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(Return tabled) Question No. 214 Ms. Libby Davies: With regard to the impacts of oil sands development on the health of downstream surrounding First Nations and Métis communities in Fort McKay, Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Fort Resolution, Fort Fitzgerald, Fort Smith, Fort Simpson and Fort Good Hope: (a) what analysis has Health Canada conducted concerning what would have been, had there been no development of oil sand projects, the expected rates over the past decade in surrounding communities of (i) all forms of cancer, (ii) biliary tract cancer, including cholangiocarcinoma, (iii) colon cancer, (iv) lung cancer, (v) soft tissue sarc ...[+++]oma, (vi) leukemia, (vii) lymphomas; (b) what studies has Health Canada completed concerning the observed rates over the past decade in surrounding communities of (i) all forms of cancer, (ii) biliary tract cancer, including cholangiocarcinoma, (iii) colon cancer, (iv) lung cancer, (v) soft tissue sarcoma, (vi) leukemia, (vii) lymphomas; (c) what studies has Health Canada completed concerning whether over the past decade oil sands development has been exposing, via the land, water, air or wildlife, surrounding communities to toxic substances, including (i) lead, (ii) mercury, (iii) volatile components of petroleum, (iv) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, (v) dioxin-like compounds, (vi) arsenic; (d) what analysis has Health Canada conducted concerning the underlying cause, such as increased detection, chance, lifestyle risk factors or exposure to environmental contaminants, of any discrepancy between the expected and observed rates over the past decade in surrounding communities of (i) all forms of cancer, (ii) biliary tract cancer, including cholangiocarcinoma, (iii) colon cancer, (iv) lung cancer, (v) soft tissue sarcoma, (vi) leukemia, (vii) lymphomas; (e) does Health Canada plan to work with other federal departments, the Government of Alberta, and surrounding First Nations and Métis communities to complete a comprehensive stud ...

(Return tabled) Question No. 931 Mr. Todd Russell: With regard to government television advertising during January and February 2011, for each of the following advertising campaigns, namely advertising of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, advertising by the Canada Revenue Agency and advertising by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation: (a) what are the total costs associated with each campaign, including (i) production costs, (ii) advertising air-time purchases, (iii) other costs, specifying what those costs are; (b) what are the total insertions of each advertisement which constitutes each advertising campaign; (c) on what dates, time ...[+++]s, and on which television channel or station has each advertisement aired or will each advertisement air; (d) which office or official is responsible for each advertising campaign; (e) which advertising agency or firm was contracted in respect of each advertising campaign; (f) which creative or production agency was contracted to produce each advertisement which forms part of each advertising campaign; (g) when was each advertisement filmed; (h) what were the specific instructions, directions or other communications from each department or corporation to the production or advertising team in respect of the content, tone, format, script, visual elements or all other creative elements of each ad; (i) what are the file numbers associated with each of these advertising campaigns; and (j) what are the contract numbers associated with each of these advertising campaigns?

Participants are invited to comment, for example, on whether it is necessary to envisage a more structural aid for distribution in relation to that which currently exists (film by film), on possibilities of structural alignment between the European distributors (in the form of permanent groupings, for example), on whether support should be envisaged for new distribution channels (in particular DVD and on-line), on whether Community programmes should develop further the promotion of European audiovisual products on the markets and in the festivals located outside Europe, on whether the granting of a Community contribution facilitates obtaining investments and/or banking aids in the activity of development/ ...[+++]production, on whether the criteria as defined in the calls for proposals on TV Distribution help to preserve independence with respect to broadcasters, on whether the granting of a Community contribution facilitates obtaining investments and/or banking aids for TV production, on whether Community programmes should develop further and/or differently organised training support, on whether a programme like MEDIA could facilitate the negotiations with national and foreign investors and/or banking organisations, the most important constraints for the development of the audiovisual sector in the new countries.

– (PT) Mr President, because of problems stemming from large-scale fraud in the production of wine and other types of fraud, we are more aware that EAGGF Guarantee Section appropriations are frequently used to promote the products of large-scale farming operations whose only real aim is to obtain subsidies, without even considering whether there is a market for these products. This applies when small family-run farms, such as those dedicated to producing milk, find themselves outside the subsidy arrangements and find their very survival is threatened.

Eligible measures The measures eligible under Retex could involve the following: a) Improving know-how by providing businesses with aid to pay for advisory services and the equipment (excluding machinery for production) to put the advice into practice, in the fields of design, quality control, computer-assisted manufacturing and planning, marketing, etc. b) Aid for the formation of local associations of businesses and other cooperation schemes for the purpose of: - improving know-how in the areas described under (a) above, - research and the development of new methods of production; - marketing and diversification of products; - improv ...[+++]ing information on market trends; - creating networks of contacts. c) Setting up teams to provide ideas and advice to assist small and medium-sized businesses. d) Temporary contributions towards paying engineers, technical staff and managers who are recruited to help in implementing modernization plans for businesses drawn up with the assistance of outside experts. e) Vocational training schemes for staff in textile and clothing firms and retraining for staff faced with reduncancy or already unemployed. f) The rehabilitation of industrial wasteland, including restoring redundant industrial buildings, aid to reduce pollution caused by industry (the treatment and recycling of liquid effluent and industrial waste). g) Improving access to venture capital and loans.

The measure envisaged by the Commission would define "pure" know-how licensing agreements as agreements whereby one firm (the licensor) which holds a body of non-patented technical information, which must be both secret and substantial, confers on another firm (the licensee) the exclusive or non-exclusive right to exploit that information, in particular with a view to manufacturing, using or selling goods or services. The information might for example take the form of descriptions of manufacturing processes, formulae, models, designs, drawings, software etc.