76. Regrets that, as of 20 February 2006, 87,2% of Members had not supplied the Parliament with statements of expenditure for their parliamentary assistance allowance, which were due by 1 November 2005 and as required by Articles 14(5)(e) and 14(6)(b) and (c) of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members, and which include declarations of their assistants" affiliation to a social security scheme if the assistant is covered by a ...[+++]service provider contract; regrets further that Parliament has not yet concluded framework contracts with companies specialised in the management in accordance with the applicable national law of tax and social security issues connected with employment contracts, as required by Article 14(5)(f) of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members and as has been requested at least from July 2004;

76. Regrets that, as of 20 February 2006, 87,2% of Members had not supplied the Parliament with statements of expenditure for their parliamentary assistance allowance, which were due by 1 November 2005 and as required by Articles 14(5)(e) and 14(6)(b) and (c) of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members, and which include declarations of their assistants" affiliation to a social security scheme if the assistant is covered by a ...[+++]service provider contract; regrets further that Parliament has not yet concluded framework contracts with companies specialised in the management in accordance with the applicable national law of tax and social security issues connected with employment contracts, as required by Article 14(5)(f) of the Rules governing the payment of expenses and allowances to Members and as has been requested at least from July 2004;

lose the services provided them under social assistance, services they need and deserve (1725 ) To persist with a system where the price that parents pay for rejoining the workforce is to see the circumstances of their children actually worsen is bad social policy.

For example, the part concerning the Canada health and social transfer deals not only with health and social assistance, but also with health, post-secondary education, social assistance and social services.

The individual items which exceed $250 million are: -Payments under the Farm Income Protection Act in the agri-food program of the Department of Agriculture, -Payments to international financial organizations in the financial and economic policies program of the Department of Finance, -The public debt charge program of the Department of Finance, -The fiscal transfer program of the Department of Finance, -Military pensions in the Department of National Defence, -Payments to provinces and territories for hospital and medical care in the health program of the Department of National Health and Welfare, -Payments to the provinces and territories under the Canada assistance ...[+++] plan in the social program of the Department of National Health and Welfare, -Old age security, guaranteed income supplement, and spouse's allowance payments in the social program of the Department of National Health and Welfare, -Grants to municipalities and other taxing authorities under the real property program of the Department of Publics Works, -Post-secondary education payments and interest and other payments under the Canada Student Loans Act by the Secretary of State, and -Payments to railway companies by the National Transportation Agency under the Western Grain Transportation Act.

To this end, six topics have been identified: - "Interactive digital multimedia services" the aim of the research being to develop systems and services combining sound, images and digital data; - "Photonic technologies" in order to deploy fully optical networks by the year 2000; - "High-speed networking" in order to develop services such as videophones, teleworking and social care, thanks to efficient integrated networks; - "Mobility and personal communications networks" the aim of which is to offer the public a new generation of f ...[+++]lexible and reliable cordless transmission systems; - "Intelligence in networks and service engineering" the aim being to provide intelligent communication systems and enable users themselves to determine the type of services offered; - "Quality, security and safety of communication services and systems" in order to ensure the reliability and security of information transmitted (electronic signatures).