(1) This account shall include current accruals of interest on all classes of long-term debt included in account 220 (Long-Term Debt), account 249 (Other Long-Term Debt) and account 258 (Long-Term Debt Due Within One Year), less current accruals on the debt included in account 221 (Company Long-Term Debt Owned).

This idea of the Department of Transport being on the fifth page of the pack of demands when it comes to sitting in cabinet.They cannot build for the long term unless they have long-term planning, and long-term planning means long-term financing.

Short-term (T-bills CP)* || Medium- to long-term || Other || Total || Short-term (T-bills CP) || Medium- to long-term || Other || Total || Short-term (T-bills CP) || Medium- to long-term || Other

Question No. 452 Mr. Tyrone Benskin: With regard to social and cooperative housing facilities: (a) what steps is the government presently taking, or does it anticipate taking in the next 12 months, to renew or extend the long-term operating agreements upon which social and cooperative housing organizations across Canada depend, given the impending expiry of funding arrangements established under Section 56.1 of the former National Housing Act, Section 95.1 of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Act, and agreements entered into by the federal government and Quebec government pertaining to Article 61 of Quebec’s National Hou ...[+++]sing Law; (b) will the government immediately commit to the renewal of the Renovation and Retrofit of Social Housing component of Canada’s Economic Action Plan; (c) what is the government’s long-term strategy to ensure the immediate health and survival of social and cooperative housing organizations subject to long-term operating partnerships with the federal government in the event these agreements expire; (d) what impact assessment has the government undertaken to verify the broader impact of expiring long-term operating agreements on the economy, job creation, and the affordability of residential housing for low income Canadians; (e) what steps has the government taken, or will take in the next 12 months, to develop and implement a coordinated strategy with provincial and municipal authorities for the funding of social and cooperative housing; and (f) what is the government’s plan to ensure the future construction and maintenance of social and cooperative housing across Canada?

Without a longer-term perspective, without the programs or financing and planning that is based on our principles or others that may be consistent with those principles, municipalities can't predict the long term and they can't say they can borrow based on the future gas tax revenues, because if those aren't predictable and long term, then they can't marry the needs with their long-term financing requirements.

5. RECOGNISES that decision-making in our societies, not least by the business community, requires a long term global policy perspective to inform investment, guide the development of the appropriate regulatory framework and stimulate investment in technology development and diffusion; NOTES, in view of the global emissions reductions required and if allowance is made for an increase in aggregated greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries in pursuit of sustainable development goals, the necessity of significantly enhanced reduction efforts by all developed countries, in accordance with the principle of comm ...[+++]on but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the medium term to be able to meet the long-term emission reduction challenge; EMHASISES the need of proposing medium and long term strategies, including targets at the March 2005 (Environment) Council as a contribution to the 2005 Spring European Council consideration of medium and longer term emission reduction strategies, including targets, taking into account the Commission's report on costs and benefits.