National Committee on Canadian Studies

Ad hoc Committee on the review of the role of the United Nations in the field of disarmament

Canadian Association for Social Work Education [ CASWE | Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work | National Committee of Schools of Social Work ]

national Scholarship Committee

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation | UNSCEAR [Abbr.]

Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation [ UNSCEAR ]

My own background, with 36 years of experience as a child protection worker in many parts of Canada, and now as the co-chair of the National Steering Committee on the Canadian Incidence Study on Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, leads me to the conclusion that both legal and social remedies are required to address these complex issues.

In terms of this Canadian Breast Cancer Screening Initiative committee, which I think is important in bringing together the federal and territorial partners and stakeholders, who sets that agenda?

Mr. Colin Isaacs (Chair, National Policy Committee, Canadian Environment Industry Association): Mr. Chairman, I believe we have agreed that I will go first.

9. Stresses the need for strong cooperation between the UN Environment Programme, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the WTO, and asks the Commission to develop an initiative to support this aim; asks for swift progress to be made in updating the WTO's definition of environmental goods and services, particularly in the current Doha Round negotiations, but recommends, as a starting point, a specific link to climate change, in order to reach agreement on the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers to 'green' goods and services that prevent or slow the dissemination of low carbon technologies; calls on the Commission to build a consensus on granting Multilateral Environment Agreement (MEA) Secretariats observer status at all ...[+++] meetings of the WTO that are relevant to MEA issues; stresses that a lasting solution must contain a strong political message that respects an appropriate division of labour between the WTO and MEA regimes, based on core competencies; is convinced of the need to redefine the responsibilities of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment; recommends launching a study on possible amendments to the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in order to allow for the compulsory licensing of environmentally necessary technologies, within the framework of clear and stringent rules for the protection of intellectual property, and the strict monitoring of their implementation worldwide;