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78. Is of the opinion that a modest injection of funds for Latin America, to be contributed from, or reallocated from within, the Union budget and not constituting an additional allocation, could act as a catalyst which, if combined with the budgetary resources earmarked by other bodies (the EIB, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Andean Development Corporation, the Central American Bank for Economic Iintegration, the World Bank, etc.) and the countries concerned, could provide the budgetary support needed to create sufficient c ...[+++]ritical mass to help alleviate the problems;

[Text] Question No. 144 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz: How many person-years have been allocated and what has been the total cost spent by both Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade Canada, for each year since 1994, for the following activities: (a) organizing, operating and participating in the National Committee on Firearms; (b) formulating, implementing and administering the Canadian Plan of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons; (c) developing and implementing the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects; (d) developing and implementing the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammuniti ...[+++]on, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; (e) developing and implementing the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Document on Small Arms and Light Weapons; (f) developing and implementing the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (Inter-American Convention), signed by Canada in November 1997; (g) developing and implementing the European Union (EU) Joint Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons adopted by the EU States on December 17, 1998; (h) developing and implementing the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports adopted by the EU States; (i) planning and participating in the Small Arms Survey 2001 and 2002; (j) participating in the planning, implementing and administering the Canadian Firearms Program, the Firearms Act and regulations and Part III of the Criminal Code; and (k) processing and issuing import and export permits for firearms and related products?

Thus, violations of the right to organize and to join unions, national federations of unions or international trade union organizations, protected under article 8(a) of the Protocol of San Salvador, as well as violations of the right to education can be brought to the attention of the Inter-American Commission through the individual petition mechanism[44].

This is rather troublesome when one considers, for example, that next Tuesday, the House of Commons will be debating a motion that I moved and that calls on the government to ratify the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, which comes under the Organization of American States, and that only nine countries, including Canada and the United States, have not ratified.

Any third State wishing to conclude any kind of association agreement with the European Union must also have signed, ratified or acceded to, by the date on which the agreement is concluded, the basic treaties and agreements on human rights; furthermore, the State in question must guarantee satisfactory practical application of provisions governing human rights and not be considered liable for failure to respect or serious and persistent breaches of human rights, based on the following indicators: the relevant United Nations reports (including resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, reports of special rapporteurs and decisions of ...[+++]the monitoring bodies for the main conventions); the annual report to be drawn up by the European Union Human Rights Agency proposed in this resolution; decisions of the competent judicial bodies, such as the European, inter-American or African Courts of Human Rights; and the reports drawn up by the main NGOs in this field;

Any third State wishing to conclude any kind of association agreement with the European Union must also have signed, ratified or acceded to, by the date on which the agreement is concluded, the basic treaties and agreements on human rights; furthermore, the State in question must guarantee satisfactory practical application of provisions governing human rights and not be considered liable for failure to respect or serious and persistent breaches of human rights, based on the following indicators: the relevant United Nations reports (including resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights, reports of special rapporteurs and decisions of ...[+++]the monitoring bodies for the main conventions); the annual report to be drawn up by the European Union Human Rights Agency proposed in this report; decisions of the competent judicial bodies, such as the European, inter-American or African Courts of Human Rights; and the reports drawn up by the main NGOs in this field;