yer rrakieliy 4 -in "The swearing in of Ed Schreyer as Canada's 22nd. | governor . general ‘Monday was an impressive spectacle attended by a who's who of u dignitaries to an. ac-. companiment pomp. a _ At 43, Schreyer is. the youngest governor general ever. The former Manitoba leader became the _ first provincial premier ‘to take of musical the office as well as the first . New Democrat. “He. . is also the first ‘governor general to. have ‘neither- English nor French background, being of , Austrian heritage. At the same time, he was also presented with the chain | of the. Order of Canada and the badge of the Order of Military Merit, an un- precedented At. j the th request of Schreyer, the event was marked by four. bands, a - 4 fanfare of trumpets and a choir. ' About 1,500 were invited to the ceremony, with about 900 of them filling the Senate chamber. Among those present were 185. members incorporation ofthe Diplomatic Corps, of ceremonies which usually premiers, judges, lieutenant aré held separately | some time following ‘thé“sWearing in.. Fi nding out the hard: way A series of tests that could take more than six months to complete. is being un- dertaken on a group of 64 Inuit from northern Quebec who have been found to have ‘excessively high levels of mercury in their bodies. Until just recently, most of the Inuit had never even heard .of the heavy liquid- like metal but this week they began going to Montreal in pairs and two of them will travel to the city each week or So. The Inuit concerned have been found to have two or more times the level of mercury considered safe in the human body. It is. thought they have probably gained these high Fed’s yen to build up The federal department of sagging ‘Canadian dollar and | although negotiations..are. Finance is planning to raise money in Japan to support to te Cu‘? 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