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(Return tabled) Question No. 4 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to international treaties and conventions dealing in whole or in part with human rights and with Canada’s international obligations in this regard: (a) does the government have any formal or informal procedures for regular review of those international human rights treaties that Canada has not yet signed, ratified, or otherwise accepted; (b) does the government have any formal or informal guidelines according to which it determines whether the specific obligations contained in a treaty or other international undertaking conflicts with the Constitution Act, 1867, and if so where can these guidelines be accessed; (c) do the guidelines referred to in (b) specify the standard accor ...[+++]ding to which the government determines if any obligation contained in a treaty or other international undertaking violates any section of the Constitution Act, 1867; (d) has the government engaged in any review of its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD); (e) does the government have any formal or informal guidelines according to which it determines whether the specific obligations contained in a treaty or other international undertaking require implementing legislation in order for Canada to be able to ratify or otherwise accept it, and if so where can these guidelines be accessed; (f) does the government have a position as to whether international agreements that establish a complaints mechanism or communications procedure for enforcement of the rights and obligations contained therein are necessarily unconstitutional; (g) does the government have a policy as to whether Canada will accept such agreements referred to in (f); (h) does the government undergo review of proposed international human rights agreements that would establish such a mechanism or procedure referred to in (f) on a case by case basis, (i) who is involved in this review, (ii) are the provinces and other inte ...

persons or undertakings whose main business consists of dealing on own account in any derivatives referred to in points 4 or 6 of Section C of Annex I (except those in respect of securities, prices of securities, interest rates or yields or foreign exchange rates) and/or trading in commodities;

(i) Persons or undertakings whose main business consists of dealing on own account in any derivatives referred to in points 4 and 6 of Section C of Annex I (except those in respect of securities, prices of securities, interest rates or yields or foreign exchange rates) and/or trading in commodities;

Most interestingly it seems that Bloc members were very worried about the fleeing foreign vessel section as they may envision themselves in the future as being categorized as foreign vessels fleeing from Canadian authorities as they challenge sovereignty in disputed waters.

Third, the strongest component of the Baie Comeau policy, in my opinion, is the section pertaining to indirect transactions which ensures that in the case of foreign takeovers, Canadian publishing houses controlled by foreign interests are returned to Canadian owners. This means that 51 per cent of the shares of these Canadian subsidiaries must be transferred to a Canadian owner in the event the parent company operating abroad unde ...[+++]rgoes a change of ownership (1540) What are the objectives of this policy?

Section 241 would allow shipping companies with foreign interests to benefit from tax rebates.