The Supplementary Estimates (B) authorize $170.7 million to the Treasury Board Secretariat for compensation for public service salary adjustments; $156.2 million for the operations of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority; $90.4 million to increase pay and allowances for the men and women who serve with such distinction in our Canadian Forces; $73.4 million for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for multi-year real property projects — the acquisition or replacement of air, land and marine assets, and information technology projects; and $68.9 million to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to conduct activ ...[+++]ities under the Global Partnership Program Phase III. This program includes destroying chemical weapons, dismantling decommissioned nuclear submarines, improving nuclear and radiological security, re-employing former weapons scientists in peaceful research, and promoting biological non-proliferation; $64.1 to the Department of Public Works and Government Services to cover for volume and inflationary pressures on non-discretionary charges for the Real Property Program; $58.4 million to support the implementation and operations of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission Secretariat; $56.2 million to the Office of Infrastructure for the Border Infrastructure Fund, which aims to reduce border congestion through investments in infrastructure; and finally, $54.6 million to the Department of National Defence for the implementation phase of the Halifax Class frigate modernization and life extension project.

8. Considers that, in the context of the reinforcement of the secretariat of the Committee on Petitions, and in the context of development of the e-Petition system, the introduction of an IT facility for online tracking aimed at petitioners would help to create a more transparent and efficient process by means of, inter alia , regular status updates and calls for additional information; notes that such a measure would better meet the expectations of EU citizens while also fostering improved performance of the institutional responsibilities incumbent on Parliament and on its Committee on Petitions;

8. Considers that, in the context of the reinforcement of the secretariat of the Committee on Petitions, and in the context of development of the e-Petition system, the introduction of an IT facility for online tracking aimed at petitioners would help to create a more transparent and efficient process by means of, inter alia, regular status updates and calls for additional information; notes that such a measure would better meet the expectations of EU citizens while also fostering improved performance of the institutional responsibilities incumbent on Parliament and on its Committee on Petitions;

The whole way it was set up when the order in council was passed, establishing the secretariat as well as the commission, the whole notion was to have that secretariat support the commission as an independent body.

We have thus taken up the Commission’s proposal and taken it forward in response to this need, always being careful – through my numerous discussions at the time with my excellent colleague from the secretariat of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, from first reading onwards – not to create even more red tape, not to erect even more bureaucratic obstacles, and not to inflict even more form-filling on businesses in the Member States through the amendments and simplifications and, in some cases, more precise controls that t ...[+++]his entails.

Whether with the secretariat of the North American Commission on Environmental Co-operation, the secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, or the secretariat of the Convention to Control Desertification, we have been doing our level best to help Montreal consolidate itself as an international region.