4. Notes that Kazakhstan is currently one of the 47 members of the HRC; points out that the human rights situation in that country has deteriorated further since the brutal police repression of peaceful demonstrators and oil workers, their families and supporters in Zhanaozen on 16 December 2011, which, according to official figures, left 15 people dead and over 100 injured; calls on the HRC to implement without delay the call made by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, for an independent international investigation into the killing of oil workers in Kazakhstan; calls on Kazakhstan, as a member of the HRC, to guarante ...[+++]e human rights, repeal Article 164 of its penal code on ‘inciting social discord’, end the repression of, and lift the administrative obstacles placed in the way of, independent media, release political prisoners – including Vadim Kuramshin, a lawyer for human rights defenders, Roza Tuletaeva, a union activist, and Vladimir Kozlow, an opposition politician – and drop all requests for the extradition of opposition politicians;

It seems to me that the Office of the Auditor General provides independent oversight, and if the House administration were subject to the Access to Information Act, there would also be independent oversight through complaints to my office and through Canadians being able to make access requests.

In my view, the public interest of greater transparency and the House's interest in more efficiency in its internal governance will be better served by establishing a more arm's-length relationship between the House and the board, but not by establishing an outside body as the governing administrative authority for the House.

Currently, when a person is charged under the Criminal Code with being over 80, the provinces impose an immediate administrative license suspension that is completely independent of the results of the criminal charge.

5. Calls on the Georgian authorities to carry out a thorough, impartial and independent investigation into the serious violations of human rights and freedom of the media, notably the allegations of excessive use of force by law enforcement officials, in order to identify all those responsible, bring them to trial and apply the penal and/or administrative sanctions provided for by law;

18. Takes the view that scrutiny of the legality of the agency's legal acts must be dealt with clearly and comprehensibly in the instrument establishing that agency, which, depending on the nature of the agency's tasks, provides that the Court of Justice is responsible for ruling on appeals made against acts of the agency under the conditions laid down in Article 230 of the EC Treaty, that administrative complaints against the agency's acts may be brought before the Commission and that an appeal for annulment might then be brought against the Commission's decision before the Court of Justice. Alternatively, the instrument establishing th ...[+++]e agency may stipulate that the agency's acts are, firstly, subject to an internal appeal before independent boards of appeal and that their decisions may then be submitted to the Court's consideration;