(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of ...[+++]the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both versions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

In responding to the need for simplification, efficient management and easier access to funding, the Programme should continue and develop activities previously carried out on the basis of section 4 ('Antidiscrimination and diversity') and section 5 ('Gender equality') of the Progress programme established by Decision No 1672/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , the Fundamental rights and citizenship programme established by Council Decision 2007/252/EC and the Daphne III programme. The mid-term evaluations of those ...[+++] programmes include recommendations aimed at improving the implementation of those programmes.

1. The objective of this section is to facilitate trade between the Parties in the field of sanitary and phytosanitary legislation, whilst safeguarding public, animal and plant health by further implementing the principles of the WTO on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ("the WTO SPS Agreement").

The objective of this section is to facilitate and increase trade in goods by eliminating and preventing unnecessary barriers to trade while taking into account the legitimate objectives of the Parties and the principle of non-discrimination, within the meaning of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade ("the TBT Agreement").

The Council invited the Commission to propose arrangements facilitating a consistent implementation of EU legislation (see also Objective 3 -Prudential Rules and Supervision- in the section Overall state of play of the Action Plan); called for a strict application of EU competition rules; insisted on the need for increased endeavours in favour of consumer confidence and protection.

The projects selected are the following: In Italy: * Adjustment of track clearance on the Modane-Turin-Bari railway route: sections Modane-Turin/Bologna-Ancona-Bari (ECU 5.75 million) * Brenner Line - doubling-up of the Brenner-Verona-Bologna railway line (ECU 2.9 million) In Spain: * M 40 feeder road south of Madrid: sections NIII - NIV, NIV - N401, N401-NV (ECU 2.9 million) * preliminary studies into the construction of the Madrid-Barcelona high speed railway line (ECU 0.4 million) In Portugal: * Lisbon-Evora-Elvas (Madrid) railway line (ECU 4.8 million) In the United Kingdom * "UK East Coast Motorway" study (ECU 0.2 million) * A20/M20 ...[+++]: sections Folkstone-Dover/Maidstone-Ashford (ECU 4.8 million) - 2 - In France * RN 28, Abbeville-Rouen section (ECU 3.9 million) In Belgium * Paris-London-Brussels-Amsterdam-Cologne high speed railway line: section Brussels-Aachen (ECU 19.65 million). In Denmark * Electrification of the Ringsted-Odense railway line (ECU 4.8 million) In Greece * Evzoni-Athens-Corinth motorway: sections Elefsina- Corinth/Malakassa-Inofita (ECU 6.7 million) In the Netherlands * Boxmeer-Venlo-Germany motorway (ECU 2.9 million) In Luxembourg * Luxembourg South East ring-road (ECU 2.4 million) Cross-border Projects * Construction of a new railway across the Alps between Lyon and Turin - feasability study (ECU 0.2 million) * Further studies into the Brenner Tunnel project: . feasability study on the possibilities of private investment for the Brenner Tunnel; . further investment in the tunnel to facilitate combined transport on the Brenner axis (EUC 0.2 million) The financing will take the form of subsidies to the Member States or to the bodies authorized to carry out the work.