Traduction de «CFB Borden Training Area Environmental Assessment » (Anglais → Français) :

62. Welcomes the recognition of the role which must be played by public procurement in promoting CSR in practice, including access to training, equality, fair trade and the social integration of disadvantaged workers and people with disabilities, so as to provide businesses with an incentive to increase their social responsibility; considers, however, that it remains unclear how far successive amendments to EU procurement rules have actually been taken up by public authorities and what overall impact has been achieved in terms of impr ...[+++]oving the environmental and social performance of business and incentivising CSR; calls for further research and impact assessments leading to clear recommendations with a view to providing easily understandable incentives to business; asks that this include analysis of the growing practice of businesses building CSR clauses into their own private purchasing i.e. in business-to-business contracts, and calls for the identification of good practice in this area;

(Return tabled) Question No. 159 Mr. Sean Casey: With respect to the considered cuts to Environment Canada: (a) which specific departments and programs are affected, and what was the process taken to determine whether or not to make cuts to a specific department and program, (i) what, if any, Environment Canada Research Scientists were consulted regarding the considered cuts, (ii) what scientists outside of Environment Canada were consulted, (iii) for each department and program specified in (a), what is the number of current full-time, part-time, and contract scientific positions, (iv) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who have been given “wo ...[+++]rkforce adjustment” letters, (v) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who are going to be moved out of their current “job function”, (vi) what, if any, consideration has been given to shutting-down the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN), and, if so, has the United States been consulted, as Canada has commitments under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, (vii) specify all programs run by a single scientist who has been given a “workforce adjustment” letter, and for each program identified, what, if any, concern was expressed regarding the ability of the program to continue, (viii) the process that will be taken to place scientists in appropriate research areas, (ix) what, if any, consideration has been given to the fact that many scientists are highly trained in very specialized fields, and that an appropriate replacement position may not be possible; (b) specify all national and international environmental commitments to which Canada is subject, including, but not limited to the Global Climate Observing System, the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, which are mandated by the Montreal Protocol to occur at least every four years, and hosting the World Ozone and UV Data Centre, (i) wha ...

A pace of development plan of natural resources means taking the time to do a comprehensive social and environmental impact assessment, enabling the planning and implementation of a training and apprenticeship program that can meet the demands of skilled labour, maximizing the benefit for job creation at reasonable rates of wages and growth, and permitting the construction of adequate public infrastructure in projects areas commensurate with t ...[+++]he growth.

Mr. Natan Obed: Madam Chair, we do have existing funding agreements for things such as environmental assessment, but the claims would allow for a more constructive relationship with the Canadian government within this area to build capacity and for training and expertise.

2. Is of the opinion that, alongside a carefully planned assessment of the economic consequences of the war in Iraq, but in line with a more intelligent and flexible implementation of the stability goal, and with the involvement of private industry, the creation of a significant number of Europe-wide and national public-private partnership investment projects (operating in such areas as education and training, life-long learning, r ...[+++]esearch, environmentally friendly production, information and frontier technologies, telecommunications, energy and transportation networks) will be of great importance to the future of the European economy;