Mr. Gordon Earle: On Canadian content policy, you say that if sufficient competition exists, normally three suppliers, we keep it in Canada.

34. Calls on the Commission to propose a cluster policy and cluster networks in the form of cooperation, particularly in value chains, between connected companies, suppliers, service providers, universities and research centres which also stimulate an organic emergence of clusters in a ‘bottom-up’ manner in response to business and/or research needs; stresses the importance of establishing transnational clusters, particularly in order to integrate structurally weaker regions into the European industrial value chain, on the basis of Union-wide competition encouraging the participation of underrepresented countries/regions and ensuring the know-how transfer across the research communities from all the Member States; believes this to be a cr ...[+++]ucial aspect to be integrated into regional industrial policies; notes that the Commission should also pay adequate attention to supporting existing clusters; encourages the Commission to establish resource efficiency clusters under the future green action plan for SMEs;

Through losing the right to have independent procurement policies, municipalities like Guelph will lose the right to buy local materials and services, which is one of its most important tools for stimulating local innovation, fostering local community economic development, creating local employment and achieving other valuable public policy goals.

If you're a pensioner, employee, bond holder, supplier, then our job is to optimize.And just as another clarification, the severance policy is applicable, obviously, to everything that's happened to this point in time, including levels of management.

On supplier debriefing, we at OSME, in cooperation with the Office of the Procurement Ombudsman, have recently posted on the website a reminder to all suppliers and procurement officers about the policy on supplier debrief.

14. Calls on the Council to adopt, as a complement to the fourth pillar, a policy of "gender mainstreaming" throughout the guidelines; a similar mainstreaming approach should be implemented with regard to policy measures concerning disabled people; urges a clear commitment to be made to halving the gender gap within 5 years;