54. Underlines that women in South Sudan face multiple forms of discrimination as well as violations of their fundamental rights, including widespread early and forced marriage, the absence of family law, limited political participation by women’s at all levels of government, and sexual and domestic violence; calls on the South Sudanese Government to eliminate all kinds of discrimination against women, to fight illiteracy by improving access to education for women, thereby improving their role in society and in the building of the ne ...[+++]w state; calls on the South Sudanese Government to set out a national action plan to end child marriage by promoting, inter alia, access to education for children; urges the South Sudanese Government, in this connection, and considering that traditional practices play an important role in the society of South-Sudan, to end any discriminatory traditional practices carried out against women by engaging with NGOs, for example, in order to educate members of the judiciary with respect to the field of human rights;

YEAS: 7 NAYS: 3 On Clause 6 Yvan Loubier moved, That Bill C-7, in Clause 6, be amended by replacing subsections (1) through (4) with the following “(1) An administration of government code must address and achieve the following objectives: (a) frequency of meetings; (b) the manner of calling and publicizing meetings; (c) the participation of members in meeting and; (d) the keeping of minutes of proceedings at meetings and access to the minutes by members (2) An administration of government code must address and achieve the followin ...[+++]g objectives respecting meetings of the Council of the band: (a) meetings which are to be open to members of the band and the frequency of such meetings; (b) the manner of calling and publicizing meetings; (c) the manner of making decisions and exercising the Council's powers; and (d) the keeping of records of the Council's decisions and access to those records by members of the band (3) government code must address and achieve the following objectives respecting the development, making and registration of band laws: (a) providing for reasonable notice to band members of a proposed law and permitting affected persons to comment on it before its made; (b) prescribing the procedure for making of band laws by the Council; and (c) providing for the maintenance of a band registry of codes and laws (4) An administration of government code must address and achieve the following objectives: (a) setting out the roles and authority of the band administration and its relationship to the Council; (b) providing for conflicts of interest of members of the Council and employees of the band; (c) respecting access to information under the control of the band, protection of personal information under its control and access by individuals to information about themselves; and (d) establishing a procedure for amending the code”.

The areas of clinical law in which the society desires to work are those areas of law that particularly affect low-income individuals or disadvantaged communities, including legal matters related to the following: mediation and negotiation on housing and shelter, income maintenance, social assistance and other similar government programs; immigration law, human rights, health, work and disability, employment legal advice, representation and advocacy on these matters; test case representation on a poverty law issue if a case is found to be meritorious of such action; public legal education, production and translation of legal information, materials and workshops; independent legal advice, representation in court, duty counsel services, w ...[+++]ills and powers of attorney, some contracts, some family law and child welfare law — I would like to note that many of these services are provided by the current legal aid civil program, but on a limited basis at this time; in family law, a third-party intervention service would be offered when a no-contact order, peace bond, emergency protection order or a civil restraining order prevents opposing parties from having direct contact when the court orders access to the children by the non-custodial parent — by that, I mean that a court may order that the non-custodial parent have access and to facilitate this and to avoid conflict, we would offer a third-party intervention, a place where the non-custodial parent could be with his or her children in a non-adversarial and non-threatening manner; an outreach component, including a 1-888 number to provide telephone-based legal assistance to low-income households across the Northwest Territories; a poverty law website of legal information in order to establish partnerships with isolated communities; and, very importantly, a community outreach advocate training program and policy that would be under the supervision of a lawyer.

(Return tabled) Question No. 130 Mr. Francis Scarpaleggia: With regard to rail safety in Canada: (a) for the period of 2006-2012, which railways were permitted to operate with a single operator; (b) for the period of 2006-2012, which railways had permission to leave trains unattended for limited periods of time on main lines with or without an idling locomotive(s); (c) for the period of 2006-2012, which railways had permission to leave trains unattended for limited periods of time on side lines with or without an idling locomotive(s ...[+++]); (d) with regard to the railways in (b) and (c), under what specific conditions could the trains be left unattended; (e) what legislative or regulatory framework governs local emergency preparedness plans in the event of a rail accident; (f) with respect to the plans in (e), (i) who is responsible for creating and executing such plans, (ii) by whom are they audited, (iii) how often are they audited, (iv) against what criteria are they audited; (g) by whom and how often are municipalities through which freight trains pass provided with regular reports on (i) the state of local emergency preparedness in the event of a rail accident, (ii) the state and maintenance record of the railway lines within their borders, (iii) the materials, hazardous or not, that are transported through their jurisdiction; (h) if reports referred to in (g) are not provided, why not; (i) how many of the DOT-111 railway tank cars and the DOD-112 tank cars are in use in Canada, for each year since 2006; (j) for each year since 2006, how many rolling stock and track safety inspectors were employed at Transport Canada, broken down by (i) province of work, (ii) oversight responsibility; (k) for each year since 2006, how many rolling stock and track safety inspectors employed by Transport Canada were responsible for inspections in (i) the Greater Montreal Area, (ii) the municipality of Pointe-Claire (iii) the municipality of Beaconsfield, (iv) the municipality ...

2. In the framework of the methodological visits, which may also be unannounced, the Commission (Eurostat) shall have the right to access the accounts of all government entities at central, state, local and social security (including state pension fund) levels, including the provision of underlying detailed accounting information, such as transactions and balance sheets, relevant statistical surveys and questionnaires and further related information, such as analytical documents and the accounting data of other public bodies.

In the absence of judicial review, in an unsatisfactory context in terms of all aspects of implementation of EU law and of limited resources of the Commission, it is worth considering how to develop a more transparent approach and a more structured access for the European Parliament to the Commission's decisions, without interfering into the discretionary power the Commission has in deciding how to deal with specific infringement cases.