Traduction de «off-the-peg idea » (Anglais → Français) :

This has created what many call the equity gap. As a result, many promising ideas do not get off the ground.

Mr. Gordon Thiessen: Well, that can be sometimes, but more often than not the kind of thing we are talking about is when you have a pegged exchange rate somewhere, and one of these speculative institutions decides that it is just not sustainable and basically tries to push it hard enough to cause the government to go off its pegged exchange rate.

The preparation of "information tools" which may take the form of "bite-size" chunks of the Constitution geared to the concerns of the various categories of the population in each Member State; The launching of communication campaigns in the media and other vectors close to ordinary people (such as local and regional authorities, civil society organisations and political groups); The organisation of decentralised debates at the initiative of civil society organisations and open to all citizens, so as to spark off exchanges of ideas and thus allow people to form an opinion with a full knowledge of the facts; The Europeanisation of i ...[+++]nformation campaigns and debates on the Constitutional Treaty, so that ratification is not too dependent on domestic policy issues in the Member States.

Most of those countries are now on a floating exchange rate, which in itself avoids the kind of situation where you have really speculative pressures bringing a currency off its peg and the kind of difficulties, distortions, and problems this gives rise to when you have a fixed exchange rate.

Mr. Cliff Breitkreuz (Yellowhead, Ref.): Mr. Speaker, the town of Barrhead started off with an idea and watched it produce fame and fortune.

I have stood in the House on more occasions than I wish to count and have seen that basic common sense becomes a trade-off between positive ideas for change and partisan politics.