Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   a question not so much that there isn't any land; it is a question of the honour of the crown and the commitment by the government to ensure a fair process. No question, what's clear is the economics, that the resources and the lands are being used without compensation for the indigenous

Finance committee  I want to move now to the very important question of intergenerational equity raised by Madame Carbonneau, and she did it in very clear terms. I can allow myself perhaps to try to summarize in the following way. As we try to make sure that people who are now retired don't live

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's the case. The government has been very clear that it wants to welcome to Canada genuine refugees. That has been the case for this government; I believe it was the case with previous governments. That's not a matter for debate. We are unable to see how

Citizenship and Immigration committee   is the value of an appeal division that could prevent us from sending an individual back to torture and death? If a political party at this table is able to answer that question, I hail it; it's very strong. I wouldn't be able to do it. I want to be very clear about the 42% rate, I didn't

Finance committee   demands. So thank you for your suggestions and recommendations. Mr. Braniff, just to be clear here, you had suggested in your comments that perhaps we were a little late in coming to the conclusion that pensions were in trouble. I think Canada did get out ahead of some of the other

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're free to speak to the issue. I think our clear position, as Treaty One, is that the crown clearly, in signing the treaty land entitlement, recognized that they had an outstanding lawful obligation from the 1871 treaty--namely, the reality of the 160 acres per family of five

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In order for us to get to court, we were very clear. We sent a phenomenal amount of the paper trail to ensure that we had tried to engage the crown in doing what was legally right. So for us to go to court, and spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to be at court

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   that the lawful obligation from 1871 was in fact.... If there's third-party interest in other lands, clearly the crown's lands would be much easier to deal with. The courts have been very clear in that context, that the crown does have that obligation. We have a very strong legal basis

International Trade committee   everywhere and you have always been a staunch defender of fairness among farmers from Quebec, Canada and the world over. Your analysis earlier was technical and commercial. It was well presented and clear. The regrettable thing about this free trade agreement with Peru and the one

International Trade committee  There's an expression in French--I don't know if you have the same in English--Ce n'est pas le Pérou; it's not Peru. That's very true of that deal, but overall it's positive. It's little, but it's positive. I was not that clear on the second-last comment, that if another

Finance committee   that these suggestions will be of assistance to your committee. We support extending temporary and balanced funding relief for federally regulated pension plans. We believe that there are clear principles that must be present for relief to be balanced. Retirees and employees should maintain

Public Safety committee  . I'd like to talk a bit about how privacy laws apply to national security agencies. In the various cases you were reviewing, this application is all too clear. The men who became the subjects of the inquiries that you were studying, as we just heard, suffered terribly, but as well

Citizenship and Immigration committee   claims for Canada is almost three times the average of the 51 countries they studied. The welcome we extend has given us an international reputation as a champion of human dignity. Nevertheless, Mr. Chairman, this is a system under serious pressure. It is becoming clear that our

Environment committee   cannot proceed to the court unless there has already been that first level of determination. In the instance that they actually obtain a conviction, then it's very clear that it was a valid charge and there was a lot of private work involved and the hiring of private expert

Official Languages committee   is their mother tongue. We know and you know as well that these kinds of statistics are often not entirely clear. Three hundred and seven students come from member countries of the Francophonie, that is 4% of our 8,000 foreign students. In a study I am currently conducting with Professor