Translation of "Stimulation à la vente " (French → English) :

The envisaged separate sale of roaming services and domestic services should increase competition and therefore lower the prices for customers and create an internal market for roaming services in the Union with no significant differentiation between national and roaming tariffs.

If the proposal fosters consumer protection and increases competition in the retail market through more cross-border offers, then consumers will win through having more choice, better quality and lower prices.

If this investment has led to a multiplier effect of two or three, and we've stimulated $20 million or $30 million in additional beef sales, it would make a lot more sense for this government to withdraw Bill C-23 and invest the money in stimulating more beef sales.

(Return tabled) Question No. 24 Hon. Hedy Fry: With regard to the forestry industry in British Columbia (BC): (a) what specific steps has the government taken to reduce the dependency of the BC industry on the United States construction business and to facilitate and expand the sale of BC lumber to Asia; (b) for the years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 what is the specific breakdown of the $400 million promised in the 2006 budget to deal with the mountain pine beetle and to stimulate new economic opportunities for lumbering-dependent communities and job retraining for forest industry workers in (i) terms of exact funds to communities for econo ...[+++]mic re-adjustsments together with the names of the communities, (ii) what are the projects and funds spent on pine beetle research and alleviation, (iii) what are the specific projects and funds spent on job retraining initiatives; (c) what money was transferred to the BC government for fire prevention initiatives for the years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, and to pine beetle ravaged communities which are at prime risk for summer forest fires; and (d) what specific initiatives and funds has the government allocated over 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 to the at “risk for fire” aboriginal communities in BC's interior?

In addition to the immediate economic stimulation it provided, in 50 years those trees will grow, and the Government of New Brunswick, from selling those trees to the industry as those trees grow, will collect $10 million in royalties, in stumpage, selling standing trees.

It has had a 20 per cent to 40 per cent impact on their industry in sales volume. When we see that type of increase in sales volume, we should be helping and promoting the industry and looking at new markets with new sales strategies.