(82) The Commission considers that the attribution of the total residual value of the formation of the western mine waste tip and the access tracks as a loss due to the reduction of activity is excessive, since the possibility of abandoning the western side had been foreseen in the July 1994 plan and, to quote form the 1994 plan, "raising the bottom of the cutoff automatically makes available more than sufficient capacity for internal dumping, since the total volume of dead rock is decreased and it can be disposed of in a large cavity at the north end present in the base at a height of approximately 530 a.s.l".

Even the consultation process within the school board associations is questionable, at best.

In the case of non-steered wheels distance 'c' between the longitudinal plane tangential to the outer tyre wall, apart from any tyre bulge near the ground, and the inner edge of the valance must not exceed 75 mm unless the radius of the inner edge of the valance, as defined in items 7.2, 8.2 and 9.2, is less than 1,0 R, in which case it must not exceed 100 mm (Figure 1).

Mike Gifford, who is one of our key negotiators, has come before this committee as well as the Senate committee and said in effect that Canada could put $2 billion back into domestic support payments tomorrow without engendering any kind of dispute under our international trading obligations.