Traduction de «groupe peu à peu ouvert » (Français → Anglais) :

I submit to this committee that the onus should not be placed on those asking for public tenders to be open to all Canadians, but the onus should be on those who wish to close public tenders to a select group, whoever that group might be.

Thank you. We might have to tighten up a little bit, because if we're going to stick to our schedule of closing up at 4:30 and bringing on our next group, it might be a little bit difficult, given the seven minutes for each one and then going to five-minute rounds.

From the outset, the government has engaged in tactics that would have made the most corrupt dictator applaud: rigging voters lists; appointing a sham task force to write a report and issue an opinion that probably was written before it began; imposing gag orders to prevent the Canadian Wheat Board from advocating for and explaining its preferred option; firing pro-Wheat Board directors; cancelling the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food meetings that were to hear from the pro-Wheat Board president and CEO; later on firing that same president and CEO; numbering the ballots on the barley vote so they could be traced back to farmers; issuing ...[+++] more than one ballot to some farmers and then calling the farmers to see which ones they want counted is that open voting?; asking farmers a muddled, unclear question when a simple yes or no would have sufficed; and finally, today when the results on the barley vote were released, interpreting the numbers in a skewed way so it could claim, and incorrectly I might add, that the majority of voters wants marketing choice.

I welcome the fact that we are gradually applying the open coordination method to pensions.

1. raising awareness of the Information Society's opportunities and challenges, in particular among technology-shy people, including the elderly, and within communities at risk of digital exclusion, as well as by sensitising ICT producers, information providers, social partners and political actors to the special needs of disadvantaged people in terms of ICT equipment, on-line content, and Information Society jobs;

* Schools and training centres, all linked to the Internet, should be developed into multipurpose local learning centres accessible to all, using the most appropriate methods to address a wide range of target groups; learning partnerships should be established between schools, training centres, firms and research facilities for their mutual benefit.