Traduction de «réflexe d'attention de la pupille » (Français → Anglais) :

What I was saying earlier, in English, is that suspending parliamentary privilege in this instance, especially for the witnesses, could not only set a bad precedent, but cause future witnesses to have a reaction, not that they wouldn't come and testify before parliamentarians, but they certainly would be very, very careful as to what they say in such circumstances.

Until now, indeed, the only attention paid to tropical forests has been a mere selfish reflex on the part of Westerners anxious to safeguard the forests that are the lungs of our planet, in a last ditch attempt of our industrialised societies to bind the wounds, without considering the indigenous peoples living in and off these forest areas, who are condemned to be sacrificed to the profits of the industrial groups exploiting their resources.

7. Draws the Member States' attention to the need to review their mechanisms for transposing and implementing internal market legislation, in particular to avoid gold-plating, and urges the Commission to pay special attention in the context of its pilot project on administrative cooperation to creating internal-market mindedness in its interlocutors (national and regional governments, business federations and even the Commission's own staff in certain cases) while monitoring national implementing measures for effects detrimental to the internal market; regards, therefore, the proposed supervision methods, which are largely based on busi ...[+++]ness management methods, as a challenge to be taken up with vigilance and determination by traditional administrations, which must be seen as positive;

Even if our instinctive reaction of outrage tends to overshadow everything else when we are confronted with such unacceptable tragedies, I have learned from experience to read in this violence the signs of a society which is out of balance, a society in which social expectations of performance at any cost, family isolation, financial difficulties and psychological deficiencies play a major role.

We are triggering something in you, the average Canadian, to say: Let us pay some attention to this.