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16 The Barrie Examiner Thursday March 111977 First VlSlt President arter decoration marking St Iat his floral ricks Day speaks to special town meeting in lin ton Mass edneslay night It as the first of his meet the people visits tl Photo Free trips queried OTTAWA tCPt Five Pro gressive Conservative MPs art touring the Middle East at th expense of foreign governments while caucus committee hert is considering whether such free trips should be accepted Claude Wagner PCi St Hyacinthet Conservative foreign affairs critic and four others are guests of the govern ments of Iraqwhich is paying most travel coststhree other Arab states and Israel The office of Conservative Leader Joe Clark confirmed Wednesday newspaper ac count that sunl the expenses were paid The trip comes three months after two other Conservatives and three Liberals took an ex pensesvpaid trip to Taiwan place Wagner visited on free trip about year ago The five went despite disapproval by External Affairs Minister Don Jamieson of such Taiwan jun kets The Middle East trip also comes after the Speakers of the Commons and the Senate rec ommended to all parties that they make public the fact they are to t7 trips paid for by other governments Wagner BilI Kcmpling tIIalA tonWenwortht Sean OSullivn tIIalton Wentworttn Bob Wenman Fraser Valey Westt and Heath Ilacquarric lellSlXHOUgltt will be away month in Iraq Sauoi Arabia Jordan Egypt and Israel With stop in Greece Clarks office said the leader feels he could not take such free trip But spokesman said he declined comment on such actions by others Arsenic hearings over YELLOWKNIIE ttIPi The first independent public hearings into the longstanding Yellowknife arsenic con troversy ended Tuesday after attracting only meagre public attention and participation The hearings held by three member Canadian Public Health Association study group developed into labor management squabble It began Monday morning with union attack on mintmill management and ended Tuesday afternoon soon after management delivered its re buttal Only two individual residents of the Northwest Icrritortcs capital population 10000 spoke to the hearings and both were union members at ttlit of the gold mining operations ac cused of arsenic pollution Not one of the national groups in the arsenic debate such as the National Indian Brotherhood and the federal government appeared It was assumed they would make presentations to hearings in it tawa on March 28 Inquiry chairman Courtlandt Mackenzie of Vancouver said he regretted the lack of federal representation The inquiry was ordered in January by Health Minister Marc Lalonde after an inde ndent study said dangerously igh levels of arsenic exist here The study was done by the National Indian Brotherhowl the United Steelworkers of America USW and the Uni versity of Toronto Canadians living beyond meansz Trudeau on economy OTTAWA CP Prime Min ister Trudeau told the Com mons Wednesday that one of the main reasons the economy is in trouble is that Canadians are living beyond their means Trudeau made the comment as opposition MPs renewed de mands for immediate action by the government to deal with ay Sp economics especially soaring unemployment Statistics Canada figures re leased Tuesday showed 932000 persons officially unemployed the highest total in history The unemployment rate of 79 per cent in February equalle postDepression high in 1958 Trudeaus answer brought remark from Conservative fi nance critic Sinclair Stevens that government spending in creased by 135 per cent in 1976 faster than any other sector in the economy Earlier responding to ques tions from Opposition Leader Joe Clark Trudeau said it is ob vious the March 31 budget will show great concern for the unemployment situation Clark called for an unequivo cal statement from the govern ment that major thrust of its budget the first since last May would be to break the pattern of worsening unemployment Trudeau had been playing wordgames while more than one million personsincluding those not counted in the Statis tics Canada survey and those who had given up the search for jobsare jobless Clark charged Clark also asked whether the government would give par ticular attention to six provin ces the five eastern ones and British Columbia which have unemployment rates above the national average Trudeau replied that this would be something the govern ment would look at but he would like to have suggestions from Clark on the provinces from which the federal govern ment should divert unds Clark is from Alberta the province with the secondlowest jobless rate John Gilbert NDPToronto Broadview said the govern ment should undertake low cost housing construction pro gram to create jobs and provide homes for lowincome persons Finance Minister Donald Macdonald said there had been record number of new hous ing starts in 1976 especially in the lowincome sector He ad ded that he would consult with Urban Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet about the suggestion 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