Traduction de «Le dernier projet de loi budgétaire » (Français → Anglais) :

finance bill | money bill

bill of supply | supplementary budget

The Conservatives are once again doing exactly the same thing they did the last time they introduced a budget bill, when they ripped holes in the Fisheries Act without consulting with fishers’ communities, when they made huge cuts to the employment insurance system, as if it belonged to them, without consulting the businesses or the workers that contribute to it, and when they made cuts to old age security and to health care transfers to the provinces.

I am writing to let you know how disturbed I am by this furtive endeavour to use an omnibus budget bill to completely wipe out years of progress Canada has made on environmental protection.For the sake of the environment, I implore you to demand the non-budget matters—all environmental changes—be removed from C-38 [the last budget bill] and put forward as stand-alone legislation.

J. whereas Egyptian civil society organizations have repeatedly expressed their deep concern about the draft NGO law, which would impose complete and unjustified control over civic groups and subordinate them to security and administrative bodies and allow for very harsh sentencing of human rights defenders; whereas civil society organizations have been given a repeatedly postponed deadline to register under law No 84, which places severe restrictions on the independence and activities of NGOs, or face criminal charges; whereas a presidential decree of 21 September 2014 amending the penal code places severe consequences, including life ...[+++] sentences, on NGOs receiving foreign funding for the vaguely formulated purpose of ‘harming the national interest’; whereas Egypt’s leading human rights NGOs have stated that the current repressive environment has reached levels unseen even under Mubarak’s authoritarian regime; whereas Government-sponsored media have launched an unprecedented smear campaign against Egypt’s independent human rights NGOs;

L. whereas Article 75 of the Egyptian Constitution declares that all citizens shall have the right to form non-governmental associations and foundations on a democratic basis; whereas Egyptian civil society organisations have recently expressed their deep concern over the latest draft NGO law, which would impose complete control over civic groups and subordinate them to security and administrative bodies, as well as permitting the sentencing of human rights defenders;