In eastern Ontario, the part of the province that I come from, the proportion would be closer to 50% of farms having either a beef or dairy component. In my own constituency of Lanark Carleton, that proportion rises to over 60%.

The end of the East–West antagonism has brought the new totalitarian threat more sharply into focus than ever before: Western societies are today confronted by a deadly combination of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, radical Islam, and States in which the established order is crumbling.

There is no doubt that the 2004 review, when the new countries of the Union will also be integrated, will stress this East-west component even more, without forgetting the North-south, which must always be maintained, in any event.

The project which the Commission has now approved involves the construction and fitting-out of parts of the sub-network at Barlavento (western section) and the sub-network at Sotavento (eastern section).

The main features of the project are as follows: - treatment of industrial effluents; separate pre-treatment of distilling slops and, where appropriate, processing into fertilizers or feedingstuffs for cattle; - construction of a plant for the treatment in aerated lagoons of waste water from the municipality of Saint-Louis, the soft-drinks factory and the sugar refinery; - use of effluents from the water-treatment plant for irrigating agricultural land; - use of sewage sludge as a soil improver; - landscaping of the banks of the Etang du Gol and establishment of departure points for excursions to the Saint-Louis uplands; - creation ...[+++] of a bird sanctuary (covering the north-western third of the Etang du Gol) providing opportunities for bird-watching.

Western Economic Diversification Canada is now providing financing for setting up a French-language tourism corridor in the West, and a $500,000 venture capital fund was provided to each of the components of the western provinces.