Status of NAFTA Joint Reviews (JR), USEPA, Canada PMRA and Mexico CICOPLAFEST

Status of NAFTA Joint Reviews (JR) of Conventional Pesticides - U.S. EPA, Canada PMRA and Mexico CICOPLAFEST

Special Joint Session of the Programme and Finance Committees on the Review of the FAO | SJS [Abbr.]

Joint Conference of the CDCC and the Commission of the European Communities on Secondary schools and European/international education in Europe: mobility, curricula and examinations

But part and parcel of this success is the implementation of GROU and the winding down of OUI. By having the two programs exist in tandem, there's little incentive for our members to participate in providing the information needed to approve GROU candidate products, to financially support a container stewardship program, and to continue to develop new products for North American registration under joint reviews or with a NAFTA label.

Some notable agency successes are presented, including the approval of the first NAFTA-labelled pesticides, Canada's participation in global joint reviews with its Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development counterparts, and the introduction of a new policy for the registration of generic pesticides.

Ms. Wendy Sexsmith: Under our NAFTA Technical Working Group on Pesticides, in 1996, while we were starting to work on harmonization, we jumped right in and started to “learn by doing”, as we called it, on the first joint review.

[Text] Question No. 184 Mr. Bill Casey: With regard to the government’s position and actions regarding employment insurance (EI) benefits for spouses of employees of the government or private sector employees who have been posted overseas and who are unable to receive unemployment insurance benefits, even though these citizens are still registered in constituencies across Canada: (a) how many spouses of Canadian diplomats, Canadian foreign-service employees or private sector employees have filed complaints with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), or Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) with regard to the their inability to ...[+++]receive EI benefits, even though they are still Canadian citizens who are registered in federal constituencies across Canada and still pay taxes to the government; (b) does the CRA collect the payment of EI premiums from the spouses of Canada’s diplomats, foreign-service employees and those from the private sector, and, if so, why is it that these individuals cannot receive the EI benefits for which they have paid through their salaries, and earned from Canadian employers either just prior to, or while living overseas; (c) is there a conflict between the CRA and HRSDC definitions of residency of a Canadian citizen and, if so, why; (d) has any action taken place between officials of CRA, HRSDC, Foreign Affairs Canada or Elections Canada to update or correct conflicts in the definition process for determining an individual’s residency; (e) has any action taken place within the CRA to update the NR-73 Determination of Residency Status form and resulting process to correct any determination conflicts with those of other federal departments for Canadians living and working overseas; (f) have HRSDC, CRA, Elections Canada or Foreign Affairs Canada ever discussed using a standardized or shared definition for determining who is a “spouse”, in cases of spouses of government (including diplomatic and foreign-service staff) or private secto ...