47. Notes that, despite dramatic growth, India's infrastructure still displays, in parts, the characteristics of a developing nation, with poor transport networks and regular power outages; notes that the 2010 Commonwealth Games provide an opportunity for European companies to compete for key infrastructure projects; calls on India and the EU to explore trade-related infrastructure development, through public-private partnership investment, ensuring transparency, a credible regulatory environment and a level playing field between private investors and the government; accordingly calls for the use of loans from the EIB, whose mandate – in th ...[+++]e case of Asia and Latin America – is centred on productive investment; calls on India and the EU to focus this investment in rural areas, providing better water supply and sanitation, improving transport networks, particularly all weather roads, and improving the quality of grid power output;

45. Notes that, despite dramatic growth, India's infrastructure still displays, in parts, the characteristics of a developing nation, with poor transport networks and regular power outages; calls on India and the EU to explore trade-related infrastructure development, through public-private partnership investment, ensuring transparency, a credible regulatory environment and a level playing field between private investors and the government; accordingly calls for the use of loans from the EIB, whose mandate – in the case of Asia and Latin America – is centred on productive investment; calls on India and the EU to focus this investment ...[+++]in rural areas, providing better water supply and sanitation, improving transport networks, particularly all weather roads, and improving the quality of grid power output;

· the EGF web site in all languages, laid down in Article 9.2 of the EGF Regulation at the behest of the European Parliament, has been set up very slowly, and up-to-date translations of the site are still not available in all languages;

Language teachers may often feel isolated, unaware of developments elsewhere with the potential to improve their work; they may not have access to adequate professional support networks; it is therefore important to facilitate contacts and effective networks between them at a regional, national and European level.

We believe books should be exempted from the GST or its new form, the harmonized sales tax, because it would be a way to support book sellers and encourage the spread of knowledge by a medium that is somewhat more conventional but still has its place and which we all know is still a very important factor in establishing the identity of a community, and I am referring to literature, what people write about us, and what is written elsewhere (1645) It is surprising to find such a provision in Bill C-70, because, on a number of occasions, ...[+++] here as elsewhere, the Liberal members, the members of the government, took a totally opposite stance.

The best tribute we can pay him is to carry on his political vision of a Quebec that will always have a place in Canada.