15. Calls for further efforts to reduce the complexity of application systems and forms for farmers, and favours the increased use of e-Government technology by the Member States in order to forestall errors in the application process, which will require broadband internet access for beneficiaries; encourages the Commission to create a programme to help educate older farmers; underlines the robust investments in broadband networks in rural areas and calls on the Member States to strive towards the digitisation of the application process; recalls that the reliable implementation of e-Government technologies requires the Member States to ...[+++] develop, finance or co-finance such technology;

Overall, many of the frustrations of smaller firms engaging in federal procurement were based on the fact that the overall process is too complicated and too different from how they normally do business for example, not being able to discuss the bid with the actual user or purchaser of the goods or services, using an electronic bidding process such as MERX, which may seem simple at first but becomes more complex, with lengthy forms that often require unnecessary and duplicative information.

(Return tabled) Question No. 526 Ms. Joyce Murray: With respect to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: (a) since fiscal year 2006-2007 and beyond, how much money has the federal government allocated to the games and what is the total amount; (b) to what entities has the federal government allocated funds and for what purpose; (c) in what amounts have those funds been distributed and on what dates; (d) how much money is being spent on the “Canada Pavilion” and to whom is its construction and preparation being contracted; (e) what are the requests for proposals that the government invited contractors to bid on; (f) who wa ...[+++]s invited to bid on government requests for proposals; (g) who submitted bids related to government requests for proposals; (h) who adjudicated the bids related to government requests for proposals and based on what criteria; (i) who successfully bid for government requests for proposals, for what amount were the contracts and what was the purpose of the contacts; (j) how much money has been allocated for promoting bilingualism and French translation, on what dates was it distributed and for what purposes; (k) what is the government’s plan to address the H1N1 influenza pandemic before and during the games; (l) how much money is being spent in regard to an H1N1 plan at the games; (m) what is the lead department or agency in charge of overseeing and executing a plan related to H1N1 influenza at the games; and (n) how much money has the government spent on including aboriginal communities in the games and for what initiatives?

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- that form-based contracts or orders, where the weaker party to the contract or order has no possibility of altering it and can only accept or reject it, be subject to similar rules as apply to unfair commercial practices, even if the weaker party to the contract or order is not a consumer;

- that form-based contracts or orders be subject to an ‘average consumer’ test similar to that which applies to unfair commercial practices, even if the weaker party to the contract or order is not a consumer;