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Excerpt from Financial Statement of the Hon. I. B. Lucas, Treasurer of the Province of Ontario: Delivered on the 3rd March, 1914 in the Legislative Assembly, of Ontario on Moving the House Into Committee of Supply
Over ordinary expenditure for the year Of and a balance of in cash to our credit in the bail? (applause) I assume that honourable gentlemen opposite who, a year ago, with perfectly serious faces told us that for the year now closed the ordinary expenditure would exceed the ordinary revenue by two to three millions Of dollars will be delighted with the actual result. (laughter) My honourable friend from West Middlesex (mr. Elliott) as well as the Leader Of the Opposition (mr. Rowell), as far as one could judge across the ?oor Of the House by their words and actions, seemed quite serious when they made that estimate. During recent years there seems to have been necessity for frequent changes in the personnel Of financial critics for honourable gentlemen opposite. (laughter.) A new man IS tried out each year. The honourable member for West Northumberland ('mr. S. Clarke) held the post one year, and for one year only, but he found it was no joke to be financial critic, and besides it soon developed that he had a past political history that was not calculated to qualify him for the position or' make him feel comfortable in it, and so he was withdrawn. My honourable friend from Middlesex (mr. Elliott) was; then tried out. He got away to a good start by prophesying that there would be a deficit of The actual result showed a small surplus. SO bad a guess as that put him out of the running, and he was duly With-drawn. SO they go down the line, and my honourable friend from North Bruce (mr. C. M. Bow man), being the next in the row, is apparently to be tried out this year. But he also has a political history.
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