Translation of "Politique de sécurité du MDN " (French → English) :

2. Maintains that the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Position should not be at variance; considers that it is up to the Member States and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to ensure the coherence of the Common Position and foreign policy;

With me this afternoon is Brigadier-General Mike Hood, deputy director general, international security policy at DND, as well as Brigadier-General Blaise Cathcart, the Judge Advocate General.

As I said in my report of the opinion, if universal service includes, within the definition of its component services, the same kind of criteria that are usually used to assess services provided for consumers (affordable prices, availability, delivery timetables and quality), its raison d’être has different types of objectives if we look at the issue for the point of view of regional policy, social policy (preventing the poorest people from being excluded) or public safety policy.

Mr. Mulder: My model has DND responsible for three functions: First, to be the lead department, backed up by the Privy Council Office, in putting the overall maritime security policy in place and ensuring that things are being done; second, to be the lead with CSIS in terms of intelligence gathering and dissemination.

Seminar objective The seminar will provide an opportunity to propose elements of strategy to be followed to address future challenges and provide ideas for the food security policy promoted by the Commission In particular, attendees will be able to: - debate points of agreement and disagreement in the major perspective studies; - compare the proposals for action that arise from the analysis of various current and future food situations in the world; - discuss the coordination of development cooperation policy between multilateral agencies in the field of food security; - formulate elements of strategy for the Commission, taking accoun ...[+++]t of coherence between sectorial policies and development cooperation policy.

In short, we have concluded that there is very much a need for such a policy at the strategic level — a general security policy not a defence policy, not a foreign policy, but a general security policy of which sub-policies such as maritime security can flow.