The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm, Sweden, ranks Canada seventy-seventh out of 172 countries in voter turnout, with an average of 68.4 per cent in federal elections.

Higher education, as was recently observed, is the heart and soul of the Aboriginal community’s rise from desperation to middle class ([45]) And laying down the honest foundations for the development of a vibrant middle class requires governments to think and act proactively.

To avoid the convicted offender being put at a disadvantage by the conversion, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg suggests, in a study on Recognition of alternative sanctions in the European Union, commissioned by the European Commission and published in December 2001, that the court in the State of enforcement should make a "functional comparison" between the (alternative) penalties or measures of the sentencing State and the State of enforcement.

VI. The activities financed under this Regulation shall mainly take the form of technical assistance, training, institution-building, information, seminars, studies, projects for investment in micro-enterprises, small and medium-sized undertakings and infrastructures and action designed to highlight the Community nature of the assistance.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Dupuy (Minister of Canadian Heritage), seconded by Mr. Peters (Secretary of State (International Financial Institutions)), — That Bill C–93, An Act to amend the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, the Income Tax Act and the Tax Court of Canada Act, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage; And of the amendment of Mr. Solberg (Medicine Hat), seconded by Mr. Hart (Okanagan–Similkameen–Merritt), — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following: “this House decline to give second r ...[+++]eading to Bill C–93, An Act to amend the Cultural Property Export and Import. Act, the Income Tax Act and the Tax Court of Canada Act, since it fails to address the issue of the burden the tax credit system places on middle-class taxpayers who are asked to pay for a potentially endless stream of donations of questionable cultural and artistic value claimed by wealthy Canadians”.

ANNEX I LIST OF SOCIAL PARTNERS CONSULTED IN THE FIRST-STAGE CONSULTATION AECM (Association européenne des classes moyennes) BIPAR (Bureau International des producteurs d'assurances et de réassurances) C.E.C (Confédération Européenne des Cadres) C.E.E.P (Centre Européen des Entreprises à Participation Publique) C.E.S (Confédération Européenne des Syndicats) et ses comités syndicaux COPA (Comités des organisations professionnelles agricoles de la CE) ECSA (European Shipowners Association) European Federation of Banks European Saving Banks Groups EUROCOMMERCE (Retail, Wholesale ...[+++] and International Trade Representation to the EC) et d'autres organisations patronales FIEC (Fédération de l'Inudstrie européenne de la construction UEAPME (Union Européenne de l'Artisanat et des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises) UNICE (Union des Confédérations de l'Industrie et des Employeurs d'Europe (EC) et ses organisations sectorielles E.R.A (European Regional Airlines Association) ACCA (Association of Charter Companies Airlines) ACCI Europe (Airports Council International) A.C.E (Abelag Aviation) A.E.A (Association of European Airlines) IRU (International Road Transport Union) UNIF (Union Internationale de la Navigation Fluviale) Groupe des Assistants Communauté des Chemins de Fer Européennes HOTREC (Confédérations des Associations Nationales de l'Hötellerie et de la restauration de la CE) Groupement des Banques Coopératives de la CE ANNEX II LIST OF SOCIAL PARTNERS TO BE CONSULTED IN THE SECOND-STAGE CONSULTATION This list includes the social partners which having been consulted in the course of the first-stage consultation sent their respective answers to the Commission.