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8. Recalls the primary importance of the principle of Policy Coherence for Development; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to ensure that human rights are genuinely protected in the remit of any agreements concluded or revised with developing countries, through binding human rights clauses; recommends a procedure for consultation between the parties, detailing the political and legal mechanisms to be used in the event of a request for bilateral cooperation to be suspended, but also a warning mechanism and process for descriptive and evaluation purposes; insists that the Commission conduct systematic human rights im ...[+++]pact assessments of trade and investment agreements to help ensure effective enforcement of human rights; urges that the genuine enforcement of GSP Plus be implemented alongside a suitable transparent reporting mechanism and funding for civil society monitoring; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to support legal frameworks and initiatives aimed at transparency and good governance of mining and other resource sectors;

4. Stresses that a better exchange of information between Member States is needed; calls on all Member States to create or assign a national focal point to which businesses and other victims of misleading practices can report them and can obtain information on judicial and non-judicial means of redress, as well as help and expertise regarding the prevention and tackling of various forms of fraud; considers that each focal point should maintain a database recording all types of misleading marketing practices and including easy-to-und ...[+++]erstand examples; calls on the Commission to ensure coordination of a smooth exchange of information from the national databases, inter alia by facilitating the setting-up of a rapid alert system identifying new practices, whilst taking account of the budgetary limitations;

(Return tabled) Question No. 1123 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the government’s position on chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI): (a) does the government track clinical trials on CCSVI currently being undertaken by other countries and, if yes, what are all clinical trials, identified by phase, currently being undertaken worldwide, (i) which countries are undertaking Phase lll trials; (b) does the government question whether CCSVI exists and, if yes, (i) why does the government not question whether treating CCSVI a ...[+++]ctually improves quality of life for Canadians with multiple sclerosis (MS); (c) how many cases of " major complications associated with venous angioplasty" have occurred in Canada and, if it is not possible to give this number, why, (i) what are identified complications to CCSVI and, for each complication, how many cases versus the number of procedures undertaken have occurred; (d) what are all procedures that have been performed on veins in Canada, including, procedures for Budd-Chiari syndrome and May-Thurner syndrome; (e) what is the government's position on ballooning veins and why does it consider that ballooning veins even once could be unsafe on fragile veins, even though participants involved in the proposed clinical trial will experience two procedures-one real, one simulated-in a one-year period; (f) is the government consulting with Canadians with MS, if so, (i) provide a list of all CCSVI groups the Minister of Health has met with along with the dates of the meetings, (ii) provide a list of all MS groups the Minister of Health has met with along with the dates of the meetings, (iii) provide the number of Canadians with MS the Minister of Health has met and the dates of all meetings, and if the government is not consulting, (iv) why not; (g) how does inviting the investigators of the seven MS-funded CCSVI studies to participate in the consensus workshop on ultrasound imaging meet CIHR's conflict of interest g ...

I would hope that Canada's position would be to push for the adoption of comprehensive hate-crime data collection laws for all nations and provision of training for appropriate law enforcement professionals in how to identify, report and respond to hate crimes.