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Vac, Hungary see Housing

Vacate the Conviction of Louis Riel Act (Bill C-440)--Duhamel

    >>First reading, 10236-7
    >>See also Riel, Louis

Vaccinations see Developing countries--Progress

Vahardi, Yogesh see Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace

Vaisakhi see Sikhs

Val-d'Or, Que. see Air navigation services--Commercialization, Regions; Sex offenders--Cannon, Joe

Valcartier, Que. see Canadian Armed Forces--CFB Valcartier, Que.--National Defence and Veterans Affairs Standing Committee

Valeri, Tony (L--Lincoln)

    >>Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-19), 2717-9
    >>Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and Income Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-5), 9295-6
    >>Borrowing Authority Act 1996-97 (Bill C-10), 1024-6
    >>Deficit, 6246, 6248
    >>Drugs and pharmaceuticals, S.O. 31, 10112
    >>Economic development/renewal, S.O. 31, 6442
    >>Economy, 6247-8
    >>>o.q., 9178
    >>Education, petition, 2716
    >>Employment
    >>>Petition, 7892
    >>>S.O. 31, 3629
    >>Government contracts, 9513
    >>Government expenditures, 6246, 6248
    >>Government Operations Standing Committee, reports, 9513
    >>Health care system
    >>>Petition, 7892
    >>>S.O. 31, 9078
    >>Hockey, S.O. 31, 8442-3
    >>Inflation, 6246, 6348
    >>Interest rates, 6248
    >>Interprovincial trade, 2717-8
    >>Job creation, 6246-7
    >>>o.q., 9178
    >>Procedure
    >>>Committee reports, 9513
    >>>Divisions, recorded, 1874
    >>Reform Party, 9295
    >>Small and medium business, 6247-8
    >>>o.q., 5562
    >>>S.O. 31, 8007
    >>Throne Speech, Address in Reply, M. (Sheridan), 6246-8
    >>Trade, 2717
    >>Women's institute, S.O. 31, 8648
    >>Young offenders
    >>>Petition, 4160
    >>>S.O. 31, 1043

Valeurs Immobilières TD see Canada Post Corporation--Privatization

Valika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina see Canadian Armed Forces--Military skills competition

Valley, Kevin see Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation--Sex offenders/pedophiles

Valley Regional Hospital see Health care--Nova Scotia

Valleyfield, Que. see Automobile safety--Air bag release mechanism

Valour and the Horror, The see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation--Programs

Value-added products see Agricultural products; Exports--Increase; Grain

Value added tax

    >>Hidden tax, replacing Goods and Services Tax, 979, 984
    >>See also Exports

ValuJet, Flight 592

Vanclief, Lyle (L--Prince Edward--Hastings)

    >>Agriculture and Agri-Food Standing Committee, reports, 3323, 5484, 6964, 9804
    >>Agriculture, S.O. 31, 6256
    >>Broadcasting, petition, 536
    >>Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act (Bill C-60), 6964
    >>Culture/arts, S.O. 31, 10224
    >>Dairy products, o.q., 7038
    >>Department of Health Act (Bill C-18), 1748-50
    >>Food and consumer products industry, S.O. 31, 9645
    >>Health care system, 1748-50
    >>Health Department, 1748-9
    >>Highways and roads, petition, 8663
    >>Holy Bible, petitions, 536, 2485
    >>Murder, S.O. 31, 817
    >>Procedure, divisions, recorded, 8994
    >>Sexual orientation, petition, 2485
    >>Smuggling, S.O. 31, 7882
    >>Tobacco industry, petition, 8663

Vancouver, B.C. see AIDS--International AIDS conference; Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation--Commercial exploitation--Vancouver, B.C., case; Crime prevention--International Centre on the Prevention of Crime conference; Environmental industries--Globe '96 conference; Grain transportation--Barley--Freight rates; Highways and roads--Trans-Canada Highway--Vancouver, B.C.; Inter-Parliamentary Delegations, reports--Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum--Canada-France Parliamentary Association; Kidnapping--Snow, David; Murder--McCauley, Ronald Richard--Shakespeare, Lenard; Parole--Murderers, Olson; Reform Party--Convention; Refugees--Criminals

Vancouver East constituency see Poverty

Vancouver International Airport (Vancouver, B.C.)

    >>New international terminal
    >>>Modern facilities, user fees factor, 8073
    >>>Opening, S.O. 31, 1951-2
    >>>Services, o.q., 2364

Vancouver Status of Women see Women--International Women`s Day

Vanderhoof Judge Peter see Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation--British Columbia case

Varennes, Que. see Energy efficiency--Research facility; Nuclear energy--Magnetic fusion development

Varias, Nicholas see Housing--Flexhousing

Vaughan Interact Club see Employment--Youth

VaughanTec see Employment--Government-private sector partnerships

Vegreville, Alta.

    >>Immigration processing centre, sexism and racism
    >>>Citizenship and Immigration Department report
    >>>>o.q., 6611-2, 6796
    >>>>S.O. 31, 6786
    >>>Toronto Sun allegations, S.O. 31, 6443

Veileux, Roland see Labour relations--Groupe RGR

Véloroute des bleuets see Cycling--Bicycle paths

Venezuela see Drug trafficking--Cocaine

Venne, Pierrette (BQ--Saint-Hubert)

    >>Air Canada, o.q., 3422, 3818-9, 3925, 4020-1
    >>Artists, S.O. 31, 7077
    >>Canadian Armed Forces, o.q., 3489, 9993
    >>Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association, 7469, 7472
    >>Canadian Space Agency, 7469
    >>>o.q., 7040, 7240, 7314, 7464-5
    >>Capital punishment, 2793-4
    >>Confederation, 6228
    >>Constitution, 6228
    >>>o.q., 9742, 9880-1
    >>Constitutional reform, 6228
    >>Crime, 1137
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--judicial review of parole ineligibility)(Bill C-45), 3901-3, 3906
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--operation while impaired)(Bill C-201), 950-1
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--protection of witnesses)(Bill C-217), 245, 2202-4
    >>Criminal Code (amdt.--self-defence)(Bill C-226), 366
    >>Criminal Code and Copyright Act (amdt.--profit from authorship respecting a crime)(Bill C-205), 3233-4
    >>Criminal Code and Young Offenders Act (amdt.--capital punishment)(Bill C-218), 2793-4
    >>Dangerous/high-risk offenders, M. (Meredith), 1137-8
    >>Dion, references, 5372
    >>Education
    >>>o.q., 7967, 9446, 9481, 9547, 9797, 10065-6
    >>>S.O. 31, 581
    >>>Statement by Minister (Dion), 10032-3
    >>Estimates, M. (Massé), 4368-70
    >>Family, S.O. 31, 309
    >>Federal Court Act, Judges Act and Tax Court of Canada Act (amdt.)(Bill C-48), 4039-41
    >>Female genital mutilation (excision), o.q., 479
    >>Francophones outside Quebec, o.q., 1052, 1369
    >>Gasoline taxes, petition, 276
    >>Goods and Services Tax, o.q., 2062, 7883
    >>Health, S.O. 31, 5951
    >>Hospitals, S.O. 31, 5161
    >>Impaired driving, 950-1
    >>Information highway, S.O. 31, 4550
    >>Judges, 4040-1
    >>Judges Act (amdt.)(Bill C-2), 371
    >>Judges Act (amdt.)(Bill C-42), 4034-5, 4038
    >>Justice Department, o.q., 3634-5
    >>Justice system, 2049
    >>Law Commission of Canada Act (Bill C-9), 1300-3
    >>Murder, 366
    >>>o.q., 1101-2
    >>National unity, 4710-l, 6227
    >>Negotiation Terms of Separation Act (Bill C-230), 4782-5
    >>Parole, 2949, 3901-3, 3906
    >>Pest Management Regulatory Agency, 7275-6
    >>Postal service, o.q., 1549
    >>Privilege
    >>>Misleading/false statements, 7469
    >>>Parrish (misleading/false statements), 7472
    >>Privy Council Office, qu., 10240
    >>Procedure
    >>>Bills, Government, 4038-9, 4041
    >>>Speeches, 10127
    >>Quebec distinct society status, o.q., 5733
    >>Quebec, o.q., 6057
    >>Quebec distinct society status, 6227-8
    >>Quebec separation/sovereignty, 6228
    >>>o.q., 2712, 4227, 4668, 4745-6, 4860, 4937, 5882
    >>>Statement by Minister (Rock), 4710-1
    >>Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), 4710, 6227-8
    >>>o.q., 4937, 5882, 7883, 9273
    >>Quebec sovereignty referendum (post 1995), 4710-1, 6227
    >>>o.q., 4304, 4668
    >>Schools, S.O. 31, 421
    >>Senate, 4369-70
    >>Senior citizens, S.O. 31, 1164
    >>Sexual assault/offences, 245, 2202-4
    >>>o.q., 963-4
    >>Somalia, o.q., 136, 357-8
    >>St. Patrick's Day, S.O. 31, 9077-8
    >>Statistics Canada, o.q., 1290
    >>Throne Speech, Address in Reply, M. (Sheridan), 6227-8
    >>United Kingdom, S.O. 31, 704
    >>Victims of crime, M. on supply (R. White), 2048-9
    >>War crimes, 4034-5
    >>>o.q., 3087, 3204, 3255
    >>>Statement by Minister (Rock), 3138-9
    >>Women, S.O. 31, 8830
    >>Young offenders, 2793-4

Venture capital corporations see Labour sponsored venture capital corporations

Verbiski, Christopher see Mining industry--Mining Men of the Year

Verdun, Que. see Cycling--Bicycle paths; Quebec sovereignty referendum--No side victory, Federal government commitments

Verhulst, Cindy see Impaired driving--Deaths caused

Vernon Barford Junior High School see Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995)--Montreal, Que. rally

Vernon, B.C. see Murder--Gakhal family

Vernon, MGen Brian see Canadian Armed Forces

Verran, Harry (L--South West Nova)

    >>Fisheries, Atlantic, o.q., 184
    >>References see Cornwallis Park Development Agency

Vessel licence fees see Boats/boating

Veterans

    >>Aboriginal veterans, national monument, discriminatory treatment, S.O. 31, 6054-5
    >>Book of Remembrance, Peace Tower Memorial Chamber, 5963
    >>Canada Remembers program, 50th anniversary of World War II (1995), 5962-3
    >>Hospitals
    >>>Perley and Rideau Health Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Ontario government cutbacks, federal government role/position, o.q., 5561
    >>>Ridgewood veterans wing, St. John, N.B., food prepared in Toronto, Ont., S.O. 31, 3706
    >>>Ste. Anne veterans Hospital, Ste. Anne d'Bellevue, Que., closure, o.q., 8736
    >>"In Flanders Fields", poem by John McCrae, 5964
    >>Last post fund, cutbacks, o.q., 8736
    >>Merchant seamen, World War II
    >>>Remembrance ceremony, Nov. 5/96, S.O. 31, 6123-4
    >>>Remembrance Day ceremony, Nov. 11/96, participation, S.O. 31, 6126
    >>>S.O. 31, 6182
    >>>See also Veterans benefits
    >>Moment of silence, 6183
    >>Patton, John, George Cross recipient, death, S.O. 31, 2804-5
    >>Poppies
    >>>Canadians wearing to honour, 5710-1
    >>>Industry, privatization, o.q., 8736
    >>Quebecers/francophones, 717
    >>Royal Air Force Ferry Command, World War II, S.O. 31, 6180
    >>Sacrifices, conflicts, etc., 5962-5
    >>Veterans Park, Rivercrest Park, West St. Paul, Man., renamed, S.O. 31, 5365
    >>Veterans Week
    >>>Remembrance Day, November 11
    >>>>Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), relationship, S.O. 31, 6304
    >>>>Silver Cross Mother, Margaret Langille, S.O. 31, 6259
    >>>>S.O. 31, 6002, 6055, 6183, 6257-9, 6305, 6307
    >>>>See also Veterans--Merchant seamen
    >>>S.O. 31, 5801, 6125, 6306
    >>>Statement by Minister (MacAulay), 5962-5
    >>Victoria Cross recipients
    >>>Smith, Pte Smokey, , World War II, S.O. 31, 6181
    >>>Will family, brothers, replacing lost medal, o.q., 7148
    >>War dead, commemoration monuments, S.O. 31, 9377
    >>Women
    >>>Legion magazine tribute, etc., S.O. 31, 6259
    >>>S.O. 31, 6304-5
    >>World War I veterans
    >>>S.O. 31, 6055
    >>>See also World War I--Battle of Vimy Ridge
    >>See also Canadian War Museum--Canadian Corps of Commissionaires

Veterans benefits

Veterans Park see Veterans

Veterans Week see Veterans

VIA Rail Canada Inc.

    >>Cost recovery levels, increase, increased passengers and revenues, 8111
    >>President and CEO Terry W. Ivany, $50,000 eight-week course, Harvard University, attendance, o.q., 10184
    >>Privatization, 8070, 8110-1
    >>Subsidy, reduction from $300 million to $170 million, 8053, 8055, 8071-2, 8097, 8110
    >>Toronto, Ont., maintenance service centre, viability, S.O. 31, 3483
    >>See also Rail passenger service

Vickers, Darren see Goodine, Billy

Vickrey, William see Nobel Prize--Economics

Victim impact statements see Victims of crime

Victims of crime