Traduction de «echelle des forces electromotrices » (Français → Anglais) :

The Canadian Forces recognize the importance of supporting both Official Languages and are committed to improving their performance on this issue in order to enhance the training available to our troops across the Canadian Forces and at Canadian Forces Base Borden.

L. whereas after the siege imposed in Daraa, security forces launched a full-scale military operation and campaign of arbitrary arrests in Daraa's neighbouring towns; whereas an estimated 12,000 Syrians from Jisr al-Shughour and surrounding areas have crossed the Syrian-Turkish border fearing reprisals by the security forces; whereas Turkey has voluntarily offered large-scale humanitarian assistance and aid to Syrian refugees at the Turkey-Syria border, whereas Turkey has expressed great concern over Syria’s deployment of troops and tanks near its border; whereas members of the Syrian army and security have defected and sought refugee ...[+++] in Turkey as well,

Question No. 106 Ms. Dawn Black: With regard to the Canadian presence in Afghanistan: (a) what is the goal of the Canadian presence in Afghanistan; (b) what is the strategy employed by the government; (c) what are the tactics that are being used; (d) who is the enemy; (e) what is the operational centre of gravity of the enemy; (f) does the government have a political strategy to attain its goal; (g) is terrorism the greatest security threat that Canada faces; (h) does the government consider that Canada is at war; (i) what is the condition that the government would consider to be “civil war”; (j) what does the government deem to ...[+++] be the nature of counter-insurgency warfare and does this condition exist in Afghanistan; (k) what Canadian Forces (CF) manuals deal with counter-insurgency; (l) what are the current rules of engagement for the CF in Afghanistan; (m) what has been the change in rules of engagement since Canada left Operation Enduring Freedom; (n) is the government aware of the presence of foreign fighters in Afghanistan who help the Taliban; (o) if there are foreign fighters where do they come from on the whole; (p) what is the opinion of the government regarding the security of the Afghan border with Pakistan; (q) what is the opinion of the government regarding Pakistani cooperation in achieving the objectives of the mission; (r) does the government have an opinion as to when the goals of the Canadian presence will be achieved; (s) when was the decision to deploy a combat mission to Kandahar made by the government; (t) how well are CF capabilities matched to the conditions in the southern region of Afghanistan and to counter insurgency; (u) what is the size and configuration of task forces available for use in Afghanistan through to February 2009; (v) what has been the effect of increased training throughout the forces on the capability of these task forces; (w) how has the training of new recruits been effected by the extension of the ...

38. Calls on the countries defined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty as nuclear-weapon states, in particular the USA, China and Russia, in view of the uncontrollably spreading danger of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, to review their own nuclear policies in the spirit of the Non-Proliferation Treaty; regrets, therefore, the efforts made by the US administration over the last four years to promote research into, and the development of, new nuclear weapons and its refusal to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; expresses concern at Russia's inadequate efforts to protect its nuclear stocks; is alarmed a ...[+++]t China's massive increase in military spending (12,6%), its comprehensive modernisation of its nuclear armed forces and the increase in its imports of modern weapons technologies;

3. Considers that the dimensions of these phenomena and their consequences go beyond the regional and national scale and capacities and urgently call for new and more effective European instruments; regrets, in this connection, the lack of response and follow-up to the proposal for the creation of a European Civil Protection Force that could immediately react to emergencies at a European level (Barnier report), already called for by Parliament on several occasions and in several reports; considers that such a force would play a fundamental role, especially in the prevention, management and reconstruction phases;

Chief Petty Officer First Class R.M. Lupien, Canadian Forces Chief Warrant Officer, Department of National Defence: Certainly, from my perspective, when I speak to people across the Canadian Forces, there is no longer the same complaint about pay or compensation that we had a few years ago.