5.2 Water sector: The existence of a) a water pricing policy which provides adequate incentives for users to use water resources efficiently and b) an adequate contribution of the different water uses to the recovery of the costs of water services at a rate determined in the approved river basin management plan for investment supported by the programmes.

Water sector: The existence of a) a water pricing policy which provides adequate incentives for users to use water resources efficiently and b) an adequate contribution of the different water uses to the recovery of the costs of water services at a rate determined in the approved river basin management plan for investment supported by the programmes.

First, when it comes to resource development, a conclusion is quite obvious from the policies that the NDP espouses on a daily basis, particularly if we look recently to the election in B.C., where the New Democratic Party and its economic policies, particularly around resource development, were flatly denied by British Columbians.

When he attended the Salon International de la Mer in Casablanca on 19 October, Mr Manuel Marin gave a speech on the common fisheries policy in which he emphasized the importance of stock conservation as a key element of Community fisheries policy and the only way to protect fish stocks throughout the world and ensure that they provide a satisfactory economic yield. Here are the main points of the speech: In view of the Community fleet's dependence on access to the waters of non-Community countries, arrangements enabling such access, in particular in the form of fishing agreements, today constitute ...[+++] an essential part of the external common fisheries policy.

People can give you lists of aspects of it: There have been periods of very bad macro policies, huge inflations, troubling fiscal policies and tough governance, but you have also had huge challenges in secular decline in natural resources prices, and natural resources were the fundamental basis of a number of those countries.

The combination of our dollar vis-à-vis the American dollar and the political imperatives is leading to what we see as an attractiveness of Canadian resources and the ability of foreigners, in particular Americans, to buy those resources at a very substantial rate.