Robot Companions for Citizens: soft skinned and intelligent robots have highly developed perceptive, cognitive and emotional skills, and can help people, radically changing the way humans interact with machines.

The petitioners also believe it runs counter to our culture to use companion animals such as horses in that way.

The report analyses different mechanisms whereby the female condition is sometimes exalted and sometimes exploited: (1) its social relationship to sexuality and procreation; (2) its relationship with the status and different roles of women: mother, wife or companion, daughter or sister; (3) ways of escaping social inequality, including unacceptable ways.

We expect the pressure to be stepped up in such a way that the cynical stance of Mr Mugabe, who is indeed still receiving support from his old companions, will be brought to an end and the rule of law restored instead.

The honour in this form of legislation and the honour that comes to this Parliament with this legislation is that we can acknowledge that those were historically wrong decisions made in the cultural context of the time and that it is possible to address those in a way that benefits First Nations people, acknowledges their rights and responsibilities, but also, as do this legislation and the companion pieces, Bills C-33 and C-34, serve to enhance the rights and responsibilities of all Yukoners (1655 ) Mr. Mike Scott (Skeena, Ref.): Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a couple of comments and then I ask a question of the hon. member for Yuko ...[+++]n.

The second question raised by my colleague—and I am glad he raised it because that was what I was saying at the end of my speech—is that, unlike the other provinces, Quebec does not have the same measures for its farm safety-net programs, its companion programs, and does not apply them in the same way.