Translation of "Passerelle d'embarquement fixe à deux têtes " (French → English) :

fixed passenger loading bridge [ fixed loading bridge | nose loading bridge | nose bridge | stationary loading bridge ]

(a) extend on both sides of the ladder, accommodation ladder or gangway for a distance of 1.8 m;

9 (1) The capital sum on which the Province of Manitoba is entitled to receive half-yearly payments of interest at the rate of five per cent per annum, as fixed by An Act to amend and continue the Act 32 and 33 Victoria, chapter 3; and to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Manitoba, chapter 3 of the Statutes of Canada, 1870, and as readjusted or increased by any subsequent Act, shall continue to be calcula ...[+++]ted on a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand at a rate per capita ascertained by dividing the sum of five hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars by seventeen thousand, which was the estimated population of the Province under that Act, the said sum of five hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars being the amount of capital on which the Province was entitled to receive interest under and by virtue of section 24 of that Act and An Act to re-adjust the amounts payable to and chargeable against the several Provinces of Canada by the Dominion Government, so far as they depend on the debt with which they respectively entered the Union, chapter 30 of the Statutes of Canada, 1873.

There was, in fact, the addition of another eligibility criterion, which meant that although an institution might have had an idea for a better or more interesting project, if they couldn't demonstrate to officials that it could be delivered within the two-year stimulus period, it wasn't eligible.

In the words of Philip Resnick, Chair of Political Science at the University of Victoria, who also acknowledged the appeal of fixed terms: “Because Senate appointments currently fall within the purview of the Prime Minister of the day, any Prime Minister with a majority government lasting two terms or more, such as the Chrétien, Mulroney or Trudeau governments, would be able to ensure that the Senate was made up of wall-to-wall Liberals or Conservatives of his own appointment, by the time he left office” (brief, p. 2) Without some method of ensuring that future appointments are made on advice, Prof. Resnick declared himself unconvinced t ...[+++]hat term limits would result in genuine improvement.