The Canadian Farm Business Management Council was established in 1992 with a mission to engage in national activities that lead to an improvement in the management of individual farm businesses in Canada through greater use of effective decision-making and farm business management practices.

When Parliament, to which the Constitution grants all legislative powers, confers a power to make regulations on the Governor-in-Council or the Treasury Board, for example, the regulation-making authority can use this drafting technique to incorporate information expressed elsewhere in another document.

The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, determine Community-wide ex-ante benchmarks so as to ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that provides incentives for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficient techniques, by taking account of the most efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, high efficiency cogeneration, efficient energy recovery of waste gases, use of biomass and capture and storage of CO, where such facilities are available, and shall not provide incentives to increase emissions.

By Decision 93/465/EEC of 22 July 1993 concerning the modules for the various phases of the conformity assessment procedures and the rules for the affixing and use of the CE conformity marking, which are intended to be used in the technical harmonisation directives , the Council introduced harmonised means of applying procedures for conformity assessment.

I would hope that the people on this board will have knowledge of the issues scientifically, will have strong ethical backgrounds in terms of understanding medical ethics under the law, and that in fact there will be some consumers, some people, who will benefit from the use of reproductive technologies.

It ranks high on my list because, as a practitioner, I see it being avoided on a daily basis, either by forum shopping or by the highly technical use of unanimous shareholder agreements to render the whole board concept irrelevant to the managerial process.