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Information Highway Advisory Council see Information highway--"Competiveness and Culture"

Information processing see Financial institutions

Information sharing see Terrorism--International information sharing; Young offenders

Information technologies

    >>Government expenditures, $300 million overspending, Auditor General's report, o.q., 6749
    >>See also Justice system--Federal-provincial co-operation; Law Commission of Canada

Informission Group see Computers/computer systems--Software conversion

Infrastructure

    >>Importance, government role, 9135
    >>Privatization, 328
    >>>Reform Party position, 6875
    >>See also Canadian International Development Agency; Ports--Vancouver, B.C.; Research and development--Facilities; Transportation

Infrastructure program

    >>$6 billion expenditure, job creation failure, 293, 302, 418-9, 1478, 2989, 3019-20, 5865, 6289, 8969, 9558, 9561, 9639, 10057
    >>>$5 billion employment insurance account surplus, relationship, 7770
    >>Annapolis Valley--Hants constituency, 7401-2
    >>Audits, establishing, 9659
    >>British Columbia funds, provincial New Democratic Party constituencies dominating, 9754
    >>Continuation/new program, 3020, 4400-2, 6782-3, 8966-7, 8969-70
    >>>1997 extension, $600 million, $425 million new money, Budget 1997 measure, 8292, 8339, 9135, 9564, 10046
    >>>>S.O. 31, 8584
    >>>Alberta agreement, 7915
    >>>>S.O. 31, 7881-2
    >>>Calculation of the additional investment based on a minimum threshold, Public Accounts Standing Committee report, 9659
    >>>Funds, Quebec, provincial government controlling, o.q., 4302
    >>>Ontario agreement, 9944
    >>>>o.q., 9939
    >>>>S.O. 31, 9927
    >>>o.q., 5369, 6371, 6748, 7788-9
    >>>Petition, 7278, 8201
    >>>Quebec, negotiations, o.q., 8903-4, 9606
    >>>S.O. 31, 6363, 9928
    >>>Universities, position, o.q., 5247
    >>Federal-municipal revenue sharing agreement, replacing, 9639
    >>Funds, diverting to national debt, 10057
    >>Patronage factor, Reform Party Members opposing projects, 8073-4
    >>Projects
    >>>$2.5 million performing arts centre, Woodstock, Ont., S.O. 31, 1417
    >>>Canada-Quebec agreement, time frame, application deadlines, extending, o.q., 3129
    >>>Golf courses, canoe museum, questionable eligibility, Auditor General's report, S.O. 31, 6786
    >>>Laval space camp (Cosmodome), funding
    >>>>o.q., 2565
    >>>>S.O. 31, 4855, 8828
    >>>Western Beaches tunnel and boardwalk, Toronto, Ont., 9629
    >>Purpose, 7252
    >>Quebec share of funds, 8110
    >>>Increase, $111 million, election timing factor, 9639
    >>Reform Party position, o.q., 10232
    >>Rural Canada
    >>>Benefits, 335
    >>>Projects, Dauphin--Swan River constituency, etc., 287
    >>>S.O. 31, 7829
    >>Saskatchewan projects, 8068-9
    >>Transportation funding, $425 million, 8110
    >>See also Highways and roads--National network--Saskatchewan; Job creation; National debt; Pearson International Airport; Trade centres--Toronto, Ont.; Universities/colleges--Ryerson Polytechnic University

Inheritance tax see Estate/inheritance tax

Inhumanity see Armenia--Genocide of 1915

Inkster, Norman

    >>Order of Canada, recipient, S.O. 31, 2886-7

Inmates see Penitentiaries

Innu

    >>Davis Inlet, Nfld., conditions, relocation, $80 million government assistance, etc., o.q., 185, 768, 6608

Inquiries see Canadian Armed Forces--Quebec, City, Que, Citadel; Canadian Security Intelligence Service--Soviet Union mole; Public inquiries

Inquiries Canada

    >>Establishment, $4 million budget, 5818

Institut de developpement Nord-Sud

    >>Rwanda program, 6348

Institut de recherche sur l'hydrogène see Energy--Hydrogen as source

Institut des communications graphiques du Québec see Publishing industry

Institut Maurice-Lamontagne see Fisheries--Research

Insulin see Health--Diabetes

Insurance see Financial institutions--Deposit insurance; Nuclear Liability Act (amdt.--insurance coverage)(Bill C-289)

Insurance Brokers Association of Canada see Financial institutions--Financial planning sector

Insurance companies see Financial institutions--Four pillars--Regulation; Insurance industry

Insurance Companies Act see Financial Institutions Laws Amendment Act (Bill C-15); Financial Institutions Laws Amendment Act (Bill C-82)

Insurance Companies Act (amdt.)(Bill C-438)--Loubier

    >>First reading, 10143
    >>See also Insurance industry--Federally-regulated companies

Insurance Companies Act (amdt.--definition of infant)(Bill C-430)--Harb

Insurance industry

    >>Banks, involvement, selling, restrictions, maintaining, Budget 1996 statement, 379, 411, 1442, 9094, 9099, 9733
    >>>o.q., 970-1
    >>>S.O. 31, 582, 816
    >>Federally-regulated companies, selling policies to provincially-regulated companies, prohibition, provincial jurisdiction, foreign competition, consumer protection, factors, Quebec, etc., 9094-5, 9105-7, 10143, 9571-3, 9733-7
    >>>Insurance companies donations to LIberal Party, relationship, 9736-7
    >>>North American Free Trade Agreement, World Trade Organization, relationship, 9094, 9732
    >>>o.q., 9550-1
    >>>See also Insurance Companies Act (amdt.)(Bill C-438)
    >>Mutual insurance companies, demutualization regime, participatory shares, widely-held shares, etc., 9097, 9103, 9116, 9732-3
    >>>See also Financial Institutions Laws Amendment Act (Bill C-82)
    >>Policy holders' rights, enhancing, 9732

Intellectual-based economy see Economy

Intellectual property see Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Intelligence Assessment Secretariat see Privy Council Office

Inter Canadian (formerly Quebec Air)

Inter-Parliamentary Delegations

    >>Latin America, increasing, strengthening, 6230
    >>Travel/junkets, Bloc Québécois/Reform Party participation, positions, 662-3

Inter-Parliamentary Delegations, reports

    >>Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum
    >>>Annual meeting, fifth, Vancouver, B.C., Jan. 7-10/97, 8315
    >>>Executive committee, Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 6-8/96, 4899
    >>Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association
    >>>Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
    >>>>Stockholm, Sweden, July 5-9/96, 4899
    >>>>Vienna, Austria, Jan. 10-11/96, 1715
    >>>>Vienna, Austria, Jan. 16-17/97, 8144
    >>>Russian Federation visit, Dec. 13-19/95, 1715
    >>Canada-France Inter-Parliamentary Association
    >>>Ottawa, Ont., Vancouver, B.C., Victoria, B.C., Oct. 9-16/96, 8561
    >>>Paris and Strasbourg, France, Jan. 20-28/96, 1505
    >>>Paris, France, May 20-23/96, 4143
    >>Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group
    >>>Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, Cha-am, Thailand, Jan. 15-19/96, 535
    >>>Montreal, Que., Ottawa, Ont., Toronto, Ont., Sept. 1-5/96, 4899
    >>Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, Alaska, U.S.A., May 10-13/96, 4161
    >>Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association
    >>>North Atlantic Assembly, joint session of committees, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 18-19/96, 4994
    >>>North Atlantic Assembly, joint session of committees, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 16-18/97, 9489
    >>>North Atlantic Assembly of NATO Parliamentarians, Athens, Greece, May 10-20/96, 4347
    >>>North Atlantic Assembly of NATO Parliamentarians, Paris, France, Nov. 17-21/96, 9489
    >>>North Atlantic Assembly Political Committee, Moscow, Russia, Apr. 9-12/96, 4347
    >>Chile, visit, Apr. 8-11/96, 2851
    >>Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Canadian Branch
    >>>Australia visit, November 1996, 7615
    >>>Canadian Regional Conference, Winnipeg, Man., July 27-Aug 2/96, 4994
    >>>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, conference, Aug. 17-24/96, 5919
    >>>New Zealand visit, Feb. 23-Mar. 2/96, 1505
    >>>Parliamentary seminar, London, United Kingdom, Mar. 5-16/96, 4994
    >>>Parliamentary seminar, London, United Kingdom, Mar. 4-15/97, 10236
    >>>Parliamentary visit, London, United KIngdom, May 8-24/96, 4994
    >>Conference of Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers
    >>>Nicosia, Cyprus, Jan. 3-6/96, 826
    >>>Standing Committee meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 2-8/97, 8842
    >>International Assembly of French-Speaking Parliamentarian
    >>>Antananarivo, Madagascar, July 6-10/96, 7277
    >>>Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 4-5/96, 93
    >>>Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Mar. 22-23/96, 3779
    >>>Paris, France, Mar. 1-19/96, 3323
    >>>Policy and General Administration Committee meeting, Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 20-21/96, 9513
    >>Inter-Parliamentary Union
    >>>Beijing, China, Sept. 14-21/96, 6065
    >>>Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 13-21/96, 3385

Inter-Parliamentary Union see Inter-Parliamentary Delegations, reports

Interest Act see Mortgages

Interest rates

Internal Trade Agreement see Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (bill C-19); Interprovincial trade

International agreements, conventions, treaties see Aboriginal peoples; Air navigation services--Commercialization; Air quality--Canada-United States agreement; Air transportation--Canada-United States Open Skies Agreement; Border, Canada-United States--Shared border accord; Brazil--Canadians imprisoned; Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement; Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (Bill C-61); Caribou--Porcupine caribou herd; Drug trafficking; Human rights--United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Marine transport--Maritime claims for damages; Migratory birds--Canada-United States convention; North American Aerospace Defence Command--Agreement; North American Free Trade Agreement; Permanent Joint Board on Defence (Canada-United States)--Establishment; Trade; United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; Water--Boundary Waters Treaty

International AIDS conference see AIDS

International Assembly of French-Speaking Parliamentarians see Inter-Parliamentary delegations, reports

International assistance see Foreign aid

International Association of Fire-fighters see Fire-fighters

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) see World Bank

International banking centres see Banks

International Book Day see Culture/arts

International business development see Exports

International Business Machines (IBM) see Computers/computer systems--Software conversion

International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development

    >>President, appointing, delay, S.O. 31, 4337-8
    >>Role, contributions of Ed Broadbent and Gisèle Côté-Harper, S.O. 31, 2884
    >>See also Human rights--International; Rwanda--Civil war

International Centre on the Prevention of Crime see Crime prevention

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) see Air navigation services--Commercialization; Cuba--United States aircraft shot down

International Committee of the Red Cross see Defence equipment--Land mines

International conflicts

    >>Civil wars dominating, impact, etc., 3982, 3987, 6345-6, 7366
    >>>Dictatorships, relationship, 7367-8
    >>Cold war end, relationship, 7366
    >>International intervention, responsibility, 6396, 7367
    >>>Economic measures, 7367
    >>Prevention
    >>>Canadian role, etc., 544-6, 1853, 1867-71
    >>>Democracy, relationship, 7367
    >>>Economic factors, 1869, 7368
    >>>International arms registry, role, 545
    >>>International financial institutions, role, 544-5, 1868
    >>>International institutions, United Nations, role, 1868-9
    >>>Positive propaganda role, 7367
    >>>Precursors, identifying, 7366
    >>Triage concept, applying, 6346
    >>United Nations role, inadequacy, etc., 3987

International congress on anti-personnel mines see Defence equipment--Land mines

International co-operation

    >>Canadian role, 5994, 5996
    >>Non-governmental organizations, funding cut-backs, 6396

International court see International criminal court

International criminal court

International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction see Emergencies/disasters

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination see Discrimination and racism

International Day of the Worker see Labour

International development

    >>Canadian role, 7583-4
    >>>S.O. 31, 7830
    >>International development week
    >>>S.O. 31, 7780, 7830
    >>>Statement by Minister (Boudria), 7583-4
    >>See also Canadian International Development Agency; Developing countries; Institut de développement Nord-Sud

International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act

    >>Schedule, amending, Order in Council, tabled, 6964

International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act Order Act (Bill C-77)--Minister of Foreign Affairs (L. Axworthy)

    >>First reading, 7391
    >>Second reading, 9900-2, agreed to, 9902
    >>Committee of the Whole referral, committee stage, reported without amdt., 9902
    >>Report stage, concurrence, agreed to, 9902
    >>Third reading, agreed to, 9002, passed.
    >>Royal Assent, 10252. Chap. 19, S.C. 1997
    >>See also Environment--Developing countries

International Development Research Centre see Official languages policy/bilingualism

International development week see International development

International financial institutions see International conflicts--Prevention

International flights see Mirabel International Airport

International Fund for Animal Welfare see Seals--Annual hunt

International Human Rights Day see Human rights--International

International Joint Commission (Canada-United States) see Water--Canada-United States Boundary Waters Treaty

International Kite Festival see Festivals

International Labour Organization (ILO)

    >>International labour conference, 81st and 82nd sessions, June 1994 and 1995, Canadian position, tabled, 3165
    >>See also Child labour--Eliminating

International law see Quebec separation/sovereignty

International law of the sea see Oceans

International Meet of Log Drivers and Raftsmen see Festivals

International Monetary Fund (IMF) see Africa--Great Lakes region, United Nations peacekeeping mission; Bank for International Settlements; Cameroun--Democracy; Developing countries--Foreign debt; Economy--Growth; National debt; World War II--Institutions created at end

International organizations see Judges--Leaves of absence; International security

International Ploughing Match

International Poetry Festival see Festivals

International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement

    >>Convention, St. John`s, Nfld., October 1996, S.O. 31, 4933

International relations

    >>Conflict management/conflict prevention, 5309
    >>Multinational initiatives, organizing, Canada role, 5308-9
    >>Rule of law, importance, 4485

International Science and Engineering Fair see Science and technology--Science fairs

International security

    >>Canadian policy, statement by Minister (L. Axworthy), 3982-8
    >>Democracy, human rights, relationship, 3983, 3988
    >>Economic and social conditions, underdevelopment, conflicts, relationship, 6396-7
    >>Hate messages, impact. Canadian initiative re free and democratic European media, 3983
    >>Individual security, relationship, 3983
    >>International organizations role, Throne Speech statement, 4
    >>Parliamentary debate, lack of notice, text in English only, 3985-6
    >>See also Europe; Weapons/arms--Export controls

International Senior Citizens' Day see Senior citizens

International Translation Day see Translation

International Women's Week see Women

Internet see Information highway

Internet Child Pornography Restriction Act (Bill C-396)--C. Axworthy

    >>First reading, 9417
    >>See also Child pornography--Internet publication

Interpretation Act (amdt.--definition of child)(Bill C-408)--Harb

Interprovincial trade

    >>Amount, comparison with international trade, 2699, 5346
    >>Barriers
    >>>Constitutional prohibition, 2700
    >>>Economic impact, costs, income, job losses, etc., 1791, 2698-9, 2718, 2992, 5347-8, 5351, 8970
    >>>Examples, 1791, 1799, 2718
    >>>Extent, 500 barriers, etc., 2699
    >>>Federal government challenging, constitutional authority, use, 269, 1799
    >>>>o.q., 318
    >>>>See also Hydro-electric power--Churchill Falls project
    >>>Goods and Services Tax, Atlantic provinces harmonization agreement, impact, 7753, 7905
    >>>>Retail Council of Canada statement, o.q., 6011-2
    >>>Historical background, 1794-5
    >>>Reducing, job creation potential, S.O. 31, 2429
    >>>Removing, reducing, 2701-2, 2718, 2992, 5335, 5346-8, 7766, 9224, 9901
    >>>>Canadian companies competitive advantage, 2700
    >>>>Finance Standing Committee recommendation, 2699, 5346
    >>>>Free trade, 283, 296, 1791-802
    >>>>Importance, 5348
    >>>>International trade expansion, priority, relationship, 7768-9
    >>>>Liberal government (Chrétien) inaction, 2699-700, 2991-2, 5346-9, 5832-3, 9251
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 4665
    >>>>Liberal government (Chrétien) election promise, "red book", 2699, 5765, 5817, 5823, 5860
    >>>>North American Free Trade Agreement, comparison, 2699-700, 2702, 10051
    >>>>Reform Party proposals, 2992, 9632
    >>>>See also Job creation
    >>>See also Agri-food industry; Employment--Labour mobility; Exports--Small and medium busines; United Parcel Service
    >>Disputes, federal government settling, 9754
    >>Federal-provincial jurisdiction, 1791, 5348
    >>Government procurement contracts, bidding process, opening up, Ontario-Quebec agreement, S.O. 31, 3309-10
    >>Importance, extent, statistics by province, etc., 1798-9, 1801
    >>Internal Trade Agreement, 5346-7
    >>>Agriculture provisions, lack, 1801, 2700-1
    >>>Amending formula, 7768
    >>>Approval formula, deadline, provinces and territories majority, 8358, 10206-15
    >>>>See also Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-375)
    >>>Business interests not addressed, 2700
    >>>Dispute settlement mechanism, Committee of Ministers of Internal Trade, Secretariat, panels, etc., 1312-5, 1332, 1792-4, 1798, 1800, 2700-1
    >>>>Federal government role, powers, retaliatory measures, 1312-3, 1315, 1793-4, 1798, 1800, 2702, 2718
    >>>>Private parties, companies, access, 1314, 2701
    >>>Energy industries provisions, lack, 1798, 1801-2, 2700-1
    >>>Exemptions, criteria, protectionism, etc., 1313-4, 1332, 1800, 2700-1
    >>>Federal-provincial agreement, unanimous, requirement, 7442
    >>>First Ministers' conference, agenda item, o.q., 3487-8
    >>>Harmonized sales tax, violation, 7768
    >>>Improving, Throne Speech statement, 5
    >>>Legislation, Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-19), 2991
    >>>>Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-88)(1st Sess., 35th Parl.), delay in introducing, passing, 203
    >>>>Consultations, 1791-2, 2719
    >>>>Flawed and inadequate, 2701
    >>>>Withdrawing until negotiations completed, 1801
    >>>>See also Agreement on Internal Trade Implementation Act (Bill C-19)
    >>>MASH sector, municipalities, academic institutions, schools and hospitals, provisions, lack, 2700-1
    >>>>Extending to, negotiations, British Columbia withdrawal, impact, 7768
    >>>>>o.q., 8510-1
    >>>Order in Council appointments, patronage, etc., 1313-5
    >>>Quebec separation/sovereignty, economic partnership with Canada, relationship, 1312, 1331, 1794, 1796-9, 2703
    >>>Role, overview, 2717-8
    >>>Signed July 1994, 1792, 2717
    >>>Trucking industry, exempting, Quebec small business impact, etc., 1331-3, 2703
    >>>See also Financial institutions--Credit costs; Government contracts--Open government procurement; Hydro-electric power--Churchill Falls project; Job creation
    >>Quebec, importance to, 1793-4, 1798-9
    >>See also Agricultural products; Beer; Goods and Services Tax--Harmonization; Government procurement--Federal-provincial agreement; Highways and roads--Trade; National unity