There is good reason to believe that people will be treated differently depending on where they come from, but also depending on their sexual orientation and positions they may have held in the past.

In my view, the elements of a coherent and comprehensive anti-drug strategy would reasonably include the following set of performance indicators and public reporting measures: decreased gang activity; a reduction in the number of major security incidents; a decrease in the transmission rate of communicable diseases; increased use of dynamic security practices; an increase in the number of offenders enrolled and completing substance abuse programs; reduced demand for illicit drugs through effective and innovative treatment; and increased inv ...[+++]estment in substance abuse, prevention, and harm reduction programs.

(Return tabled) Question No. 182 Ms. Chris Charlton: With respect to mental health support in prisons and other detention facilities operated by Correctional Services Canada (CSC): (a) what progress has been made since 2004 in the implementation of the CSC Mental Health Strategy; (b) what plans are in place for the operation of the Community Mental Health and Institutional Mental Health initiatives over the next five years; (c) what plans are in place to act on the recommendations in the 2008-2009 Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator; (d) what is the total amount of funds allocated to all types of mental health support by CSC for the upcoming fiscal year, broken down by program type; (e) what percentage of overal ...[+++]l CSC funds are allocated to mental health support for the upcoming fiscal year; (f) what percentage of overall CSC funds are allocated to security, risk management and control for the upcoming fiscal year; (g) how many offenders have access to intermediate mental healthcare units in the region in which they are incarcerated; (h) what processes are in place to review the effectiveness of existing mental health programs and identify gaps in services; (i) what recommendations have arisen from such reviews in the last two years; (j) what progress has been made in conducting an independent review of long-term segregation cases; (k) what progress has been made in the creation of a measurable set of performance indicators to evaluate CSC’s response to offender mental health concerns; (l) what guidelines does CSC provide to operational staff on the use of segregation placements with offenders who have mental health concerns; (m) what progress has the National Population Management Committee made in reviewing specific cases of the use of lengthy periods in segregation and treatment alternatives for offenders with mental health concerns; (n) what progress has been made on the creation of a national strategy for managing chronic se ...

A particularly important issue concerns the fiscal treatment of lifelong learning and other incentives to invest in learning (including the recognition of prior learning) According to OECD, there was a convergence of views in the late 1990s that public authorities alone could not provide the resources needed for lifelong learning, that employees and employers should finance at least part of it in view of the considerable private returns it generates, and that financial incentives were insufficient to lift the very ...[+++] low levels of participation of poorly qualified persons [34].

WHEREAS , FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE GRADE OF THE WHITE SUGAR AND THE YIELD OF THE RAW SUGAR SOLD ; CRITERIA MUST BE ADOPTED WHICH ARE IDENTICAL WITH THOSE PROVIDED FOR IN COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1280/71 ( 8 ) OF 18 JUNE 1971 LAYING DOWN DETAILED RULES FOR THE BUYING-IN OF SUGAR BY INTERVENTION AGENCIES , AS LAST AMENDED BY REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2417/71 ( 9 ) ; WHEREAS EQUAL TREATMENT FOR ALL INTERESTED PARTIES MAY BE ENSURED ONLY BY THE INTRODUCTION OF UNIFORM AND PRECISELY DEFINED PROVISIONS FOR ADJUSTING THE SELLING PRICE , THE DENATURING PREMIUM OR THE EXPORT REFUND AS THE CASE MAY BE AND CORRECTING THE EXPORT LICE ...[+++]NCE WHERE THE SUGAR IS FOUND TO BE OF A QUALITY OTHER THAN THAT INDICATED IN THE INVITATION TO TENDER ;