SEPTEMBER 11, 1945
The Address--Mr. Fleming
stages of development. Indeed, science and
cliemistry may very well remake o>ur world if
we shahl but let them.
Before our farmers and workers can buy
their share of goods and services, however, we
must establish marketing boards, parity prices
and crop insurance et reasanable levels for
agriculture; and for workers, adequate labour
and wage codes.
If our aged people are to, establish their
claim ta aur abundance they must have much
more than $30 a nýonth. Indeed, a floar
under family income, below which. no persan
would be allowed ta feul, wauld be a just and
reasonable national safeguard, beceuse no0
modern industrial nation cen affard the Iuxury
of poverty.
It was fascinating, the day of the opening,
for me as a new member ta observe the
pageantry and take part in the practices
tha:t have grown up around our tradition af
government. I was interested ta hear the
Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) remind
us of the customs of Westminster. I submit
that ail of us in this hause will watch with
equal interest the actions af the new par-
liament recently elected there, as they write
a new page of history, histary in termas af
social ownership and human advancement.
We in the group I have the honour ta repre-
sent look forward ta the day, nat fer distant,
when Canada will follow the exemple of the
mather of parliaments and instal in office the
Canadian counterpert of the British Labour
party, the Coaperative Commonwealth Federa-
tian.
Mr. HOMUTH: That will neyer happen.
Mms. STRUM: It is a goad thîng ta meke
of aur capital city a heautiful memamial,
fitting ta hanour the memory of those who
died that we might live. Books will be
written and in sang and story we shaîl record
their valour. Deeds, not wards, will be the
measume of aur gratitude. People yet unbarn
will, ini some far aff day, scan aur old age
pension schedules, aur slum clearance plans,
our wîdawed mathers' ellawances, aur infant
mortality rates, and we shall answer et the
bar of history.
We must here take full respansibility nat
only for aur utterances in this hause, but far
the conditions af our homes, the level of
family incame in tawn, city and country, and
the health, educatian and well-being of aur
cammunîties.
"It is for us the living, rather, ta be
dedicated here" ta the building of a new day
in Canada and a new era af peace, hratherhood
and abundance for ail mankind.
Mm. DONALD M. FLEMING (Eglinton):
Mm. Speaker, in rising ta speek in this chem-
ber for the first time I jain the company
of former clessmates. The class of 1928 et
Osgoode Hall law schoal, Toronto, baasta
twa members in the gavernment in the per-
sans af the Minister of Transport (Mr. Chev-
rier) and the Secretary of State (Mr. Martin).
That class also boasts a calleague an this
side of the house, the hon. member for
Carleton (Mm. Boucher), and in the press gel-
lery, Mr. Francis Flaherty. I make the fifth
and express my pleasure upon jainîng *them
in this chamber.
I came fmom a city which I arn assured
by all is, withaut doubt, the most populer
in Canada. I cen assure han. members that
the point of view I bring ta the chamber and
the attitude I hope to exhibit in all dis-
cussions in which I may take part is no0
nammow or sectional one. I came here as a
caast-ta-coast Canadien. While I have had
occasion ta criticize what seemed ta be e
sectianal point of vîew in other parts of
Canada, it is my promise ta the house that it
will be my endeavour and determination nat
ta indicate any degree of sectianalismn in any
paints of view ta which I mey give expression.
We meet, Mr. Speaker, fallawing a great
victomy, a great deliverance. I sey it hecomes
ahl of us, and in this I speak only as a new
member, ta acknawledge the debt which hon.
members in this chamber, yes, and ail people
in Canada, awe ta thase wha have stoad
betwveen us and aur enemies an the field of
battle.
Demacmacy has came through. The benefits
we enjoy we owe ta others, and it is in a
sense of consecration that I, far one, intend
ta approach my duties as a member of this
chamber.
I believe it is fair ta sey that the hopes
of the peopie of Canada concerning this
new parliament are high hopes. As the Prime
Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) reminded us,
in one of his earliest utterances this session,
the problems which will face parliament,
during the years immediately before us will
pemhaps be the mast difficult which have con-
fronted any parliament in the history af
aur land.
I helieve it is correct ta say that the judg-
ment which will be applied ta the actions of
parliament and the policy of the goverument
will be an execting judgment. We have e
great appamtunity ta make good for Canada,
a gmeat oppotunity ta build here in Canada
a land warthy of the sacrifice of those who
have staod in aur place on the fighting line.
That daes not mean that we have came
heme in any submissive attitude, or that the
attitude we propose toaedapt in respect of