Translation of "Loi instituant des plafonds pour les dépenses publiques " (French → English) :

3. By way of derogation from Article 53(3), at the request of a Member State, interim payments shall be increased by an amount corresponding to 10 percentage points above the co-financing rate applicable to each priority axis, up to a maximum of 100 %, to be applied to the amount of eligible public expenditure newly declared in each certified statement of expenditure submitted during the period in which a Member State fulfils one of the following conditions:

‘4c. By way of derogation from the ceilings set out in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5, the EAFRD contribution may be increased up to a maximum of 95 % of eligible public expenditure in the regions eligible under the Convergence Objective and the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean Islands, and 85 % of eligible public expenditure in other regions.

During the session, together your committee and its subcommittee held 5 meetings, heard 14 witnesses, and examined and reported on two bills: Bill C-40, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code, the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act, the Canada Student Loans Act and the Public Service Employment Act; and Bill C-287, An Act respecting a National Peacekeepers’ Day.

If we start from a premise that spending limits really have no place in an electoral process, then one should not be surprised when one ends up as the leader of a national party in a tightly fought election that one's party seeks to find every way to get around spending limit legislation and maximize whatever loopholes or spending patterns it can in order to ensure that at the end of the day if it takes $1,300,000 more than they would be allowed from national advertising limits to win in certain races around the country, then a scheme is designed that Elections Canada believes may not have complied with the law.

Consequently, the number of policies was limited to 750,000 and no new policies could be issued after December 31, 2000, minimum and maximum deductibles were established, a limit on out-of-pocket amounts was imposed, the amount that could be contributed to an MSA was set at between 65 percent and 75 percent of the deductible, and only the employee or the employer could contribute to the account, but not both.

The new expenditure management system forces ministers and public service managers to adhere to their overall expenditure ceilings because policy reserves have been eliminated.