Earth Day   access to safe drinking water and more than two billion lack adequate sanitation. Canada is honouring its commitment to work with our international partners to cut those numbers in half by 2015. At home, the government is leading in participating in a range of initiatives to improve

Avian Flu   from the outset to prevent the potential transmission of disease from one farm to the other. Texas made it clear that their teams would disinfect equipment, boots, vehicles and vehicle tires and sanitize and bag all disposable gear. From the outset, they urged poultry producers

Sponsorship Program   to information requests and divert attention from Auditor General's reports. A leaked memo now reveals that Laguë was in the loop on efforts to sanitize the Auditor General's report back in 2000. If the Prime Minister is really serious about getting to the bottom of this, why did he hire

Sponsorship Program  Mr. Speaker, the evidence is in the daily newspaper if the minister would pick up the paper and read about the leaked memo, where Mario Laguë had been invited to a secret meeting which resulted in the sanitizing of the Auditor General's report in 2000. Has he not yet read

Reinstatement of Government Bills   minister's office being dispersed out to clean up and whitewash and sanitize files at the BDC office. All of this was discussed in a Quebec courtroom. Much of the commentary of the judge is absolutely heart-wrenching when we consider the interference and the level of government corruption

First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act  . Under this bond financing regime, each community can use up to 20% of its local real property tax base as collateral for borrowing. These bonds have finance the roads, water and sanitation systems, and public facilities required to support economic activity and improve the quality

*Question No. 259   and sanitation, which was introduced at the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2002. Canada's main concern was the introduction of language in the resolution on an international dimension to the “human right to water”, which could lead to the interpretation that states do not have

Agriculture  Mr. Speaker, there are reports from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that it has found some major deficiencies in sanitation in some 61 federally regulated slaughterhouses in Canada. This could possibly compromise some of the safety of our meat in the country. My question

Supply   of the members who are in the legal profession are arguing in a sanitized environment in which there does not seem to be the sensitivity to what is right. It is almost mechanical. The difficulty that I have is, how can we deal with a social injustice like the existence of child pornography

Parliament of Canada Act  . That sounds very good and I certainly agree with it. However I am concerned that the public report could be sanitized by removing all confidential information and what power that report might have after that is a moot point. If there has been a breach of ethics, I firmly believe

Parliament of Canada Act   would be obliged to investigate it but any public report arising from this investigation could be suitably sanitized by withholding any information considered confidential. Scandals have plagued the Liberal government and this will probably not be preventable or subject to exposure

Access To Information Act   observations, leaving in only a check-off sheet with different boxes on matters like hygiene and sanitation. Yet there is another example. In 1984 after winning the right to see the minutes of the Atomic Energy Control Board meetings from 1975 to 1982, which were requested for use

Supply   by the WHO constitution. By establishing and continuously improving various projects in public health, sanitation, immunization and drug research, Taiwan's government has genuinely sought the attainment of the highest possible level of health as called for in the WHO constitution. Taiwan

Parliament of Canada Act   arising from the investigation can be suitably sanitized by withholding any information considered confidential. An independent ethics commissioner must report to the House of Commons ideally through one of the committees, not through the Prime Minister's office. Without

International Aid  . As part of our contribution, $1 million will be contributed to UNICEF to undertake an emergency water supply and sanitation program to provide clean water to those affected. This brings Canada's total contribution to $4.2 million to assist those in Eritrea. I thank the hon. member