Traduction de «Feuille de bitume armé » (Français → Anglais) :

all the activities of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office should ensure a high protection of the rights of defence, particularly considering that the Union could become an area in which the European Public Prosecutor’s Office could act, at operating speed, without having to resort to instruments of mutual legal assistance; in this regard, the respect of EU minimum standards in the field of the rights of individuals in criminal procedure in all Member States is a key element for the adequate functioning of the EPPO. It should be noted in this respect that the Roadmap for strengthening procedural rights of suspected or accused persons ...[+++] in criminal proceedings, adopted by the Council on 30 November 2009, has not yet been completed and that the proposal merely refers to the national legal systems for all issues relating to the right to remain silent, the presumption of innocence, the right to legal aid and to investigations for the defence; therefore, to respect the principle of equality of arms, the law applicable to the suspects or accused persons involved in the proceedings of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office should also apply to the procedural safeguards against the latter’s investigative or prosecutorial acts, without prejudice to any additional or higher standards of procedural safeguards granted by Union law;

(Return tabled) Question No. 136 Mr. Garry Breitkreuz: With regard to foreign visitors bringing firearms into Canada: (a) what is the public-safety purpose of the Non-Resident Firearm Declaration Forms and the Non-Resident Firearm Declaration Continuation Sheets; (b) for each year since 1999, (i) how many non-restricted, restricted and prohibited firearms have been declared as they were brought into Canada and (ii) how many of these firearms, if any, were removed from Canada when these non-resident firearm declarers left Canada; (c) what improvements in public safety have been achieved by the provisions of the Firearms Act and any regulations made under the Firearms Act related to the non-resident firearms declaration; (d) how long will ...[+++]it take and how much will it cost to fully implement these provisions and regulations; (e) how much has it cost to date to implement these provisions and regulations; and (f) how much will it cost each year to enforce these provisions and regulations once they are fully implemented?

Talking about the price of carbon credits, too, we have a rather poor government track record, where they have estimated that costs would be.Well, the favourite is the gun registry: it's going to be $2 million, and it ends up being $2 billion.

Clearly, however, in addition to tanks and weapons, now we have to take to Iraq a roadmap for democracy, a roadmap for political and institutional reconstruction and for a new Iraqi Government.

Given that armaments are the flagship product of international trade and a huge source of profit for a number of large industrial groups which like to think they are respectable, the only role left to the European Parliament is that of attaching the fig leaf of hypocrisy to the traffic in arms and the loathsome state of affairs which enables it to thrive.

There were no bags of wheat with a maple leaf stamped on the side attached to Canadian SMART weapons.