There is a need for awareness and better understanding of the risks encountered in laboratory settings, the need for strategies to address them as well as for legislative and regulatory provisions and for appropriate guidance.

Although at present FIH has no problems in meeting its regulatory requirements, it might face liquidity constraints during the next 12-18 months.

That, in the opinion of this House, this government has lacked a commitment to principled environmental policy backed by action which is urgently needed to address the climate change crisis, and it is the further opinion of this House that the government has consistently ignored the legislative and regulatory powers at its disposal that allow the government to take immediate and decisive action to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions in order to achieve meaningful and science-based reduction targets, and therefore the House calls upon the government to: (a) use the legislative, regulatory and fiscal authorities already available to the Government of Canada to put in place immediately a national climate change plan that implements econom ...[+++]y-wide regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, and invests in renewable energy, clean technology and energy efficiency in order for Canada to compete in the new green economy; (b) stop putting Canada’s environmental and economic future at risk by insisting that Canada must wait for the United States to act first before showing our own leadership on this most vital issue; (c) set a domestic legally-binding long-term greenhouse gas reduction target of 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050; (d) report to Parliament annually on its policies and proposals to achieve the trajectory toward the 80 percent target and revise as necessary; (e) establish a non-partisan expert group approved by Parliament to set a science-based emissions trajectory to reach that 80 percent reduction target so that Canada does its part to keep global temperature increases to below 2oC; (f) reverse the decision to cut the ecoENERGY program that allowed Canadians to receive a rebate for greening their homes using energy efficient products and services; (g) restore Canada’s tarnished international environmental reputation by implementing Canada’s international commitment made during the Copenhagen negotiations to provide our fair share of new climate change ...

In the framework of the implementation of their eSociety Programme, the Government of Singapore initiated meetings with the EC at Commissioner level in 2002 on regulatory and technological requirements for the development of the Information Society.

- 4 - State vs. Federal (fragmentation of the US market) Another difficulty for those doing business with the US is the increasing fragmentation of the US market and regulatory system and the seemingly growing number of barriers being encountered at the State rather than at the Federal level.

What we need to do is sit down with our partners and discuss if there are any regulatory or other barriers that can be taken away so that the tourism industry can develop itself freely; - and last, but certainly not least, there is the question of congestion.