However, when the amendments to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation Act were first introduced in June 1996 in Bill C-49, The Administrative Tribunals (Remedial and Disciplinary Measures) Act, now Bill C-44, the honourable Hedy Fry, Secretary of State (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women), informed stakeholders, including the National Association of Japanese Canadians, NAJC, that the government intends to maintain a lead role in race ...[+++]relations policy and programming and that amendments are necessary to avoid overlap and duplication of efforts.

The National Capital Alliance on Race Relations is an umbrella organization, a coalition of individuals and organizations which tries to promote better race relations, better inter-group understanding and to combat racism in all its forms.

In addition to these sectoral self-government education agreements, comprehensive land claims agreements typically provide First Nations signatories with the authority to make laws in relation to education, while self-government agreements generally contain provisions enabling signatories to enact laws over education when prepared to do so.14 The first comprehensive land claims agreement in ...[+++] Canada, the 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, also contained the first agreement providing a measure of First Nations control over education, with the establishment of the Cree School Board.

In particular, Member States may maintain or introduce national provisions in areas such as contract law relating to the validity of credit agreements, property law, land registration, contractual information and, to the extent that they are not regulated in this Directive, post-contractual issues.

Therefore, this Directive should not affect national law in the area of contracts relating to employment, contracts relating to succession rights, contracts relating to family law and contracts relating to the incorporation and organisation of companies or partnership agreements.

For instance, the establishment of the national infrastructure program that is already in place, the restoration of full funding for the national literacy program, the establishment of the youth service corps, the establishment of the youth internship and apprenticeship programs, the insurance of access to capital for small businesses in replacement of GST, the reinstatement of the residential rehabilitation assistance program, the establishment of a prenatal nutrition program, the establishment of the aboriginal head-start program, the establishment of a centre of excellence for women's health, the restoration of the court challenges pr ...[+++]ogram, the restoration of the law reform commission, the establishment of the Canadian race relations foundation and the establishment of the national forum on health.