In 2008, the Common Table representatives sat down with senior federal and provincial representatives to attempt to overcome what First Nations leaders described as universal impediments to progress in negotiations.

2. Welcomes the fact that on the agenda of the 19th regular session there are, among others, panel discussions on human rights mainstreaming, freedom of expression on the internet, freedom of religion or belief and conscience, discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity, human rights and HIV/AIDS, and the Declaration of the Rights of Minorities, as well as extensive meetings on the rights of the child, and on torture, human rights and counter-terrorism, disappearances and arbitrary detention; calls on Member States to contribute constructively to these debates, and make clear that universal and indivisible hum ...[+++]an rights apply to people regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity;

The National Round Table on theEnvironment and the Economy was funded to develop a small set of environment and sustainable development indicators, and the same budget announcement enabled the design of CISE.

Since 1960, when the draft convention on election to Parliament by universal suffrage was adopted, our House has produced five reports which have ended up deadlocked within the Council.

Will the Prime Minister do what is absolutely necessary for the future of our universal public health care system and give the health minister a mandate to go to the table tomorrow with money and ensure that medicare is here to stay?

Seemingly oblivious to this complex and constraining policy-making environment, government task forces, commissions and policy-makers charged with strengthening primary care have almost always advocated big bang reforms — the universal, more or less simultaneous, implementation of an ``ideal'' model for primary care organization funding and deliver.