4. Welcomes the initiative by the Israeli Ministry of Environment to elaborate a master plan for landscape development in the Lower Jordan River area; urges the Jordanian Government and the Palestinian Authority to take similar initiatives with the aim of adopting master plans for the rehabilitation of sections of the River that flow through their respective territories; notes that such master plans could become a basis for a comprehensive regional plan to rehabilitate and protect the Lower Jordan River area;

5. Welcomes the initiative by the Israeli Ministry of Environment to elaborate a master plan for landscape development in the Lower Jordan River area; urges the Jordanian Government and the Palestinian Authority to take similar initiatives with the aim of adopting master plans for the rehabilitation of sections of the River that flow through their respective territories; notes that such master plans could become a basis for a comprehensive regional plan to rehabilitate and protect the Lower Jordan River area;

5. Notes the initiative by the Israeli Ministry of Environment to elaborate a master plan for landscape development in the Lower Jordan River area; asks the Jordanian Government and the Palestinian Authority to take similar initiatives with the aim of adopting master plans for the rehabilitation of sections of the River that flow through their respective territories, provided that Israel permits the Palestinian National Authority to have access to the Lower Jordan River pursuant to relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions and international law; notes that such master plans could become a basis for a comprehensive regional p ...[+++]lan to rehabilitate and protect the Lower Jordan River area; and notes Palestinian National Authority plans to establish a West Ghor Canal, envisioned in the 1955 Johnston Plan, for the irrigation of Palestinian riparian areas of the occupied West Bank;

The Department of Justice, again, either in the larger interdepartmental forum.or oftentimes we'll have a smaller group of departments, including central agencies, the Department of Justice, and perhaps one or two other key departments, whether it will be the foreign affairs department, if there's an international perspective that is specifically important, or another department that has a particular interest in a policy area.We will facilitate, as PCO, the coming together of those experts in those departments to help the lead department and the lead minister define their policy options more explicitly to take into account those consider ...[+++]ations (1650) Ms. Jean Crowder: I just want to make sure I'm understanding this.

(g) Although the Belgian public prosecutor's office had called for the immunity of the then Director-General, the former director and his assistant to be waived, the Commission refused. The explanation it gave Parliament was that the reasons presented by the public prosecutor were insufficient, and that internal investigations had not given adequate grounds for waiving immunity.

Mr. Paul Saint-Denis: The lead department that deals with the development or the implementation of the Canadian drug strategy is the Department of Health, but it very much is a collaborative effort, because the drug problem cuts across so many areas that are important to other departments.