It concerns 512 redundancies in the assembly plant of Ford-Werke GmbH located in Genk (‘Ford Genk’) and in 10 suppliers of Ford Genk in Belgium with 479 workers targeted for EFG co-funded measures during the reference period from 1July 2013 to 1 November 2013. The application is based on the intervention criteria of Article 2(c) of the EGF Regulation, under which, in exceptional circumstances, an application may be considered admissible even if the intervention criteria laid down in Articles 2(a) or 2(b) of the EGF Regulation are not ...[+++]met, provided that the redundancies have a serious impact on employment and the local economy

The application is based on the intervention criteria of Article 2(c) of the EGF Regulation, under which, in exceptional circumstances, an application may be considered admissible even if the intervention criteria laid down in Articles 2(a) or 2(b) of the EGF Regulation are not met, provided that the redundancies have a serious impact on employment and the local economy.

(Return tabled) Question No. 1306 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to the crisis in Syria: (a) what criteria does the government use to determine (i) whether to intervene, (ii) when to intervene, (iii) the nature and scope of any intervention; (b) who makes the determination in (a) and how; (c) what sources does the government rely upon in determining (a); (d) what legal obligations are considered with respect to (a) and in what ways does the Responsibility to Protect doctrine factor into decision making under (a); (e) in what ways has the government evaluated its obligations under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine with respect to ...[+++] Syria; (f) when were such evaluations done, by whom, and with what outcome; (g) have the criteria by which the government determines its official policy towards the crisis in Syria changed since 2012; (h) when the Minister of Foreign Affairs publicly expressed his support for an indictment of Bashar al-Assad by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2012, was this the position of the government and does it remain the position of the government that al-Assad ought to be indicted by the ICC; (j) with respect to Canada’s decision not to sign on to the request of 57 countries made in January, 2013, to ask the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC, did Canada support this request; (k) with respect to (j), when, why, how, and by whom were the determinations made in this regard, and when was Canada approached to join in this endeavor and by what means; (l) what criteria were applied in determining whether to support this effort; (m) are there any specific policies or directives within the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade that guide decision-making with regard to Canadian intervention in situations of humanitarian crisis; (n) was the decision not to sign the Swiss-led letter asking the United Nations Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC made by the Minister of Fore ...

It was based on the intervention criterion of Art. 2 (c) of the EGF Regulation which provides that, in small labour markets or in exceptional circumstances, where duly substantiated by the Member State concerned, an application for a contribution from the EGF may be considered admissible even if the intervention criteria laid down in Article 2(a) and 2(b) are not entirely met, when redundancies have a serious impact on employment and the local economy.

The regime in place provides an improved response capability by having full-time employees, trained contractors, state-of-the-art response equipment, predetermined response strategies developed in partnership with government agencies and with prepositioned equipment in response centres.

Ms. Judy Finlay: From my perspective, in regard to a more child-centred approach— and I'm speaking particularly to the most contentious situations because those are the ones that child advocates across the country deal with —I would say that there needs to be early intervention with the children when it has come to the fore that the issues are contentious; early intervention in terms of support and therapeutic involvement; early intervention in terms of family dispute resolution.