Vol. 139, No. 44 — October 29, 2005

GOVERNMENT NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the provisions of Part 7, Division 3, of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, Permit No. 4543-2-04289 is approved.

1. Permittee: Department of Public Works and Government Services, Quebec Region.

2. Type of Permit: To load or dispose of dredged material.

3. Term of Permit: Permit is valid from November 28, 2005, to May 31, 2006, and from September 1, 2006, to November 27, 2006.

4. Loading Site(s): Dredging areas of Étang-du-Nord Harbour, 47°22.15' N, 61°57.45' W (NAD83), as defined in the drawing entitled "Aires de dragage 2005" annexed to the email from the Department of Public Works and Government Services dated September 26, 2005. The Permittee may modify either of these areas with the written approval of the Department of the Environment.

5. Disposal Site(s):

(a) Disposal Site EN-2, 47°22.50' N, 62°00.50' W (NAD83); and

(b) Étang-du-Nord Harbour, 47°22.15' N, 61°57.45' W (NAD83).

6. Route to Disposal Site(s):

(a) The most direct route from the loading site to the disposal site. The disposal site is located approximately 3.5 km west of Étang-du-Nord Harbour; and

(b) Not applicable.

7. Equipment: Crane equipped with a clamshell dredge or a hydraulic shovel, towed scow, steel beam or scraper blade.

8. Method of Disposal:

(a) Dredging will be carried out using a crane equipped with a clamshell dredge or a hydraulic shovel, and disposal will be carried out using a towed scow; and

(b) Levelling of the seabed by a steal beam, scraper blade, or a hydraulic shovel.

9. Rate of Disposal: As required by normal operations.

10. Total Quantity to Be Disposed of: Not to exceed 5 000 m³ scow measure.

11. Material to Be Disposed of: Dredged material consisting of gravel, sand, silt, clay or colloids.

12. Requirements and Restrictions:

12.1. It is required that the Permittee report in writing to the Regional Director, Environmental Protection Branch, Department of the Environment, Quebec Region, 105 McGill Street, 4th Floor, Montréal, Quebec H2Y 2E7, (514) 283-4423 (fax), immersion.dpe@ec.gc.ca (email), at least 48 hours prior to the first disposal operation pursuant to this permit.

12.2. The Permittee shall submit a written report to the Regional Director, Environmental Protection Branch, identified in paragraph 12.1, within 30 days of the expiry of the permit. This report shall include the Register of Disposal at Sea Operations mentioned in paragraph 12.5 and shall contain the following information: the quantity and type of material disposed of pursuant to the permit, the equipment used, and the dates on which the loading and disposal activities occurred.

12.3. It is required that the Permittee admit any enforcement officers designated pursuant to subsection 217(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 to any place, ship, aircraft, platform or anthropogenic structure directly related to the loading or disposal at sea referred to under this permit, at any reasonable time throughout the duration of this permit.

12.4. A copy of this permit must, at all times, be kept aboard any vessel involved with the disposal operations.

12.5. The Permittee must complete the Register of Disposal at Sea Operations as provided by the Department of the Environment. This register must, at all times, be kept aboard any vessel involved with the disposal operations and be accessible to enforcement officers designated under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999.

12.6. The Permittee must signal the Canadian Coast Guard station at Rivière-au-Renard immediately before leaving the port to begin disposal operations at the disposal site. The Permittee must record theses communications in the register mentioned in the previous paragraph.

12.7. The Permittee shall mark out the disposal site with buoys for the entire duration of disposal operations.

12.8. The loading or disposal at sea referred to under this permit shall not be carried out without written authorization from the Permittee.

12.9. The fee prescribed by the Ocean Dumping Permit Fee Regulations (Site Monitoring) shall be paid by the Permittee in accordance with those Regulations.

M.-F. BÉRARD 
Environmental Protection 
Quebec Region 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the provisions of Part 7, Division 3, of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the conditions of Permit No. 4543-2-06329 are amended as follows:

5. Disposal Site(s): Specified areas in the turning basin of Port Harmon, as illustrated in diagram labelled "Figure 1 — Dredged Areas Within Turning Basin."

10. Total Quantity to Be Disposed of: Not to exceed 180 000 m³.

MARIA DOBER 
Environmental Protection Branch 
Atlantic Region 

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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY

OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL

Appointments

Name and position
Instrument of Advice dated October 7, 2005
Queen's Privy Council for Canada
Members
Bains, Navdeep
Hubbard, Charles
Neville, Anita

October 19, 2005

JACQUELINE GRAVELLE 
Manager 

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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY

OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL

Appointments

Name and position	Order in Council
Bosc, Marc	2005-1769
House of Commons
Deputy Clerk
Corbett, William	2005-1767
Speaker of the House of Commons
Senior Advisor
Cumming, The Hon. Patricia L.	2005-1773
Government of New Brunswick
Administrator
October 20 and 21, 2005
Lajoie, Marie-Andrée	2005-1770
House of Commons — Procedure and Administration
Clerk Assistant
O'Brien, Audrey Elizabeth	2005-1768
House of Commons
Clerk
Parliamentary Secretaries to the	2005-1766
Bains, The Hon. Navdeep, P.C.
Prime Minister
Hubbard, The Hon. Charles, P.C.
Minister of Transport
Karygiannis, The Hon. Jim, P.C.
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal
Malhi, The Hon. Gurbax Singh, P.C.
Minister of National Revenue
Neville, The Hon. Anita, P.C.
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister responsible for Status for Women with special emphasis on Status of Women

October 19, 2005

JACQUELINE GRAVELLE 
Manager 

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DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

NOTICE OF INTENT TO CONDUCT A STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE CANADA-KOREA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

The Government of Canada will be undertaking a Strategic Environmental Assessment of the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Korea. Comments are invited on any likely and significant environmental impacts of the negotiations on Canada.

Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement

On November 19, 2004, Prime Minister Martin and South Korean President Roh announced that Canada and Korea would begin talks to explore the feasibility of negotiating a Free Trade Agreement. An FTA between Canada and Korea has the potential to enhance not only Canada's important bilateral economic relationship with Korea, but also to strengthen Canada's presence in the dynamic Northeast Asia region. On July 15, 2005, International Trade Minister Jim Peterson and his South Korean counterpart, Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong, formally announced the launch of bilateral free trade negotiations. Canada will pursue its practice of establishing environmental and labour co-operation agreements in parallel with the free trade agreement.

The background to the Canada-Korea FTA is available at www.international.gc.ca/tna-nac/RB/korea-en.asp.

To learn more about Canada's trade negotiations and agreements, you are invited to visit www.international.gc.ca/tna-nac/menu-en.asp.

Strategic Environmental Assessments

The Government of Canada is committed to sustainable development. Mutually supportive trade and environmental policies can contribute to this objective. To this end, the Minister of International Trade, with the support of his Cabinet colleagues, has directed trade officials to improve their understanding of, and information base on, the relationship between trade and environmental issues at the earliest stages of decision making, and to do this through an open and inclusive process. Environmental assessments of trade negotiations are critical to this work.

This process is guided by the 2001 Framework for Conducting Environmental Assessments of Trade Negotiations with direction from the 1999 Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan, and Program Proposals. For the full text of the Framework, please refer to www.international.gc.ca/tna-nac/env/env-ea-en.asp.

An Environmental Assessment is a systematic process of identifying and evaluating the likely and significant positive and negative environmental impacts of an initiative on Canada. Public consultations are conducted throughout the process, which generally includes the following steps in chronological order:

1. Announcement of the intent to conduct an Environmental Assessment, which is the purpose of this Canada Gazette notice;

2. Preparation of an Initial Environmental Assessment report that will define the scope of the more complete analysis to be carried out in the next stage;

3. Preparation of a Draft Environmental Assessment report that will include an in-depth analysis of the issues raised in the initial Environmental Assessment; and

4. Preparation of a Final Environmental Assessment report that will be released after the conclusion of negotiations.

In each of the above steps, the analysis follows four stages:

— identify the economic effects in Canada of the negotiations;

— identify the likely environmental impacts in Canada of such effects;

— assess the significance of the likely environmental impacts; and

— identify enhancement/mitigation options to inform the negotiation process.

Environmental Assessment of the Canada-Korea FTA negotiations

An Environmental Assessment Committee has been formed to undertake the analysis of the FTA negotiations. Coordinated by Foreign Affairs Canada and International Trade Canada, the Environmental Assessment Committee includes representatives from various federal government departments and agencies. In the preparation of the report at each stage, as appropriate, the Committee will be open to input from provincial and territorial governments, industry groups, civil society, and the public.

Submissions by interested parties (see footnote a)

All interested parties are invited to submit by December 30, 2005, their views on the likely and significant environmental impacts on Canada resulting from the Canada-Korea FTA negotiations.

Submissions should include the following:

1. The contributor's name and address, and if applicable, that of his or her organization, institution or business;

2. The specific issues being addressed; and

3. The rationale for the position taken.

Please address contributions to the Consultations and Liaison Division (EBC), Environmental Assessment Consultations — Canada-Korea FTA, International Trade Canada, Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2, (613) 944-7981, (fax), consultations@international.gc.ca (email).

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BANK OF CANADA

Balance sheet as at October 12, 2005

ASSETS	amount	total
Deposits in foreign currencies
U.S. dollars	$ 212,535,668
Other currencies	3,612,672
		$ 216,148,340
Advances
To members of the Canadian Payments Association
To Governments
Investments*
(at amortized values)
Treasury bills of Canada	14,838,213,133
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing within three years	10,643,666,277
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing in over three years but not over five years	5,767,963,427
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing in over five years but not over ten years	7,847,169,729
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing in over ten years	5,588,506,596
Other bills
Other investments	38,038,287
		44,723,557,449
Bank premises		135,098,485
Other assets
Securities purchased under resale agreements	402,249,797
All other assets	597,536,108
		999,785,905
		$ 46,074,590,179
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL	amount	total
Bank notes in circulation		$ 44,036,252,905
Deposits
Government of Canada	$ 1,069,700,393
Banks	47,458,800
Other members of the Canadian Payments Association	2,354,382
Other	349,941,105
		1,469,454,680
Liabilities in foreign currencies
Government of Canada	128,858,506
Other
		128,858,506
Other liabilities
Securities sold under repurchase agreements
All other liabilities	410,024,088
		410,024,088
Capital
Share capital	5,000,000
Statutory reserve	25,000,000
		30,000,000
		$ 46,074,590,179

^*NOTE

  Total par value included in Government bonds loaned from the Bank's investments. $___________ 

I declare that the foregoing return is correct according to the books of the Bank.

Ottawa, October 13, 2005

W. D. SINCLAIR

Acting Chief Accountant

I declare that the foregoing return is to the best of my knowledge and belief correct, and shows truly and clearly the financial position of the Bank, as required by section 29 of the Bank of Canada Act.

Ottawa, October 14, 2005 

W. P. JENKINS

 

Senior Deputy Governor

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BANK OF CANADA

Balance sheet as at October 19, 2005

ASSETS	amount	total
Deposits in foreign currencies
U.S. dollars	$ 210,894,520
Other currencies	4,868,792
		$ 215,763,312
Advances
To members of the Canadian Payments Association
To Governments
Investments*
(at amortized values)
Treasury bills of Canada	14,891,573,030
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing within three years	10,643,584,738
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing in over three years but not over five years	5,767,972,671
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing in over five years but not over ten years	7,847,047,384
Other securities issued or guaranteed by Canada maturing in over ten years	5,588,371,118
Other bills
Other investments	38,038,287
		44,776,587,228
Bank premises		135,370,407
Other assets
Securities purchased under resale agreements
All other assets	628,461,257
		628,461,257
		$ 45,756,182,204
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL
Bank notes in circulation		$ 43,437,096,031
Deposits
Government of Canada	$ 1,400,822,981
Banks	22,030,846
Other members of the Canadian Payments Association	27,684,426
Other	345,916,939
		1,796,455,192
Liabilities in foreign currencies
Government of Canada	126,919,384
Other
		126,919,384
Other liabilities
Securities sold under repurchase agreements
All other liabilities	365,711,597
		365,711,597
Capital
Share capital	5,000,000
Statutory reserve	25,000,000
		30,000,000
		$ 45,756,182,204

^*NOTE

Total par value included in Government bonds loaned from the Bank's investments. $________________I declare that the foregoing return is correct according to the books of the Bank.

Ottawa, October 20, 2005

W. D. SINCLAIR

Acting Chief

I declare that the foregoing return is to the best of my knowledge and belief correct, and shows truly and clearly the financial position of the Bank, as required by section 29 of the Bank of Canada Act.

Ottawa, October 20, 2005

DAVID A. DODGE

Accountant Governor

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Footnote a

International Trade Canada is committed to respecting the privacy rights of individuals who participate in consultation-related activities. The information is being collected for the sole purpose of assisting the Government of Canada in conducting the Initial Environmental Assessment of the Canada-Korea FTA negotiations. It will not be linked with other databases, nor will it be used for any secondary purpose (e.g. follow-up research/survey) without first obtaining your explicit consent. This information will be retained for seven years and stored with the program records of the Regional and Bilateral Trade Policy Division under the following class of personal information: Environmental Assessment Consultations — Canada-Korea FTA. Your personal information is protected from disclosure to unauthorized persons/agencies pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act, and you should also know that third party commercial information may be subject to requests under the Access to Information Act. However, in these instances, no information will be released without your prior consent.

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