Mr. Speaker, I ask that all Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers be allowed to stand.
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Motions For Papers December 4th, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers be allowed to stand.
Questions On The Order Paper December 4th, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I ask that the remaining questions be allowed to stand.
Questions On The Order Paper December 4th, 1996
Mr. Speaker, Question No. Q-81 will be answered today.
Question No. 81-
Government Response To Petitions December 4th, 1996
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to three petitions.
Questions On The Order Paper December 3rd, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all questions be allowed to stand.
Committees Of The House December 3rd, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I move that the 48th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented to the House earlier this day, be concurred in.
(Motion agreed to.)
Committees Of The House December 3rd, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the 48th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs
regarding the associate membership of the Standing Committee on Health.
If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the 48th report later this day.
Government Response To Petitions December 3rd, 1996
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to table in both official languages the government's response to two petitions.
Canada Endangered Species Protection Act November 29th, 1996
Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the House would be disposed that the Speaker might see the clock as being 1.30 p.m. I see that the member under whose name private members' hour stands is in the Chamber and we might proceed to private members' hour at this time.
Questions On The Order Paper November 29th, 1996
I am informed as follows regarding Atomic Energy Canada Limited, AECL.
Loan agreements in support of CANDU sales abroad are commercially confidential documents to which AECL is not party. Therefore, AECL cannot provide information with respect to the terms and conditions of eventual loans to China, as the sale has not yet been finalized, nor can it provide comparative information in relation to past loans to Argentina, Romania and South Korea, for the first CANDU reactor. South Korea's purchases of three additional CANDU reactors on two separate occasions have not necessitated loans from the Canadian government.
The Export Development Corporation, EDC, is participating in export financing negotiations for AECL sale of two CANDU-6 reactors to China. However, all terms and conditions have not yet been finalized. It is important to note that there are no grants or subsidies involved. Any financing would be repayable with interest and normal fees would apply. In other words, any loan would be on a non-concessional basis and would respect the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, parameters.
With respect to comparisons to previous AECL CANDU sales, EDC does not disclose the terms and conditions of transactions or potential transactions it supports for reasons of commercial confidentiality. However, all transactions involved repayable loans and fees.