Mr. MacINNIS:

That will be very

shortly.

Mr. MacINNIS:

Yes, we have to discover the missing link. About a year ago my hon. friend from North Winnipeg (Mr. Heaps) raised in this house the question of unemployment. The debate continued for about a week. One of the sad features of that debate, it seems to me, was the failure of the then leader of the government (Mr. Mackenzie King) to appreciate the economic condition of the country. I have not yet been able to understand his lack of appreciation of the gravity of the situation. I am surprised that a man of his political sagacity failed to see what was apparent to the public generally. The then leader of the opposition, the present Prime Minister (Mr. Bennett) was fully alive to the fact, and he made unemployment the major issue in the campaign. Thus for the first time in the history of this Dominion, after the most prosperous period on record, from 1925 to 1929, unemployment

the poverty of the people-became the issue in a federal election campaign. After the change of government the right hon. Prime Minister in fulfilment of the promise be had made, called a special session to end unemployment. Certain measures were enacted at that special session to take care of the immediate situation. That was in September. I wish to point out that the unemployment situation to-day is worse than it was in March, 1930, it is worse than it was

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in September, 1930, and yet there is not a word in the speech from the throne of what measures the government propose to take to deal with the situation after the appropriation made at the special session shall have been expended.