In late 1986 and early 1987, the moving of motions “to proceed to Orders of the Day” and “to proceed to the next item of Routine Proceedings” during Routine Proceedings, combined with requests for recorded divisions on what would normally have been pro forma proceedings, resulted not only in the House failing to reach Government Orders on occasion, but also prevented the government from introducing its legislation.

I think the uncertainty that comes from public ownership, compounded by uncertainty about future environmental legislation with respect to the protection of species and other environmental concerns, as well as the ultimate tenure of the land—is it aboriginal land or is it government land?—will create the uncertainty that impacts on investments in the industry.

Our industrial targets, combined with our new clean energy and clean transportation initiatives, as well as new infrastructure investments, such as carbon capture and storage, will bring down Canada's greenhouse gas emissions by 150 megatonnes from current levels by 2020.

While the Union used to focus on legislative action during the establishment phase of the area of freedom, security and justice, complemented by financial support on a rather small scale, the work of the Union in this area should now enter into a phase in which operational concerns are more predominant.

The main two items on the agenda are 'Flexicurity' (promoting both labour market flexibility and job security with social protection) and the social dimension of the revised Lisbon strategy.

Broadly speaking, Community law envisages two methods - which can apply independently or in combination - of dealing with general public interests: (i) Where there is an underlying public interest - such as consumer protection or public order - and the existing different measures applied in the Member States provide both a satisfactory but not an excessive degree of protection of that interest, the Member States would normally be required to recognise the adequacy of each other's requirements as substitutes for their own, on a reciprocal basis (mutual recognition) (ii) To the extent that, on the other hand, a barrier to free circulation ...[+++]is justified by essential requirements of general validity which are not adequately recognised in other Member States, harmonisation of the degree of protection afforded to the public interest in question is required to ensure adequate protection throughout the Single Market.