Foreign Affairs committee  Have you been able to clear that up? Because it's an important question.

Foreign Affairs committee  Indeed. The president of CIDA gives us the assurance that it's business as usual, but the minister has been quite clear in going out of her way, I would say, to state something different, and that's why we're trying to clarify if Canada's position has shifted, and if new

Foreign Affairs committee   agree with you, we need to continue to clear it up in a way that tries to separate out the rhetoric from the reality of what in fact is being done and being proposed. I think we all have to try to do that, from all sides of the political spectrum. We have to try to say what the heck

Information & Ethics committee  I am asking whether you can confirm that the minister was not aware it. He said you did not inform him. My question is clear. Can you confirm what the minister said?

Canadian Heritage committee  , something that a lot of our smaller rural community stations are doing is emergency broadcasting, which is huge. Last year, CHLS, which is in Lillooet, got to do emergency broadcasting when the forest fire evacuations were happening. It has happened in the States where Clear Channel

Foreign Affairs committee   important for us to be clear, to understand exactly what we're talking about here just so Canadians will know what's taking place. The policy of the Government of Canada agency called CIDA is that it does fund access to abortion indirectly--not directly, but indirectly--because

Information & Ethics committee   made very clear in other matters. No member should engage in a private conversation with the commissioner, in the midst of an ongoing investigation, about that investigation. There were no witnesses and we don't know what attempt was made to not influence the investigation. We don't

Foreign Affairs committee   of Canada for this initiative and I full well believe that it probably has to do with hesitancies from some countries wading into the MDG 4 and 5 because of some of the controversy. Now, when this went to the House two days later, by an opposition motion, it became very clear

Procedure and House Affairs committee  . When he gets out on the ice, the idea that he can use the stick as a way of stopping another player is something that doesn't even occur to him. I hope the analogy is clear.

Information & Ethics committee  Right. Good. Well, given that tradition in which you were prepared for your role, that tradition of telling thousands of Canadians about Parliament, it is clear that you have a background in this parliamentary tradition and that you have shown respect for Parliament. I want

Veterans Affairs committee   just wanted to make clear that it's not a situation in which the department has a mandate to administer a department under a budget and make sure that they meet that budget. I think that's an important message that the veterans and the public need to hear. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee   you see that literally millions of people spend a portion of their day, every single day, sifting out silt from salt water in order to try to preserve a land base to sustain their families and their communities. So this is urgent, and we need to be absolutely clear that we can't

National Defence committee   to it as a peacekeeping mission, that we were going to help women and children and rebuild the country. All the arguments used were extremely positive and soft. However, I believe that Doug made it clear in his presentation that, in reality, a war should be called a war. When we are in Afghanistan, we

National Defence committee   it to the example that I provided, it is clear that it is not the ideal.

Foreign Affairs committee   had to do, it's often been the woman who has perished in the plight of the journey. I wondered if you have a view on that. I'm worried that we have not established a clear link between climate change and the millennium development goals. I think we treat them as two separate