Traduction de «ASK! Community Information Centre » (Anglais → Français) :

Madam Speaker, I rise to speak to the motion put forward by the member for Toronto Centre. The motion asks the House to recognize the fundamental rights of all Canadians to the freedoms of speech, communication and privacy and that there must be a clear affirmation on the need for these rights to be respected in all forms of communication and that the House recognize that the collection by government of personal information and data ...[+++]from Canadians relating to their online activities, without limits, rules, judicial oversight, constitutes a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms' protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

The list of organizations that will not have their contracts with CIC renewed include: the Afghan Association of Ontario; African Community Services of Peel; African Training and Employment Centre; Albion Neighbourhood Services; Asian Community AIDS Services; Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario; Audmax Inc. in Mississauga; Bloor Information Life Skills Centre in Toronto, which is in my riding; the Canadian Hate ...[+++] Prevention Network in Brampton; Canadian Newcomer magazine in Toronto; the Community Action Resource Centre in Toronto; Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga; Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre in Toronto, which is next door to my riding; Eritrean Canadian Community Centre in Toronto; Ethiopian Association in Toronto; Gateway Centre for New Canadians in Mississauga; George Brown College in Toronto; Northwood Neighbourhood Services in Toronto; the Ontario Chamber of Commerce; Ryerson University in Toronto; the Salvation Army in Toronto; San Romanoway in Toronto; Social Planning Council of Peel in Mississauga; South Asian Women's Centre in Toronto; Tropicana Community Services in Toronto; the University of Western Ontario in London; Workers' Action Centre in Toronto; York Weston Community Services in Toronto.

1. In the event of a major emergency within the participating States or imminent threat thereof, which causes or is capable of causing transboundary effects or which may result in a call for assistance through the Monitoring and Information Centre from one or more countries, the competent authority and/or contact points of the State in which the emergency is imminent or has occurred, shall without delay inform the Monitoring and Information Centre via the established communication channels.

The SOCAM wants to improve communications between the various communities through newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs, films, and basically any written, spoken or visual communications tools; provide live broadcasting of news programs on aboriginal issues pertaining to culture, the economy and community life in the language of each of those two nations; involve community radio stations in the business' organizational activities; provide technical support and training to local stations to ensure proper rebroadcasting of the network's programs; launch projects designed to improve communications and relationships betwee ...[+++]n aboriginal peoples, between the two nations and between member communities by using new information technologies and communications; operate a broadcasting network for 14 local member stations; establish cooperative and complementary ties with local community radio stations; organize adequate programming that reflects the Atikamekw and Innu culture; inform the locals of major news events that directly affect them; provide local radio stations and their staff with adequate equipment, tools and communication techniques; implement training programs; provide translation and interpretation services; design a television production centre; develop community access via Internet to new information technologies and communications technologies by implementing multimedia access centres for communities—and I could name 23 or 24 communities in Quebec—; implement communication services and infrastructures to support initiatives pertaining to health, learning and community access to cover social and community activities, a project that was in fact taken over by Industry Canada.

[43] Recognising this need for enhanced localised networking and information flows, the Innovation Programme of the Community RTD Framework Programme has established Innovation Relay Centres (IRC) (68 active centres including the EEA countries and NAC; they are financed by the Innovation Programme and aim at informing and assisting the local user community on innovation and trans-national technology transfer. The Structural Funds ...[+++]have promoted Business Innovation Centres (150 BICs in 20 countries, including some EEA countries) focused mainly on the creation of new innovative SME's.

However, actions at Community level to improve the flow of consumer information have taken the following forms: - descriptive information about goods and services: this information often appears in the form of labelling and some of the Directives mentioned earlier contain provisions relating to the requirements for such information; - prices surveys : the Commission sponsors comparative studies of prices of certain products as a means of detecting the extent of market segmentation, and to provide a basis for policy decisions; - comp ...[+++]arative tests : many consumer associations undertake comparative tests and make the results available to their members: action has been taken . to provide financial assistance to the smaller associations to enable them to undertake such tests; . to stimulate the larger consumer organisations to publish the results of their tests on the basis of the Single Market rather than for each national market separately information and advice centres in trans-frontier regions : a network of 10 such centres has been established, based on existing organisations involved in consumer affairs, with the aim of providing specialist information and advice to consumers undertaking cross-frontier transactions; . the mass media : efforts are being made to improve the coverage of consumer issues, particularly at the Community level, by the mass media; . consumer education : the Commission has cooperated with organisations in Member-States in the development of didactic material, both for use in schools and for adult education.