(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both versions of every ...[+++] bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

Question No. 493 Mr. Scott Andrews: With regard to the Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of Natural Resources and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador concerning the Muskrat Falls project, given that the government has already stated that, within eight weeks of its receipt of the data room and detailed representations of credit rating agencies for the entire project as defined by the Muskrat Falls Generating Station, the transmission lines, Island link and Maritime link, and a terms sheet for engagement of the capital markets will be completed, and given that the government ha ...[+++]s already stated that it is working with partners and that the Memorandum of Agreement remains in place; (a) has the government now received the relevant data room and detailed representations from credit rating agencies; and (b) has the term sheet for engagement with capital markets now been completed and, if so, have the capital markets been engaged in the process?

[9] - Where large projects are made up of sub-projects or where projects have more than local significance. - Projects that require amendments of land use plans (which will require SEA) before a developer can apply for development consent and undertake the EIA. - PP which set binding criteria for the subsequent development consent of projects. - Hierarchical linking between SEA and EIA ('tiering')

Closer links between research and applications With their statutory transnational dimension and the involvement of industry, the projects supported by the biotechnology programme are ideally placed not only to mobilize the research potential in the countries involved but also to strengthen the links between basic research and applied research, which is one of the fundamental characteristics of modern biotechnology.

The programme, which has been put forward by the two Governments, envisages the expenditure of more than 53 MECU on a range of projects covered by five sub-programmes: - Economic Development: Which will seek to promote links and inter trading between small and medium sized businesses on both sides of the Channel and jointly promote both regions; - 2 - - Education Training: Among other projects to be supported will be the furthering of established links between universities and other higher education institutions; - Tourism: A number ...[+++] of initiatives are proposed which will enhance the capacity of the Euro-region to attract and retain visitors from among the increasing numbers who will pass through it as they travel to other destinations in the United Kingdom or destinations in continental Europe.

The development of transnational pilot projects on cooperation in education has produced important results in terms of experience, even though the projects were only on a very small scale: * creation of a network of 208 training institutions to promote the European dimension in the training of teachers and teacher trainers; * since 1989 1 600 teachers have taken part in exchanges to establish links between schools with a view to promoting the European dimension in education; * 40 school partnerships involving 160 schools have been f ...[+++]ormed to foster cooperation between schools; * since 1978, 6 000 education specialists have participated in study visits organised under the ARION programme, with the focus on priority subjects specified by the Council or Member States; * 300 projects on schooling for the children of migrants, itinerant workers and gypsies have been implemented to date; * 200 projects in the field of new information technologies in education have led to exchanges of information, practices and methods.