Traduction de «Indicateurs de position de gouverne » (Français → Anglais) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 366 Mr. Claude Gravelle: With regard to Canadian mining companies: (a) what is the government's position on the use of leach mining in Canada and internationally; (b) have the impacts of leach mining on adjacent communities been studied and, if so, what are the titles of the documents of these studies; (c) what is the government's position on the use of private security firms by Canadian mining companies internationally; (d) what countries has the government, directly or through foreign representation, ...[+++]been actively lobbying or encouraging to lower royalties and taxes on foreign mining companies; (e) has the government been tracking what companies have outstanding taxes or debts owed to foreign countries and, if so, how much do these companies owe foreign countries by company, country, type of debt, amount of debt; (f) what is the government's position on conflicts between Canadian mining companies and indigenous peoples in Canada and internationally; (g) what is the government's position on the displacement of indigenous peoples and Canadian mining companies internationally; (h) what is the government's position on the contamination of water supplies by Canadian mining companies internationally; and (i) what is the government's position on making the corporate social responsibility framework for mining companies mandatory instead of voluntary?

(Return tabled) Question No. 55 Mr. Alex Atamanenko: With respect to the 2007 Canadian Wheat Board barley plebiscite: (a) how much money has the government spent on its campaign for " marketing choice" , from all federal sources since January 26, 2006, in relation to (i) advertising in daily and weekly newspapers, (ii) radio advertisements, (iii) roundtables, (iv) the Task Force on Marketing Choice; (b) how many meetings have taken place since the 2006 federal election between representatives of Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association and other agri-business corporations and government officials where “marketing choice” and the Canad ...[+++]ian Wheat Board was a topic of discussion and (i) on what dates did these meetings take place, (ii) who presided over these meetings, (iii) who was present at these meetings; (c) which marketing, advertising, consulting and professional or independent agencies did the government consult with respect to how to frame the ballot questions for the barley plebiscite; (d) did any of these marketing, advertising, consulting and professional or independent agencies provide the government with written reports on how to frame the ballot questions for the barley plebiscite and, if so, on what dates were they provided; (e) what verbal or written instructions were given to KPMG, the accounting firm hired by the government to conduct the barley plebiscite, regarding the administration processes to be employed for any aspect of the barley plebiscite that KPMG was to be responsible for; (f) what is the government's position in regard to the use of numbered and traceable ballots in official election or plebiscite processes and in what way does this position justify using numbered and traceable ballots in the barley plebiscite; (g) at any time throughout the barley plebiscite, was the government informed or aware (i) that KPMG was contacting households by telephone seeking authorization to destroy certain ballots that had been submitted ...

Equally, at the end of the four-year period elections may have intervened, the position of the government may have changed, the objectives sought previously may have diminished in importance or, in extreme cases, been discarded.

At the meeting of the European Council in Barcelona in March 2002, the Heads of State or Government called for the establishment of a linguistic competence indicator.

RWANDA - STATEMENT BY THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSION Bearing in mind the positive response of the Rwandan Government to the conclusions of the Commission of Enquiry and the need to support the improvement of the situation, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission have decided, in full respect of the common position of the 24th October 1994, to engage in a political and technical dialogue with the Rwandan Government, which will enable the resumption of the full assistance of the European Union to Rwanda and further ...[+++] establish ways and means to promote rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country.

The Commission has today taken the following decision : The Commission : - decides that its decision of 29 March 1988 has not been correctly executed by the French authorities and that the authorisation of the aids amounting to FF 20 bn is null and void; - informs the French Government of this decison and requests it to inform the Commission within 3 months of the measures which it proposes to take to comply with this decision; - notes the indications of the latest position of the French Government most recently in their letter of 1 ...[+++]3 November, expresses the hope that this will result in satisfactory proposals from the French Government but states that, in the absence of such proposals, the French Government should be required to recover from Renault FF 12 bn. - decides that, in the absence of a reply or in case of an unsatisfactory reply within the time indicated, the matter would be referred to the European Court of Justice.