32. Notes the proposed modifications of the nomenclature; recalls that a report on the financing of expenditure relating to delegations and Assemblies is awaited; decides at this stage not to agree to the changes in the nomenclature in Article 214 ("Technical equipment and installations") and in Items 3244 ("Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola programme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third countries"), 3245 ("Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities"), 3246 ("Parliamentary television channel"), 3249 ("Information exchanges with national parliaments") and the proposed new Item 3047 ...[+++]("Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of Eurolat Parliamentary Assembly meetings");

32. Notes the proposed modifications of the nomenclature; recalls that a report on the financing of expenditure relating to delegations and Assemblies is awaited; decides at this stage not to agree to the changes in the nomenclature in Article 214 ("Technical equipment and installations ") and in Items 3244 ("Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola programme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third countries "), 3245 ("Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities "), 3246 ("Parliamentary television channel "), 3249 ("Information exchanges with national parliaments ") and the proposed new Item ...[+++]3047 ("Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of Eurolat Parliamentary Assembly meetings ");

32. Notes the proposed modifications of the nomenclature; recalls that a report on the financing of expenditure relating to delegations and Assemblies is awaited; decides at this stage not to agree to the changes in the nomenclature in Article 214 ("Technical equipment and installations ") and in Items 3244 ("Organisation and reception of groups of visitors, Euroscola programme and invitations to opinion multipliers from third countries "), 3245 ("Organisation of seminars, symposia and cultural activities "), 3246 ("Parliamentary television channel "), 3249 ("Information exchanges with national parliaments ") and the proposed new Item ...[+++]3047 ("Miscellaneous expenditure on the organisation of Eurolat Parliamentary Assembly meetings ");

Focusing on a number of selected cases, the study shows that despite some divergences, the Directive has been implemented with modest costs for firms.

A major challenge for our industry is that our productivity, which is measured as the ratio of our non-interest expenses to our revenues, is consistently worse than that of the best United States and international financial institutions, and as the MacKay report points out, this difference has tended to widen in recent years.

The province is generally supportive of the recommendations made in that report and was pleased that the federal government acted on several of them, including removing the ceiling and not adopting the macro approach in maintaining the program floor.