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Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee

    >>Reports, presented
    >>>First, (World Trade Organization Agreement Implementation Act (Bill C-57)), 7991
    >>>Second, (Department of External Affairs Act (amdt.)(Bill C-47)), 9203
    >>>Third (Robert Fowler, Canadian Ambassador to United Nations, order in council appointment), 10836
    >>>Fourth (G-7 Summit, Halifax, agenda, international financial institution reform), 12726
    >>Fifth (Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act (Bill C-87)), 13443
    >>Travel, authorization, M. (Milliken), agreed to, 9955
    >>See also Canada's Foreign Affairs Policy Review Special Joint Committee; CIDA--Annual report; Foreign affairs policy; Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, Twelfth; Small business--Exports

Foreign affairs policy

    >>Bloc Québécois position, 6720
    >>>See also Foreign affairs policy--Review
    >>Canadian Armed Forces, role, 2334-6
    >>Canadian values and interests, reflecting, 2261, 2280, 2337
    >>Collective security concept, shaping, 2333-4
    >>Components, 2280
    >>Continuity and change, balance, 2256-7
    >>Defence policy, interdependence, 2335-6
    >>Development, democratization, 2255
    >>Domestic policies, co-ordination, 2336-7
    >>Economic, political and social change, inter-relationship, 2258
    >>Federal/provincial jurisdiction, establishing, 17525
    >>Fiscal responsibility, relationship, 6504
    >>Flexibility, 2268
    >>Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee referral, 267
    >>Human rights policies, relationship, 2255, 2266-7, 2270, 15730-1
    >>Immigration and refugee policies, relationship, 2309-11
    >>Independent, 2255, 2299-300, 2324, 2337, 3022
    >>>National debt, foreign owned, impact, 2262-3
    >>>Sustained involvement with United Nations and NATO, 2258
    >>Initiatives, Liberal Party election promises "red book", implementation, 2255
    >>Intervention concept, right and duty, 2261, 2266-7
    >>Multilateralism, 360
    >>National Forum, Mar. 21-3/94, 2255-6
    >>Non-governmental organizations, objectives, including, 2342
    >>Objectives, clarification, 9340
    >>Post-World War II era, 2262, 2276
    >>Priorities and future goals, identifying, 2260, 2262
    >>Private sector forum, Mar. 21-2/94, 2272
    >>Public input, 9344-5
    >>>Reinstating, petition, 12727
    >>Quebec independence, impact, 2270
    >>Reform Party position, 5966
    >>Regional and inter-regional mechanisms, building, 2260
    >>Review, 89, 1272-3, 2115, 2159, 2255, 2279
    >>>Bloc Québécois position, 2305
    >>>Canada's Foreign Affairs Policy Review Special Joint Committee, establishing, M. (Ouellet), 2254-84, 2297-315, 2322-46, agreed to, on division, 2387
    >>>>Amdt. (B. Mills), 2270-1, negatived, on recorded division, 2386-7
    >>>>Bloc Québcois dissenting report, 15730-1
    >>>Consultation, petition, 2868
    >>>Defence policy review, relationship, 2276-7, 2329, 2338
    >>>Framework, parameters, designing, 2263
    >>>Government intentions, unknown, 2276
    >>>Guidance Paper for the Special Joint Parliamentary Committee reviewing Canadian Foreign Policy, tabled, 2253
    >>>Overdue, 2262
    >>>Public consultation, process, 2255-6, 2258, 2333, 2338
    >>>Throne Speech proposal, 11, 285-6
    >>Statement by Minister (Ouellet), 9238-44
    >>Sustainable development, linking, Pacific Rim countries, role, 204
    >>Trade focus, excessive, 11360
    >>Trade policy, relationship, 2272, 2302
    >>United States, mistrust, S.O. 31, 7849
    >>See also Cruise missile testing; International development assistance; International relations; Peacekeeping

Foreign aid

    >>Budget, Feb. 27/95, cuts, $1.3 billion over 3 years, 10477, 10535, 10537, 10728-9
    >>>Food aid component, 16% reduction, o.q., 10470
    >>>o.q., 10386
    >>Conventional, replacing with indirect aid, tariff concessions, etc., 1540
    >>Deficit reduction, relationship
    >>>o.q., 7934-5
    >>>S.O. 31, 8824
    >>Egypt, Poland, debt reduction assistance, Auditor General's report, o.q., 8119
    >>Emergency relief/development assistance, 2280
    >>GNP percentage, .07%, goal, 9345
    >>>o.q., 9282-3
    >>Human rights, linking, 1543, 2164-6, 2270
    >>>o.q., 1106, 2431-2
    >>Humanitarian, 307, 310
    >>National debt, increase, impact, 2328
    >>Non-governmental organizations, use, o.q., 1105-6
    >>Non-monetary aid, 2326
    >>Poverty elimination, reflection, 9341
    >>Programs, past record, 13
    >>>Review, need, 784, 1886
    >>>Waste, 3849
    >>Reducing, Reform Party position, 1782, 1829, 2315, 2322, 2326-7, 2334, 2339
    >>Third World, 6721
    >>United Nations sanctions or peacekeeping operations, Canadian participation, relationship, o.q., 5304-5
    >>See also Bosnia-Herzegovina--Conflict, Children; Cuba; Ecuador--Fires; Egypt; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Foreign Aid Act (Bill C-357); GDP; Haiti; Indonesia--East Timor; International development assistance; Rwanda

Foreign Aid Act (Bill C-357)--Hanger

Foreign artists program see Canada Council--Visiting

Foreign currency see Income tax

Foreign currency debt see Government credit rating

Foreign fishing vessels see Cod--Foreign overfishing; Fisheries--Foreign overfishing--Illegal fishing; Fisheries, Atlantic--Foreign overfishing

Foreign-flagging see Marine Atlantic Inc.; Shipping industry

Foreign investments

    >>Attracting, 2275, 2330, 6767-8
    >>>o.q., 12419
    >>Canada's Foreign Policy Review Special Joint Committee report, 8414
    >>Canadian bond holdings, reducing, Deutsche Bank recommendation, o.q., 3275
    >>Deficit, national debt, impact, 11705, 12804
    >>Deficit reduction, government measures, impact, 3053
    >>>o.q., 3276
    >>Economic/political uncertainty factors, 12812
    >>German investments, reunification, impact, 2303-4
    >>GST, tax burden, scaring away, 3288
    >>Offshore, 2117
    >>See also Air transportation--Economic benefits; Canadian Heritage Department--Telecommunications; Corporations--Income tax; RRSPs

Foreign overfishing see Cod; Fisheries; Fisheries, Atlantic

Foreign ownership see Broadcasting--Licences; National debt; Publishing industry

Foreign Service personnel see Smuggling--Wine

Forest fires

    >>Federal government role
    >>>Emergency Preparedness Canada, o.q., 13180
    >>>o.q., 13237-8

Forest industry see Environment--Protection

Forest Resource Development Agreements see Forestry

Forestry

    >>Aboriginal lands, illegal logging practices, o.q., 11613
    >>Annual reports, The State of Canada's Forests
    >>>1993, S.O. 31, 5299
    >>>1994
    >>>>S.O. 31, 14309
    >>>>Tabled, 14409
    >>British Columbia
    >>>Costs, increase, 17487
    >>>Employment role, S.O. 31, 5573
    >>>Forest Resource Development Agreement, federal government contributions, ending, 1130, 11425-6
    >>>Importance, 564, 578, 2474
    >>>Practices
    >>>>Environmental groups misinformation activities, federal funding, o.q., 7810, 11297-8
    >>>>Greenpeace Canada misinformation activities, stopping, o.q., 2742-3
    >>>>Sustainable development, 6236
    >>>>>International public relations campaign, o.q., 5346
    >>Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association, meeting, Vancouver, B.C., S.O. 31, 1719
    >>Clayoquot Sound, B.C., land use decision
    >>>Environmental assessment review, 7450
    >>>Harcourt, B.C. premier, European Community, educating, 1252
    >>>Pacific Rim National Park expansion overriding, 578-9
    >>Clayoquot Sound, B.C., logging
    >>>Fury of the Sound video, Hilary Mackey and Shelly Wine, Canada Council grant, S.O. 31, 7308
    >>>Opponents, Canadian Wilderness Committee, Sierra Club and Clayoquot Biosphere Project, CIDA funding, S.O. 31, 7554
    >>Development, federal-provincial agreements, 5036
    >>Eastern Quebec Development Plan, 11496
    >>>o.q., 6984
    >>Economic development/environment protection, balancing, 579, 5036
    >>>International agreements, 2337
    >>Federal-provincial jurisdiction, federal grants, eliminating, 14848
    >>Forest Resource Development Agreements, cancellation, job losses, etc.,
    >>>Compensation requests, o.q., 16486
    >>>o.q., 15107
    >>>See also Forestry--British Columbia
    >>Forestry Capital of Canada
    >>>1987, Queens County, N.S., S.O. 31 3828
    >>>1993, Matapédia Valley, 592
    >>>1994, Edmonton, Alta., S.O. 31, 3947, 7684
    >>>1995, Meadow Lake, Sask., S.O. 31, 12407, 16826
    >>>1996, Lunenburg County, N.S., S.O. 31, 3828
    >>Funding, cut-backs, Feb. 22/94 budget measures, 1817, 3061
    >>Importance, 11425-6
    >>>S.O. 31, 20
    >>Industry, government assistance, 6763
    >>Job creation, Rural Dignity proposal, 3870
    >>John Walter Forest Interpretive Centre, Edmonton, Alta., S.O. 31, 7684
    >>Jurisdiction, overlap, 763, 6228, 6231, 6239
    >>>Provincial jurisdiction, 11425
    >>Matapédia--Matane constituency, production capability, need, 2474-5
    >>Meadow Lake Tribal Council, business ventures, S.O. 31, 8544
    >>Model forests see Mexico
    >>Natural Resources Department, relationship, 6802
    >>New Brunswick
    >>>Spruce budworm, aerial spraying, S.O. 31, 295-6
    >>>See also Forestry--Reforestation; Unemployment insurance--Job partnership projects
    >>Nova Scotia, importance, 498
    >>>Woodlot development program, renewing, S.O. 31, 9463
    >>Old growth forests, cutting, moratorium request, petition, 15708
    >>Quebec, 6228, 6234, 8184-5
    >>>Development programs, S.O. 31, 12530
    >>>Local control, S.O. 31, 2350
    >>>Private woodlots, federal financial assistance, negotiations
    >>>>o.q., 5309-10, 6333-4, 11462-3, 11496, 13479
    >>>>S.O. 31, 13469
    >>>Programs, reestablishing, 593-4
    >>Reforestation, 498, 2599
    >>>In-Touch Graphics, commitment, S.O. 31, 14918
    >>>New Brunswick, 6605
    >>>S.O. 31, 20
    >>>Tree Plan Canada, S.O. 31, 12532
    >>Sustainable development, 5036, 5173-4, 5672, 6236, 6240-1, 6802-3, 8182-3, 8187
    >>>International conference, Canada/Malaysia co-hosting, S.O. 31, 7092
    >>>International forest commission, need, S.O. 31, 96
    >>>National forest strategy, 6210
    >>>o.q., 12115
    >>>Standards, government initiative, o.q., 5159-60
    >>>>Ecological labelling, proposal, 4933
    >>Technologies, changes, impact, 1817
    >>Tree seedlings, Hills Greenhouse Nurseries, Murillo, Ont., Herman vanDuyn, proprietor, tribute, S.O. 31, 6632
    >>Woodlots, regulations, 548-9
    >>>See also Forestry--Quebec
    >>Woodstock Memorial Forest, S.O. 31, 16477
    >>Workers, displaced, retraining, 763, 2599
    >>Yukon Territory
    >>>Federal government policy, failure, S.O. 31, 16772-3
    >>>Stumpage fees, o.q., 10079
    >>>Sustainability, petition, 14414
    >>See also Migratory birds--Habitat; National Forest Week; Petawawa National Forestry Institute; Softwood lumber; Stoney Reserve; Unemployment insurance--Benefits

Forestry Department

    >>Creating, Quebec, position, 6229

Forestry Week

    >>Laval University, students, organizers, S.O. 31, 2733

Forget, Claude see Parole--Murderers

Forget Commission see Unemployment insurance

Forging the Link symposium see Education--Business studies

Forpan Inc.

    >>Investment, S.O. 31, 1421

Forseth, Paul (REF--New Westminster--Burnaby)