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Rabin, Yitzhak see Israel

Racial unity see Brushett--References

Racism see Discrimination and racism

Racquetball see Penitentiaries--Inmates

Radar Hill see Historic/heritage buildings, sites and monuments

Radar lines see North American Aerospace Defence Command

Radar modernization project see Air navigation services

Radar technicians see World War II--Canadian volunteer radar technicians

Radiation see Nuclear radiation

Radio Canada International see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation--International service

Radio-Canada

    >>Course Destination Monde
    >>>Brunet, Patrick, third place, S.O. 31, 4298
    >>>Productions, prize winners, congratulating, S.O. 31, 9442
    >>Programs
    >>>Bon Matin, new program, privatizing, o.q., 9935-6
    >>>Ce soir news program, reinstating, 8688-9
    >>>>o.q., 7969-70
    >>See also Francophones outside Quebec--Assimilation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Radio spectrum licences see Broadcasting--Radio stations

Radio stations see Broadcasting

Radioactive waste see Nuclear waste

Radioactive Waste Importation Act (Bill C-236)--Strahl

    >>First reading, 769
    >>Second reading, 5084-92, 5983-92, 7412-8, negatived on recorded division, 7493-5
    >>>Dropped to bottom of Order Paper, 5092
    >>See also Nuclear waste--Importation

Radwanski report see Canada Post Corporation

RAF Ferry Command see Royal Air Force Ferry Command

Rafah, Gaza Dtrip see Municipalities--International exchanges

Rail lines see Rail transportation/railways

Rail passenger service

    >>Disabled and handicapped persons, accessibility, elderly persons, including, 1086, 1088-9
    >>Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway/Via rail Canada Inc. operating, British Columbia confederation entry/loan guarantee factors, etc., 8101-2
    >>Fares, VIA Rail Canada Inc. undercutting bus companies, 8077
    >>Government support of VIA Rail Canada Inc., 8110-1
    >>High speed trains
    >>>Development, benefits, S.O. 31, 7511
    >>>Ontario/Quebec, 3401
    >>Kitchener, Ont., maintaining, S.O. 31, 3628
    >>Northern Manitoba, railcars, maintenance, reduction, S.O. 31, 9477-8
    >>Northern Ontario, importance, 1150
    >>Rocky Mountaineer Railtours, Great Canadian Railtour Company, VIA Rail Canada Inc. competition, 8048-50, 8054-5, 8061, 8070-2, 8074, 8097-8, 8101-2, 8106
    >>>S.O. 31, 6001
    >>Routes, protecting, 1149-50
    >>Subsidies, 1150
    >>>National Transportation Act (1987) provisions re Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, Algoma Central Railway, and Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, 8111
    >>Sudbury, Ont. to Winnipeg, Man., service, restoring, petition, 9806
    >>See also VIA Rail Canada Inc.

Rail transportation/railways

    >>Atlantic provinces, importance, 1225
    >>>See also Rail transportation/railways--Short line operations, Competitive
    >>Competition, shippers, impact, 1211-2, 1255-6m 1224-5
    >>Derailments
    >>>1996, 50% increase from previous year, o.q., 4986
    >>>Quebec, 5641-2
    >>>>o.q., 4986
    >>>Urban areas, safety, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., government action, o.q., 2067
    >>>Wrecking services, United States workers and equipment, use, S.O. 31, 9543
    >>Expropriation powers, Railway Act, use, limiting, 1113
    >>>Aboriginal lands, reservations, impact, 1113
    >>Federal-provincial jurisdiction, 1117-8, 1144, 1212, 1214, 4044-5, 4064-5
    >>High speed trains, New York-Boston corridor, communications system, $7 million contract awarded to Pocatec, S.O. 31, 6900
    >>Improvements, government commitment, 811
    >>Policy, history, 1232
    >>Rail lines
    >>>Abandonment, 1096-7, 1111-2, 1114, 1215, 1221, 1237-8, 4043, 8056-7, 9131-2
    >>>>Canadian National Railways
    >>>>>Montreal-Halifax line, five year continuance, need, 1095-6, 1216-7, 1227-9
    >>>>>Sherridon Subdivision, Manitoba, continuing operations, petition, 4677-8
    >>>>Charny-Sainte-Foy line, moritorium, S.O. 31, 8441
    >>>>Manitoba, environmental assessment, S.O. 31, 5236-7
    >>>>Matapédia-Gaspé line, Chandler-Gaspé section, 8056-7
    >>>>>o.q., 5114, 5422
    >>>>>Petition, 6912-3
    >>>>Provinces, public, consulting, 1123-4, 1213
    >>>>Quebec, St. Lawrence River line, etc., 8093
    >>>>Railways discouraging use, relationship, 8108-9
    >>>>Rivière-du-Loup-Edmundston line, 10056
    >>>>Rural Canada, impact, 1237
    >>>>Western Canada, 8099
    >>>>See also Environment--Environmental assessment and review process; Rail transportation/railways--Short line operations
    >>>Access to land, restrictions, 1144-5, 1216, 1222
    >>>Branch lines
    >>>>Privatization, 1252-3, 9131-2
    >>>>Rural grain lines, maintaining, S.O. 31, 9442
    >>>Chandler-Gaspé line, Gaspé Railway Corporation purchase, $3 million FORD-Q assistance, S.O. 31, 8831
    >>>Construction, environmental assessment, need, 1144-5, 1221m 1224m 1235-7
    >>>Land owners, maintenance, responsibility, 1223-4, 1234-5
    >>>Quebec
    >>>>Central Quebec line, rehabilitation, 8093
    >>>>Network, dismantling, moritorium, o.q., 5739
    >>>Surplus, use, 1210
    >>Railroad crossings, safety, improvement project, contracting out, S.O. 31, 8943-4
    >>Rationalization, need, 1210-2, 1219-20
    >>Regulatory process, streamlining, 4043
    >>>Canada Transportation Act (Bill C-14) role, 8053, 8096
    >>>Reviewing in 1999, 8096
    >>>See also Rail transportation/railways--Safety
    >>Revitalization, 4044-5
    >>Safety
    >>>Accidents, increase, deregulation, relationship, 8055
    >>>Advisory Committee, provincial representation, 4065
    >>>Provincial consultations, 4064
    >>>Rail line defects, Quebec, 4044, 4063-4, 5641-2
    >>>Railway crossings
    >>>>Accidents, increase, 4044-5, 4063-5
    >>>>Barriers, 4062
    >>>>Controlled, double arms, S.O. 31, 4067-8
    >>>>Deaths, accidents, reducing by 50% within 10 years, Transport Canada plans, 4043
    >>>Rules and regulations, development, railway labour involvement, 4044
    >>>Standards, government setting and monitoring, railway companies deciding how to implement, 4043, 4064
    >>>>Quebec regulations, duplication, 4065
    >>>Track maintenance shop, Charny, Que., closure, transfer of operations to Winnipeg, Man., impact, 3979-80, 4044, 4063-4, 5641-2, 8093
    >>>>o.q., 3711-2, 4986
    >>>Train whistling, cessation, conditions, 4043, 4062-4
    >>>See also Railway Safety Act (amdt.)(Bill C-43)
    >>Security provisions, terrorist attacks, bomb threats, 4044
    >>Short line operations, 1097, 1112, 1117-8, 1211, 1215-6, 1239-40, 4065, 8109, 9131-2
    >>>Bloc Quebecois position, 1213, 1222-3, 1239
    >>>Competitive line rates, Atlantic provinces, importance, 1086-9, 1112-3
    >>>Legislation see Canada Transportation Act (Bill C-14)
    >>>Low interest loans, tax reforms, government providing, 8070
    >>>Rail line abandonments, relationship, Canada Transportation Act (Bill C-14) role, 8096, 8098
    >>>Rolling stock, movable mortgages, 1234
    >>>United States, comparison, 1211-2, 1239
    >>>See also Grain transportation--Rail transportation improvements
    >>Taxation system, revising, 8070-1
    >>Vancouver, B.C. port, improving service, Asia-Pacific trade factor, election timing factor, 8108
    >>See also British Columbia--Confederation entry; Canadian National Railways; Grain transportation; Hazardous products--Transportation; Heritage buildings/sites--Southern New Brunswick Railway Company station; Nipissing and James Bay Railway Company Dissolution Act (Bill S-7); Rail passenger service; Trucking industry--Highways; VIA Rail Canada Inc.

Railton, Dr. Victor

    >>Member of Parliament, former, death, tribute, 4232-3, 4336

Railway Act see Rail transportation/railways--Expropriation

Railway crossings see Rail transportation/railways--Safety

Railway Safety Act

    >>Five year review, 4045
    >>>Committee report recommendations, 4043
    >>>>Bloc Québécois position, 4064
    >>>>Consultations, 4043
    >>See also Rail transportation/railways--Safety--Security provisions Railway Safety Act (amdt.)(Bill C-43)

Railway Safety Act (amdt.)(Bill C-43)--Minister of Transport (Anderson)

    >>First reading, 3168
    >>Transport Standing Committee referral, forthwith, prior to second reading
    >>>Notice, 3168
    >>>M. (Anderson), 4042-6, 4062-5, agreed to, on division, 4065

Railway stations

    >>Winnipeg, Man., Union Station, proposed sale, open tendering process, o.q., 241

Railways see Rail transportation/railways

Ramos-Horta, José see Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Group--Manila East Timor

RAMP see Radar modernization project

Ramsay, Jack (REF--Crowfoot)

Ramsay, Megan see Murder

Ramsey, James Walter see Parole--Murderers

Raney, Ann see Parliament Buildings--Peace Tower

Rankin Inlet, N.W.T., see Suicide

Ransier, Capt Stephen see Canadian Armed Forces

Rape see Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation; Rwanda--Civil war; Sentences (convicted criminals)--consecutive sentences for murderers and rapists; Sexual assault/offences--Shaw, Dawn--Werbecky, Kim

Rape shield law see Sexual assault/offences--Trials

Ratushny, Judge Lynn see Murderers--Women

Raw milk products see Dairy products--Cheese

Raymond, Brien see Young offenders

RCAF see Royal Canadian Air Force

RCMP see Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RCVC Western Fitness Roof see Volleyball--Western Canadian Midget Volleyball Championships

Read, Larry see Sexual assault/offences--Thwaites, Norma

Reagan, Ronald see United States

Real estate values see Economic conditions--Quebec separation/sovereignty

REAL (Realistic, Equal, Active, for Life) Women see Government funding--Organizations

Rebates see Goods and Services Tax

Recall see Members of Parliament

Recalls see Automobile safety--Chrysler minivans

Recession see Economic conditions

Recognition and Interdependence see Federalism--Renewal, Quebec Liberal Party position

Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Act (amdt.) and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-284)--G. Breitkreuz

    >>First reading, 3140
    >>Second reading, 6471-9
    >>See also Property rights--Canadian Bill of Rights

Recombinant hormones see Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act (amdt.--recombinant hormones)(Bill C-319); Food--Prepackaged

Reconciliation proclamation see South Africa--Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Recording industry

    >>Government production fund, impact, o.q., 6133

Recreation

    >>Federal government involvement, withdrawal, Throne Speech statement, 5, 296, 327, 350

Recyclable products see Goods and Services Tax

"Red book" see Liberal government (Chrétien)--Election promises

Red Crescent see International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement

Red Cross see Blood--Blood management system; International Committee of the Red Cross; International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement

Red Deer, Alta. see Curling--World Junior Championships; Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation--Sex offenders/pedophiles, Valley

Redmond, Ruth see Heritage--Heritage Canada Foundation

Reed, Justice Barbara see War crimes--Deportation

Reed, Julian (L--Halton--Peel)

    >>Bombardier Inc., 6571
    >>Budget 1996, M. (P. Martin), 1433-5
    >>Budget 1997, M. (P. Martin), 8427
    >>Canada Pension Plan, M. on supply (Manning), 8667
    >>Canadian Human Rights Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33), 2408-9
    >>Canadian Wheat Board Act (amdt.)(Bill C-72), 8250-1
    >>Child care, 6571
    >>>M. on supply (Hayes), 6570-1
    >>Crime, petition, 7586
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--judicial review of parole ineligibility)(Bill C-45), 3912-3
    >>Deficit, 1433-5
    >>Disabled and handicapped persons, 2409
    >>Economy, 1434
    >>Excise Tax Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Income Tax Act and Debt Servicing and Reduction Account Act (amdt.)(Bill C-70), 9268
    >>Gasoline/automotive fuels, 4695-6, 5547-8
    >>>S.O. 31, 4220
    >>Goods and Services Tax, 9268
    >>Grain marketing, 8250-1
    >>Grain transportation, 8250
    >>Highways and roads, o.q., 5422
    >>Indian Act Optional Modification Act (Bill C-79), 8260-2
    >>Indian Affairs and Northern Development Department, 8261
    >>Manganese-based Fuel Additives Act (Bill C-29), 4695-6, 5547-8
    >>Members of Parliament, 8667
    >>Mining industry, o.q., 6494
    >>National debt, 1433-4
    >>Oil and gas industry, 6571-2
    >>Parole, 3912-3
    >>Procedure
    >>>Question and comment period, 6571
    >>>Speeches, 6572
    >>Sexual orientation, 2408-9
    >>Taxation, 1434
    >>Throne Speech, Address in Reply, M. (Sheridan), 162-4

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