All that piece or parcel of land situate and being at Placentia in the Province of Newfoundland commonly known and referred to as Castle Hill and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the northerly limit of the road (sixty-six feet wide) extending from the road leading from Jersey Side to the Argentia Highway to the fort at Castle Hill, the said point being the southwest angle of land occupied by J. O’Keefe; THENCE running in an easterly direction along the aforesaid northerly limit of the road two hundred and forty-eight feet; THENCE turning and running south ninety feet to a point on the southern side of the ...[+++] said road; THENCE running south sixty-seven degrees forty-two minutes east one hundred and four feet and seven-tenths of a foot more or less; THENCE running south eight hundred and five feet to a point on the shore of Placentia Bay at high-water mark; THENCE running along the said shore at high-water mark in a general westerly direction three thousand five hundred feet; THENCE turning and running south seventy-one degrees thirty minutes east seven hundred and seventy feet and THENCE north eighty-two degrees fifty minutes east four hundred and eighty feet and four-tenths of a foot; and THENCE north seventy-eight degrees nine minutes east nine hundred and sixty-seven feet more or less to the aforesaid land occupied by J. O’Keefe; THENCE running by the said land south nineteen degrees thirty minutes east three hundred and ninety-eight feet more or less to the point of beginning; all bearings being magnetic.

All sides of this chamber deserve credit for the non-partisan cooperation that saw that bill through, as do the Prime Minister and Government of Canada, who turned a motion in this place, supported by both sides, into solid legislation.

With the Canadian Forces turning around and no longer requiring its high ranking officials to be bilingual, the Conservative government is showing its reformist side from the Manning days and its Alliance side from the days of the hon. member for Okanagan—Coquihalla, and is not fulfilling its responsibilities under the Official Languages Act.

In the aviation sector, eliminating foreign ownership restrictions on both sides of the Atlantic would give carriers better access to international capital, which in turn would contribute to worldwide operations, growth, competitive effectiveness and the promotion of competition and consumer benefits.

Honourable senators, in all fairness, I do not think that our fellow Atlantic Canadians want to take it all and turn, from a resource point of view, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, side by side, into a smaller duplicate of Alberta and Saskatchewan, side by side.

The Council considered that the economic assumptions of the programme were reasonable and plausible; indeed the prudent assumptions about economic growth (O.7% in 1996 and 1.O% in 1997) might turn out to be on the low side in the context of the expected general up-turn in the EU economy.