49 (1) Where a bill bearing a forged or an unauthorized endorsement is paid in good faith and in the ordinary course of business by or on behalf of the drawee or acceptor, the person by whom or on whose behalf the payment is made has the right to recover the amount paid from the person to whom it was paid or from any endorser who has endorsed the bill subsequent to the forged or unauthorized endorsement if notice of the endorsement being a forged or an unauthorized endorsement is given to each such subsequent endorser within the time and in the manner mentioned in this section.

One was a successful motion in the House of Commons last year, where Parliament felt that Canada should endorse — and by the way, Canada cannot adopt the declaration but can endorse it, the way Australia has just done, by saying we have decided to change our position and we now endorse the declaration.

It was not the House that endorsed the Speech from the Throne, it was the weak Liberals who endorsed it and allowed our environment to continue to be devastated.

In November 2002, the Commission adopted a Communication on the need and the means to upgrade the quality of budgetary statistics[1] whereby it proposed that the ECOFIN Council endorses a code of best practice on the compilation and provision of data within the context of the excessive deficit procedure.

Mr. Michel Gauthier (Roberval, BQ): Mr. Speaker, if the Prime Minister signed away his shares in 1999 as a contracting party, either he never endorsed the stock certificates and always remained the owner since he had not been paid or else he endorsed them and they were returned to him and endorsed again. If that is the case, we would like to know when the Prime Minister became a shareholder again.

Rather than endorsing it, did they just sort of passively accept it or was it an active endorsement?