As confirmed by established case-law, the Commission considers that in principle there is no undue economic advantage where compensation is paid as a result of state intervention, e.g. in cases of expropriation.

21. Admires and supports the courage and activism of those Chinese citizens acting in socially responsible ways to promote and defend universally recognised social and human rights, and to challenge and correct well-known social dangers and/or criminal acts such as corruption, abuses of office, environmental damage, AIDS infection, food poisoning, construction fraud in relation to schools, and illegal land and property expropriation, often committed by local party authorities; denounces all instances of official retaliation against these Chinese citizens; urges the Chinese leadership to encourage civil responsibility in terms of observ ...[+++]ing social human rights and to rehabilitate officially persecuted and punished defenders of these rights; reminds the Chinese leadership to comply strictly with domestic and international human rights law;

3. Reiterates its deep concern about the current acquisition of farmland by government-backed foreign investors, particularly in Africa, which is liable to undermine local food security; urges the Commission to include the issue of land grabbing in its policy dialogue with developing countries so as to make policy coherence the cornerstone of development cooperation at both national and international level and prevent the expropriation of small farmers and unsustainable land and water use;

So if they're not ready for God talk, this is laid aside and we secure a bottom line, “To be faithful to you alone, as long as we live” (1555) It is too clever by half for Mr. Cotler to think he can expropriate the common language for civil weddings and compel us to accept what he wants us to call homosexual marriage.

There can be no question of allowing dictatorial rule on the African continent which, as in Zimbabwe now, fosters racism, dispossession and forcible suppression and ousts an operational legal system.

They asked for the scope of First Nations' expropriation authority to be clarified, in order to provide some comfort that First Nations' expropriation powers would not be exercised for overly broad purposes.