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Enjoying royal ioke Queen Elilaheth II and Prince Phillip share royal joke during their Australian isit yesterday The Queens feet did not reach the ground as she sat on chair during isit to imernment House tP Photo Jobless insurance payments To oppose closure on bill tllA itPi Opposition Mls will have two hours today to oppose government plan to invoke closure rarelyused technique to restrict debate on controversial bill that will toughen criteria for collecting unemployment insurance pay merits Among other things the bill would require people to work 12 weeks out of instead of the current eight weeks before quality ing for benefits When nearly million ana dians are unemployed and only the government knows if any relief is coming in lhursdays budget it is wrong for the government to suggest or evern think about closure Lincoln Alexander Progressive ton servative manpower critic said in an interview No apology postmaster WINDSUH tint itl tit post master John tlagne refused Monday to apologize for re marks he made last week critr cizing the post office The demand for an apology was made Monday by union members at meeting of the Windsor local of the anadian Lnion of Postal Workers local president Bill llartlen said Gagne in speech to serv ice club said mechanization in the post office is creating souldestroying ttiltotitttttil that leads to labor strife He said Monday he was refer ring to the post office as whole and to mll£tfll£tlllt and labor relations across the country Manpower Minister Bud tul len who will introduce the mo tion to restrict debate on the bill to five more hours said majority government should be able to get its legislation through Alexander said the opposit ion parties have not abused the roughly hours spent debating the bill so far The government had no good grounds to gag or eniasculate the opposition in termsof debate llZAR lVlllt lid Broadbent leader of the ew Democratic Party at tacked closure as clear in dication that the government plans to go ahead with bill that will deprive thousands of tanadians of benefits particu larly in Quebec and eastern tanada The government estimates vote on the principle of the bill It then will go to ommons committee for clauserbyclaLise study Amendments can be made in committee Then the bill returns to the tommons tor third and tinal reading where Mls will hate another crack at debating its provisions llroatlbent said his party will attempt in committee to have the goiernmeiit withdraw the section increasing the quali tying period to weeks leander said his party wants an amendment that would allow the cabinet to keep the qualifying weeks below 12 for workers in areas with high unemployment The gowrnnient tised closure earlier this session to restrict debate on the liscal Arrange the bill Will stop about 50000 ments Act which replaced the claimants from receiving payments It says most of them will be secondary earners lloweut opposition Mls and few Liberal backbencliers have lirotested that new restric tioiis lll be disastrous tltltttlt times of high unemployment esrmially in economically de pressedareas Newfoundland ll lohii trosbie lt St lohns est said 23 per cent of the work for ee in his constituency is uiiem lltVtfl and it is miracle for most ot them to get eyen eight weeksot work The closure technique to end debate has been Used less than tti times since tontederation tut this is the third time it has been tised since this session ot larliameiit began in October itltllllllillli At the end of the live hour de bate Mls will be required to So So shared cost agreements ttttawa had with the provinces was also used to end debate on bill that contained several income tax measures in eluding increased ceilings on tax lttllltllltlt registered retirement savings and pension plans China tour is over lt ltt Nltt tli The ana dian lrass five piece classi cal brass ensemble returned Sunday from three week tour of tlima The trip was arranged by the tederal department of external affairs as part of cultural ex change program Largest electronic scoreboard in Canada Employees of liallenger Athletic Products liic of Orillia stand beside the first stage of largest electronic scoreboard in anada The first stage which measures Itt feet by I2 HL is part of lXttfootlong board presently being ompleted iii thicago lhe scoreboard when completed will weigh five tons contain six miles of electrical wiring ISLtttttt connec tions LttStt lightbulbs and took l2titt manhours to complete The display board will be fully operational in time for the Toronto Blue lays American League opener in Toronto April ltiotoi Frances Barre is reinstated PARIS Router Premier Raymond Barre reinstated af ter resigning is expected to form new cabinet and unite government forces in the face of growing leftwing chal lenge Barre resigned with his gov ernment Monday night but President Valery Giscard dEstaing told the country he asked the premier to head new streamlined cabinet and lead the government coalition into general election next year in television address the president indicated that several Liberal MPs rap government on aluminum wiring issue OTTAWA Two Lib eral MP5 have accused the fed eral government of shirking its duty by failing to ban the iii stallation of aluminum wiring in the face of what they say is evidence of its potential danger Herb Gray Windsor West and Norm Cafik tntario said Monday that the government should impose an immediate moratorium on the use of aluminum wiring and give as sistance to the 500000 owners of existing homes with aluminum wiring to have it replaced We cant get anybody to as sume reslxmsibility Gray told news conference sponsored by the Aluminum Wiring Home owners Association tAWllA which now claims memlxrship of ltl Federal oiisunier Affairs Minister Tony Abbott has said he has not seen any firm evir fence that aluminum wiring is hazard and even if it were it would have to be dealt with by the provinces Aluminum wiring has been banned in four townships on in tario and one in Quebec be cause it is considered hazard the two Mls said An investiga tion in March Township south of Ottawa determined it was the causeof several fires to ministers will lose their j0S in cabinet that will be pruned to 15 ministers from 18 and freed from party politics Two cabinet members likely to be dropped or moved to other posts are Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and the minister of state for planning Jean Lecanuot Both have frequently quar rolled with Gaullist coalition partners in the kind of bicker ing that the president wants stopped before his government faces the opposition challenge next year The Socialistfommunist op position allianee scored rc sounding victory in municipal elections last week after several month of feuding among the coalition part iiers taullists independents Republicans and centrists lhe friction between govern ment forces was highlighted by the decision of former premier Jacques tfliirac the iaullist mun not not gt suasuuua mankind am it an it C1fi some stratgs rpm 213 811 illtligu tatttti leader to campaign for the job of mayor of Paris against the presidents handpicked candi date The president stung by the governments defeat in the mu nicipal elections said the rifts within the governing majority did the government consider able harm The majority must unite and when you choose to unite you must do so sincerely with Furnace Trouble 24 hr repairs to new and used furnaces Work done by licenced mechanic Phone John Benson 4562545 out ulterior motives and without rancor he told the nation Socialist spokesman Claude Stier said Giscard dEstaings reshuffle showed that the president recognizes the grave defeat which the lefts success at the municipal elections represents for him But one can ask if he has really understood the reasons for this success lehe days of unlimi electrICIty are over We cant keep up with the growing demand be conserved down soon In the past as the demand for electricity grew we built more generating stations Now its not that easy The cost of building has soared The supply of funds is limited And the cost of borrow ing money is away up Most sources of energy are rapidly diminishing and their costs rising astronomicallyThey must In short the supply of elec tricity cannot grow as fast as the demandTherell be trouble ahead if the growth rate doesnt slow 1977 demand ances efficiently saving ideas 06f 7972 1975 45 10 98 Heres what could happen The lower line on the graph is Ontarios demand for electricity growing at about ti ycarflhe upper line is the generating capa city growing more slowlylhe margin narrows each year As early as 1979 Ontario could run short of power during times of heavy Power shortages would disrupt the lives of everyone Even jobs would be at stake Nobody wants power shortagesThey can be avoided by cutting back the present growth rate And that can be done quite painlessly if everyone eliminates waste lust look around you at home and at work Are all those lights necessary Does the tlicriiio stat have to be set so high Are you using machines and appli Ctmservation of electricity is vitalThc days of unlimited electricity are over Ask your Hydro for copy of the booklet The wise use of electricity Its full of electricity Conserve energy The future depends on it