As a condition of its Agreement with the Speaker (in his capacity as the head of the Board of Internal Economy), CPAC has undertaken “to distribute all three different language versions of the television programming”—these being the bilingual Chamber and Committee floor sound, and the English-only and French-only sound tracks.

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both ver ...[+++]sions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

In order to bring real and sustainable peace and security to Afghanistan, we urge the Government of Canada to coordinate with its NATO and ISAF partners to: ensure military operations go hand in hand with civilian protection, supporting good governance and rule of law and promoting reconstruction and developmental programs; comply with international humanitarian law in military operations by taking every measure to avoid civilian casualties; confront all actors responsible for insecurity and violence in the country, and this means protecting Afghan civilians from regional war lords, illegal armed groups, as well as the Taliban; implem ...[+++]ent an effective disarmament program and strategies to address the drug trade; commit sufficient resources and troops to carry out an effective security and peacemaking mission throughout the country and develop appropriate military strategies for different regions of the country; support the development of civil society institutions, particularly women's civil society; establish new and enhance existing connections between civil society institutions in Canada with those in Afghanistan; expedite economic development in order to eliminate poverty; and continue to support the professionalization of Afghan police and army through sustained and long-term training and funding commitments.

RECALLS that Decision No 1600/2002/EC laying down the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme, particularly its recital 27 and Articles 2(2), 4 and 7(2)(h), refers to the need for concerted efforts to ensure a better and healthier environment and to contribute to a high level of quality of life and social well being for citizens by encouraging sustainable urban development and establishes a thematic strategy on the urban environment as a priority action; WELCOMES the Commission Communication "Towards a thematic strategy on the u ...[+++]rban environment"; SUPPORTS its analysis of environmental problems and conditions in urban areas in Europe as a basis for the forthcoming thematic strategy; ALSO SUPPORTS the four priority themes - management, transport, construction and urban design - all of which have clear links to economic and social issues and are relevant for the sustainable development of urban areas; STRESSES the need to address also strategic environmental issues to reduce cities' impact on the wider environment; CONSIDERS that actions under the thematic strategy on the urban environment should, among other things, contribute to the reduction of air and noise pollution; and UNDERLINES the importance of a continued focus at Community level on source-related measures, in particular for transport; AGREES that further development of the suggested actions and measures for the thematic strategy on the urban environment should have regard to:

Taking stock so far, we can see that, although the programme is open to regional and local authorities, their level of involvement is only somewhere in the region of 10%, while non-governmental organisations working at local and regional level are prevented from taking part by the need to create internal links by finding partners in other Member States and by the complicated management of the programme.

1. Considers that the European Union strategy should be aimed at reaching a global agreement at international level (within the ICAO) on more stringent noise certification standards for aircraft, including a phase-out plan for the least noise-efficient aircraft within the current Chapter 3, including hushkitted aircraft and re-certificated aircraft with low by-pass ratios; this is also necessary if competition is not to be distorted in an increasingly globalised aviation market;