Translation of "appel d'attention permanent " (French → English) :

11. Calls for the establishment, preferably under an interinstitutional agreement, of a ‘Copenhagen commission’ composed of independent high-level experts on fundamental rights, to be appointed inter alia by Parliament, whose aim should be to ensure compliance by all Member States with the common values enshrined in Article 2 TEU and continuous compliance with the ‘Copenhagen criteria’ and to advise and report on fundamental rights matters, pending the amendment the FRA Regulation to allow the agency to have stronger powers and a wider remit, including in monitoring individual Member States in the field of fundamental rights, as requeste ...[+++]d on repeated occasions by Parliament;

11. Calls for the establishment, preferably under an interinstitutional agreement, of a ‘Copenhagen commission‘ composed of independent high-level experts on fundamental rights, to be appointed inter alia by Parliament, whose aim should be to ensure compliance by all Member States with the common values enshrined in Article 2 TEU and continuous compliance with the ‘Copenhagen criteria’ and to advise and report on fundamental rights matters, pending the amendment the FRA Regulation to allow the agency to have stronger powers and a wider remit, including in monitoring individual Member States in the field of fundamental rights, as requeste ...[+++]d on repeated occasions by Parliament;

I would like to draw to the attention of the present chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs that its actual mandate includes international trade, but that the title of the committee has never added that phrase, although it did so in the other place.

As the document in question is printed on the letterhead of a joint committee of the two Houses, then it draws our attention to whether a standing committee, a special committee or a joint committee has a different kind of status.

GOVERNMENT ORDERS At 5:45 p.m., by unanimous consent, the House proceeded to the deferred division on the motion of Mr. Axworthy (Minister of Human Resources Development and Minister of Western Economic Diversification), seconded by Mr. Martin (Minister of Finance), That the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development be directed to consult broadly, to analyze, and to make recommendations regarding the modernization and restructuring of Canada's social security system, with particular reference to the needs of families with children, youth and working age adults; That the Standing Committee's work be undertaken in two phases as follows: (i) an interim report by March 25, 1994, on Canadians' concerns and priorities regarding social s ...[+++]ecurity and training and preparations to receive the Government's Action Plan and proposed changes; and (ii) a final report by September 30, 1994, including a review of the Government's Action Plan and recommendations for reform (Government Business No. 4) The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:

Second, when I came to testify in the House of Commons at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, at that time there would be a 12-month bar from Bill C-31 for people from safe countries from applying for humanitarian and compassionate applications as well as a federal appeal.