(a) to protect the health of young persons throughout Canada from the numerous debilitating and fatal diseases and other consequences injurious to health that are associated with tobacco use; (b) to protect young persons throughout Canada from inducements to use tobacco products and to counteract such inducements; (c) to discourage and prevent tobacco use by young persons throughout Canada, including children, and to fight their addiction to tobacco and dependence on its use; (d) to develop a multi-year strategy to combat the use of tobacco products by young persons and to involve young persons as much as possible in the design and execution of any programs tha ...[+++]t are part of the strategy; (e) to examine existing models of best practices for tobacco control in North America and, in consultation with recognized health organizations, to develop a model to be applied in Canada and to review it from time to time by comparing it with other models developed in other countries; (f) to monitor the use of tobacco products throughout Canada by gathering, commissioning, sharing and publicizing statistics and, in particular, statistics on the market share of brands and on their use by different groups of young persons; (g) to gather, sponsor, commission, conduct and share research on the use of tobacco products throughout Canada and on ways to motivate young persons not to start using tobacco products and to cease using them; (h) to develop and distribute educational tools, plan and execute communications strategies, run advertising campaigns, use the media and disseminate information through other means to discourage and prevent the use of tobacco products by young persons; (i) to hold and sponsor programs, conferences and peer and other group activities to discourage and prevent the use of tobacco products by young persons; (j) to engage in and fund, at the local, regional and national levels throughout Canada, activities of health groups and other organizations and pe ...

It is the government's responsibility to oversee the management of our corporations, and that inevitably means controlling the compensation paid to executives of corporations that receive assistance out of Canadian taxpayers' dollars.

Mr. Vic Toews: It appears that with the sponsorship files there was really no input from colleagues, because the executive director had control of those files personally, or the small cadre of people around him, including his administrative assistant, would have had control (1715) Mr. David Myer: Speaking from my responsibilities as DG of procurement, I certainly had no input whatsoever into the sponsorship program.

His career spanned that of a junior bank employee, wartime service in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Secretary of the New Brunswick Liquor Control Board, Personal Secretary to Premier John McNair, the First Executive Secretary of the New Brunswick Liberal Association in its first permanent party office, Executive Assistant to Premier Louis J. Robichaud, and member of the Senate of Canada for 24 years.

The following expenditure of public administrations is eligible for co-financing outside technical assistance if it relates to the execution of an operation provided that it does not arise from the statutory responsibilities of the public authority or the authority's day-to-day management, monitoring and control tasks:

But unfortunately that was not what happened. The Bosnian Serbs were quickly able, with the assistance of the Yugoslav army, a relatively well-equipped force dominated by Serbs, to take control of 70 per cent of the territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina, including territories where they were only a tiny minority, to expel the non-Serbs systematically, especially the Muslims, and even to execute a certain number of them.