Translation of "Low in the croup " (English → French) :

I am not arguing to have a heart surgeon or a neurosurgeon in every town in Canada that is huddled around a mill or a mine, but it has got to the point where if you have a child who is sick with croup, someone will have to take care of that child, and transporting that child is not the way to go.

Let us look at some of the initiatives we have taken: we have taken over one million low-income Canadians right off the tax rolls, so they are not paying a dollar of tax themselves; we have increased the basic personal amount Canadians can earn without paying taxes; we have introduced the working income tax benefit to support low-income Canadians; we have increased the guaranteed income supplement for our most vulnerable seniors; and, finally, we lowered the GST, one of the taxes that low-income Canadians pay the most, from 7% to 6% to 5%. The NDP voted against each and every one of these initiatives.

In case of fire, exposed cables shall have the characteristics of low flammability, low fire spread, low toxicity and low smoke density.

(1420) Hon. Tony Ianno (Minister of State (Families and Caregivers), Lib.): Mr. Speaker, it is pretty curious that the party opposite, which has rarely spoken about our seniors, especially our low income seniors, is all of a sudden, as it is getting ready for the election, trying to score cheap political points at the expense of our low income seniors for whom the government has done a tremendous amount in the last year in ensuring that our low income seniors are given the dignity that they deserve.

C. whereas women immigrants, as a general rule, encounter significant problems in integrating, primarily in terms of difficulty in accessing the labour market, low employment rates and high rates of unemployment, employment in temporary or low-paid jobs, often without social and economic protection or in sectors of the "grey" economy and undeclared employment, limited linguistic skills, a low rate of participation in basic and, above all, tertiary education, limited participation in social, political, trade union and cultural life of the host country, poverty and social exclusion; whereas, nonetheless, a by no means negligible number of young woman graduates from the higher education systems of their countries come to take relatively unski ...[+++]lled jobs in the European Union, for example as domestic staff, as a consequence of the high rate of female unemployment in their countries and the low pay for the professions and jobs of their skills and qualifications,

Low-skilled workers in Europe have a low propensity for occupational mobility and the proportion of low-skilled workers tends to be highest in Member States and regions with low employment rates and high unemployment, i.e. those which are lagging behind.