Translation of "discours d'orientation " (French → English) :

As outlined in Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's political guidelines in 2014 and stated in his State of the Union Speech of 14 September 2016, new threats at home and in the EU's neighbourhood as well as emerging risks like cyberattacks are making internal security and external defence lines increasingly blurred.

(Return tabled) Question No. 937 Ms. Ruby Dhalla: With regard to programs and services of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration since 2008: (a) what is the budget of each program or service including (i) each expenditure, including contracts under $10,000, (ii) the value of the expenditure, (iii) the goods or services consumed, (iv) the department under which the expenditure is accounted for, (v) whether or not the contract was tendered through an open bidding process if the goods or services were purchased from an outside source, (vi) the name of the outside source, (vii) the contract's reference number, (viii) dates of contracts, (ix) descriptions of the services provided, (x) delivery da ...[+++]tes, (xi) original contracts' values, (xii) final contracts' values if different from the original contract's value, (xiii) how much remains unspent for each program and service; (b) what is the breakdown of costs for each meeting, townhall, roundtable and conference related to programs or services provided by the Foreign Credentials Referral Office including, but not limited to, (i) travel, (ii) accommodations, (iii) food, (iv) refreshments, (v) drafting of reports, (vi) drafting of speeches, (vii) drafting of press releases, (viii) drafting of talking points, (ix) drafting of media communications; and (c) what is the total amount spent by the Foreign Credentials Referral Office on advertising since 2008 and identify, in alphabetical order by supplier, (i) how much was spent per print advertisement, (ii) how much was spent per radio advertisement, (iii) how much was spent per Internet advertisement, (iv) how much was spent per television advertisement?

It was not to recalibrate its policies or write its throne speech or budget speech.

Hon. Céline Hervieux-Payette (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, could the Leader of the Government in the Senate explain why the Prime Minister chose, today, to give a speech described by his strategists as a mini Throne Speech setting out a new direction for his government, just steps from Parliament Hill, to businesspeople, breaking with the tradition whereby such a speech is given in Parliament to the representatives of all Canadians, not just Canada's elite?

Although there was no mention of it in the Speech from the Throne, it appeared, briefly, that the government had finally recognized, after years of discussion and focused debate, that an arbitrary date does not make a satisfactory dividing line for the distribution of funding to those unfortunate Canadians who have contracted hepatitis C. This represented a significant change in policy, which one would have expected would have been included in the Speech from the Throne.

Hon. Elizabeth Hubley: Honourable senators, it is a great privilege for me to speak in support of the timely motion of our colleague, the Honourable Yves Morin, and to endorse and applaud Her Excellency the Governor General's Speech from the Throne, outlining the direction and actions of government over the coming year.