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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1973
Page
11
Parliament discusses bills to regulate rationing of oil products natural gas coal and electricity amid energy shortages. Lawmakers push for equitable distribution controls and emergency powers while monitoring industry impact and consumer effects.
The House of Commons gave final reading to a bill to control wiretapping and surveillance. An amendment allows policy to introduce evidence of illegal wiretaps, and another requires provincial attorneys general to notify individuals after 90 days if no criminal charges are laid. A separate energy bill would create an Allocation Board with powers to set prices and regulate energy imports and pollution standards.
Immigration to Canada rose 27.6 percent in the first nine months of this year compared with 1972. By September 319,800 immigrants had been admitted versus 86,787 in the same period in 1972. Indian land returned 1,500 acres along the Richibu cto River to the Big Cove Reserve following a 1879 seizure. Old Age Pension and supplements rise in January. GNP grows 2.8 billion in Q3 to 119.1 billion, up 24 percent from the prior quarter.
A computer failure at the Wheat Board delayed the rapeseed producer poll in western Canada. The deadline to return ballots has been pushed from December 14 to January 4, 1974 as eligibility lists are corrected and mailed to voters.
Applications to allow grain producers in most Prairie regions to grow Glenlea wheat under contract next year are now available at country elevators. The contracts are part of The Canadian Wheat Board market development program for the new utility wheat varieties. Pamphlets explaining the program will be available early this week at country elevators in areas where Glenlea contracts are being offered.
About 15 000 gain producers may join the Glenlea program as contract offers begin. First come first served basis for eight elevator firms with initial 50 acre contracts, securing 2 500 bushels per contract and guaranteed price for 1974 75. No 1 or 2 Canada Utility grade and 95 percent purity required.
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