22. Calls on the European Council now to recognise that combating undeclared work must be an important element of the new strategy in many Member States; considers that work must be made more attractive for employees and employers alike, not only by reducing their tax burden, but by providing specific incentives to promote declared employment; calls for stronger interaction between immigration policy, active labour market policy and policies against social exclusion and calls on the Commission and Council to implement the mandate given by the Tampere European Council for the political, economic and social integration of third-country n ...[+++]ationals as a matter of urgency;

21. Calls on the European Council now to recognise that combating undeclared work must be an important element of the new strategy in many Member States; considers that work must be made more attractive for employees and employers alike, not only by reducing their tax burden, but by providing specific incentives to promote declared employment; calls for stronger interaction between immigration policy, active labour market policy and policies against social exclusion and calls on the Commission and Council to implement the mandate given by the Tampere European Council for the political, economic and social integration of third country n ...[+++]ationals as a matter of urgency;

Ten priority areas for action are also identified, underpinning the three objectives: activation and prevention; job creation and entrepreneurship; adaptability and mobility; human capital and lifelong learning; labour supply and active ageing; gender equality; integration of people at a disadvantage; making work pay; undeclared work; and regional disparities.

Mr. Roger Pomerleau (Anjou-Rivière-des-Prairies, BQ): Mr. Speaker, does the Minister of Finance, who is responsible for regional development in Quebec, agree that saving 1,300 jobs in Pointe-Saint-Charles should be at least as important for the federal government as buying capital assets to make CN more interesting for its future buyers?

Although the economic interpretation of these "real" interest rates data is not always evident (for methodological and theoretical reasons), they nevertheless show the attractiveness of the placements in financial assets in the present phase of general disinflation.