Traduction de «Couche de canevas du Réseau de base canadien » (Français → Anglais) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 159 Mr. Sean Casey: With respect to the considered cuts to Environment Canada: (a) which specific departments and programs are affected, and what was the process taken to determine whether or not to make cuts to a specific department and program, (i) what, if any, Environment Canada Research Scientists were consulted regarding the considered cuts, (ii) what scientists outside of Environment Canada were consulted, (iii) for each department and program specified in (a), what is the number of current full-tim ...[+++]e, part-time, and contract scientific positions, (iv) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who have been given “workforce adjustment” letters, (v) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who are going to be moved out of their current “job function”, (vi) what, if any, consideration has been given to shutting-down the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN), and, if so, has the United States been consulted, as Canada has commitments under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, (vii) specify all programs run by a single scientist who has been given a “workforce adjustment” letter, and for each program identified, what, if any, concern was expressed regarding the ability of the program to continue, (viii) the process that will be taken to place scientists in appropriate research areas, (ix) what, if any, consideration has been given to the fact that many scientists are highly trained in very specialized fields, and that an appropriate replacement position may not be possible; (b) specify all national and international environmental commitments to which Canada is subject, including, but not limited to the Global Climate Observing System, the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, which are mandated by the Montreal Protocol to occur at least every four years, and hosting the World Ozone and UV Data Centre, (i) wha ...

Hon. Grant Mitchell: Honourable senators, when it comes to the environment, the government has cut the ozone monitoring group; it has cut 776 people from the department; it has cut $70 million from the department's budget; and now it has cut funding, after 35 consecutive years of funding, to the Canadian Environmental Network.

- Software, Grids, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities; service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, network-centric operating systems; open platforms and collaborative approaches for development of software, services and systems; composition tools; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems ...[+++]and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models.

- Software, Grids, service-distribution architecture, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for developing and validating high-quality dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities and for high-quality distribution services and technologies, tools and methods for development and validation ; service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, including domain-specific platforms, network-centric operating systems; open source software; open platforms and collabo ...[+++]rative approaches for development and validation of software including free, libre and open source software , services and systems; composition tools including programming languages ; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models; introduction of software models in industry .

(a) establish specific agreements in the context of the respective IDA framework contracts for the implementation of the network and security layers;

More specifically, Investment Canada will normally seek to obtain one or more commitments from the foreign investor, such as the commitment to support Canadian authors, in particular by establishing joint ventures with Canadian-controlled publishers so that the Canadian authors whom they publish have access to new national and international markets; the commitment to support the book distribution infrastructure, for example by distributing imported titles through an exclu ...[+++]sive Canadian-controlled publisher/distributor; by maintaining in Canada fully integrated warehousing and fulfilment operations for recent publications and back-list items; by participating actively in co-operative projects with the industry on marketing, distribution and order fulfilment operations (1620) Contractual access to the company's marketing and distribution infrastructure in Canada or its international network by Canadian-controlled publishers whose interests are compatible; Financial and professional assistance to institutions that offer teaching and research programs in the publishing field.