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Debates of Dec. 7th, 1998
House of Commons Hansard #167 of the 36th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was offence.
- Motion No. 300
- Criminal Code
- Appointment Of Commissioner Of Official Languages
- Special Import Measures Act
- Insurance Companies Act
- Corruption Of Foreign Public Officials Act
- Professor Mohamed Elmasry
- Inquiries
- Opera Ontario
- Natural Disasters
- Monique Sioui
- National Friendship Centres
- Violence Against Women
- Maria Mach
- The Late Alphonse Piché
- Reform Party
- Agriculture
- Bernard Lord
- Boys And Girls Club Of Ontario
- Gun Control
- Apec Inquiry
- Taxation
- Prebudget Consultations
- Taxation
- Professional Sport
- Agriculture
- Business Development Bank Of Canada
- Steel Industry
- Agriculture
- Poverty
- Agriculture
- 1999 Francophone Summit
- Fisheries
- Canadian Human Rights Act
- Government Expenditures
- Parliament Hill
- Western Economic Diversification
- Fisheries
- Parliament Buildings Renovations
- Employment Insurance
- Privilege
- Points Of Order
- Government Response To Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Citizenship Of Canada Act
- Petitions
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Points Of Order
- Corruption Of Foreign Public Officials Act
- Agriculture
- Corruption Of Foreign Public Officials Act
- Canada Customs And Revenue Agency Act
- Division No. 299
- Division No. 300
- Division No. 301
- Division No. 302
- Division No. 303
- Division No. 304
- National Defence Act
- Division No. 305
- Railway Safety Act
- Division No. 306
- Division No. 307
Insurance Companies Act
Government Orders
1:30 p.m.
The Deputy Speaker
Is that agreed?
Insurance Companies Act
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1:30 p.m.
Some hon. members
Corruption Of Foreign Public Officials Act
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1:30 p.m.
Bob Kilger Stormont—Dundas, ON
Mr. Speaker, there have been discussions with the parties. I believe you would find consent for the following:
That Bill S-21, an act respecting the corruption of foreign officials and the implementation of the convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions and to make related amendments to other acts, be now read the first time and ordered for immediate consideration at the second reading stage.
(Motion agreed to and bill read the first time)
Corruption Of Foreign Public Officials Act
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1:35 p.m.
Alfonso Gagliano for the Minister of Foreign Affairs
moved that Bill S-21, an act respecting the corruption of foreign public officials and the implementation of the convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions and to make related amendments to other acts, be read the second time and referred to a committee.
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1:35 p.m.
Julian Reed Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, I rise with pleasure to speak to a matter of concern to all of us, the subject of Bill S-21, the bribery and corruption of foreign public officials in international business.
This bill when enacted will allow Canada to ratify the convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions. This convention was negotiated by the members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The 29 member OECD, which includes Canada, the United States, most European countries, Japan and South Korea, is the major economic policy forum for the world's most advanced industrialized democracies.
It is an accepted fact that corruption distorts international trade and competition. It impedes economic development. In developing countries in particular corruption distorts public policy. It leads governments to make decisions that are not in the public interest but are in the interest of those who benefit from the bribes.
Corruption also has the effect of lowering the quality of goods and services provided by the private sector in the course of meeting its contracts. If substantial bribes are being offered the money comes either by shortchanging the countries with which one has a contract or by undermining the quality of the goods and services being provided.
Furthermore it has an insidious effect of threatening the rule of law, democracy and human rights. It undermines the development of competent political and democratic institutions. Where they are in the course of development, it blocks that development. Stability and security are essential preconditions for economic growth. Prosperity, sustainable development and employment engender greater security and stability.
The successful promotion of Canadian values abroad can be assisted by increased economic partnerships between Canada and other countries.
The issue of the corruption of foreign public officials is not new and continues to be a major problem affecting international trade and investment. The problem has been the focus of attention within the OECD, the Organization of American States and the Council of Europe.
To implement the OECD convention would enhance Canada's reputation as a world leader in fighting corruption. It would honour the commitments Canada has made at the OECD, at the Denver and Birmingham summits of the G-8 and at the United Nations. And it would continue to ensure if not enhance Canada's standing at the OECD.
Some have questioned whether what we are doing is enough. My response is that this is a dramatic and significant first step in the right direction.
I will highlight the key elements in this legislation. The essence of the convention is the requirement that each state party criminalize the bribery of foreign public officials in international business transaction and take measures to establish the liability of legal persons for the bribery of a foreign public official. This provision appears in section 3 and is the centrepiece of the proposed act. It prohibits the bribery of a foreign public official in the course of business whether directly or indirectly. It calls for significant penalties. The offence would be punishable on indictment and carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
This legislation will use the definition of person found in the Criminal Code that includes Her Majesty and public bodies, bodies corporate, societies, companies and inhabitants of counties, parishes, municipalities or other districts in relation to the acts and things they are capable of doing and owning respectively.
Therefore for the purpose of the offences under this proposed act, potential accused are not limited to natural persons. Corporations also fall within the scope of these offences. The bill describes facilitation payments that would be exempted from the ambit of the offence. It would not be an offence if the advantage were lawful in the foreign official's country or public international organization. Reasonable expenses incurred in good faith and directly related to the promotion, demonstration or explanation of products and services or to the execution or performance of a contract with the foreign state could also be argued as a defence.
The bill would amend section 67.5 of the Income Tax Act to add this new offence to the list of Criminal Code offences referenced in that section in an effort to deny the deductibility of bribes paid to foreign public officials.
The convention requires the parties to provide that the bribe and proceeds of the bribery of a foreign public official be subject to seizure and confiscation. It requires the parties to consider the imposition of additional civil or administrative sanctions. For this reason the bill proposes to create two additional criminal offences, the offence of possession of property or proceeds obtained or derived from the bribery of foreign public officials or from laundering that property or those proceeds, and the offence of laundering the property or proceeds obtained or derived from the bribery of foreign public officials.
The bill incorporates the proceeds of crime provisions of the Criminal Code for use on prosecutions of the new offences. The new offence of bribery of foreign public officials is an enterprise crime offence to permit the search, seizure and detention of these proceeds of crime and is a predicate offence for the offence of laundering of the proceeds of crime. The convention has provisions dealing with mutual legal assistance and extradition with which Canada can comply. If possible under their legal systems, each party must also provide legal assistance in criminal and civil matters.
It is important to note the Canadian business community is behind this initiative. It considers the OECD convention as the most significant achievement to date in the international campaign against bribery and corruption. This convention is seen as an opportunity to create a level playing field on which Canadian companies can compete on the basis of quality, price and service. This was said loudly and clearly by members of Transparency International when they appeared before the Senate last week.
When he appeared before the Senate, the Minister of Foreign Affairs quoted Donald Johnston, a former Canadian Minister of Justice and current Secretary General of the OECD, who said in a recent article that "Integrity in commercial transactions is essential in making the global market work and to ensure that the public supports it. A logical consequence of globalization is that honesty has to be enforced at the global, not just national, level".
With the passage of this legislation Canada has the opportunity to be the fifth country to ratify the OECD convention and to bring it into force, thus ushering in a new era of international accountability. I ask all hon. members to consider that the war on corruption is well underway. There is now no looking back.
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1:45 p.m.
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to speak to this bill today.
Before I start talking about the corruption bill, I would like to make a couple of points before the House. The first one is that this bill came into our hands late on Friday and depending on what happened in the Senate determined whether it was actually going to show up today or not.
This is an important bill to businesses and to the international community and, as usual, we are ramming it through the last week of parliament. There has been very little planning on this bill. It was signed in December of 1997. We have waited or stalled or put it off and now all of a sudden this bill is so vitally important that we have it before us today.
This is government management. This is the way it handles things. This is the way it takes care of business. Of course we have seen a lot of this. We have seen it in the case of the Somalia report. Murders were committed. There was a cover-up. A commission was set up. It held hearings for months, which extended into years, and finally the cabinet waffled it away and suspended any action on it. A few little guys took the fall and then we moved on.
Right now there is the APEC inquiry. It is the same sort of thing, mismanagement of the issues. Among the APEC protesters was a very well known teacher from my community who is a student at UBC. He has told me all about what happened. He was standing on the front line, around the pepper spray.
Again we have the government's mishandling of this sort of situation, stalled investigations and stalled handling. I point this out because this is how the government manages things, or mismanages things. It waits until it has a crisis. Someone in the OECD said this thing has to be signed and it should have been done yesterday. All of a sudden, here it is in the House and we are expected to ram the thing through with little time to look at it.
The second part of this motion, to which I object strenuously, is the fact that it is coming straight from the unelected, unaccountable Senate. We have a body proposing that this legislation is good for Canadians and good for our businesses. However, it is coming out of a place that has absolutely no credibility, a place that totally lacks legitimacy.
Obviously there are solutions. For instance, Alberta has recently held Senate elections. Mr. Brown receive 331,000 votes. Mr. Morton received more than 261,000 votes. And yet this government, in its wisdom, will not even acknowledge that this happened.
The government is proposing a bill on corruption and, literally, on credibility when it has made so many inappropriate actions and has such a lack of ability to deal with any kind of an issue.
Our concerns are obvious. We would like to have the opportunity to call witnesses. We would like to have the opportunity to look at the various problems and the good points of this bill. We would like to have the opportunity to become informed on this issue. However, it was handed to us on Friday afternoon and we were told that on Monday we were going to deal with it and ram it through the House.
The OECD is made of up of a group of 29 of the most industrialized countries. It is one of the most important think tanks in the free world. Obviously combating bribery in business transactions and what that would do for the international trade scene is something that all of us care about. However, we have desperately handicapped ourselves because of the lack of management.
While the whole bill is very credible, and while we support the principle of it, we have to raise some very great concerns. Above everything, when we look at this we see how naive the government has been in dealing with this.
I cannot help but think of our most recent look at the nuclear situation in our foreign affairs committee. Would it not be great if we had no nuclear weapons? Obviously it would be great to not have nuclear weapons. But what is the reality of the situation? The government seems to have a great deal of problem dealing with reality. It likes to live in a glass house. It likes to think that everything is going along so nicely, so friendly and so well organized. What is the real situation?
The OECD says, above other things, that Canada has a big problem. Our dollar is too low. Our debt is much too high. We have a $600 billion debt which is dragging us down every time we try to get ahead. Will that ever be dealt with?
Corruption Of Foreign Public Officials Act
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1:50 p.m.
An hon. member
There is $50 billion in interest.
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1:50 p.m.
Bob Mills Red Deer, AB
There is close to $50 billion in interest. Think of what we could do with $50 billion if we had it. Look at the $12 billion spent on health care by the federal government. Look at the $14 billion spent on education. Look at the $22 billion spent on pensions. Close to $50 billion is spent on interest payments. That is the kind of mismanagement that the OECD talks about.
It also talks about the level of taxes in this country. It talks about how we have some of the highest corporate and personal tax rates of the 29 OECD countries. That also is mismanagement by the government not responding to what the OECD has been telling it for so many years.
When we talk about being naive we also look at things like getting our UN seat. Are we going to say that we did not try to influence some of the foreign embassies in getting that seat? Are we going to deny that that is part of an Olympic bid? Are we going to say that we are so perfect that we will never, ever try to coerce someone into supporting us in a position? That is not true. That is not how the real world works. That is not how this government operates.
While it would like to stand in this place and talk about how wonderful it is, what a great manager it is and how good a job it does, when we look at it we do not have to go very far below the surface to see the level of mismanagement and how it handles the way the House operates. The whole process of presenting this bill is a perfect example of that sort of mismanagement.
We can talk about corruption in many different ways and I will try to explore some of them. Obviously, we oppose corruption. We are, after all, one of the countries in the world that has a great role to play in setting an example.
We can see how corruption can undermine the very workings of various governments. It can destroy developing democracies. It can literally cause countries in transition to go backward. We can talk about countries such as Sudan and others which are in transition and have moved back and forth.
Corruption distorts public confidence in the whole process. I would even say that public confidence has been held up to question because of the mismanagement of this government. It leads to the misallocation of valuable resources.
When there is corruption, there are resources going off to the wrong place to do the wrong thing, ultimately to the detriment of the people of that country.
Again, I would come back to Canada and look at the allocation of resources. I would ask, are these being allocated according to what is best for the people of Canada?
It hurts the private sector. It distorts the operation of the markets. It deprives ordinary citizens of receiving the benefits of the flow of wealth. Whenever there is corruption within the system that obviously can happen. Above all else, it hurts the poor people of the world. From this government's standpoint, we often hear about their concerns and about human rights abuses around the world. We see very limited action in that regard, but we certainly hear the words being spoken from the other side.
We need transparency in international reporting and in international business deals. We could look at the way NGOs operate and go a long way in increasing our transparency. We could also look at CIDA.
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1:55 p.m.
The Speaker
The hon. member has 28 minutes remaining. I know he is just getting into the body of his speech, however, he will have the floor after question period.
It being almost 2 p.m. we will proceed to Statements by Members.
Professor Mohamed Elmasry
Statements By Members
December 7th, 1998 / 1:55 p.m.
Andrew Telegdi Kitchener—Waterloo, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Professor Mohamed Elmasry of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo who was inducted as a fellow in the prestigious Royal Society of Canada in Ottawa on November 20, 1998.
Professor Elmasry was invited to join this elite group due to his invention, development and his help in the industry introduction of several new technologies influencing the growth of microelectronics in Canada and abroad.
His research has resulted in five distinct generations of integrated circuit designs, and his revolutionary work on low-energy logic circuits some 20 years ago is now finding wide application in portable telecommunications.
Professor Elmasry has done pioneering work in artificial neural network chip design, self-learning chips, speech recognition systems, vocoders and echo cancellation. He holds nine patents and is the author or co-author of 12 books and more than 250 scientific publications.
I congratulate Professor Elmasry on his new fellowship and wish him well in the future.
Statements By Members
1:55 p.m.
Jake Hoeppner Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, the resignation of Gerald Morin puts into question every previous ruling by the RCMP Public Complaints Commission. On October 7, 1996, I filed a complaint with the commission concerning RCMP negligence in dealing with farmers' complaints against the Canadian Wheat Board. The response confirmed, without a doubt, the warning that my effort on behalf of farmers would be torpedoed.
The inaction of two former Liberal solicitor generals on these complaints plus the government's relentless prosecution of farmers even after it lost the Sawatzky case and appeal, proves something is badly wrong in our justice system.
The government's willingness to jeopardize all Canadian exports to the U.S. to avoid an independent audit of the wheat board demands an immediate judicial inquiry.
Pepper sprayed students, imprisoned farmers and confiscated property. What next?
Opera Ontario
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Beth Phinney Hamilton Mountain, ON
Mr. Speaker, I draw the attention of the House to the Hamilton based Opera Ontario, Canada's fourth largest opera company. In recognition of the significance of its achievements, Opera Ontario has been awarded for the second time in three years one of the six $25,000 lieutenant governor's awards.
I have had the supreme pleasure to see a number of the company's productions and I can without hesitation attest to the quality of its work.
The success and recognition given to such organizations as Opera Ontario show that there is a living, breathing arts community in Hamilton that is as sophisticated and dedicated to quality as any other in Canada.
I say congratulations to Hamilton's Opera Ontario. I look forward to seeing the company build on the success it has already achieved. I am convinced that it will continue to be a vibrant and growing contribution to life in Hamilton and surrounding communities in southwestern Ontario.
Natural Disasters
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Sarkis Assadourian Brampton Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, Armenians around the world will take time today to recognize the 10th anniversary of the tragic earthquake on December 7, 1988. On that sorrowful day over 25,000 lives were lost and hundreds of thousands of Armenians were left homeless and injured.
This year Armenians will reflect on the crippling effect of nature's fury and share with the victims of Hurricane Mitch and natural disasters everywhere the common bonds of human suffering, human courage and human resolve to overcome and persevere.
I urge my fellow members of parliament to join Canadian Armenians in mourning the victims of the 1988 earthquake and to continue the effort to provide relief to the victims of natural disasters everywhere.
Monique Sioui
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Guy St-Julien Abitibi, QC
Mr. Speaker, "Pay equity is very much in the news these days. Monique fought for equity, plain and simple"
Those were the words of Richard Kistabish, the husband of the late Monique Sioui, who was awarded for the first time the rights and freedoms award for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Wanaki, the couple's daughter, accepted the award on behalf of her mother, who died last year from an illness.
At the award ceremony, we were reminded that she was the president of the Quebec native women's association in the mid-1970s. It was also pointed out that "Monique Sioui addressed acutely sensitive issues such as native children being adopted by non-natives and discrimination against native women under the Indian Act".
According to Richard Kistabish, Monique Sioui got involved to bring about some changes: "She worked very hard at changing the status of women. She also worked with neglected children. She fought against discrimination by getting involved in the community. She wanted to act as a bridge between the white and native cultures."
It is an honour for us all to say thank you to Monique Sioui.
National Friendship Centres
Statements By Members
2 p.m.
Darrel Stinson Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
Mr. Speaker, the first nations friendship centre at Vernon in my riding will host an open house on December 10, national friendship centre day.
Human Resources Development Canada has not included the friendship centre movement in its new aboriginal human resource strategy although half of Canada's aboriginals now live in cities. This leaves friendship centres without any way to address urban aboriginal employment and training. I toured the Vernon centre where people can get services like training referrals and help in preparing resumes.
I was impressed by the huge caseload these folks handle. For example, family support and crisis intervention averages 47 cases per month. Nationwide friendship centres also help develop feasibility studies and business plans to promote long term employment in such diverse ventures as catering and day care.
However the aboriginal urban initiative which the friendship centres run is scheduled to lose its funding on March 31. I urge my colleagues to support the national friendship centre movement.


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LAURIUM – Henry Melvin Nichols, a resident of Laurium, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at his home.
Henry was born in Lansing, a son of Patricia and the late Melvin Nichols. He was a graduate of Orange High School in Redlands, Calif., with the class of 1984.
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University or Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College Department: Centre for Language and Communication Studies Rank of Job: Postgraduate Teaching Studentship Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics, Speech technology, Irish Required Language(s): Gaelic, Irish (Code = GLI) & Celtic Description: Context For the past ten years, the Centre for Language and Communication Studies has been running extracurricular evening language modules for several languages, based on the concept of learner autonomy and incorporating the centre's expertise in the use of new technologies in language teaching. Recently, the introduction of a Broad Curriculum policy in Trinity College Dublin means that more and more students can study extracurricular courses either as a replacement for courses within their main subject area, or receive a bonus percentage which is added to their end-of-year mark. From the coming academic year on, we will introduce Irish for non-beginners courses. Learners in these courses will have the equivalent of an Irish Leaving Certificate standard of Irish. Job description The applicant will: - teach three extracurricular evening language courses a week in Irish for non-beginners (2 hours each) - explore new approaches to Irish language teaching, particularly those involving new technologies. - register for a PhD degree with the Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, in the area of pedagogical applications of technology to the teaching of Irish, focussing on applications in speech technology which harness ongoing research at CLCS. Person specification The person appointed should have a good undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification. He/she should have a native or near-native-speaker command of Irish. It is essential that the applicant has a strong interest in exploring and implementing new approaches to Irish language teaching and the use of new technologies in this context. The person appointed will enjoy working as part of a team and must have good communication skills with both students and colleagues in an international environment. He/she is expected to be motivated and to develop a capacity for independent working. The person appointed will receive appropriate support, both in teaching and research, by the CLCS as well as the Departments of Irish and Education. Starting date The person appointed will start work on 1 September and continue for three years. A cover letter and CV with the names and contact details of three referees should be sent to Dr Ailbhe N� Chasaide CLCS, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland e-mail: anichsidtcd.ie Address for Applications: Attn: Dr Ailbhe N� Chasaide CLCS, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Dublin 2 Ireland Position is open until filled. Contact Information: Dr Ailbhe N� Chasaide. Email: anichsidtcd.ie Tel: +353-1-608-1249 Fax: +353-1-608-2941 Website: http://www.tcd.ie/CLCS/Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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The movement of freight is critical to the economy and the livelihood of Americans who rely on freight transportation for food, clothing, and other essential commodities. Freight shipments move predominantly over vast networks of highways, railroads, and waterways and often are transported by more than one mode before reaching their final destination. System performance is essential for the timely transportation of freight from its sources and manufacturers to the customer. Congress authorized around $43 billion in fiscal year 2010 for Department of Transportation programs that can benefit surface freight transportation.[1] However, the Department of Transportation is just one of many stakeholders that are involved in freight movementall with complex and varied roles, but none are responsible for the entire system. Federal funds in the form of grants, loans, and tax incentives are provided to state and local governments and the private sector, all of whom play major roles in ensuring freight mobility. Specifically, public sector transportation agencies at the federal, state, and local levels have a significant role in developing and managing some modes of the freight transportation systemsuch as highways and waterwayswhile private sector entitiessuch as railroadsfinance and manage their own infrastructure. According to the Department of Transportation, in 2007, the surface freight transportation system, which crosses multiple surface modes, connected an estimated 8 million businesses and 116 million households moving $12 trillion in goods. Federal leadership can help assure that projects that facilitate movement of freight, which can be high-cost and cross jurisdictional lines, are undertaken.
While freight transportation has some issues that are similar to the surface transportation issues that GAO identified in its first annual report to Congress on federal programs with duplicative goals or activities,[2] inefficiencies affecting freight transportation such as poor roads and the lack of intermodal connections can impact the nations economy. Freight volumes are closely linked to the gross domestic productincreases in freight shipments closely coincide with economic growth. However, freight vehicles often compete with non-freight vehicles, such as on the U.S. highway system, which consists of mixed-use facilities where passenger and freight vehicles operate in the same stream of traffic on the same facilities. Systems that cannot adequately accommodate both freight and non-freight vehicles can become congested, leading to delays in freight movements, lost revenues, and increased carbon emissionsall of which can increase transportation costs and, consequently, the price of goods, hurting businesses that rely on freight transportation infrastructure.
[1]An unknown amount of the funding went to projects that benefit freight. These programs have broad eligibility and may be used for a variety of types of projects that benefit freight to greater or lesser degrees.
[2]GAO, Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue, GAO-11-318SP (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 1, 2011).
As GAO previously reported, federal goals in surface transportation are numerous and roles are unclear, and the federal government does not maximize opportunities to promote the efficient movement of freight, despite a clear federal interest, the billions of dollars provided, and the importance of freight transportation to the national economy. There is currently no separate federal freight transportation program, only a loose collection of many freight-related programs that are embedded in a larger surface transportation program aimed at supporting both passenger and freight mobility. This fragmented structure makes it difficult to determine the types of freight projects that are funded and their impact on overall freight mobility. As GAO reported in January 2008, the need for the federal government to reassess its role and strategy in funding, selecting, and evaluating transportation investments, including those for freight transportation.
Department of Transportation administrations that have a role in freight transportation include the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Maritime Administration (see table below). There also is an Office of Freight Management and Operations within the Federal Highway Administration that administers programs, develops policies, and undertakes research that promotes freight movement across the nation and its borders. However, the office does not coordinate federal actions related to freight mobility, specifically. In addition, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Department of Defense is responsible for planning, constructing, operating, and maintaining the nations waterways. Department of Transportation administrations also coordinate freight issues with other federal agencies including the Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, and Environmental Protection Agency. The various federal agencies and modal administrations play key roles in planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and regulating freight transportation. GAO could not determine the total amount spent on freight transportation projects because it is not separately tracked from other transportation investments. According to Federal Highway Administration officials, isolating freight transportation expenditures is not possible at this time because the vast majority of the nations highway system is used by both passenger and freight vehicles, and most highway projects benefit both.
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Source: GAO analysis of Department of Transportation information.
These programs structures for funding freight transportation projects include
These programs are administered by different agencies and modal administrations with different missions, oversight, and funding requirements; do not necessarily coordinate with each other; and at times may overlap. As a result, funds have not always been allocated based on need or condition of the infrastructure carrying freight. For instance, highway funds are distributed to states through formulas that are not linked to performance or need. Examples of programs that may overlap include loan programs such as the Federal Railroad Administrations Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program and the Federal Highway Administrations Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act Program. Both may be used for freight rail facilities and infrastructure. Additionally, certain state and local governments issue tax-exempt bonds for financing infrastructure projects.
Although the current federal structure of loans, tax credits, and grants (including formula grants and congressionally directed funds) is beneficial, opportunities may exist to return greater national public and private benefits. Furthermore, intermodal considerations may not be evaluated in considering beneficial freight solutions for a given corridor, which may result in funding projects across multiple modes without regard for how each works toward meeting a common goal. Current law generally ties transportation funding to a single mode, limiting the ability of state and local transportation planning agencies to use federal funds for intermodal projects. Further, Department of Transportation administrations and state and local transportation agencies are organized by modereflecting the structure of funding programsresulting in an organizational structure that the departments own assessments acknowledge can impede intermodal coordination. In addition, collaboration between the public and private sectors can also be challenging; for example, private-sector interests in airport, rail, and freight (such as freight shippers and carriers) have historically not participated in the regional planning process.
The federal governments fragmented approach also has resulted in a situation where the users of each freight mode are not equally bearing the costs those modes impose on society. When looking at the three categories of social costs borne by freight transportation servicesprivate costs (labor, equipment, and fuel), public costs (paid out of government budgets and can be funded through taxes and fees), and external costs (congestion, accidents, health, and environmental impacts), GAO reported in January 2011 that freight trucking costs that were not passed on to consumers of that service were at least 6 times greater than rail costs, and at least 9 times greater than waterways costs. Therefore, public and private investment choices may be distorted, and there may be misallocation of scarce government resources to one mode over another.
Constrained freight mobility could have negative economic, environmental, and health implications. Because of the growth in freight and passenger demand, there has been an increase in truck and rail congestion that is particularly pronounced in major urban areas that contain important freight hubs such as ports, airports, border crossings, and rail yards. Congestion results in increased delays, carbon emissions, and fuel and labor costs, among other things.
Since the expiration of the last surface transportation authorization in 2009, Congress has funded transportation programs through a series of temporary extensions; the most recent will expire on March 31, 2012. Comprehensive legislative action has not been taken to fundamentally reexamine the nations surface transportation policies; however, several legislative committees have approved bills to reauthorize and reform surface transportation programs. For example, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a bill on November 9, 2011 reauthorizing the highway portion of the surface transportation program.[1] This bill contains measures to increase accountability for results by entities receiving federal funds and consolidate federal programs. In addition, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a bill on February 2, 2012 that includes consolidating or eliminating a number of programs.[2] When we completed our work for this report, floor action was pending in the Senate. GAO is evaluating the extent to which ongoing legislative actions better define federal roles and goals, incorporate accountability for results, emphasize return on federal investment, and ensure fiscal sustainability.
Although there is a clear federal interest in freight transportation, there is no strategy or clearly defined federal role in freight transportation or mechanism to implement the strategy, complete with defined national and regional transportation priorities, to achieve the highest return on federal investments. As noted, federal funding for freight-related infrastructure is based on discrete programs objectives, not on a national freight policy, and it is currently not possible to identify program costs associated with only freight. Further, the Department of Transportation does not have a national freight strategy to guide its different operating administrations freight programs. In addition, oversight and funding requirements by the different modal administrations can make it difficult for planners to develop and implement intermodal freight projects which could result in more efficient freight movement.
In recent years, GAO has recommended or proposed for congressional consideration the following actions. The Department of Transportation has agreed to consider the following recommendations, but they have yet to be implemented, in large part because the authorization for surface transportation programs expired in 2009, and existing programs subsequently have been funded through temporary extensions.
GAO recommended in June 2007 that the Secretary of Transportation
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GAO proposed in February 2009 that Congress, in considering the reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs,
Congressional reauthorization of transportation programs presents an opportunity to address GAO recommendations and matters for congressional consideration that have not been implemented. By promoting and coordinating solutions across jurisdictional lines, the federal government could increase the effectiveness of localities, states, and regional governments and planning organizations in overcoming freight-related challenges.
The information contained in this analysis is based on findings from the products listed in the related GAO products section. See pages 341-342 of the PDF version of this report (appendix III) for a list of the programs GAO identified that may have similar or overlapping objectives, provide similar services or be fragmented across government missions. Overlap and fragmentation may not necessarily lead to actual duplication, and some degree of overlap and duplication may be justified.
GAO provided a draft of this report section to the Department of Transportation for review and comment. The Department of Transportation provided technical comments, which were incorporated as appropriate. Department officials informed GAO that the department is working with Congress to address prior GAO recommendations as part of efforts to reauthorize the federal surface transportation programs.
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If sports is indeed like life, then the role of faith in that endeavor can be every bit as prickly a question. The GetReligion blog posted a somewhat lengthy examination of the praying-before-games situation. And please, no quotes from the movie "Bull Durham" about "the church of baseball."
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|NYPA Continues Free "Friday Matinees" in Sept. with Classic and Contemporary Films
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MASSENA— The New York Power Authority (NYPA) will continue its free "Friday Matinees" in September with showings of four classic and contemporary movies at the admission-free Frank S. McCullough, Jr. Hawkins Point Visitors Center and Boat Launch at the St. Lawrence- Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project. NYPA will show a selection of movies on Fridays at 1:30 p.m. in the visitors center auditorium. Free popcorn will be available for the movie showings. The September schedule is: Sept. 7: "Dial M for Murder," (1954). An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. Sept. 14: "The Adjustment Bureau," (2011). The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping them apart. Sept. 21: "The Lucky One," (2012). A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war. Sept. 28: "The Stars Fell on Henrietta," (1995). An elderly, down-on-his-luck, man uses unconventional methods to find oil in the town of Henrietta. Besides enjoying free movies, visitors can sample the array of hands-on exhibits at the Hawkins Point facility, which presents information on such subjects as water power and the operations of NYPA's St. Lawrence project. Visitors are sure to enjoy the panoramic views of the power dam. The Visitors Center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For further information, please call the visitors center at (315) 764-0226 ext. 302 or visit NYPA on the Web at www.nypa.gov.
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■The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives.■It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■Approximately 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state.■For more information, www.nypa.gov
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Jeffrey Brooks' Black School White School: Racism and Educational (Mis) Leadership describes an integrated high school that's hideously dysfunctional, writes Stuart Buck in a TCR Record review.
Black and white school leaders don't meet to discuss problems across racial lines, both sides tell Brooks. It would be consorting with "the enemy."
Students don't want to do schoolwork. The overstaffed administration does little work either.
The (health education magnet leader) resigned after a mere three months for lack of support. She "was never replaced, and, in fact, her students roamed the halls during her assigned instructional hours."
. . . Administrators declined to hand out National Merit Awards to two students at an assembly, because they had neglected to learn how to pronounce the students' names (one was Kenyan, the other Japanese)
Academic excellence isn't valued: The black principal, whose only teaching experience is in P.E., tells a black teacher to quit the rigorous International Baccalaureate program, which has equal numbers of white and black students, because she's not "keeping it real."
Worse, the principal tries to meet accountability targets by forcing the worst students to drop out before the head count for the state exam.
"This reveals the paradox of school-level accountability," writes Buck. "Just where the threat of accountability is most needed" — when school leaders are incompetent or dishonest — " it is the most hopeless."


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Topic: Content Management System
Hi. could anyone help me on how to build a content management system? what would be the requirements and 3rd party software to use.
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Hi. could anyone help me on how to build a content management system? what would be the requirements and 3rd party software to use.
This doesn't really belong in the Tutorials section, and it'll probably be moved/deleted....
That being said - a CMS isn't that much different from creating the rest of a rails application, if you can get that far you can certianly extend what you have done towards creating a CMS.
If I were you I would take a look at existing CMS's and see how they get things done and what features you would want.
Are a few that come to mind (although granted all of them are not true/complete CMSs, they done have CMS or CMS like components).
thanks for the reply. sorry i was just new in ruby and rails. i'm a vb programmer. just new to this program.
I have built a simple CMS plugin for Ruby on Rails. It is has very good options to use in the editor while still being very simple to use for the developer and the user.
Check out the demo at http://www.pullmonkey.com/projects/simple_cms/
There is a tutorial on installing the plugin there as well.
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I hope everyone is having a great Friday version of TeaDay!!!
We are glad you stopped by TeaDay, stay a while, see what other TeaChatters are sipping, share with all of us what is in your cup. Stop by as often as you can and share as many times as you want.
All are welcome to participate in TeaDay!!! So, if you are new to tea or TeaChat, don't let that stop you from sharing with us.
Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic is all about water...the water we use to brew our prescious tea leaves. Proinsias suggested today's question...thanx Proinsias!!!
So, in Proinsias' words...let's talk water:
"I was just curious as to what water most folks use most of the time; tap, filtered tap(what filter), bottled(what kind), bamboo charcoal, reverse osmosis, or some lucky so and so who lives at the base of mountain stream etc...(added own well)"


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Why King Jigme III of Bhutan is so important
Bhutan is a small Country in the Himilayan Mountains, which is shared with Nepal and Tibet. The People in Bhutan are very strong, having survived numerous invasion attempts from China particularly under the Monghols, and Tibet. Whats more important is, that these attacks were even failiures when the Country itself was going through Civil War during its formation in the 1600s The country seems to have held unsteady piece under Fuedalism since then for two centuries, strong enough to resolve a successful invasion of parts of North India, until the North Indian Kingdoms appealed for help from England which had most of India within its Empire. Bhutan retreated following British intervention
in the 1800s, finally one of the Fuedal masters was strong enough to claim a throne. After defeating the rival barons he declared himself an absolute Monarch. They had excellent connections with England following the Empire Recognition of Soverignty for the State, and with the support of the Monastic Foundations of Bhudist orientations, the King founded his Dynasty.
When India gained Independance for England, Bhutan decided to set up a National Assembly to show willing on the side of Democratic Progress. by the Early 1980s however Bhutan despite being a member of the United Nations had a juvinile on the Throne and many people fled the country fearing of religious persecution
King Jigme Wangchuck III, the Fourth King of Bhutan was greatly effected by the US War on Terror. He himself was a hardline Bhudhist, who may or may not have been responsible for inflicting terror into the hearts of the Bhudists who fled the country on his asscension as a Teenager. Twenty years on he decided to Clense his Countries Jungles of Terrorism by sending in his Army to remove suspected terrorists. He then bought in sweeping Political reforms. For Example, he allowed Televisions and Internet Access which had not been permitted in Law due to hardline Bhudism, He also allowed Democratic Ellections to the National Assembly, creating methods by which they could remove the Monarch by a vote of No Confidence, but ensured a Constiutional Democrasy. All between 2003 and 2005
In 2006 He decided it was best having preserved all that, to abdicate. I personally really believe that he was fearful that because of the religious exhiles when he first came to power, he thought it highly possible that the United States of America would consider him unfit to be a King, and that to remain in power despite sweeping changes, may not be enough to make sure that his country wasnt added to the axis of evil list. I dont think the United States of America ever gave Bhutan a single passing thought, but I think that King Jigame had his conscience pricked by what was going on in Afghanistan and Iraq, and had the courage to change his country, and then the sense to resign.
In 2008, after the settling in period of the reforms, his son, King Jigme IV was pronounced King...he has an extremely beautiful Queen
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That was interesting, Dave, but...
King Jigme Wangchuck III? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
sorry, I couldn't help it, with a name like that he's a natural for adult films
Rejoice ever more. 1 Thessalonians 5:16
Its the Wangchuck Dynasty, where all five but the founder have had the same name Jigme Wangchuck. The other guy was...Something else Wangchuck
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Willing progress: The literary Lamarckism of Olive Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler YeatsTracy, Hannah R. (University of Oregon, December , 2009)[more][less]Tracy, Hannah R. 2010-08-06T01:23:49Z 2010-08-06T01:23:49Z 2009-12 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10596 ix, 288 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. While the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on Victorian and modernist literature has been well-documented, very little critical attention has been paid to the influence of Lamarckian evolutionary theory on literary portrayals of human progress during this same period. Lamarck's theory of inherited acquired characteristics provided an attractive alternative to the mechanism and materialism of Darwin's theory of natural selection for many writers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, particularly those who refused to relinquish the role of the individual will in the evolutionary process. Lamarckian rhetoric permeated an ideologically diverse range of discourses related to progress, including reproduction, degeneration, race, class, eugenics, education, and even art. By analyzing the literary texts of Olive Schreiner, G.B. Shaw, and W.B. Yeats alongside their polemical writing, I demonstrate how Lamarckism inflected these writers' perceptions of the mechanism of human evolution and their ideas about human progress, and I argue that their work helped to sustain Lamarck's cultural influence beyond his scientific relevance. In the dissertation's introduction, I place the work of these three writers in the context of the Neo-Darwinian and Neo-Lamarckian evolutionary debates in order to establish the scientific credibility and cultural attractiveness of Lamarckism during this period. Chapter II argues that Schreiner creates her own evolutionary theory that rejects the cold, competitive materialism inherent in Darwinism and builds upon Lamarck's mechanism, modifying Lamarckism to include a uniquely feminist emphasis on the importance of community, motherhood, and self-sacrifice for the betterment of the human race. In Chapter III, I demonstrate that Shaw's "metabiological" religion of Creative Evolution, as portrayed in Man and Superman and Back to Methuselah , is not simply Bergsonian vitalism repackaged as a Neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory but, rather, a uniquely Shavian theory of human progress that combines religious, philosophical, and political elements and is thoroughly steeped in contemporary evolutionary science. Finally, Chapter IV examines the interplay between Yeats's aesthetics and his anxieties about class in both his poetry and his 1939 essay collection On the Boiler to show how Lamarckian modes of thought inflected his understanding of degeneration and reproduction and eventually led him to embrace eugenics. Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English; Mark Quigley, Member, English; Paul Farber, Member, Not from U of O; Richard Stein, Member, English; John McCole, Outside Member, History en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2009; Evolution Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829 Eugenics Ireland Modernism Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 Shaw, George Bernard Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Yeats, William Butler Evolution in literature Willing progress: The literary Lamarckism of Olive Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats Literary Lamarckism of Olive Schreiner, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats Thesis
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