6. Underlines the necessity for monitoring the budget at technical and political level eg. by the means of budgetary hearings; will continue its recent efforts to follow-up the Commission's implementation records both in qualitative and quantitative terms (RAL), the formulation of spending targets and the respect of the implementation profile, with the aim of increasing its effectiveness ; calls for more involvement from the specialised committees on implementation and on legislative programming to increase EP's influence over the work programme of the Commission and to give concrete effects to the matching between legislative and budgetary decisions; calls for further simplification of the budgetary procedure; points out that the Council's ...[+++] spending promises can no longer be financed without an increase in budget resources;

Another bizarre aspect of the budgetary procedure is the implementation of the budget, and we as Parliament are also guilty of making empty promises.

The implementation of the budget is another area in which the Commission – and Parliament too, for that matter – must consider in future what to do about the problem of backlogs, how to ensure that we start to address the question of budgetary commitments in the implementation of new programmes too, so that we do not always have this huge discrepancy between commitments and payments.

How can we believe this government if we consider it failed to inject $720 million in child care, a promise that was not kept, like the GST?

If we agree with the proposal, it would demonstrate to the Bosnian Serbs and others who have questioned the UN's credibility that the international community is serious about backing its words with actions.

It is interesting that we are proposing amendments to the treaty signed in 1909 between Canada and the U.S. The government is doing so because it failed to exempt water from NAFTA, something it promised Canadians it would do in 1993 but never did.