Question No. 468 Mr. Rodger Cuzner: With regard to the Canada First Defence Strategy: (a) does the strategy include (i) acquisition of three strategic air transport aircraft and stationing them at CFB Trenton, (ii) doubling the size of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), (iii) acquisition of three armed naval heavy icebreakers, and stationing them in the area of Iqaluit, (iv) building a new civilian-military deepwater docking facility to accommodate the three armed naval heavy icebreakers mentioned in subquestion (iii), (v) establishing a new underwater sensor system, (vi) building a new army training centre in the area of Camb ...[+++]ridge Bay, (vii) stationing new long-range unmanned aerial vehicle squadrons at both CFB Goose Bay and CFB Comox, (viii) stationing new fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft in Yellowknife, (ix) increasing the size of the Canadian Rangers by 500, (x) establishing a 650-member regular forces battalion at CFB Comox, CFB Goose Bay, CFB Trenton, and CFB Bagotville respectively, (xi) adding 1,000 regular force and 750 reserve force personnel to the army in Quebec, (xii) establishing a territorial defence unit in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, St. John's, Halifax and the Niagara-Windsor corridor respectively, (xiii) recruiting 1,000 regular force personnel for the purpose of improving and enlarging the Atlantic fleet, (xiv) increasing the number of personnel in CFB Gagetown, (xv) stationing new aircraft and personnel at CFB Greenwood, (xvi) increasing the numbers of Pacific navy regular force personnel by about 500, (xvii) deploying new fixed-wing search and rescue aircraft at CFB Comox and CFB Winnipeg, (xviii) upgrading fighter aircraft at CFB Cold Lake; (b) what is the rationale for the inclusion or exclusion, from the Canada First Defence Strategy, of each of the items mentioned in subquestions (a)(i) to (a)(xviii); and (c) for each item mentioned in subquestions (a)(i) to (a ...

They include $631.6 million to the Treasury Board Secretariat to supplement other appropriations on behalf of other departments and agencies regarding compensation for collective bargaining; $195 million to the Canadian International Development Agency to meet additional grant requirements for international development assistance; $183 million to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to continue to build on the capacity of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to create and translate new knowledge for improving health; $162 million to Human Resources Development Canada for operating costs to administer the new direct financi ...[+++]ng arrangements for the Canadian Student Loan Program, $70 million to increase loan recovery activities and $91 million to help alleviate and prevent homelessness; $135 million to National Defence for pay comparability for Canadian Forces and pay adjustments and environmental allowances for officers and non-commissioned members; $92 million to Veterans Affairs to cover increased disability pension costs for veterans and their dependents; $85 million to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to help stimulate the production of affordable housing in urban areas and remote communities; $75 million to Health Canada for sustainability of the Non-Insured Health Benefits program for First Nations and Inuit in the 2002-2003 fiscal year; and $52 million to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to implement six initiatives, including the reporting of federal construction contracts, the Air Travellers Security Charge, First Nations taxation and tax on income.

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(4) The first objective of this Decision is to guide the technical choices made by authorities responsible for planning, constructing, upgrading and operating the infrastructure and rolling stock to be put into service after the date on which this Decision takes effect, contributing to the operation of the rail system referred to in Directive 96/48/EC.

Many of the tools for the building of such an infrastructure exist, however efforts are needed at Member State level to move towards the implementation of the infrastructure in a coherent way which enables them to use technology to achieve their health objectives.

Going further, the conditions must be studied and put in place for a real "territorialisation" of research policies (adaptation to the geographical socio-economic context), and a better understanding and strengthening is needed of the role that the regions can play, in addition to the Member States and the Union, in the establishment of a more dynamic European research area on the international scene.