Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  , yes, I think they have Parkinson's, they will reply, “Well, okay, my dad had Parkinson's, and my mother has Parkinson's.” Then you start asking what their symptoms are. It becomes quite clear that they don't have Parkinson's. They actually have essential tremor. But the family's

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee   committee meetings, so that people won't even be working any more than they would have previously. My suggestion is that we meet for 16 to 20 hours a week and hear from witnesses. I have no problem clearing my schedule in the evening. That's what I'm here to do; I'm here to work. I have

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee   medicine, we still need to treat people, we still need to diagnose people; how can we come up with the best way to do that in Canada? That's what we tried to do in the guidelines. There's still a clear need for better research into coming up with better ways to diagnose people

Official Languages committee   there was room for improvement, but the big loss for us is Part VII. As I said in response to other questions, I'm prepared to do what I can do for Part VII, but, in view of my mandate at the commission, what I can do is not very clear. Our organization really operates in both official

Human Resources committee  I think you've made the point yourself, which is very clear, that we don't prosecute. There's a 94% response rate, so clearly some people are not responding and we're not tossing people into jail. As for the single mother, the experience to date has been that this has not been

Official Languages committee  , congratulations for the great work you do. The objectives of the Public Service Commission of Canada for next year are clear. You are no doubt more advanced with regard to the objective overall of our government to have a more meaningful sense of what Justice Bastarache describes

Government Operations committee  It was a man by the name of Gilles Prud'Homme, who was an organizer in the riding of Bourassa. He made it very clear that this would be helpful as a way of boosting the Conservative Party, because in Quebec, it was difficult for his members to collect money.

Human Resources committee  , more importantly, not just generally your programs but the acts that you are obliged, as a city, to follow and to respect, and to have proper information. You listed quite a few of those—and those are clear—with respect to health standards. I'm not going to repeat all of them

Official Languages committee  Yes, I am. However, in view of the kind of obligations we have when we do most of our work within the public service but promote minority community events, it's not so clear in my mind.

Status of Women committee  , doing so against the advice of experts across the country. And the experts have been clear: a voluntary survey will underrepresent significant communities, such as aboriginal Canadians, Canadians living with disabilities, and visible minorities. A voluntary survey

Official Languages committee   how we can respond to it, within our mandate, of course. We don't want to create expectations, in the sense that there are things that we can't intervene in. For example, we don't hire. Sometimes people ask us why we don't hire them. We have to be clear when we send our message

Official Languages committee  , it does not have a list of official language communities, nor is it clear that the PSC consults with these communities on a regular basis or understands their needs. While the PSC has undertaken initiatives that support Part VII of the Act, the initiatives do not appear

House debate  Mr. Speaker, we have this report from 2007 that makes very clear recommendations about how the post-secondary education program can be improved. We now have this study of up to $1 million being proposed on increasing awareness and understanding barriers, when we already have

House debate   2008, we have heard from first nations, Inuit and other stakeholders on how to improve the post-secondary education program's effectiveness and its accountability in coordination with other programs. We are currently looking at ways to improve the program. We have made it clear

Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act  -operation, the task force gave very clear instructions to the government when it recommended the following, “The federal government should continue to pursue bilateral agreements on anti-spam policies and strategies with foreign governments.” It also recommended that “the federal