Translation of "Nombre d'exemplaires demandés pour le document " (French → English) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 334 Hon. Irwin Cotler: With regard to bijuralism and harmonization: (a) what measures are in place to ensure legislative bijuralism across all departments; (b) since the adoption of the “Policy on Legislative Bijuralism”, how has the Department of Justice (i) ensured that all legal counsel in the Department are made aware of the requirements of legislative bijuralism in order for them to be able to take it into account when advising client departments on legislative reforms, (ii) enhanced the capacity of the Legislative Services Branch to draft bijural legislative texts, (iii) undertook, in drafting both ver ...[+++]sions of every bill and proposed regulation that touches on provincial or territorial private law, to take care to reflect the terminology, concepts, notions and institutions of both of Canada’s private law systems; (c) since the adoption of the “Policy for Applying the Civil Code of Quebec to Federal Government Activities”, what measures are in place to ensure (i) changes to Quebec’s Civil Code are known and monitored by the government, (ii) assessment of federal legislation relative to changes to Quebec’s Civil Code, (iii) federal legislation is introduced to reflect, where necessary, changes to the Civil Code of Quebec; (d) with respect to the “Index of Bijuralism and Harmonization Caselaw” found online and indicating its most recent update was June 12, 2012, (i) how often is this page updated, (ii) given that some cases thereupon are from 2013, when was this page last updated, (iii) whose responsibility is it to update this page, (iv) what cases are currently being monitored for potential addition to this page; (e) with respect to cases involving bijuralism and harmonization, (i) in what ways are these made known to the Department, (ii) whose responsibility it is to monitor these cases, (iii), what role does the Federal government play in these cases if a party, (iv) what role does the government play if not a party, (v) who m ...

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[English] (Motion agreed to) The Chair: On the questioning of witnesses, the motion reads: [Translation] that witnesses be given up to 10 minutes for their opening statement; that during the questioning of witnesses, the time allocated to each questioner be as follows: on the first round of questioning, up to 10 minutes for the first question of each party; on the following rounds of questioning, up to 5 minutes for each subsequent questioner, at the discretion of the Chair (Motion agreed to) [English] The Chair: For in camera meetings: that one copy of the transcript of all in camera meetings be kept in the committee clerk's office for consultation by members of the committee (Motion agreed to) The Chair: The next motion reads: that when ...[+++]ever an order in council appointment is referred to the committee, the clerk shall obtain and circulate to each member of the committee a copy of the said appointment, that the committee be informed, and the clerk shall obtain and circulate to each member of the committee a copy of the said appointment with the appointee's curriculum vitae (Motion agreed to) The Chair: On the distribution of documents: that the clerk of the committee be authorized to distribute to the members of the committee documents in the original language provided that the clerk and the chair would encourage the witnesses to submit their brief in both official languages, if at all possible, and would ask them if submitted in one language to submit it as earliest as possible to proceed to the translation (Motion agreed to) [Translation] The Chair: The motion concerning witness expenses reads as follows: That, if requested, reasonable travel, accommodation and living expenses be reimbursed to witnesses not exceeding two (2) representatives per organization; and that, in exceptional circumstances, payment for more representatives be at the discretion of the Chair (Motion agreed to) The Chair: Working meals: that the Clerk of the Committee be authorized to make ...

Q-85 — Mr. White (North Vancouver) — With respect to a recent publication of Western Economic Diversification Canada, Access West, which states that small business in Western Canada provided an average of 2,130,900 jobs per year from 1996 to 1999: (a) how many copies of the document were mailed to households in Western Canada; (b) what was the cost of producing and mailing them; (c) how many staff are employed at the “Over 100 Points of Service” referred to in the document; (d) how many staff are employed at the Francophone offices; (e) how many of the small business jobs in Western Canada referred to in the document were created thr ...[+++]ough the efforts of Western Economic Diversification Canada; and (f) were the jobs at Western Economic Diversification Canada included in the 2,130,900 total?

However, suffice it to say that when I requested a printing order from the printing people they were willing to fulfil my request and had already completed 48 out of the 60 copies I had requested when not only one but two phone calls were made from the department to the Prime Minister's office to talk about the number of copies that would be available.

It must be possible to obtain a copy of these documents upon request at a price not exceeding their administrative cost.