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Aboriginal policing agreements see Indians/First Nations

Aboriginal self-government

    >>Charlottetown Accord provisions, rejected, 3105
    >>Constitution, notwithstanding clause, applying to, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, gender equality, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, relationship, o.q., 6609-10
    >>Distinct nations, recognizing as
    >>>Bloc Québécois motion, 8281
    >>>Quebec government example, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, relationship
    >>>>o.q., 6607
    >>>>S.O. 31, 6953
    >>Inherent right
    >>>Federal government policy, 288-9
    >>>Federal government recognizing in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, o.q., 6608
    >>See also Indians/First Nations; Nunavut Territory--Inuit self-government; Sahtu Dene and Métis land claim--Agreement

Abortion

Above the Law see Liberal government (Chrétien)--Ministers

Abuse see Child abuse

Abuse of process see Criminal Code

Académie des Grands Montérégiens see Marchesseault, Claude

Acadia Axemen see Hockey--CIAU national tournament

Acadia University

    >>Computers, business administration/computer science students, access to, S.O. 31, 4450
    >>See also Education--Sensory Motor Instructive Leadership Experience; Parker, Bill

Accelerated cost allowance rules see Mining industry; Oil and gas industry--Oil sands recovery projects

Access to information

    >>Early warning system for Cabinet Ministers re requests, 6323-4
    >>Government departments not making responses public within 30 days, Information Commissioner John Grace concerns, o.q., 6667
    >>Improving, 5631, 5836
    >>>S.O. 31, 5593
    >>Liberal government (Chrétien) blocking, 7792
    >>Parallel system, Prime Minister`s Office role, o.q., 5242
    >>See also Canadian Armed Forces--Drapeau, Col. Michel; Canadian Heritage Department--"Take it to Heart"

Access to Information Act

    >>Annual report, 1995-1996, tabled, 3875
    >>Government documents, officials destroying, sanctions, need, 1784
    >>See also Canada Post Corporation; Canadian Wheat Board; Mirabel International Airport--Administration

Access to Information Act (amdt.)(Bill C-211)--Hoeppner

    >>First reading, 188
    >>See also Canadian Wheat Board--Access to Information Act

Access to Information Act (amdt.--crown corporations)(Bill C-253)--Gilmour

    >>First reading, 1330
    >>See also Crown corporations

Access to Information Commissioner see Canadian Space Agency--Documents

ACOA see Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome see AIDS

Act of God see Goods and Services Tax--Abolish/eliminate/scrap, Liberal government (Chrétien); Liberal government (Chrétien)--Election promises

Acting Speaker see Bonin--References; Dalphon-Guiral--References; Easter--References; Finlay--References; Harvard--References; Hopkins--References; Kilger--References; Lincoln--References; Regan--References; Ringuette-Maltais--References; Speaker--References; Speakership--Junior Chair officers; Szabo--References

Action 21 program see Humber River--Black Creek

Action Canada Network see Canada Health and Social Transfer--Funding

Action Démocratique du Québec see Quebec separation/sovereignty--Dumont, Mario

Active employment measures see Employment insurance; Training programs--Jurisdiction

Adams, Peter (L--Peterborough)

    >>Air pollution, o.q. 10071
    >>Canada Games, S.O. 31, 4449
    >>Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation, petition, 7722-3
    >>Child support payments, S.O. 31, 421
    >>Crime, petition, 4088
    >>Defence equipment, S.O. 31, 4644
    >>Deficit, S.O. 31, 310
    >>Drugs and pharmaceuticals, petition, 3990, 6067
    >>East Timor, petition, 2525
    >>Economic development/renewal, S.O. 31, 310
    >>Education, petition, 4088
    >>Education, post-secondary, S.O. 31, 128, 8443
    >>Employment, S.O. 31, 9377
    >>Excise Tax Act, Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Income Tax Act and Debt Servicing and Reduction Account Act (amdt.)(Bill C-70), 7020-1
    >>Fisheries, S.O. 31, 4016, 4798
    >>Gasoline/automotive fuels, 4813-4
    >>>S.O. 31, 2999
    >>Goods and Services Tax, 7020-1
    >>>Petition, 6067, 7393, 8233
    >>Health, S.O. 31, 6053-4
    >>Health care system, S.O. 31, 6743-4, 8902
    >>Highways and roads, petition, 7432, 8233-4
    >>Housing
    >>>o.q., 6316
    >>>Petition, 7722
    >>Human Resources Development Department, o.q., 8593
    >>Immigration/immigrants, petition, 9997-8
    >>Indian Specific Claims Commission, petition, 8515
    >>Infrastructure program, S.O. 31, 6363
    >>James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, petitions, 3990, 6194
    >>Manganese-based Fuel Additives Act (Bill C-29), 4813-4
    >>Mining industry, S.O. 31, 2707
    >>National unity, S.O. 31, 758-9, 1161
    >>Nuclear weapons, petitions, 7431-2, 7585
    >>Peterborough, Ont., S.O. 31, 7652
    >>Peterborough constituency, S.O. 31, 1416
    >>Peterson, Colleen, S.O. 31, 5678-9
    >>Postal service, petition, 7393
    >>References, 1996 Peterborough County Plowing Match, Elected Officials Plowing Championship, winner, S.O. 31, 5675
    >>Same-sex couples, petition, 2368
    >>Sex offenders, petition, 6378
    >>Sexual orientation, petition, 2368
    >>Telephone service, o.q., 1051
    >>Trent-Severn Waterway, 7501-2
    >>>o.q., 5740
    >>United States, petitions, 368, 2526
    >>Volunteers, S.O. 31, 1884
    >>Wildlife
    >>>o.q., 3716, 5483
    >>>Petition, 5611

Adaptation and Rural Development Fund see Agricultural Adaptation and Rural Development Fund

Address to joint sitting of Parliament see Parliament

Addy, MGen Clive see Canadian Armed Forces

ADISQ Gala see Music

Adjournment motions under S.O. 52

    >>Canadian Airlines International, financial difficulties (Duceppe), emergency requirements not met, not accepted, 6379-80
    >>Gangs, motorcycle gangs, Quebec conflicts, anti-gang/criminal organization legislation, etc. (Suzanne Tremblay), emergency requirements not met, not accepted, 9091
    >>Grain transportation, delivery to elevator system and port terminals, delays, costs to producers (Hermanson), emergency requirements not met, not accepted, 7927-8
    >>Quebec, Roux, Jean-Louis, Lieutenant-Governor, background, activities while student in 1942, anti-conscription demonstration, wearing swastika, resignation, etc. (Duceppe), leave to move, matter of ongoing debate, emergency requirements not met, not accepted, 6091-2

ADM see Aéroports de Montréal

Administrative Tribunals (Remedial and Disciplinary Measures) Act (Bill C-49)--President of the Treasury Board--Masse

Adoption

    >>Guardianship, alternative, Islamic faith, petition, 8870
    >>See also Same-sex couples; Unemployment insurance--Maternity leave

Advance payments see Advance Payments for Crops Act; Agricultural products--Cash advances; Maple syrup industry--Producers; Prairie Grain Advance Payments Act

Advance Payments for Crops Act

    >>Repeal, legislation, 3945-53
    >>>See also Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (Bill C-34)
    >>See also Agricultural products--Marketing programs, Legislation

Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation of Canada see Health--Cardio-pulmonary

Advertising

Advisory Council on the Status of Women see Women

AECL see Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Aeronautics Act see Air navigation services--Commercialization, Safety

Aéroports de Montréal (ADM) see Mirabel International Airport

Aerospace industry

    >>Bell Helicopère Textron, investments, job creation, S.O. 31, 4017
    >>Canadian Space Program, $317 million commitment, S.O. 31, 3080
    >>Montreal, Que., federal support, 5651, 5661-2
    >>National Metal Finishing, Mirabel, Que., competitiveness, S.O. 31, 6000
    >>Quebec
    >>>Funding, $115 million, maintaining under Technology Partnership Canada program, o.q., 5058
    >>>S.O. 31, 474
    >>Regional aircraft, 70 seat capacity, Canadair development/construction, contract, Bombardier Inc. bid
    >>>$87 million interest-free government loan, 5766, 5823, 5861, 6027-8, 6275-7, 6279, 8787, 8789, 9227
    >>>>$170,000 donation to Liberal Party of Canada, relationship, 5857, 6027
    >>>>>o.q., 5561, 5603, 5810, 5888
    >>>>Atlantic Groundfish Strategy (TAGS), funds, $1.7 million, use, o.q., 5560
    >>>>o.q., 5598, 5601, 5684, 5739-40, 5810-1, 5887-8, 5959, 6133
    >>>>Reform Party position, o.q., 5807
    >>>>S.O. 31, 6606
    >>>S.O. 31, 4069
    >>Research and development, Measurand Inc., Fredericton, N.B., contract, Space Technology Atlantic Initiative program, S.O. 31, 31
    >>Satellite payload system, COM DEV International development, S.O. 31, 7511
    >>Technological development, government support
    >>>Technology Partnership Canada program, Budget 1996 statement, 379, 449, 840
    >>>Throne Speech statement, 2, 307, 6017
    >>Trade surplus, o.q., 5888

Affidavits see Justice system--Documents--Witnesses

Affirmative action

    >>California program, referendum eliminating, 10059
    >>United States, comparison, etc., 2127-8
    >>See also Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Employment equity; Sexual orientation--Canadian Human Rights Act; Universities/colleges--University of Ottawa

Afghanistan

    >>Human rights violations, women, etc.
    >>>Canadian position, suspension of foreign aid, o.q., 5564
    >>>Permanent Arab tribunal on violence against women, relationship, S.O. 31, 7307
    >>>See also Foreign aid--Afghanistan
    >>Islamic fundamentalists seizing power, Taliban regime, Canadian position, o.q., 4863

Africa

AFS see Aboriginal fishing strategy

Age credit see Seniors Benefit--Old age security

Age discrimination see Discrimination and racism

Age of consent see Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation

Aggravated assault see Female genital mutilation (excision)--Prohibiting

Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-375)--Benoit

    >>First reading, 8358
    >>Second reading, 10206-15
    >>>Dropped from Order Paper, 10215
    >>See also Interprovincial trade--Internal Trade Agreement, Approval formula

Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-19)--Minister of Industry (Manley)

    >>First reading, 535
    >>Deemed read second time, considered by Industry Standing Committee and reported, with amdts., by House Order, 535
    >>Report stage, 1311-6, 1331-3
    >>>Motions
    >>>>(Benoit), 1312, negatived, on recorded division, 1497-8
    >>>>(N. Leblanc), 1311, negatived on recorded division, 1497-8; 1316, negatived on recorded division, 1498-9
    >>>Concurrence, agreed to, on division, 1499
    >>Third reading, 1791-802, 2698-703, 2717-9
    >>>Agreed to, on recorded division, 2789-90, passed.
    >>Royal Assent, 1496, Chap. 17, S.C. 1996
    >>See also Interprovincial trade--Internal Trade Agreement

Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-88)(1st Sess., 35th Parl.)

    >>Reinstated as Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-19)
    >>See also Interprovincial trade--Internal Trade Agreement

Agreements see Aboriginal land claims; Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement; Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (Bill C-61); International agreements, conventions, treaties; Interprovincial trade--Internal Trade Agreement; North American Free Trade Agreement; Trade--Chile

Agri-Food Development Council

    >>Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise, patronage appointments, 5843-4

Agri-food industry

    >>Adaptation, funding, o.q., 3262
    >>Day Haul Transportation Assistance Program, funding, federal government withdrawal
    >>>o.q., 10183-4
    >>>S.O. 31, 6440
    >>Prices, stability, government role, 5922
    >>Projects, Manitoba, 1558
    >>Promotion, S.O. 31, 8649
    >>Sales, $20 billion target, o.q., 3008, 3485-6
    >>>Interprovincial trade barriers, removal, o.q., 3486
    >>Trade mission, Asia-Pacific region, o.q., 8735