The texts on which negotiations are based should be made available so that Quebecers and Canadians, as well as the members of the House, will be able to evaluate the validity and accuracy of the Canadian government's positions regarding what is being done in the free trade area of the Americas negotiation process.

The problem poses specific risks within the Euro area where the single currency increases the likelihood that negative developments in one Member State can create risks for economic development and the stability of other Euro area Member States and consequently the Euro area as a whole, but also in non-Euro area Member States where significant activities of banks from the Euro area are in place.

27. Calls for the review of the Less Favoured Area Scheme to take place in concert with discussions of CAP reform as a whole, to ensure coherence in design of the new support systems for farmers, especially in relation to the new Single Farm Payment;

Despite the dominance of urban areas and the attention metropolises get in the discourses of elected representatives, executives, decision-makers from central, local, metropolitan and regional government as well as the media, a bigger part of the social and economic life happens in rural areas.

This is the first expeditionary operation for NATO in the post-Cold War timeframe—expeditionary in the sense that it's well outside the traditional Euro-Atlantic area, not looking at Bosnia or Kosovo in the same light in terms of expeditionary—and this really defines what NATO is all about in terms of not trying to be a global NATO, not by any stretch, but rather, trying to be a NATO with global partners and trying to project security and stability much further away than it had in the past, especially with comprehensive political guidance, having identified that as close in being out to 5,000 kilometres from the Euro-Atlantic area, and f ...[+++]ar out being about 15,000 kilometres.

As I said just before my statement, there have been consultations and I believe there will be consent for the following motion: That, notwithstanding any standing order, at 6 p.m. this day, the House shall consider a motion by the Minister of Foreign Affairs as follows: That this House, taking note of the tragic events which have taken place in and around Gorazde, and NATO's agreement in February to a UN request for the use of air support to protect a safe area around Sarajevo, consider the request contained in the UN Secretary-General's April 18 letter to the Se ...[+++]cretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to extend arrangements similar to those in place to protect Sarajevo to the five other UN safe areas in Bosnia.