Translation of "Lenteur de procédure " (French → English) :

educational retardation [ academic retardation | slow learning | slow progress | scholastic retardation | mental backwardness ]

Slowness and poor responsiveness

slowness of thought

justice delayed is justice denied

delay in negotiations

One of the fundamental arguments to your suggestion that the competition commissioner not be given these expanded powers or changes not be made to the Competition Act is that procedural slowness is correctable.

Mr. David Onyalo: On your first question, one of the things we are trying to get at is that somebody shouldn't be penalized in terms of not getting Canadian citizenship because of matters that are completely out of their hands, for example, the slow process in terms of getting their permanent residency.

We are being criticized for the slowness of the process, with some justification, but all three parties are not blameless.

158. Shares the concern voiced by the Court of Auditors as regards the slowness of conformity procedures resulting in financial corrections (point 4.31 of the Annual Report for 2012) and regrets that a sample of conformity procedures showed that in 2012 the actual duration (more than four years) was twice as long as the Commission's internal benchmark, which therefore ultimately led to a considerable backlog; takes note of the fact that the contradictory procedure, the conciliation mechanism and the calculation of corrections makes it difficult to close conformity clearance procedures in time; expects the Commission to make all efforts ...[+++] to reduce the duration of the conformity procedure in standard cases to maximum two years ;