73. Calls on the Member States to outlaw and sanction vote-buying, stipulating in particular that the benefits arising from a ‘promise to vote’ can take the form not only of money, but also of other advantages, including intangible advantages and those accorded to third parties not directly implicated in the illicit agreement;

Two years ago, on November 4, the former NDP leader, the late Jack Layton, moved a motion, which received the unanimous support of all the parties in this House that called for immediate steps to amend the Investment Canada Act to ensure the views of those most directly affected by takeovers would be considered; that any decision that a takeover bid delivers, a net benefit to Canada would be made transparent; to make public hearings a mandatory part of the review; to ma ...[+++]ke the hearings open to all directly affected; that all conditions be made public and transparent and that there be improved monitoring and enforcement with stiff penalties; and to clarify the goals of foreign takeover reviews and that it does not merely allow the control of a Canadian asset .

So in addition to the physical activity benefits, you also have school attainment benefits, which, through a determinants of health lens, helps us to break through the cycles and make sure that populations can stay healthy into the future.

For example, with regard to the directives’ scope, it should be made clear that the field to which they apply is that of public procurement – a concept defined, according to the most recent ECJ rulings, by the existence of a direct benefit to the contracting authority; that public-public cooperation as defined by the ECJ is not subject to public procurement rules; and that service concessions also fall outside their scope.

Based on our support for market-based mechanisms and on the urgency for Canada to engage in projects and programs that directly count towards achieving our Kyoto target, I continue to believe that this program demands strict oversight, and taxpayers' dollars should not be used to facilitate the purchase or generation of international credits for private sector entities.

Some of the benefits created by the industry are that it competes on the international market in terms of service offered to the travelling public, increases spending of the international travelling public in Canada, contributes substantively to the revenue required by local airport authorities by helping to keep costs down for travellers, contributes substantively to the revenue paid to the Minister of Finance by the airport authority under local airport authority lease agreements, strengthens the tourism package by offering a retail vehicle that the international travelling public expects, promotes the sales of domestic goods, an ...[+++]d creates direct and indirect jobs.