Traduction de «Science for Stability » (Anglais → Français) :

The Stability Pact is not the outcome of an exact science: like any agreement entered into freely, its terms must be complied with.

Who could oppose the objectives of succeeding in enlargement, ensuring stability and security, firmly supporting the relaunch of the economy and employment, controlling globalisation and ensuring that the resulting benefits are redistributed as widely as possible taking account of Kyoto, Monterrey and Johannesburg, not forgetting a knowledge-based society, developing research with increased appropriations and better interaction between science and society.

Of course we need stability, but, as you well know, we also need more extensive investments in education and science.

This is an essential foundation for sustaining our own systems of social protection and is based on four fundamental pillars. The first involves preparing the European Union for the knowledge-based economy through mechanisms which will facilitate action for the information society, for science and technology and for training and education. The second pillar consists of achieving the economic reforms that are essential to competitiveness and innovation, through expanding the process of economic reforms necessary to create a fully integ ...[+++]rated internal market and through new policies for innovation and business. Thirdly, we must strengthen the pillar of social cohesion, based on employment, on reform to make our social protection models sustainable and on combating social exclusion. Finally, the fourth pillar consists of coordinating macroeconomic policies in order to guarantee both the stability that we have already achieved which has provided a basis for the euro, with low inflation, low public deficits and also a macroeconomic environment which is more favourable to growth, employment, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Secondly, will the government allow the main granting agencies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Medical Research Council to play their proper role by stabilizing their resources and giving them a five-year funding plan?

The mandate of the new department is outlined in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada Act and can be summarized as follows: manage Canada's diplomatic and consular relations with foreign governments and international organizations; engage and influence international players to advance Canada's political and economic interests and the values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law; improve and maintain market access for Canadian businesses through the negotiation and management of international trade agreements; provide advice and services to help Canadian businesses succeed abroad; foster foreign direct inve ...[+++]stment in Canada and support international innovation, science and technology; deliver consular services and travel information to Canadians to help them travel safely abroad; support global peace and stability and lead coordinated Canadian responses to crises and natural disasters abroad, including the provision of humanitarian assistance; and alleviate global poverty and enhance prosperity and stability in the developing world through the management of Canada's Official Development Assistance to deliver sustainable development programming.