Translation of "Faire des enquêtes " (French → English) :

5. The amount of the countervailable subsidies shall be considered to be de minimis if such amount is less than 1 % ad valorem, except where, as regards investigations concerning imports from developing countries, the de minimis threshold shall be 2 % ad valorem, provided that it is only the investigation that shall be terminated where the amount of the countervailable subsidies is below the relevant de minimis level for individual exporters, which shall remain subject to the proceedings and may be reinvestigated in any subsequent review carried out for the country concerned pursuant to Articles 18 and 19.

The government has put in place several inquiries, such as the judicial inquiry, the public accounts inquiry and the RCMP inquiry.

(15) It is necessary to lay down the manner in which interested parties should be given notice of the information which the authorities require; interested parties should have ample opportunity to present all relevant evidence and to defend their interests; it is also necessary to set out the rules and procedures to be followed during the investigation, in particular the rules whereby interested parties are to make themselves known, present their views and submit information within specified time limits, if such views and information are to be taken into account; whilst respecting commercial confidentiality, it is necessary to allow interested parties access to all information pertaining to the investigation which is relevant to the pres ...[+++]entation of their case; it is necessary to provide that, where parties do not cooperate satisfactorily, other information may be used to establish findings and that such information may be less favourable to the parties than if they had cooperated.

Such “Asset Investigation Bodies” with highly developed financial investigation skills, should be able to draw on complementary skills of police, Prosecutors, Tax Revenue services, customs and other relevant services and provide a source of expertise for all terrorist (and other serious criminal) investigations.

When I asked for the further investigation of the preliminary results by the attorney general and the RCMP, I made no bones about the openness of the RCMP to investigate everybody, including the actions of all departments of government.

You might wish to reflect upon the advantages of a parliamentary forum over a judicial inquiry, unless you had something particular in mind that you thought a judicial inquiry could do that a parliamentary inquiry could not do.