Question No. 621 Ms. Hélène Laverdière: With regard to the planned reductions in departmental spending for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) announced in Budget 2012, for fiscal years 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015: (a) what is the total dollar amount of reductions for each of the program activities, specifically, (i) International Policy Advice and Integration, (ii) Diplomacy and Advocacy, (iii) International Commerce, (iv) Consular Services and Emergency Management, (v) Passport Canada, (vi) Governance, Strategic Direction and Common Service Delivery; (b) what are the total reductions for full-time ...[+++]equivalents (FTEs) for each of the program activities, specifically, (i) International Policy Advice and Integration, (ii) Diplomacy and Advocacy, (iii) International Commerce, (iv) Consular Services and Emergency Management, (v) Passport Canada, (vi) Governance, Strategic Direction and Common Service Delivery; (c) what is the total dollar amount of reductions to the Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor for the Extractive Sector; (d) what is the total dollar amount of reductions to the Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister, Afghanistan, Middle East and Maghreb, broken down by (i) Afghanistan Inter-Departmental Communications and Information Services Bureau, (ii) Director General, Afghanistan Task Force, (iii) Middle East and Maghreb Bureau; (e) what is the total dollar amount of reductions to the Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister, Americas, broken down by (i) Director General, Latin America and Caribbean, (ii) Hemispheric Policy Bureau, (iii) North American Platform Program, Executive Coordinator and Senior Advisor, (iv) North America Policy Bureau, (v) North America Programs and Operations Bureau, (vi) North American Leaders' Summit Division; (f) what is the total dollar amount of reductions to the Office of the Assistant Deputy Minister for Europe, Eurasia and Africa, broken down by (i) Africa Bureau, Director Gen ...

There are substantial economic and political reasons for the Community to define a coherent aviation policy towards its major trading partners, notably Russia, with whom the EU is developing a close economic and political partnership under the framework of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA)[2] and the four “Common Spaces” called for at the EU-Russia Summit in St. Petersburg in May 2003, and in particular the Common Economic Space (CES).

We at WD are certainly looking for support, and we're getting it from the four western provinces with whom we deal directly, for an expanded or extended western economic partnership agreement that allows us to partner with the provinces and for these types of tourism initiatives.

In a joint statement on the Transatlantic Economic Partnership they identified a series of multilateral and bilateral actions to strengthen further the economic partnership, to reduce frictions and to promote prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic.

[1] The participants in the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Ministers for Industry: - mindful of the Declaration of the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Barcelona on 27 and 28 November 1995 and the relevant Work Programme; - in consideration of the general principles it defines for developing economic and financial partnership and in particular the importance of sustained, balanced growth aimed at creating a zone of shared prosperity; - recognizing the strategic role of industrial cooperation in developing a sound competitive economic fabric and in creating jobs; - stressing the need - as a contribution to industrial competitiveness - for suitable infras ...[+++]tructures in the field of transport, energy, telecommunications and water resources, and for adequate growth in the financial system; - mindful that in the sphere of industrial cooperation, it is the task of the public authorities to encourage and develop an environment that will draw investments and initiatives to the Mediterranean's southern and eastern regions and that it is the task of economic and commercial operators to derive the maximum advantage from the opportunities on offer; - mindful of the role in endogenous development that may be played by the Mediterranean partnership and by forms of active cooperation between southern Mediterranean countries to be implemented in a climate of political and economic stability; - stressing the importance of the entrepreneurial system for Euro- Mediterranean socio-economic development and the desirability of giving this system a role in making proposals; - in the conviction that the goals of economic and financial partnership, as outlined in Barcelona and elaborated in this Declaration, can only be pursued in a structured, integrated and coordinated way; - aware that other European, international and regional fora sharing the same expertise and responsibility as the participants of this Conference must also be involved in the pursuit of these goals; - in the h ...

Fourth, in keeping with the notion of economic partnership, the government should establish a parallel fund, under arm's length control by labour and management, for the economic partners, in cooperation with provinces, territories and communities, to jointly design and put in place the best possible range of active labour market measures.