I would like to thank the individuals and groups who worked with me to put this bill together, including police officers from the SPVM morality branch and child sexual exploitation unit, criminal lawyers from the Barreau du Québec and women's and human trafficking victims' advocacy groups, such as the Comité d'action contre la traite humaine interne et internationale, Afeas, the Regroupement québécois des centres d'aide et de lutte ...[+++] contre les agressions à caractère sexuel, Concertation-Femme, Concertation des luttes contre l'exploitation sexuelle, the Association québécoise Plaidoyer-Victimes and Maison de Marthe.

(Return tabled) Question No. 611 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the government’s plans for resource development, as described in the section entitled “Responsible Resource Development” in Chapter 3.2 of Budget 2012: (a) what are all examples of federal environmental laws that are stronger than provincial laws and how will the proposed legislative changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) affect the assessment of environmental impacts of industrial projects that cross provincial borders; (b) what research, action, or investment has the government undertaken to study impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impac ...[+++]ts, (iii) risk mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (c) what briefing notes, memos, or any other documentation, including, for each, the details of its findings and recommendations, have been provided to the Prime Minister, Minister of Natural Resources, Minister of the Environment, their respective Parliamentary Secretaries, their respective Deputy Ministers, and their respective staff members, regarding impacts of the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA on (i) regulatory decision-making, (ii) risk of project-specific and cumulative environmental impacts, (iii) mitigation by developers, (iv) Canada’s reputation; (d) will the proposed legislative changes to the CEAA give any consideration to (i) measuring negative impacts of development, (ii) managing negative impacts of development; (e) by what date will the government bring forth new “legislation to streamline the review process for major economic projects” (Budget 2012, p. 89); (f) what are the projected costs of changes to the CEAA for each province and territory; (g) what assessments of the adequacy of the environmental assessment process in each province and territory have been conducted, (i) what were the dates of any such assessments, (ii) what wer ...

Timing : The different steps of the draft roadmap and particularly the work within the MS Expert Group and the sectoral working groups are meant to constitute various preparatory elements of the Impact Assessment.

The Group was set up in December 2005 and is composed of Mr. Esko Aho (Chairman) - Former Prime Minister of Finland , Dr. Jozef Cornu, former President and COO of Alcatel Telecom, Prof. Luke Georghiou (Rapporteur) of Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester and Prof. Antoni Subirá, of IESE Business School (Barcelona) The report is available at:

The European Research Area is a particularly good framework for the work to be undertaken by the Group of experts since it generates the conditions to exploit the considerable potential existing in Europe by enabling a real co-ordination of research efforts in the Member States.

The report of the Group of the Independent Experts ("Lassen Group"), charged by the European Commission to evaluate the scientific information on the state of the stocks exploited by the European fleets in view of the application of the multi-annual guidance programme IV (1997-1999), has today been made public.