With an additional 52 000 tonnes, there will be 285 000 tonnes within the tariff rate quota, so there will still be scope for 15 000 tonnes of imports under the usual erga omnes regime.

New Democrats are also calling for security for workplace pension plans through a mandatory pension insurance program paid for by the pension plan sponsors and guaranteeing pension payouts of up to $2,500 a month in the case of a plan failure, and also a national agency managed by the CPP investment board or a similar body to adopt pension plans of failed companies and continue to take advantage of market conditions and to maximize the payouts.

As for federal and provincial pension laws, the employer as the plan sponsor is legally obligated to ensure that the pension plan is adequately funded.

Like the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is not financed through general tax revenues but through the following measures: insurance premiums paid by the sponsors of the defined benefit plans; assets from the pension plans it takes over; recoveries of unfunded pension liabilities from plan sponsors' bankruptcy estates; and investment income.

8. Welcomes the adoption by the Council on 13 October 2011 of new restrictive measures against the Syrian regime as well as the Council conclusions of 10 October which reiterated the EU’s determination to pursue actively its current policy on Syria, including through its targeted sanctions against the Syrian regime and those supporting it, until there is an end to the unacceptable violence and decisive progress towards a genuine, peaceful and democratic transition addressing the legitimate demands of the Syrian people; calls, in this context, for further sanctions that target the regime but minimise the negative impacts on the living co ...[+++]nditions of the population;

ANNEX I List of support schemes fulfilling the criteria set out in Article 1