Translation of "Livre beige " (French → English) :

17. Regrets that steps have not been taken to publish the arguments which are discussed at the ECB Governing Council and calls again for the minutes to be published; in this context, proposes that a summary of the stances of both the approving and dissenting parties, including the balance of votes and the dissenting opinion, should be published in an anonymous way to avoid inappropriate pressure being brought to bear on the Governing Council members; reiterates its long standing view of the need for the ECB to publish summary minutes of each Governing Council meeting shortly after the following Governing Council meeting; repeats its call for an annual publication of a country-by-country review of trends, similar to the US Federal Reserve's beige book, wh ...[+++]ich would give the ECB the chance to influence the discussion of productivity trends and price and wage expectations;

We know that during the period surrounding the Charlottetown negotiations the consensus was generally in favour of abolishing the Senate (1535) This consensus had been reached much earlier, however, in 1980, the year of the referendum. At that time, the key federalist players, as represented by Claude Ryan in his beige paper, were calling for the abolition of the Upper House.

Somebody called Claude Ryan-maybe some of my colleagues have heard about him-proposed in 1980, in his beige paper, the elimination of the Upper House.

Some people will immediately think of the beige paper, others of the 1980 referendum, others still of Robert Bourassa.

Was the 1982 patriation and Pierre Elliott Trudeau's rejection of the Quebec Liberal beige book the fault of the “nasty separatists”?

With respect to the Beige Paper, Bill 3, Bill 40 or Bill 107, the Federation has always been in favour of establishing neutral linguistic school boards, maintaining in each case the denominational status of the school.