Does the government intend to request that the Chairman of the Unemployment Insurance Commission's Board of Referees request that a person making an appeal against a UIC ruling appear in person more frequently than has been the practice to date in order for the Board of Referees to question the appellant in person and thus arrive at a better informed opinion and a fairer judgment?

Mr. Murray McBride (Lanark-Renfrew-Carleton):

Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Agriculture. It has to do with the federal program of fowl slaughter now under way to improve the egg prices paid to farmers. Will the minister be making a progress report on this program by way of a statement on motions before the House rises at the end of June?

Mr. McBride:

Not the hon. member for Kamloops-Cariboo (Mr. Marchand).

Mr. McBride:

There has been a great change in the hon. member.

Mr. Murray McBride (Lanark-Renfrew-Carleton):

Mr. Speaker, I wish to direct a question to the Minister of National Defence. Does the Department of National Defence make Canadian Armed forces personnel and equipment available for search and rescue operations within the province of Ontario, as requested by the

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Ontario Provincial Police, and, if so, can the minister assure the House that every possible assistance is being offered by the Canadian Armed Forces in the search for five year old Adrian McNaughton, lost since the evening of June 12 in dense bush near Calabogie, Ontario?