Industry committee  You raise a good point that looking back over the scope of 15 years there have been a number of initiatives put in place that have attempted to tackle this issue. I think if we look back over that period of time there have been a number of improvements and advancements that have

Industry committee  That's certainly a choice that could be entertained. In the fall economic statement, I think there is even a thought given to that, that the Government of Canada shall consider whether there is merit in mainstreaming that requirement as part of an overarching piece of legislation

Industry committee  It's certainly a viable option to go into each department's legislation to consider that. An alternative, of course, would be to have an overarching piece of government legislation that would achieve the same effect. Therefore, it could be potentially done through several avenues

Industry committee  You raise a very important question when it comes to regulators themselves. Often in their departmental legislation it might not be specified that you shall regulate in the interests of economic efficiency, and so on. However, as Ms. McRae noted, the requirement for this cabinet

Finance committee  In relation to changes or amendments to the Canadian free trade agreement, the practices in place would be similar to those that were in place with respect to the agreement on internal trade itself. Interestingly, the AIT over the course of the better part of 20 years in fact had