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Information & Ethics committee Thanks to both of you for a very interesting presentation. I think the commercial side is well understood. The privacy issues are probably the area of most interest. Just as an example, we understand that in Greece, Japan, Germany, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia, and now
June 17th, 2009Committee meeting
The ChairLiberal
Citizenship and Immigration committee was in on this. The issue was that if a child was born in a country that didn't confer citizenship, let's say, Greece, Japan, and so forth, Canada, or one of the countries, immediately would come in and give that child citizenship based on the United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
June 11th, 2009Committee meeting
Don Chapman
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you. But, Mr. Fadden, people from the U.K., people from France, people from Germany, people from Italy, and people from Greece are not required to get a visitor visa. The only thing they are required to do is get on a plane and show their passport, and in they come. How
June 9th, 2009Committee meeting
Jim KarygiannisLiberal
Transport committee , and New York City, and we are now developing a system for Paris, just to mention some of them. On the issue of high-speed rail, Thales has been a world leader through its European units and its systems are currently in use on lines in France, Spain, Greece, Germany, Finland, Turkey
June 4th, 2009Committee meeting
Guy Baruchel
Agriculture committee to pillar two, which has already gone too far. They are not keen on more modulation. They are not keen on sharing for regional development. There are imbalances that have been pointed out by the new member states, in which the amount of direct aid per hectare, for example, in Greece
June 2nd, 2009Committee meeting
Peter Clark
Agriculture committee on food. In France, that percentage is 14.8%, in England 11.2% and in Greece, 31%. When we look at those countries, we realize that the system can perhaps be improved. Even if the cost of groceries in Canada increased by 2%, 3% or 4%, money could be injected into the system
May 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Jacques Légaré
Greek Independence Day of England and others, was an uprising not only to restore democracy to the nation that founded democracy, but also to free a nation, to cut the bonds of slavery and free its people, to free a spirit called Hellenism. Today Greece is a modern 21st century country, a member
March 25th, 2009House debate
John CannisLiberal
International Trade committee —are embarking today on the European free trade agreement with four specific countries. I just want you to place for me how this falls under what you just said. If we go and negotiate with Italy or with Greece or with Spain, for example, can the commission step in and say “Whoa, whoa, I have
March 5th, 2009Committee meeting
John CannisLiberal
Foreign Affairs committee have fallen and they're doing some things to stimulate domestic demand. But my comment is that we are not through this. Everything is linked, and therefore the chain is still reverberating around. When it comes to Latvia and Iceland—and people are talking about Greece
March 2nd, 2009Committee meeting
Peter Harder
Petitions with Canadian armed forces in Afghanistan and with our partners in other NATO-led missions. It is time for Canada to follow the example of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom and lift visitor visa requirements for Croatia.
February 24th, 2009House debate
Borys WrzesnewskyjLiberal
Information & Ethics committee It was Greece and Romania who appeared in the particular report the minister made reference to as being the top two in the world. Canada is certainly up there, but I don't have any more specific information on the other countries that perhaps were reflected in that report
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Carolyn Kobernick
Citizenship and Immigration committee that the best immigration policy Canada has had was the one under which we let people come into the country with their families within a short period of time. I'm thinking of the old waves of immigration that came from Italy, Greece and so on in the 1950s and 1960s. Those people, because
April 14th, 2008Committee meeting
Raymonde FolcoLiberal
Business of Supply Mr. Speaker, I am of the race of Solon. Solon was the founder of democracy in ancient Greece. I believe in openness and transparency, and I like to believe the House functions in a democratic way. However, when it takes 300 days to get a response, then maybe democracy is being
April 8th, 2008House debate
John CannisLiberal
Fisheries committee that looks like the Parthenon in Greece. Cabot Head, for instance, has cedar eavestroughing, hand-made metal down spouts, shiplap board siding, a rock and rubble foundation, and board and bead along the staircases. The uniqueness of our lighthouses brings present-day tourists and connects
April 8th, 2008Committee meeting
Everdina Toxopéus
Citizenship and Immigration committee that immigrants go through. As for myself, I have a staff member in my office who is married to an Iraqi and has immediate family from Iraq. I guess I get to hear it every day. Being born in a refugee camp myself in Greece, I realize the hardships in what you're facing. I've got a couple
April 7th, 2008Committee meeting
Jim KarygiannisLiberal