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Canadian Film Development Corporation see Financial Administration Act (amdt.--Canada Council, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Film Development Corporation, National Arts Centre Corporation)(Bill C-341)

Canadian Forces Network see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation--International service

Canadian Forest Service

>>Budget cuts, employee layoffs, 12084
>>Role, 6236-7, 6240
>>Staff, 6238

Canadian Foster Family Week

>>S.O. 31, 6979

Canadian Grain Commission

>>Advisory committees, members, salaries, 6497, 8869, 8872
>>Commissioners, 6483, 6489, 8614-7, 8619
>>Discussions with grain industry, 6477
>>Ex gratia payments, $657,000 producer compensation, seed cleaning company bankruptcy, 2157
>>Fairness, 6483
>>Political interference, 8621-4, 8868-9, 8891-2
>>Role, mandate, 6477, 6498

Canadian Gun Coalition see Gun control/guns--Legislation (Bill C-68)

Canadian Haemophilia Society

>>S.O. 31, 11522, 16732
>>See also Blood--HIV contaminated blood/blood management system, Krever public inquiry

Canadian Health Care Coalition see Health insurance (Medicare)--Saving; National Medicare Day

Canadian heritage

>>Celebrating, Canada Day, 5550-2
>>Defining, 5829-30, 6416, 6840-1, 6873-4
>>Government role, 6840-1, 6861-2
>>Historical vignettes, television broadcasting, Charles R. Bronfman Foundation project, $5 million Canadian Heritage Department funding, 12459
>>>o.q., 12367-8, 16777
>>National identity, relationship, 6416
>>Reform Party position, 7294
>>Tourist industry, relationship, S.O. 31, 7502
>>See also Canadian Heritage Department; Canadian Heritage River System; National identity

Canadian Heritage Department

>>Aboriginal peoples, 7866
>>>Mondia Editeurs, curriculum project, 7642-3
>>>Programs, 9132
>>Annual report, requiring, 9075, 9080
>>Artists, 7288-9
>>Bloc Québécois position, 6419, 6449, 7869, 7878-9, 8026, 9127, 9133
>>Broadcasting, 6831, 6835-6, 6864, 7866, 7873, 9122, 9127
>>Budget, 7285, 10541
>>>Cuts, Budget, Feb. 27/95 measures, 10965-7
>>Canada Council, 7880
>>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 7877
>>Canadian heritage, 6868, 6873-4, 8028-9, 9128
>>Canadian Race Relations Foundation, 7877
>>Copyright, Industry Department, relationship, 6830, 6836, 6861, 6874, 7620-1, 7878, 9076-8, 9122, 9126-7, 9131, 9133-5
>>Cultural communities, participating, 6417-8
>>Culture, cultural industry, promoting, 6418, 6453, 6456, 6829, 6838-9, 6846, 6864, 6870-1, 6874-5, 7281-2, 7622, 7636, 7640-1, 7866, 7870, 7875-8, 7881, 8026-30, 8032, 9131, 9133-4
>>>Foreign investment, relationship, 9122, 9127
>>Departmental jurisdiction, Industry Department, conflict, 6419, 6423, 6830-1, 6834-6, 6839, 6861, 6864, 6874-5, 7258, 7383, 7621, 7878, 7881, 8026
>>Downsizing, 6460
>>Effectiveness, lack, S.O. 31, 11402
>>Eliminating, 11581-2
>>Employees, status, 8027
>>Employment equity award recipient, tribute, S.O. 31, 14014
>>Establishment, legislation see Department of Canadian Heritage Act (Bill C-53)
>>Ethnic minorities, English and French, promoting, 6422-3, 6450-1, 6839, 6846, 6872
>>Expenditures
>>>Fiscal responsibility, 7873
>>>Grants, 9076, 9080, 9127
>>>Review, 218, 7195-6
>>>Savings, 7.3 million, 6831, 6835, 6840, 6846, 6864, 6871, 6876-7, 7287, 7296, 7299-301, 7379, 7383, 7620
>>>See also Cape Breton, N.S.--Golf course
>>Film and video industry, 7291
>>Government appointments, council, establishing, 6858-9
>>Government departments, others, overlap, duplication, 7871-2, 8025, 9079, 9156-7
>>Heritage tourism initiative, 6834
>>Highways and roads, responsibility, 6834-5
>>Human rights, 9076, 9079
>>Immigrants, integrating, 6417
>>Information highway, relationship, 6830, 6836-7, 6839, 6861, 6866, 6874, 9127, 9158
>>International exhibitions, participation, 454, 6418
>>Jurisdiction see Canadian Heritage Department--Departmental
>>Legislative objectives/initiatives, 6418, 6837, 7280, 7379-80, 7621, 7640-1
>>Mandate see Canadian Heritage Department--Role
>>Ministerial powers, 8028, 9080
>>Ministerial responsibilities, 6419
>>Multiculturalism, 6430, 6831-2, 6839, 6841-4, 6846, 7255, 7279, 7285-6, 7292, 7302, 7382, 7619-22, 7636, 7638, 7870, 7872-4, 7876-80, 8026-8, 8031, 9075-6, 9079-80, 9119-22, 9128-31, 9133, 9155-6
>>Museums and art galleries, 6839, 6871, 7877
>>National Battlefields Commission, 7877
>>National debt/deficit, 7257, 7289, 7291, 7379
>>National Film Board, 7880
>>National heritage, 7278-9, 7283
>>National identity, Quebec, promoting, 6417-9, 6453, 6456, 6458, 6829, 6834, 6836-8, 6844, 6859-60, 6864-6, 6868, 6870, 7254-5, 7257, 7278-82, 7284-6, 7291, 7619-21, 7637, 7874, 9074-5, 9084-5, 9122-4, 9127, 9135-8
>>National identity, relationship, 7866, 8026-7, 9133
>>National unity, 7619
>>Natural heritage, 6861-2
>>Official languages policy/bilingualism, promoting, 452-3, 6417, 6456, 6460, 6859-60, 6871-2, 7279, 7281, 7302, 7381, 7619-20, 7636, 7638-9, 7866, 7877, 8026, 8031, 9076, 9122, 9124-7, 9132, 9136-8
>>Parks Canada, 6417, 6453, 6829, 6834, 6840, 6846, 6862, 6866, 7283, 7381-3, 7621, 7636, 7865-8, 7870, 7873, 7875, 8026-8, 8031, 9075-6, 9079, 9082-3, 9156
>>Pitawanakwat, Mary, illegal dismissal, Federal Court of Canada decision, compensation, negotiations, o.q., 5307
>>Privatizing agencies, 7877
>>Program review, 7873
>>Progressive Conservative government (Campbell), 6419, 6425, 6452
>>Provinces, jurisdiction, 6419-21, 6449-50, 6867, 7254, 7291, 7619, 7637
>>>See also Canadian Heritage Department--Telecommunications
>>Public Service Commission, 7877
>>Quebec culture, impact, 7878-9, 7881, 9074-5, 9080-2, 9084-5, 9122, 9124, 9127, 9133
>>Reform Party position, 6424-5, 6430, 6831, 7871-2, 9155
>>Role/mandate, 452, 6417-9, 6424-6, 6430-1, 6452-3, 6458, 6460, 6828-31, 6835-6, 6839-41, 6846, 6859, 6861, 6863-4, 6866, 6869-70, 7278-9, 7281, 7284-7, 7293-5, 7298, 7380-2, 7619, 7621, 7636-40, 7865-7, 7870, 7872-81, 8026-32, 9118, 9127, 9130-3
>>Sports, amateur sports, promoting, 6417, 6456, 6846, 7381, 7866, 7873-4, 8030-2
>>Status of Women Canada, 7877, 7880, 10967
>>Taxation, 7289
>>Telecommunications, Industry Department, relationship, 6830-1, 6836-8, 6864, 6874, 7866, 7870, 7873, 7881, 9122, 9127, 9158
>>>Provincial jurisdiction factor, 9133
>>Tourism industry, 7279, 7636
>>User fees, 9076, 9080
>>See also Canada Day--Promotion; Canadian heritage--Historical vignettes; Canals--Historic; CRTC--Certificates of nomination; Métis--Programs Violence--Combating; National Citizenship Week; National Parks--Environment Department

Canadian Heritage River System

>>S.O. 31, 3436

Canadian Heritage Standing Committee

>>Membership, anglophone, Liberal majority, 10760-1
>>Reports, presented
>>>First (Canadian Film Development Corporation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-31)), 5060
>>>Second (Department of Canadian Heritage Act (Bill C-53)), 8963
>>>Third (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation future in multi-channel universe), 14322
>>>Fourth (Government direction to CRTC concerning direct-to-home satellite dishes and pay-per-view programming), 14322
>>>Fifth (Cultural Property Export and Import Act, Income Tax Act and Tax Court of Canada Act (amdt.)(Bill C-93), 15535
>>Witnesses, travel expenses, committee paying, J. Brown position, S.O. 31, 8545
>>See also Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Canadian Museum of Nature; Ginn Publishing Canada Inc.--Sale; Information highway--Strategy

Canadian Hockey Association see Hockey--Amateur

Canadian Home Builders Association see Budget, Feb. 22/94

Canadian Horse

>>Heritage, designating as national horse, 15793-9
>>>Breeders, maintaining, 15794
>>>National unity, relationship, 15796-7
>>See also National Horse of Canada Act (Bill C-329)

Canadian Hospital Association see Health care--Funding, Federal cut-backs

Canadian Human Rights Act

>>Amendments
>>>Petitions, 5823, 6944, 10724
>>>Throne Speech measure, 11, 553
>>Petitions, 7238, 13188, 13375, 13600, 14095
>>See also Discrimination and racism--Combating; Sexual orientation

Canadian Human Rights Act, Canada Labour Code and Public Service Employment Act (amdt.--whistleblowing)(Bill C-248)--de Savoye

>>First reading, 4209
>>Second reading, 13033-9
>>>Dropped to bottom of Order Paper, 13039
>>See also Public Service--Whistleblowers

Canadian Human Rights Commission

>>Annual report (1994), tabled, 10751
>>Annual report, government action, Commissioner Max Yalden comments, S.O. 31, 2479
>>Individual cases, backlog, 12977
>>Regional offices, cut-backs, services
>>>Impact, o.q., 11411
>>>Restoring, petition, 17671
>>See also Employment equity; Human Rights and the Status of Disabled Persons Standing Committee--Reports, First Pay equity

Canadian Hybrid Farms see Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Canadian identity see National identity

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

>>Intellectual capital, S.O. 31, 6253
>>See also Small business--Capital

Canadian International Development Agency see CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency Act (Bill C-250)--Strahl

>>First reading, 4210
>>See also CIDA--Accountability

Canadian International Import Tribunal see Beef--Imported boneless

Canadian International Trade Tribunal

>>Mandate, World Trade Organization, influence, 8263-4, 8398, 15990-1
>>See also Sugar industry--United States

Canadian Jewish Congress

>>75th anniversary, S.O. 31, 2477
>>Triennial Plenary Assembly, 24th, Montreal, Que., May 14-15/95, S.O. 31, 12409, 12532-3

Canadian Junior Curling Championships see Curling

Canadian Kennel Club see Official languages policy/bilingualism

Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)

>>Government funding, 864, 10295, 11313
>>>Use in non-labour education projects, 9495-7
>>See also New Democratic Party--Election expenses; Quebec--Separation/sovereignty, Economic and political association/union with Canada; Unemployment insurance--Reform

Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre

>>10th anniversary, S.O. 31, 6895-6

Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame see Lacrosse

Canadian Manufacturers Association see National debt--$1 trillion

Canadian Marine Rescue Auxiliary see Search and rescue

Canadian Mathematics Olympiad team see Education

Canadian Medical Association see Gun control/guns--Legislation (Bill C-68)

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

>>Establishment, S.O. 31, 2287
>>Inaugural inductions, S.O. 31, 4944

Canadian Merchant Navy

>>Veterans
>>>Canadian Volunteer Service Medal presentations, S.O. 31, 4338
>>>World War II, including under War Veterans Allowances Act, S.O. 31, 16317
>>See also World War II

Canadian Military Heritage Museum

>>Brantford, Ont., S.O. 31, 4126

Canadian Multiculturalism Act

>>Annual report (1992-1993), tabled, 997
>>See also Women--Excision

Canadian Museum of Civilization

>>Board of directors, patronage appointments, alleged conflict of interest code violation, o.q., 17390

Canadian Museum of Nature

>>Canadian Heritage Standing Committee reviewing, o.q., 3104
>>Construction, Massé, Marcel (President of the Privy Council) riding, conflict of interest, o.q., 7230-1
>>Management irregularities, 3545
>>>Auditor General investigating, o.q., 1860-1, 3104, 3954-5

Canadian National Exhibition see Inuit

Canadian National Institute for the Blind

>>Volunteers, role, S.O. 31, 16609

Canadian National Railways

>>Employees, 7771
>>>Reduction, buy-out package, 13986
>>Establishment in 1923, 12573-4, 14239
>>Government subsidies, 14239
>>Locomotives, purchase from General Motors of Canada Ltd., privatization, relationship, o.q., 15344-5
>>Mandate, role, review, 3125, 5050, 7829-30
>>Operating costs, 7771
>>Operations, streamlining, Montreal, Que., impact, job losses, o.q., 16613
>>Political parties, donations, 4018
>>President and board, patronage appointments, impact, 14247
>>Privatization/commercialization, 10285, 10968, 11590, 12580-1, 13348
>>>Air Canada privatization, debt write-off, comparison, 12583, 14240
>>>AMF Technotransport Inc., proposed sale, survival, relationship, 12574, 12576, 12579, 12588, 13981-3, 14217
>>>>o.q., 13809, 17576-7
>>>>S.O. 31, 13228-9
>>>Atlantic provinces operations, maintaining closing, Montreal, Que. - Halifax, N.S line, port impact, etc., 14213-5, 14239-41, 14248
>>>Back to work legislation (Bill C-77), impact, 10828-9, 14235, 14238
>>>>S.O. 31, 11134, 11340
>>>Bloc Québécois position, 12575-9, 13987-8, 14210-2, 14217, 14236
>>>Budget, Feb. 27/95, statement, 10098, 10278, 10314, 11278, 11301, 11399, 13307
>>>Canadian Pacific Railway merger, proposals, 2137, 2139, 3123, 7772, 7775-7, 7780-2, 7791-2, 7795-800, 7817-8, 7829-31
>>>>Government position, 12459
>>>>>o.q., 1188, 6516
>>>>o.q., 12255
>>>Canadian Pacific Railway purchase of operations east of Winnipeg, Man., bid proposal, government position, o.q., 6142-3, 8346, 8552
>>>Churchill, Man., port, relationship, 12580
>>>Competition, competitiveness, relationship, 12574-5, 12582, 12586, 12589, 14209-10, 14216, 14232
>>>Conditions, restrictions, five year sunset clause proposal, 13980-1, 13983, 14213, 14217, 14248
>>>Debt, reducing, Transport Minister's powers, etc., 12574, 12576, 12579, 12583, 13982, 13986-7, 13989-90, 14210-1, 14214, 14216-8, 14230-1, 14239, 14243, 14246, 14248, 15081
>>>>By $900 million, o.q., 15344
>>>>S.O. 31, 16772
>>>Employees, impact, etc.
>>>>Affiliates, subsidiaries, 12587-8, 13980-1, 14211
>>>>Jobs, 12574, 13982-3, 13987-8, 14211-2
>>>>Labour-management relations, 13982-3, 13988
>>>>Pensions, 12574, 13986-90, 14211-2, 14216, 14218, 14237
>>>>>o.q., 10473
>>>>Position, 14235
>>>>Purchase offer, 14238
>>>>Stock savings plan, 12574, 14216, 14237
>>>>Winnipeg, Man., lay-offs, relationship, S.O. 31, 14714-5
>>>Exports, relationship, 14209
>>>Farmers purchasing, Western Grain Transportation Act subsidy payout, relationship, etc., 12404-5, 12579, 12584, 12640, 14244
>>>>o.q., 11814
>>>>S.O. 31, 9722-3
>>>Federal jurisdiction, remaining under, short line railways, relationship, 12575-6, 12578-9, 12583, 12585-8, 13993-4, 13996, 14211-2, 14217
>>>Foreign ownership, no limit, 12574, 12581-3, 12586-8, 12639-41, 13983, 13997-8, 14210-3, 14216-7, 14232, 14236, 14248
>>>>Offering to Canadians first, 12577, 13984-5, 14213, 14232, 14234-6, 14248
>>>>>S.O. 31, 16772
>>>>o.q., 12251, 12255, 12293, 12795
>>>>S.O. 31, 12185, 12590
>>>>See also Canadian National Railways--Privatization/commercialization, Share ownership limit
>>>Head Office, Montreal, Que., retaining, 12574, 12577-9, 12581-4, 13980-3, 13992-3, 14210, 14212-3, 14215-7, 14231-5, 14240-4, 14246-7
>>>>o.q., 16247
>>>Jonquière constituency intermodal station, impact, 12587
>>>Legislation (Bill C-89)
>>>>Transport Standing Committee referral prior to second reading, 12575, 12580, 12588, 14214-6, 14247-8, 15081, 15090, 15094
>>>>See also CN Commercialization Act (Bill C-89)
>>>Liberal caucus subcommittee report, 12404-5
>>>Liberal Party election promises, "red book", not included, 14236-7
>>>Liberal Party initiative, 12581, 14239, 14241
>>>Marine transportation strategy, relationship, 14241, 14248
>>>National debt, relationship, 12576, 13984, 14247
>>>Negotiations, bad faith, S.O. 31, 10948
>>>New Democratic Party position, 12588, 13984
>>>Non-rail assets, government retaining, selling separately, 12574-6, 12583, 12587, 13980-1, 13989, 14210-1, 14217-8, 14239, 14248, 15081
>>>Obligations, restrictions, 12574, 12583-4
>>>Official Languages Act, application, 12574, 12577, 12579, 12582-4, 13992-4, 13996, 14210, 14212-3, 14215-6, 14232-3, 14240-3, 14246, 14248
>>>o.q., 6439, 8346, 9062-3, 10896, 10904
>>>Pearson International Airport privatization, comparison, concerns, 12582
>>>Petitions, 11104, 14412
>>>Pirie, Madsen, Adam Smith Institute, principles of privatization, applying, 12579-80, 14244
>>>Price, fair, ensuring, 12582, 13998
>>>Profit, relationship, 14236-7, 14241-2
>>>Public interest, relationship, 12581, 12987, 14210, 14237
>>>Purchasers, prioritizing, employees, customers, taxpayers, etc., 12579
>>>Real estate assets, government retaining, selling separately, 12576-7, 12579, 12583-4, 14216
>>>>o.q., 12793-4, 13048-9
>>>Reason for, 12574, 13994
>>>Reform Party position, 12576-7, 12583, 13347, 13982, 14215, 14217, 14230, 14233, 14238-9, 14248
>>>Regional development, relationship, 14216-7, 14237-8
>>>Regulatory reform, deregulation, relationship, 13992, 14209-10, 14215, 14217, 14232-3, 14235-7, 14247
>>>Remote areas, service, impact, 12586-7
>>>Share offering, size, 100% of shares, etc., 12574, 12585, 14209, 14216
>>>>Insider trading, avoiding, 14214
>>>>Investment banks, role, 12574, 13997-8, 16815
>>>Share ownership limit, 15%, 12574-5, 12577-9, 12582, 12584, 13980-4, 13998, 14210, 14212-3, 14215-6, 14232-5, 14240-1, 14243, 14246, 14248
>>>>Associates, foreign ownership factor, etc., 12575, 12578, 12581-3, 12585, 12587-9, 14212
>>>>>o.q., 16739
>>>S.O. 31, 8933, 11934, 12282
>>>Statement by Minister (Young), 9006-7
>>>Success, $2.2 billion revenues, o.q., 16613
>>>Symbolic role, relationship, 12582, 12586
>>>Tellier, Paul, President, remarks during election campaign, etc., 14235-6
>>>Track infrastructure, government retaining to provide common rail system along with Canadian Pacific Railway track, 12577, 12580, 12584, 14244-5
>>>Transcona shops, impact, layoffs, relationship, 12581
>>>>o.q., 16247
>>>VIA Rail Canada Inc., impact, 12581
>>>See also Canadian National Railways--Locomotives; Churchill, Man.--Port
>>Profits
>>>$400 million, not paying taxes, 11274
>>>See also Canadian National Railways--Privatization/commercialization;
>>Sarnia, Ont., transfer of 25 positions to Flat Rock, MI, S.O. 31, 5890
>>Senior executives
>>>Interest-free loans, o.q., 8246-7
>>>Salaries, o.q., 8249
>>Strike, March 1995
>>>Employers' publicity, S.O. 31, 10893
>>>See also Railways--Strike/lock-outs, March 1995
>>Tellier, Paul, President
>>>$300,000 interest-free loan, Auditor General's report, 7772, 10968-9, 10998, 11274, 12577
>>>>"Employees working conditions, too generous", comment, S.O. 31, 10782
>>>>o.q., 8118, 8175
>>>Salary and benefits, 11703, 14236
>>>Salary, fixed by Order in Council, o.q., 8175
>>>See also Canadian National Railways--Privatization/commercialization
>>See also CN Exploration; CN Real Estate; Quebec City Bridge; Rail passenger service--Track rental rates; Railways--Branch line abandonment; Saint John, N.B.