Traduction de «Dévoué à l'intérêt public » (Français → Anglais) :

Of course, Canadians are aware of Norman Bethune, and Chinese are very much aware of Norman Bethune and his role, and as that role is taught in elementary school in China, the image of the friendly foreigner, the self-sacrificing foreigner, who happens to be a Canadian and I think many Chinese are aware of that fact has given Canada an excellent image.

You ended up by saying that there is no minister who is dedicated to the interests of children.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 52016IP0142 - EN - European Parliament resolution of 28 April 2016 on safeguarding the best interests of the child across the EU on the basis of petitions addressed to the European Parliament (2016/2575(RSP)) // P8_TA(2016)0142 // Safeguarding the best interest of the child across the EU on the basis of petitions addressed to the European Parliament // European Parliament resolution of 28 April 2016 on safeguarding the best interest ...[+++]s of the child across the EU on the basis of petitions addressed to the European Parliament (2016/2575(RSP))

None of you would go and do it for free, even though it is a public good, and you are public-spirited people.

Since the objectives of this Regulation, namely clarifying and better defining the role of statutory audit regarding public-interest entities, improving the information that the statutory auditor or the audit firm provides to the audited entity, investors and other stakeholders, improving the communication channels between auditors and supervisors of public-interest entities, preventing any conflict of interest arising from the provision of non-audit services to public-interest entities, mitigating the risk of any potential conflict of interest due to the existing system whereby the auditee selects and pays the auditor or the familiarity ...[+++] threat, facilitating the switching of, and the choice of a statutory auditor or an audit firm to public-interest entities, broadening the choice of statutory auditors and audit firms for public-interest entities and improving the effectiveness, independence and consistency of the regulation and oversight of statutory auditors and audit firms providing statutory audits to public-interest entities including as regards cooperation at Union level, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of their scale, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union.

In the aftermath of my whistle-blowing ordeal with the Department of Foreign Affairs, two things became clear: one, the public is deeply grateful to public servants who have the courage to speak out in the public interest; and two, the tried and true tactics of cover-up and retaliation were destroying many conscientious and dedicated public servants.