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The Hansard Index is the key to information about what is said by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons during the 35th Parliament, 2nd Session. The subject entries will either provide reference to a page number or, a combination of page number followed by the issue sitting number and time checks in the daily Hansard.

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Technology

    >>Development see Aerospace industry; Environmental technologies
    >>Diffusion, promotion, Canadian technology network, establishing, Throne Speech proposal, 2, 6017, 6253
    >>Innovative technology, development, $270 million government support, Budget 1996 statement, 379, 449, 811, 1508, 1531
    >>New technology strategy, emerging technologies, government role, 6017-8
    >>Quebec government programs, federal transfer payment cut-backs, impact, 8966
    >>See also Child prostitution--Child sex tourism; Copyright--Rights; Financial institutions--Consumer choice; High technology industries; Information technology; Justice system; North American Aerospace Defence Command; Privacy; Science and technology

Technology infrastructure

    >>Building, Canada Foundation for Innovation role, 9255

Technology Partnerships Canada

    >>Creating, $250 million funding by 1998-99, Budget 1996 measure, 379, 406, 438, 446-7, 794, 813, 848, 1482, 1484, 1531, 1537, 6016, 6280, 7246, 9564
    >>>$150 million funding in 1996-97, already approved Defence Industry Productivity Program projects, percentage, o.q., 708
    >>>o.q., 530, 8392
    >>>Quebec benefits, o.q., 4751-2, 8948
    >>>Quebec government position, S.O. 31, 703-4
    >>>S.O. 31, 475
    >>Private sector advisory group, Bombardier Inc. membership, o.q., 5959
    >>See also Aerospace industries--Technology; Biotechnology--Development; Electric power--Fuel cells; Environmental technologies--Development; Job creation

Teen pregnancies see Youth

Teen suicide see Suicide--Youth

Teeth see Police--Fingerprints

Tele-vote 96 see National unity--Canadians participation

Telecare Burlington Distress Line see Volunteers

Telecommunications

    >>Call centres, technological development
    >>>New Brunswick, government-industry cooperation, S.O. 31, 7139
    >>>Prince Edward Island, industry, growth, S.O. 31, 7138
    >>>Société nationale des communications du Québec, establishing, $1.3 million government grant, enabling, S.O. 31, 7964
    >>Industry, Normex Telecom, In-Flight Phone Canada Inc. takeover, benefits, S.O. 31, 1657
    >>Policy, o.q., 1251
    >>>See also Broadcasting--Licenses, Policy
    >>Rate restructuring, accessibility, maintaining, o.q., 4987-8
    >>Satellite dishes, use/sale, unregulated, consumer awareness, need, o.q., 1768, 1845
    >>Wireless technology, Nexsys Commtech International Inc. network monitoring system, Waterloo, Ont., S.O. 31, 9167
    >>See also Information highway--Broadcasting; Senate--Expenditures

Telefilm Canada

    >>Falardeau, Pierre, Patriotes of 1838 film project, rejection, political censorship, o.q., 9884-5, 10068
    >>Funding, reduction, Budget 1996 measure, 1485

Telegdi, Andrew (L--Waterloo)

    >>Arctic, 326
    >>Bombardier Inc., 9345
    >>Borrowing Authority Act 1996-97 (Bill C-10), 1039
    >>Brown, J., references, 2447
    >>Budget 1997, M. (P. Martin), 8407, 8426-7, 9339-43, 9345
    >>Canada Elections Act and Referendum Act (amdt.)(Bill C-63), 6739
    >>Canada Post Corporation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-239), 827
    >>Canadian Executive Services Organization, S.O. 31, 960
    >>Canadian Human Rights Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33), 2446-7
    >>Canadian Securities Commission, 8344-5 o.q., 5739
    >>Committees of the Whole House
    >>>M. (J. Chrétien), 15
    >>>M. (H. Gray), 5749-51
    >>Crime, 2085-7
    >>>Petition, 4870
    >>Crime prevention, S.O. 31, 6483
    >>Criminal Code and Copyright Act (amdt.--profit from authorship respecting a crime)(Bill C-205), 4660
    >>Defence equipment. petition, 4870
    >>Discrimination and racism, 2446-7
    >>Education, post secondary, 9340-1
    >>Environment, 326
    >>Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions, M. (Williams), 2972
    >>Gun control/guns, 2085, 2091
    >>Highways and roads, petition, 9847
    >>Housing, S.O. 31, 5284
    >>Impaired driving, S.O. 31, 232
    >>Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee, report, 10141
    >>Knowles, Hon. Stanley, S.O. 31, 1542
    >>Liberal government (Chrétien), M. on supply (Solberg), 3214
    >>Members of Parliament, 5750
    >>>S.O. 31, 9322
    >>Municipalities, S.O. 31, 9478
    >>National unity, 5750-1
    >>Official Opposition, 5749, 5751
    >>Postal service, 827
    >>Procedure, divisions, recorded, 1874, 9117, 9124
    >>Public Accounts Standing Committee, 5749
    >>Public safety officers compensation fund, M. (Szabo), 8036-7
    >>Reform Party, 5749-50
    >>Research and development, S.O. 31, 7380, 7778
    >>Ringuette-Maltais, references, 15
    >>Securities industry, 8345
    >>Sexual assault/offences, 2085-6
    >>Sexual orientation, 2447
    >>Speaker, references, 6739
    >>Speakership, 15, 5749-50
    >>Student loans, 9340
    >>>S.O. 31, 8130
    >>Suicide, petitions, 4870, 9847
    >>Telecommunications, S.O. 31, 9167
    >>Throne Speech, Address in Reply, M. (Sheridan), 326
    >>Universities/colleges, S.O. 31, 6786
    >>Victims of crime, M. on supply (R. White), 2085-7, 2091
    >>Young offenders, 2085. 10141

Telemarketing see Advertising

Telephone service

    >>Bell Canada
    >>>Local billing procedure, petition, 5645
    >>>Rate increase
    >>>>Profit, 40% increase/job lay-offs, rationale, 5201
    >>>>>o.q., 1051
    >>>>Small and medium business, impact, S.O. 31, 7305
    >>Business rates, Regional/urban, gap, 7594-5
    >>>o.q., 4673-4, 8138-9
    >>Deregulation, Alberta Government Telephones, 7601
    >>Local basic service, rate increase, 5786, 5790, 5792-4, 7594
    >>>$15 ceiling, National Anti-Poverty Organization, proposal, 7595
    >>>Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, decision, 5785, 7594
    >>>Fédération national des associations de consommateurs du Quebec, position, 7594
    >>Long distance, rates
    >>>Coalition for Affordable Telephone Services, position, 5785, 7593-4
    >>>Competition, reducing, o.q., 8139
    >>Rural Canada, installation costs, 392
    >>Rural Quebec, outdated, party lines, etc., 9141-2
    >>Saint-Pie-de Bagot, Saint-Damase, Que., network system, Bell Canada modernizing, request, petition, 3012
    >>Waterloo, Ont., S.O. 31, 4172
    >>See also Bell Canada Act (amdt.--construction charges)(Bill C-227); Information highway--Broadcasting; National Revenue Department--Client services; Prince Edward Island; Senate--Expenditures

Telephone voting see Elections--Electronic voting by touch tone telephone

Television

    >>Direct to home satellite transmission
    >>>Canadian service providers, need, 7598-9
    >>>>o.q., 7192-3
    >>>Cultural protectionism, impact, 7599
    >>>Licence applications, Canadian Radio-television and telecommunications Commission decisions
    >>>>Cabinet intervention, Power DirecTv example
    >>>>>o.q., 531, 970
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 353
    >>Programs, Jake and the Kid, Canadian production, S.O. 31, 4741
    >>Satellite dishes/broadcasting equipment, un-authorized use, consumers, warning, 5797-8
    >>>Black market/grey market, distinction, o.q., 7192-3
    >>>o.q., 6614
    >>>Radio-Canada, analog signal, elimination, o.q., 9934-5
    >>>S.O. 31, 6656-7
    >>Television production fund, 8179-80, 8222
    >>>o.q., 4308, 5112, 5483-4
    >>>Quebec artists, support, o.q., 4457
    >>See also Closed circuit television; Copyright--Rights, Broadcasting; House of Commons--Broadcasting/televising; Pornography--Entertainment; Violence--Society

Television, cable

    >>CHOT, CFGS, francophone stations, National Capital Region, channel relocation, protesting, S.O. 31, 7460-1
    >>Negative marketing option, cable companies, use, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission control, 244-5, 2026-32, 4202-11, 4529-39, 10099-106, 10249-51
    >>>Government position, 6176
    >>>>o.q., 4634, 4670, 4673, 4750, 4803-4, 6130-1
    >>>Legislation, Broadcasting Act (amdt.--broadcasting policy)(Bill C-216)
    >>>>Copps, Canadian Heritage Minister, position, o.q., 9486
    >>>>Opposing, government, lobbying allegation, 6175-6
    >>>>>o.q., 4673, 4750, 4803
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 4795
    >>>>Senators, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, lobbying
    >>>>>o.q., 6064
    >>>>>S.O. 31, 6442, 8829
    >>See also Broadcasting Act (amdt.--broadcasting policy)(Bill C-216)

Television production fund see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation--Funding, Reduction; Film and video industry; Television

Televoting see Young Offenders Act--Amending

Tellier, Paul see Canadian National Railways--President

Temagami, Ont.

    >>Old growth forest, wilderness region, sustainability, Ontario Progressive Conservative government (Harris), policies, S.O. 31, 4300-1
    >>See also Mining industry

Temporary absences see Penitentiaries--Inmates

Temporary employment agencies see Employment

Tender calls see Government buildings--Hull, Que; Government contracts

Term 17 see Constitution--Terms of union of Newfoundland with Canada; Education--Newfoundland denominational school system, Constitutional amendment

Terminal control units see Air navigation services

Terminally-ill see Suicide--Assisted suicide

Terra Nova see Information highway

Terrana, Anna (L--Vancouver East)

    >>AIDS, petition, 3722
    >>Bourassa, Robert, S.O. 31, 5106-7
    >>Canada Day, S.O. 31, 2471
    >>Canada Elections Act (amdt.--polling hours)(Bill C-307), 3779
    >>Canada Elections Act (amdt.--polling stations in hospitals)(Bill C-308), 3779-80
    >>Canada Elections Act (amdt.--registration of political parties)(Bill C-400), 9514
    >>Canada Elections Act and Referendum Act (amdt.)(Bill C-63), 6726-7
    >>Canadian Armed Forces, S.O. 31, 10176
    >>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, S.O. 31, 8901
    >>Canadian Human Rights Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33), 2549-50
    >>Child care, 7265
    >>Child poverty, 7264-5
    >>>S.O. 31, 7030
    >>Child tax benefit, 7265
    >>Children, 7264
    >>Chinese New Year, S.O. 31, 7960
    >>Citizenship, S.O. 31, 2884-5
    >>Credit cards, petition, 10146-7
    >>Crime, petitions, 3640, 4677
    >>Economic development/renewal, 7263
    >>Education, 7264-5
    >>Elections, 3779-80, 5709-10, 6726, 9514
    >>>S.O. 31, 7381
    >>Festivals, S.O. 31, 3815
    >>Film and video industry, o.q., 6751
    >>Finance Standing Committee, M. (H. Gray), 7263-5
    >>Francophones outside Quebec, 3798
    >>>M. on supply (Marchand), 3798
    >>Gasoline taxes, petition, 276, 2483-4
    >>Goods and Services Tax, petition, 8957
    >>Hate crimes, 2549
    >>Health, S.O. 31, 356, 2804, 5950-1, 9544-5
    >>Health care system, 7265
    >>>Petition, 3641
    >>Highways and roads, petition, 2484, 8514
    >>Hospitals, S.O. 31, 3201
    >>Housing, 7263-5
    >>Immigration/immigrants, S.O. 31, 6304
    >>Interprovincial trade, o.q., 8510
    >>Italy, S.O. 31, 3418
    >>Literacy, petition, 8514
    >>Nisga'a land claim, S.O. 31, 1365
    >>Postal service, S.O. 31, 7513
    >>Poverty, 7263-4
    >>Procedure, Bills, Private Members' public, 5710
    >>Program Cost Declaration Act (Bill C-214), 7543
    >>Same-sex couples, 2549-50
    >>Sexual orientation, 2549-50
    >>Standing Orders, M. (Jennings), 9474-5
    >>Taiwan, S.O. 31, 581
    >>Veterans benefits, petitions, 3641, 4447
    >>Volunteers, S.O. 31, 1883, 9646

Territorial Lands Act (amdt.--definition of adult)(Bill C-435--Harb

Territorial Protection Act (Bill C-441)--Hopkins

    >>First reading, 10237
    >>See also Canada--Indivisible

Terrorism

    >>Combatting, Canadian role, etc., 242-3, 2722-3, 2725-6, 3988
    >>>Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2723
    >>>North American Aerospace Defence Command role, 486, 500, 542, 554
    >>>o.q., 237-8
    >>>S.O. 31, 760
    >>Egypt anti-terrorist summit, March 1996, Canadian participation, 2723, 2726
    >>>o.q., 587-9, 767
    >>Funding, preventing, punishing, 242-3, 3988
    >>>Charitable donations, income tax status, Babbar Khalsa, etc., 2725-6
    >>>>o.q., 589, 713
    >>>Eelam Tamil Community Association of British ColumbiA, Tamil Tigers, relationship, 2726
    >>>o.q., 237, 589
    >>G-7 summit, June 1995, Halifax, N.S., addressing, priority, 2722
    >>International examples, 2722, 2724-5
    >>International information sharing, importance, 2723
    >>Organization of American States Lima Declaration, April 1996, Canada signing, 2723
    >>Political Eight (P-8) countries counter-terrorism conference, Ottawa, Ont. 1995/1996 conference, Ottawa Declaration, 2722-3, 2725-6, 3983
    >>>o.q., 238
    >>See also Air India, Flight 182; Calgary Jewish Centre--Bombing attempt; Canadian Armed Forces--Quebec City, Que.; Egypt; India; Israel; Pakistan; Refugees; Royal Canadian Mounted Police--Translator charged with crimes

Terry Fox run see Health--Cancer, Research

Tetra Pak see Employment--Government-private sector partnership

Textbooks see School textbooks

Textile industry

    >>Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, impact, o.q., 2364-5
    >>National Textile Week, S.O. 31, 1951, 9985
    >>Textile Monterey, Drummond, Que., bankruptcy, reopening, S.O. 31, 1459
    >>Wool suits, exports to United States, reduction threats, o.q., 2068
    >>See also Lincoln Fabrics

Thailand see Canadian Executive Service Organization; China--Human rights violations; Defence equipment--Exports; Spar Aerospace

Thalheimer, Peter (L--Timmins--Chapleau)

    >>Canadian Human Rights Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33), 2584
    >>Emergencies/disasters, S.O. 31, 3086
    >>Mining industry
    >>>o.q., 1424
    >>>S.O. 31, 638
    >>Music, S.O. 31, 34, 178
    >>Property rights, M. (Gilmour), 4829-30
    >>Revoke the Conviction of Louis David Riel Act (Bill C-297), 7170-1
    >>Roy, Jean-Robert, 7719
    >>Same-sex couples, 2583
    >>Sexual orientation, 2583
    >>Twain, Shania, S.O. 31, 4548

The Netherlands see Netherlands

Théatre des Lutins see Francophones outside Quebec

Theft

    >>Automobiles
    >>>Extent, 10018
    >>>See also Joy riding
    >>Roberts, Fred, apprehending perpetrator, S.O. 31, 7961
    >>See also Gun control/guns

Therapeutic records see Sexual assault/offences--Accused acces to medical and therapeutic records; Victims of crime--Medical and therapeutic records

Thérèse F. Casgrain Fellowship see Female genital mutilation (excision)--Research

Therrien, Henri

    >>Thetford Mines, Que., Mayor, Asbetos Region Chamber of Commerce Personality of the Year (1996), tribute, S.O. 31, 9795

Thérse-Martin secondary comprehensive school see World School Championships

Thibaudeau decision see Child support payments--Legislation--Taxable income

Thibault, Lise see Quebec

Thirsk, Dr. Robert see Space program

This Hour Has 22 Minutes see Canadian Broadcasting Corporation--Programs

Thistletown Community Breakfast Club see Children--Nutrition

Thomlinson, Doug see Canadian Executive Service Organization

Thompson, Myron (REF--Wild Rose)