These principles call for giving seniors greater autonomy, creating conditions to improve their quality of life, enabling seniors to work and lead independent lives, creating health care systems and economic and social safety nets for seniors and introducing social support systems to make it easier for families to care for seniors.

The action plan is divided into two parts. The first part summarises the nine measures on which the EU as a group has now to deliver, together with the relevant timetable, while the second part presents the first four deliverables that have already been developed and are ready for immediate adoption and implementation in a selected number of partner countries. The third part describes the five remaining deliverables that have to be dev ...[+++]eloped during 2006 and implemented by 2010.

In its Social Action Programme 1998-2000 the Commission is committed to make proposals based on article 13 of the TEC as modified in Amsterdam, in which workplace-based discrimination on the grounds of age would be dealt with along with other grounds.

Mr. Yvan Loubier (Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, BQ): Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Finance admit that his old age pension reform proposal is aimed at making seniors poorer and replacing the current pension system with a social assistance program for seniors?

Mr. Jean-Marie Berthelot, Manager, Health Analysis and Modeling Group, Social and Economic Studies Division, Statistics Canada: If the trends over the past twenty years persist, there should be no deterioration in the health of Canadian seniors.

If the proposed transferee is not approved and the transferor does not, within ten days of being notified thereof, withdraw the transfer proposal, the Board of Directors shall inform all other holders of Class B shares by registered letter that they have the right, within twenty days from the date of dispatch of the letters, to purchase the shares which it is proposed to transfer and to do so, save as otherwise agreed between them, in proportion to the number of shares owned by each of them; the price shall, save where agreement has been reached by the persons concerned, be determined by two experts, one of whom shall be appointed by th ...[+++]e transferor and the other by the Board of Directors, it being understood that these experts shall, if necessary, appoint a third expert, whose decision shall be final, provided that if one of the parties refuses to appoint an expert or if the experts appointed do not reach agreement upon the appointment of a third expert, such appointment or appointments shall, at the request of the first party to make application, be made by the President of the Commercial Court in the place in which the seat of the company is situate.