of the Premier of Ontario and his political hench- men, but of a rcall, representative body from Ontario. ~ that the _On- tario delegation would have walked out? It is not conceivable. The same is true of Alberta and Bri- So I say that the blame does not rest. wholly on those dissenting Premiers. The principal blame rests on Mr. MacKenzie King and his advisers.

Provincial Premiers

‘That is so fax as the Dominion is concerned. The blame so far as the provinces are concerned is this: that the provln-ial Premiers should have recognized this situation also. They should have insist-ed that their delegations be non-political when they went to this conference; and if the Premier of this Province failed to so insist, then he must take his responsibility for the fail- ure of the conference.

When we come to consider the reasons for failure, therefore, find the blame to lie in three quarters. We find it; to lie on the dissenting Premiers of Ontario, British Col- umbia and Alberta; on the Prime Mlnlstenof Canada. and his ad- visors; and also on those Provin- cial Premiers who failed to advise lVLr. MacKenzie King and has coll- eagues that they should make the conference a. political gathering."

RBSUIYlIDg the debate at the after-noon session, Mr. McPhee said he was not able to state whether any responsibility rested directly on the leader of this b:- gislature. "I do not know." he said, “whether cur Premier book the poli- tical view as did the Prime Minis- ter of Canada, or whether he took the broad Canadian attitude which was advocated by tilt Press of Canada. I shall be glad to learn of any representations he made In this connection.

(Premier Campbell did not reply.)

An Opportunity Missed

"mere is another matter in which the Prime Minister of Canada can- nOt escape responsbllity. The con- ference was a. large and expensive one. I have before me the Hansard report, and on pages 63-66 we have listed the names of those who ate tended. There is the Dominion list, Lndﬂloliistofalltheptmvvinclalm-

tives including the remu- mtwtivq from this Province - Iﬂonwe Wright, President of

the Executive Council; Hon. 'I‘ha.ne

A. Campbell, K.C., Premier; Hon. James P. McIntyre, Minister of Public Works; Hon. Mal-k R. Mc- Cvulgan, K. 0., mnister of Educa- tion and Public Welfare; Randolph Oar-rumors. Provincial Auditor; Welter Shaw, Deputy Minister o! Agriculture. That was the retinuo

vineial Premier to this 01116701100, and the xettnues which accompan- ied the other Premiers were col-rec poTxIIl-Illgfybl/I. ‘m... of lncial 8 n8 PNV Plenum and their advisers were

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whole case In its widest as- pects, and all the problems that we have as between the Dominion and the Pro- vlnces.’ “Apparently lVLr. Aberhart was prepared for a discussion of shat ldnd. Mr. MacKellzie King's al/tl- tude in reference to that is found also in the report ,at page 107. He was speaking at. the close of the conference, and he said;

“May I say ill conclusion that the qucsllcn as to whether or not we should seek Io continue the conference at this time has been. lbelleve answered by the purposes far which the conference was called, by the attitude already taken by some of the provinces towards the subject matter of the non- ference, and by what it is essential tn keep in mind in connection with an Im- portant nalional gathering of this kind.’

Mr. King's Attitude

"If one reads the whole of the report. one sees that that statement is in answer to the suggestion thrown out by Mr. Aberhart. Mr. King suggests that the conference should not go ahead to consider any of these other problems since they were not going to consider the Slrois report. That is abundantly clear from what he says as report- ed on page 108:

“Fnch and every member of tho government will he pleased to receive and to discuss with any Premier or any minister, or/ person he may wish In bring with him, any quesllon which If. is felt is a mailer of mutual Interest between himself and ourselves. That may he ar- ranged by appointment with the minister concern- ed. Everything rpnsldered, we feel that is llle hest way Io have matters taken up from now on.’

"I um suggesting“ Mr. Speaker.

than; Mr. King not only foiled I0

when they had gone there with their retlllues at gleat trouble and expense, ‘chat they should take this opportunity to discuss those grave problems common to the provinces and the Dominion, but. that he re- fused to entertain the suggestion- And the only thing he could sug- gest was that if any one of them wanted to see any of the Ministers at,0ttawa, the could do so inde- pendently of t. e rest.

So it is Idle to say that the re- sponsibility for the failure of this conference rests upon the shoulders of three provincial Premiers alone. Those men are to blame, and very much - to blame; but there also rests a grave respollsiblity on the shoulders of Mr. MacKenzie King and his advisers, and also on the shoulders of the provincial Prem- iers to the extent that 1 have in- diceted.

I have dealt with this issue at. _ccnsiderable length for the reasons

I have suggested at the beginning; because when we discuss the Esii- mates tonight. we will discuss them with this knowledge, that no longer will we have the llcge in relation to this mountain of debt which con- fronts us. and our current require- ments that the Dominion Treasury will assist. Rather we must face the fact tlla-t we are dependent en- tirely upon our own Provincial re- sources.

T0 BE CONTINUED

_..___._____.___ MT. ALBION SCHOOL Report for the month of March.

Grade IX.—1. Johnena Myers; 2. Alma MacNeil: 3. Etta Jenkins.

Grade VII.—l. Morris Jenkins; 2. Catherine MacNeil.

Grade V.—l, Charlie Ballem: 2, Chester Jenkins.

Grade V. Jr.—1_ Barton MeeNeil.

Grade IV.—l, Stuart Jenkins; 2, Willie Myers.

Grade H. Sit-l. Beth Stewart.

Grade II. Ji‘.—l, Wendell Jenkins: 2. Hudson Jenkins.

Grade I.—1, Judson Myerl: 2. LII- lian Mvera: 8. Marv Wood.

Grade I. Jr.—1 Eva Jenkins: 2. Collins Wood: 3. Doris Wood,

Perfect attendance - John

OM Myers. Etta Jenkins. Morris Jenkins. Charlie Ballem. Wendell Jenkins. avl-lighest average-Stuart Jenkins.

suggest to the provincial Premiers

cuss the 81min Report: -."'l1n¢ does no: mean that we an not reuly to discus ﬂu

the Canndlnn and British nnvlu. million dollar

% . Evelyn Robertson-Teacher.

MEALTIMI ABOARD OOIVITTI

Member: of the crew aboard a Canadian corvette In native scum crowd around the table at mealtime In the friable. The all” hill of the nu and the hard open III’ work o! pelrnln‘; life mnko flr hearty appetites. Many corvette; an now built In Canadian nblpylrdl for

Each emu approximately halt a

One night I went out with the warden on his rounds. He ls my host and good friend. All day long he works In a. Government office, and in the evening he comes home for dinner and goes out afterwards to take his duty as air raid warden.

It was a fairly "bad" nlght. We each wore a tin hat, carried a. gas-mask and flashlight. On the way to the wardens post. We passed through one of the old-fashioned little squares of Bloomsbury - silence and heavy, black air. Sud- denly, there was a noise like spat- tered infrequent hadlstones on a metal roof. It ringed us round. ceased, then started again, click- clack-click, in the darkness.

"shrapnel."

The shells, which ordinarily break out in the skv like little golden-red pin-points, were ax-

ploding above the smoke and mist that shrouded London, and we could not see them. Then we heard aircraft above us, The sound was the irregularly throbbing engine- beat that. most Londoners associate with. enemy planes.

Th. Peril Moving Above

You Irv to calculate, no matter what mental diScipline you a/pply. whether the aircraft are approach- ing, whether they are overhead. If they are overhead, they cannot hit you; you dralw a breath and count one peril past, even though you know tn; peril nzw moves on. like a shadow moving, over other

lower sky and the black perspec- tives of the snuttered streets, as instant as summer lightning. Automatically you count. - one second two nds, threc - and ou hear the rts, and ou dorrt. now whether ey are or um. 'I‘hen they seem to be com- nearer, and cu still don't know whether it's Clllbg or guns. The wsrderwdpoat was in a buo- ment at the an of tins square. The littls room was ahored up with beams and pillars of steel. ‘Hum: werq map; o! the borough on the walla, telephones, rescue meat, gas-proof clothing. let in the post's sector. indeed. in the whole boro l. Everyone was drinking tea. c and a few mimlul 0f t. and warmth and clutter, an in rlude of normality. wardens Io out in pairs on ds. A little man who wu l grocer came with us. He was very fearful, and showed it. My friend and host showed no emotion, except wthnt seemed to me m ex- aggerated phlegm. net a very slow pace for our mu , frequently pound and at tin,-

he said, when than’: no need for It. came than I'm more used to it

Night in London

An officer of the Queens Canadian I-‘und for Air Raid Vic-tuna, re- cently in London, writes the following dispatch. It liven a word-picture of London during n. night raid. and it sketches one of those innumerable human tragedies in which the Queen's Canadian Fund, operating fhrullﬂh the Lord Mayor's Fund brings human and sympathetic relief.

BY SHOLTO IVATT

of it. 1 don't want to get flurrled just because there's a bit of dan-

zen» Shelter "Rcgularf

In tube shelters _ mainly rein- forced basements - there were not. many people. Nearly always Just the old "regulars," those who de- cided t/hat they preferred the shel- ter to their homes at night. I

judged that they could not have been one in ten of the local popu- lation. The others evidently

thought it better to take a slightly greater chance in the lower rooms of their own home; and enjoy con- siderably greeter comfort. So the wardens laughed and joked with them, cast an eye to the equipment, exchanged news with the shelter wardens.

Outside. "he" was upping ﬂares Pretty things, that, t a. sinister moonlight on the city. that were a breathless pleasure w watch till they were shot down and you re- turned to your senses.

There were fires, too, North, to- wards the rallwe stations, the sky reﬂected a big bane or at least se- veral smaller ones. South, towards Kingsway, there were tongues of fire on some tall buildings. You do not. run and gape at fires In Lon- don at night. For one thing. you know the firemen are there; for another, the Germans have the unpleasant habit of using fires as

urge . "No, we don't go up there. There's time bomb up that street. All the

humans. But last night the sky ha been bmetua out seemed all at once to be full of ﬁpﬁ, [may m," ‘g, 5113' planes. ‘me sound of engine “what happens i; mcendm-y throbbln echoed from all quar- bombs ‘(an may,»

Dem of compass. ncw quieter “so”, we‘ and m“ than now louder. And now the guns out may‘ an»

W" bum" “d I“ "m duwlc“ "ilvitn the time bomb liable to go wicked blue flashes would light the o“ a, my mmuw,»

’ "It would be worse if the street caught fire."

We were back at a comer of the little square. A corner of a building had been sliced off and the street was piled with rubble, except where a e bad been cleaned for traf- fic. I peered at the healp of broken wood and lum cf stone. of frag- ments of f tune. "Yes." said my "that is the Children's Hoc- P -'

Down the street. a faint. blue light above a door showed where the headquarters of the rescue squad was placed. A little beyond. a large white "B" on a black boa-rd. fixed to n post in the sidewalk, was faint- ly illuminated from above. It murk- ed one of the shelters we bad visit-

d. The be

e cur , l , were whitewashed; but it s so dark we could not see the m nga.

--IN BIB RUINED ROME aI-lll l long way to go. It

We had seemed to me that we were out for hours. pacing the nightmare streets with a forced and unnatural slow- ness. When we cum.- m one inter- section of narrow Imus, I. vivid flash auddenl buod tho-devasta- tion of the . All four comers houses were n ruins; in the middle of the crossing Ina n huge crater.

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disclosed l ‘ figure norm; at tho ruins beside us. It was an old wo- man who would not answer when we spoke to her and who salted straight ahead, unmoving. lvllen the

wardens turned their dim lights upon ller. "Now then, ma, what's the trou-

ble?" said the little grocer. "Not ’ea.llhy for you, sitting round in the cold at your age."

Finally, we pestered ller intn speech. She was sitting in what had been her house. she said. her own little house. She had alweyl been there and there was no other place for her to go.

We should fix her up, we said; she must. come with us and have I nice cilp of tea, and we would ltnl her a comfortable place to sleep with people to look after her. So she must. come along now.

Then she turned to us for tho first time. "My son's away at sea.” she said. “When he comes back, he's got to find me here. He's all I've got and I'm all he's got. — now. He's a good boy." she stared away again, unseeing.

We brought her away in the end. half by coaxing, half by force. As she stumbled painfully along. h" grip on my arm was nervous and convulsive. She did not speak: she lacked even the relief of tears.

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