Translation of "doubles long service line " (English → French) :

47. Stresses that the special character of water and sanitation services, such as production, distribution and treatment, makes it imperative that they be excluded from any trade agreements the EU is negotiating or considering; urges the Commission to grant a legally binding exclusion for water services, sanitation services and wastewater disposal services in the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement; stresses that all future trade and investment agreements should include clauses on genuine access to drinking water for the people of the third country to which the agreement pe ...[+++]rtains in line with the Union’s long-lasting commitment to sustainable development and human rights, and that genuine access to drinking water for the people of the third country to which the agreement pertains must be a precondition for any future free trade agreements;

Although Member States try to relieve double taxation through measures such as bilateral and multilateral double taxation conventions, these do not provide adequate protection for citizens and businesses due to various shortcomings (e.g. too narrow scope, lack of uniformity amongst Member States' provisions, administrative burdens, long time-lines for dispute resolution etc.).

Obviously your constituents will feel that the need for better bus services in order to avoid long slushy line-ups or the need for more hospital beds in order to avoid having their parents, children or themselves wait on stretchers in emergency is greater than the need for investment in new military equipment or three new diplomats in Latin America.

People who can afford it can, and do, go out of Canada (usually to the United States) to receive the medical services they require if their only alternative is a long waiting line in Canada.

We want to remain optimistic, but the only serious argument for being optimistic and supporting the line taken in the motion would be, first, a stable political line, not double and triple messages coming out of the European Union and ΝΑΤΟ, as has happened in the past, with catastrophic results at political level; secondly, real, generous financial assistance – and soon – and, thirdly, to give European prospects to all the Balkan states at long last, and ...[+++] to this particular country as quickly as possible, so that there is a way out of the crisis, hope and prospects.

That is what it is. They have improved, I will comment, chair, since our visit to the Ottawa airport, when I continued to complain about the taxi service and long wait lines.