Given that a CCP’s aim should be to have a flat position with regards to market risk, the only risks that a CCP should need to hedge are those concerning the collateral that it accepts or the risks arising from the default of a clearing member.

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure ...[+++] healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

Implement investment readiness programmes; Promote cooperation among fragmented local support organizations; Use good practices in implementing risk capital policies at all levels; Aspire to stability and long-term view in public policies on risk capital; Study the advantages of introducing a Young Innovative Company Scheme; Consider the advantages of expanding the market for hybrid instruments in SME finance; Efficiently use the JEREMIE process to obtain a set of financial products specifically engineered for SMEs; Consider the possibilities for a more neutral taxation ...[+++]of the different forms of enterprise financing.

[53] (i) credit lines (or "global loans") from the EIB to the specialised banking sector for the funding of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in audiovisual creation, audiovisual technology or the performance of subcontracting in this sector; (ii) medium- and long-term funding by the EIB, in cooperation with the banking sector, of infrastructure investments by large private or public television, production or audiovisual distribution groups; (iii) financing of specialised venture capital funds via EIF holdings; and (iv) dev ...[+++]elopment of joint EIB Group and European Commission actions in favour of cultural creation or the development of the film or television industry (finance training sessions, cooperation between European distributors, etc.).

Distributors would be granted a budget for distribution, over a period of one or two years, of a catalogue of European films with a higher risk profile, with no constraints in terms of the number of European distributors appointed.

This can have serious repercussions on the production of works of fiction, the key sector for the future not just in Europe but all over the world; - problems with royalties, the management of archives or quite simply the lack of catalogues is making it well nigh impossible today to develop a 'second market' for European audiovisual products, when such a market, mainly consisting of the rebroadcasting of television programmes and films, would make it possible to put to profitable use a substantial stock of programmes; - 2 - - the au ...[+++]diovisual sector is regarded in financial circles as a high-risk area, mainly on account of its national scale: in other words, investors are not sufficiently tempted to share the risks in cross-frontier operations.