Natural Resources committee  You're completely right. I would introduce a note of caution, though, about universities and intellectual property. This is an area that I actually studied a lot 15 years ago, but in the American context. The problem when universities get into the patent game

International Trade committee   some of those concerns. Investor-state dispute settlement, like the controversial chapter 11 of NAFTA, is often described as a charter for corporate rights, and has been included in CETA. Investor state has also been included in the U.S.-EU transatlantic trade and investment

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, and subject to this Act, the rights, powers and privileges of a natural person. Property (2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Corporation may acquire, hold, lease, sell or dispose of any real or personal property. Administration of oaths 16. The Corporation may

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I am happy to be able to testify before the committee this morning. I am standing in for our CEO, Don Bubar, whom some of you may know. He was unable to be here as today is Avalon's annual general meeting of shareholders in Toronto. As mentioned, my name is Pierre

Grain Transport   act, to bring our plant breeders legislation in line with the rest of the world. UPOV ’91, as it is known, will strengthen intellectual property rights for plant breeders and help increase investment in research and development for Canada's crop sector. These discussions have been

Business of Supply   on issues of national security to protect the safety of Canadians. Securing Canadian life and property requires a multi-partner approach and a clearly defined review structure. Our government recognizes the importance of independent reviews and ensures that Canadians feel confident

Transparency of Payments Made by Mining, Oil and Gas Corporations to Foreign Governments Act   of Canada; MAC, the Mining Association of Canada; Revenue Watch Institute; and Publish What You Pay came together to say the following, as stated by Pierre Gratton, Mining Association of Canada's president and CEO: The Canadian mining industry is fully committed to improving

Combating Counterfeit Products Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. He is quite right because protecting patents and intellectual property, as well as ensuring the safety of Canadians, is something to be enthusiastic about. However, I would like to know his thoughts on whether

Combating Counterfeit Products Act   the rights owners. They will have to take care of all that in addition to doing their regular duties. One has to wonder whether the Canada Border Services Agency will have the means to implement the law without compromising its other responsibilities, which are to protect Canada's

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act   of Commons who should put forward bills as often as possible. This bill has already appeared in other forms in previous Parliaments. The Senate took it up again, probably at the request of the government, for reasons that I have not yet figured out. In my view, it is the right of elected

Environment committee   are isolated from groundwater. They're very low-nutrient wetlands, and any nutrients they do get come from precipitation; vegetation types are mosses, trees, and shrubs. On the right, that is a fen. Fens are exposed to groundwater. They have higher nutrients. They're less acidic than bogs

Business of Supply  . We recognize that 40 or 50 years ago, I believe it was back in the early 1970s, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau established, through policy, the need for us to recognize that we had to respect the treaties and work toward having laws that would see land claims ultimately

Response to the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in R. v. Tse Act  Mr. Speaker, I think it is important to recognize that when Pierre Trudeau negotiated constitutional reform and brought in the charter for all Canadians, it guaranteed those individual rights. The Liberal Party does not have to take a back seat to any political entity in Canada

Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012   the beginning of this new Parliament, have been continually pushing the committee to complete its study of tax evasion. One of the questions we have been considering is this: how can we successfully combat tax evasion? We must use measures targeting certain rental properties and Canadian

Fair Rail Freight Service Act   transportation. Moreover, QNSL, Quebec North Shore and Labrador, which is now the property of Rio Tinto—that is what I was told yesterday when I did my research—also provides rail transportation. Finally, there is Tshiuetin Rail Transportation Inc. It specializes in transporting passengers