Traduction de «Maïs éclaté » (Français → Anglais) :

I was particularly struck by one issue that honourable Members talked about in a number of contributions and what, in a sense, has become very much more recognised in recent weeks and months but which nonetheless has been a concern to many honourable Members for a very long time: the concern about the way in which religious people, of all kinds of religion, are treated or discriminated against on a regular basis across the world and our need to be mindful and watchful of those issues, not when they become violent – when they become violent, in a sense, we are, of course, bound to act – but before they become violent, too, when this is a ...[+++]regular source of discrimination.

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, some quick-fix amendments were made, notably to increase the coverage level to € 100 000 (in two steps) and to abandon the possibility to have co-insurance in place (i.e. that bank account holders are not fully repaid, but are to bear a certain percentage of their lost sum - even when the lost amount would be lower than the coverage limit).

When we had the former victims' ombudsman, now let go for reasons we do not know, saying the current government's plan for victims was unbalanced and would not work, when we had the correctional investigator sounding the alert, saying that our prison systems were getting ready to burst or were overloaded, when we had a Minister of Public Safety saying that a bill was going to cost $90 million and then under threat of a PBO report, a Parliamentary Budget Officer report, saying, “Now that the truth is going to come out, it's $2 billion, not $90 million”, I think the government has a problem with numbers.

He should not look at family breakdown but at societal breakdown because the Liberal government refuses to address the systemic and structural causes of poverty.

In the end, however, these actions were only implemented partially and not quickly enough to prevent another outbreak of the civil war in May 2000.

The Cotonou Convention is right in laying the foundation for further development, participation in world trade and political dialogue, but ACP countries which slip into violence destroy this cooperation and tear the Treaty to shreds.