Traduction de «Marché axé sur le rendement » (Français → Anglais) :

Your rapporteur proposes measures to increase the ability of farms to save energy in buildings, farming practices, transport through energy efficiency programmes and to invest into the production of renewable energy on-farm or local (wind, solar, biogas, geothermal, etc.).

To summarize, that includes the ecoAUTO rebate program to provide performance-based rebates for the purchase of new fuel-efficient vehicles, as well as a green levy that has been placed on fuel-inefficient vehicles; the personal vehicle fuel efficiency incentive program to provide incentives to encourage the retirement of older, more polluting vehicles from Canadian roads; a new operating incentive in support of renewable fuel production in Canada, which will help meet the regulated requirement of 5% renewable fuel content in gasoline by 2010, and 2% renewable content in diesel fuel and heating oil by 2012; and a commitment to provide ...[+++] funding for Sustainable Development Technology Canada to establish large-scale facilities for the production of next-generation renewable fuels in partnership with the private sector.

We believe another key support for the social economy is an examination and adjustment of procurement policies in the federal government, so that procurement policies support a blended return on investment and support contracting policies and procedures that will break down contracts to allow smaller social-enterprise and social-economy businesses, along with SMEs, to have access to federal procurement.

In the tradition return-on-investment model, there has been a separation between the non-profit sector, which has looked for a social return on investment, versus the private sector, which has looked strictly at a financial return on investment.

Given the dual mandate of the CFIA and the External Advisory Committee's recommendations, sections 56 and 57 would give the CFIA the green light to implement regulations that would rely on risk management, instead of on health and safety protection; that would rely on unenforceable performance-based approaches and voluntary measures, instead of enforceable standards and precise limits; that would integrate Canada with the American regulatory system for trade reasons to the detriment of public health and opportunities to serve other markets; that would adopt testing and approval processes and decisions that are made in Washington; and ...[+++] that would cascade to provincial and local jurisdictions, creating barriers to appropriate cultural diversity that reflects local and regional values in order to increase interprovincial trade and commerce.

The emphasis on making more efficient use of and building clinical research capacity in developing countries is welcome. However, it is important networking is output focused.