Translation of "translation of irrégularité propre au travail normal " (French → English) :

When you're talking about whistleblowing and looking to get things fixed, the question is, would inspectors who work for Transport Canada or the Transportation Safety Board, if they were housed within Transport Canada, be going to their own management to complain about their own management?

What needs to be said is that Europe considers employment to be the basis of true democracy and social cohesion and that Europe has its own concept of what constitutes normal work: stable employment, for an unlimited period, protected by contracts and by the role of the trade unions and with a requirement for equal conditions for standard and non-standard jobs, as part of employment equality.

Senator Tardif: It is my understanding that committees normally set their terms of reference, including their work agenda, for a set period of time and then the Senate approves it.

It is in order to defend the value of this work that we object to the unilateral and surreptitious decision, taken in the particular interest of one group of Canadian citizens or one political party, for the benefit of the parliamentary majority in the House of Commons and the Senate, that although normally, by consensus and with the agreement of all political stakeholders, the electoral boundaries map should come into effect on August 25, 2004, this will not happen, for reasons that are undoubtedly legitimate, but nonetheless specific to the Liberal Party of Canada.

The government is showing its contempt for the work of the parliamentary committee and its own Liberal MPs when it makes retro changes to the normal legal process of a bill.

When I read what was happening with the own resources and when I saw the results of the database, which gives an overview of all cases of fraud and irregularities established since 1996, amounting to EUR 1.5 billion, I appreciated the significance of what we are doing. On the basis of the Court of Auditors report, the OLAF reports, the work carried out by the rapporteurs and also our own studies, we will need to explain to the European taxpayers how their money is being spent.