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Are the Conservatives not willing to give the commissioner the power to compel witness co-operation because they are afraid of what this might reveal about the source of the fraudulent election calls and who may have used the Conservative database to deny Canadians their right to vote during the 2011 election?

(Return tabled) Question No. 20 Mr. Alex Atamanenko: With regard to the horse slaughter industry in Canada: (a) what was the reason for the temporary halt, initiated by European Union (EU) officials, to horse meat imports from Canada on October 12, 2012; (b) has Canada participated in talks with EU officials regarding the safety of horse meat from Canada since that time, (i) if so, what topics were discussed, (ii) what conclusions were reached; (c) what restrictions effective in 2013 will be imposed upon the Canadian horse meat industry by the EU, (i) what is the anticipated impact of these restrictions on the frequency and type of drug residue testing on horse meat in Canada as well as on the data required on Equine Information Documents ...[+++] (EIDs), (ii) will the restrictions on prohibited/non-permitted drugs be further tightened; (d) is there any oversight by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on transport drivers and horse meat dealers listed on EIDs as current owners to check for a history of violations of the United States Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Transport, or CFIA transport regulations, (i) does the CFIA enhance its scrutiny of such violators or conduct follow-up investigations on those who have been flagged for violations, (ii) is this information shared with any other inter-connected government agency either in Canada or in the United States; (e) how often do CFIA inspectors do a visual inspection of the transports that arrive at the slaughter plants to ensure that the horses have been transported safely; (f) how many transport violations concerning horse slaughter transportation have been issued to transport drivers within the last five years, (i) how many warnings of violations have been issued, (ii) if the warnings have been ignored, how does the CFIA restrict or prohibit those transport drivers from conducting business in Canada; (g) how often does the CFIA conduct inspections of feedlots and how many warnings or violations were ...

That should scare everybody, particularly when in the House a few years ago the issue of the million dollar boondoggle in Human Resources Development Canada revealed the extent to which the government was collecting information on Canadians and storing it in government databases.

The same survey showed that doctors' main exploitation of Internet was to consult professional databases and to consult with other doctors.

They can also take the fingerprints of aliens found illegally staying on their territory in order to check whether they have applied for asylum (on their territory or that of another Member State). They have to send these data promptly to the EURODAC Central Unit, managed by the Commission, which will register them in the Central database and compare them with already stored data. Such comparison can produce "hits", when the data introduced match with already stored data. Where hits reveal that an asylum seeker has already applied for asylum or that she/he entered the territory irregularly in another Member State, the Member States toget ...[+++]her can act in accordance with the Dublin Regulation.

Perhaps members of this committee will sense that most Canadians feel that things are pretty good at the moment, and yet we analysts, looking at trade data and investment data coming in and going out, looking at all sorts of other data, productivity particularly, will say that, at the micro level, on the ground level, things are not quite so good.