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Agri-Land Division see Farm Credit Corporation

Agricultural Adaptation and Rural Development Fund see Economic renewal--Rural Canada; Farm debt--Mediation

Agricultural day haul transportation assistance program see Employment--Seasonal workers

Agricultural land see Mirabel International Airport--Development

Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (Bill C-34)--Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (Goodale)

    >>First reading, 2313
    >>Agriculture and Agri-Food Standing Committee
    >>>Referral forthwith, prior to second reading, M. (Goodale), 3945-53, agreed to, on division, 3953
    >>>Reported, with amdts., 5484
    >>Report stage, 5906-9, 5920-5
    >>>Motions (Hermanson), 5906, negatived, on recorded division, 6155-6
    >>>Concurrence and second reading, agreed to, on recorded division, 6156-8
    >>Third reading, 9854-72, agreed to, on division, 9872, passed.
    >>Royal Assent, 10252. Chap. 20, S.C. 1997
    >>See also Agricultural products--Marketing, programs

Agricultural producers/farmers

    >>Dalgeish family, centennial farm celebration, 3958-9
    >>Debt see Farm debt
    >>Economic importance, S.O. 31, 4978
    >>Efficiency, increase, 9864
    >>Income, 48% from off-farm employment, 9895
    >>Liberal government (Chrétien) policies, impact, o.q., 10231-2
    >>Number, decline, 3961
    >>Self-reliance, government measures, 9888
    >>Streef, Martin
    >>>Canadian Young Farmer for 1996, S.O. 31, 6901
    >>>Ontario Region Young Farmer for 1996, S.O. 31, 2244
    >>Women, wives, role, 9891
    >>Working hours, 9874, 9891
    >>See also Agricultural products--Marketing; Bankruptcy and insolvency--Farmers and fishermen; Goods and Services Tax; Grain marketing--Canadian Wheat Board monopoly (wheat and barley); Wildlife--Endangered species

Agricultural products

    >>Beef industry
    >>>Import allocations, increase. impact, 9862
    >>>North American Free Trade Agreement, benefits, 9871
    >>>Prices, imports, impact, o.q., 2813
    >>Cash advances/advance payments, interest free, emergency advances, etc., 3946, 5907-9, 9854-6, 9858-64, 9866-7, 9869-70, 9899
    >>>Canadian Wheat Board special treatment, 9858, 9860, 9866
    >>>Contingent liability factor, 9858-9, 9862, 9866
    >>Co-operatives, pooling, encouraging, 3946
    >>Harvest, Peace River region, weather problems, damages, 5920-1
    >>Exports, Trade Team Canada benefits, 287, 9637-8
    >>Government purchase programs
    >>>Elimination, 5907-9, 5921-2, 5924-5
    >>>Information, access, 5922
    >>Input costs, 9859-61
    >>>Interest rates decline, relationship, 9637
    >>Interprovincial trade, 9637
    >>Marketing, programs, 2313
    >>>Agricultural producers directing, M. (Hermanson), 1613-22
    >>>Amalgamation, 5906
    >>>Budget allocation, 9854
    >>>Defaults, 3946-7
    >>>Funding see Farm income--Income protection programs
    >>>Government purchase program, eliminating, 9858-60, 9862, 9866
    >>>Legislation (Bill C-34), 5920, 5922
    >>>>Acts combined, Advance Payments for Crops Act, Prairie Grain Advance Payments Act, Agricultural Products Cooperative Marketing Act and Agricultural Products Board Act, 9858, 9860-1
    >>>>Amendments, 5906-7, 5920
    >>>>Bloc Québécois position, 5922, 9854, 9857
    >>>>Election timing factor, 9865-9
    >>>>New, Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (AMPA), 3945-53
    >>>>Overview, 9858
    >>>>Ramming through House, 5920
    >>>>Reform Party position, 5920, 9858-9, 9868
    >>>>See also Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (Bill C-34)
    >>>Ministerial powers, accountability, lack, 5907-8
    >>>New markets, developing, 9859
    >>Price pooling, 9858
    >>Subsidy programs, reduction/elimination
    >>>Adapting, transitional measures, o.q., 3132
    >>>Impact on competitiveness, 846
    >>>Reform Party position, 1493
    >>>United States comparison, 9130-1
    >>>>o.q., 8838
    >>Supply-management system, marketing boards, 814, 5352, 9637
    >>>Elimination by 1999, 1493
    >>>>General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Marrakech agreement, o.q., 1172
    >>>Liberal government (Chrétien) protecting, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Article XI, election promise, 5821, 5843
    >>>Retaining, S.O. 31, 4796, 10178
    >>Tariffs, supply-managed products
    >>>Acceptability, World Trade Organization agreement, 9871, 9874
    >>>>o.q., 1252, 6184
    >>>Dairy products, Liberal Members positions during 1993 election campaign, 1800
    >>>Milk, poultry, eggs, United States North American Free Trade Agreement challenge, 554-5, 677-8
    >>>>Arbitration panel dismissing
    >>>>>o.q., 7031-2, 9747
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 7138
    >>>>>United States launching World Trade Organization challenge, 10107-8
    >>>>o.q., 239-40, 2309-10, 3486-7, 6184
    >>>>S.O. 31, 356
    >>>See also Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement--Agricultural/horticultural products; Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement--Agricultural and fisheries products
    >>Trade rules, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade establishing, World Trade Organization reviewing, 9870-2
    >>Value-added processing, Western Grain Transportation Act funds, elimination, impact, 1558, 1560
    >>Value-added products, 288, 8375, 9568, 9895-6
    >>See also Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement; Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement; Exports; Trade--United States agricultural subsidies

Agricultural Products Board Act

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

Agricultural Products Cooperative Marketing Act

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

Agricultural research

    >>Canada Foundation for Innovation role, 9637-8
    >>Funding, government cutbacks, 8397
    >>>Reform Party position, 5843
    >>Importance, S.O. 31, 7307
    >>Matching investment initiatives program, o.q., 5063

Agriculture

    >>Budget 1997 measures, 9637-8
    >>Cost recovery programs
    >>>Negative impact, 6222-3
    >>>>Redress, o.q., 5886
    >>>>S.O. 31, 8647
    >>>See also Canadian Food Inspection Agency; PEI Potato Board; Pest Management Review Agency
    >>Durham County, Ontario, importance, S.O. 31, 4854
    >>Food Security for Canadians and a Fair Return for Canadian Farmers, Liberal Party document, 3962
    >>Forums, national/regional, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Goodale holding, 304-5
    >>Government expenditures, cut-backs, 8962, 9855
    >>Government interest, legislation, election, relationship, 9860
    >>Government policy, benefits, 287, 3958-9
    >>Government role, reducing, adopting free enterprise system, 9889
    >>Importance, Quebec, etc., 9638, 9863, 9891, 9893, 9895, 9898-9
    >>Interest rates, low, benefits, 287
    >>Legislation, impact, 3961
    >>Liberal government (Chrétien) election "red book" promises
    >>>Kept, 25%, 5843-4
    >>>Not kept, 8063, 9858-9
    >>>Reversals, S.O. 31, 3917, 5802
    >>Liberal government (Chrétien) policies, impact, S.O. 31, 10175-6
    >>National 4-H Week, S.O. 31, 6123, 6256, 6305
    >>National policies, programs
    >>>Benefits, 9637-8
    >>>Consultations, round table meetings, national conference, etc., 9638
    >>Non-democratic socialist system, former agriculture minister Eugene Whelan remarks, etc., 226-7
    >>Pesticide use see Fruits and vegetables; Pest Management Regulatory Agency; Pesticides
    >>Programs
    >>>National debt/deficit, impact, 1933-4
    >>>New, creating, ministerial powers, deletion, Auditor General 1989 and 1992 report recommendations, 1715
    >>>See also Agriculture and Agri-Food Department Act (amdt.)(Bill C-268)
    >>Quebec, 1618-9
    >>>Garon, Jean, provincial minister from 1976 to 1996, role, 9891-2
    >>Reform Party position, caucus members background factor, etc., 9864-5, 9868, 9890, 9895, 9899, 101~55
    >>Reform Party regional approach, 9637
    >>Subsidies
    >>>Importance, 9891, 9895
    >>>Quebec, 1560
    >>Taxation policies, benefit, 9637
    >>User fees, 846
    >>Video, Where Does it All Come From, children's instructional, Niagara Federation of Agriculture sponsorship, first place award, TVO Telefest Awards gala, tribute, S.O. 31, 6179
    >>See also Gross Domestic Product; Indians/first Nations--Powers; Interprovincial trade--Internal Trade Agreement; Research and development

Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act see Farm debt--Mediation

Agriculture and Agri-food Department

    >>Expenditures, maintaining, 9638
    >>Food Production and Protection Branch, business alignment plan, cost recovery and user fees issue, approach, o.q., 8656
    >>Quebec expenditures, 11%, 7449-50, 7452, 9856-7, 9891-3
    >>Rural secretariat, Canadian rural information service, 303
    >>See also Canadian Food Inspection Agency--Consolidation; Health--"Mad cow" disease

Agriculture and Agri-Food Department Act (amdt.)(Bill C-268)--Milliken

    >>First reading, 1715
    >>See also Agriculture--Programs

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister see Canadian Food Inspection Agency; Canadian Wheat Board--Modernizing; Goodale--References

Agriculture and Agri-Food Standing Committee

    >>Reports, presented
    >>>First (certification of organic agriculture issues and options), 3323
    >>>>Dissenting report, Bloc Québécois, 3323
    >>>Second (Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (Bill C-34)), 5484
    >>>Third (Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act (Bill C-60)), 6964
    >>>Fourth (Farm Debt Mediation Act (Bill C-38)), 7390
    >>>Fifth (Canadian Wheat Board Act (amdt.)(Bill C-72)), 9804
    >>Travel, authorization, M. (Zed), agreed to, 2897, 8399
    >>See also Canadian Food Inspection Agency--Accountability to Canadian Wheat Board--Modernizing; Farm debt--Mediation Parliament--Establishing, Legislation;

AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)

    >>Awareness/prevention
    >>>Snowy Owl Foundation, Look Beyond, book, S.O. 31, 6902
    >>>World AIDS Day, S.O. 31, 6853, 6955
    >>Education pamphlet, Man to Man Society, school distribution, 2442
    >>Farah Foundation, "Ca Marche", annual fundraising event, S.O. 31, 5104
    >>HIV/AIDS tests see HIV/AIDS
    >>International AIDS conference, Vancouver, B.C.
    >>>Prime Minister Chrétien, invitation, refusal, o.q., 2945, 3716
    >>National AIDS Awareness Week, S.O. 31, 5107
    >>National AIDS Strategy, funding
    >>>o.q., 3562-3, 3714, 4866
    >>>Other disease research, comparison, 1751, 2113-4
    >>>Petitions, 3722-3, 4088, 4236, 7432, 7893-4
    >>>Renewing, expanding
    >>>>o.q., 6908, 8511
    >>>>Petition, 7585, 8018, 8046, 8145, 8201, 8359, 8695, 10144
    >>>>qu., 8844
    >>>S.O. 31, 5472
    >>See also HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS Sub-Committee; Penitentiaries--Inmates

Air bag release mechanisms see Automobile safety

Air cadets see Canadian Armed Forces--Cadets

Air Canada

    >>Airbus A320 passenger jet, 1998 purchase contract, political influence allegations, Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation, 7526, 8243
    >>>Bourgon, Jocelyne, Privy Council Clerk, knowledge, o.q., 7575-6
    >>>Inquiry commission, establishing, o.q., 7576
    >>>Investigation reopened in 1995, o.q., 3422, 3925
    >>>Justice Department role, letter to Swiss authorities, 8665
    >>>>o.q., 3422, 3868, 3922-3, 3925, 7575-6, 7660-1, 7710, 7715, 8593
    >>>Justice Department strategic communications advice contract, $160,500, relationship, 8278
    >>>>o.q., 8199-200, 8953
    >>>Ministerial responsibility, o.q., 7575-7
    >>>Mulroney, Brian, former Prime Minister, lawsuit, out of court settlement, apology, etc., 7591, 7760, 7764, 7776, 9257, 9462
    >>>>o.q., 3711, 3818-9, 3866-9, 3921-3, 4021, 7574-6, 7660-1, 7715, 7834
    >>>>qu., 10239
    >>>Murray, Philip, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner, role, competence, o.q., 7660
    >>>Political interference, lack, o.q., 7575-6
    >>>Political witch hunt, Manning remarks, o.q., 7710, 7715
    >>>Prime Minister's Office, Privy Council Office, involvement, qu., 10240
    >>>Procedures, changing, former Justice Allan Goodman role, etc., o.q., 7575, 7577, 7661, 7715
    >>>Rock, Justice Minister, role, providing information, o.q., 3422, 3867-9, 3924-6, 4020, 7661, 7715
    >>>>Chrétien, Prime Minister, informing, o.q., 3817-9
    >>>>Letter from Royal Canadian Mounted Police, tabling, 4006, 4157-8, 4675-6
    >>>>>o.q., 3924
    >>>>qu., 10239-40
    >>Dec. 29/95 flight, South Korea air force interception, coding error, o.q., 134
    >>Government grants, contributions, loan guarantees, 1981-96, r.o., 4240
    >>Regional carrier pilots, strike
    >>>Negotiated settlement, need, o.q., 7713-4
    >>>Strikebreakers, use, o.q., 7713-4
    >>Reservation centre, Saint John, N.B., opening, S.O. 31, 3122
    >>"Sitting Comfortabull" advertising campaign, European newspapers, racist sterotyping, insult, S.O. 31, 2428
    >>See also Air transportation--Canada-Asia--Canada-Czech Republic--Canada-Italy route; Canadian Airlines International; Labour disputes--Replacement workers

Air guns see Gin control/guns

Air India, Flight 182

    >>Crash/bombing, June 23/85
    >>>Public inquiry/Royal commission, establishing
    >>>>o.q., 5888
    >>>>S.O. 31, 3917
    >>>Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation, o.q., 5888
    >>>Talwinder Singh Parmar suspected role, Surrey-Delta Sikh Temple honouring, S.O. 31, 3814

Air navigation services

Air pollution

    >>Automobile emmissions, national standards, revising
    >>>o.q., 3426-7
    >>>Provincial co-operation, need, o.q., 8658
    >>Carbon dioxide emissions (greenhouse gases), reducing, 1558, 4329-30, 9792
    >>>1990 levels, stabilizing, 1451, 4330
    >>>20% by year 2005, international commitment, meeting, o.q., 2812, 7087
    >>>Bonn, Germany, international accord, drafting, Canada, commitment, o.q., 8509
    >>>Brazil summit, 1992, climate change goals, not meeting, o.q., 10071-2
    >>>Liberal government (Chretien) "red Book", election promises, 1479, 10163
    >>>>o.q., 2812, 4077
    >>>o.q., 2812
    >>>Voluntary measures, failure, 9791-2
    >>>>o.q., 8509
    >>Research program, government/private sector/University of Toronto, $1.9 million study, o.q., 3131
    >>Respiratory diseases, link, clean air conference, addressing, o.q., 2313
    >>See also Environment--Sustainable transportation