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• Written Questions Tabled in the Senate Chamber by Senator Downe
  
  
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• Media Releases and Communications - July 2003 to February 2009

• Letters to Gail #4: What is the problem? Why no tax deal? If Andorra can do it, why not Canada?, May 1, 2012
  
  
• Letters to Gail #3: Contempt for Parliament? Gail Shea refuses to answer Written Questions in Parliament but provides information
  to CBC’s The National, April 23, 2012
  
  
• Letters to Gail: #2 in a series regarding her lack of action in dealing with overseas tax evasion, April 16, 2012
  
  
• Letters to Gail: #1 in a series regarding her lack of action in dealing with overseas tax evasion, April 10, 2012
  
  
• Minister Shea Fails to Explain Policy Change, (Published in: The Hill Times), April 9, 2012
  
  
• Charlottetown Senator Urges Auditor General to Investigate Canada Revenue Agency, April 2, 2012
  
  
• Feds bring in cutbacks while overseas tax cheats get off the hook, (Published in: The Hill Times), March 26, 2012
  
  
• Is the Canada Revenue Agency Bending Rules to Protect Overseas Tax Evaders?, March 26, 2012
  
  
• Overseas Tax Dodgers Don’t Deserve Honours: Senator calls on Governor General to vet Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal Nominees, March 22, 2012
  
  
• Canada Revenue Agency Audit Confirms Why Tax Cheats have nothing to fear from this Government, March 14, 2012
  
  
• Federal Government is Failing Canadians in Collecting Revenue on Overseas Tax Evasion, March 1, 2012
  
  
• Overseas Tax Evasion Inquiry Speech, February 28, 2012
  
  
• Letter to Honourable Gail Shea, P.C., M.P. Minister of National Revenue, June 14, 2011
  
  
• $12,000,000 in a Single Account, and Still No Charges Laid, December 14, 2010
  
  
• Canada: Sucker Nation for Tax Cheats, (By Diane Francis of the Financial Post), October 7, 2010
  
  
• Harper’s Conservatives Soft on Tax Evasion, October 7, 2010
  
  
• Probing the Liechtenstein Connection; What is the CRA's Project Jade, Senator Wonders, (By Diane Francis of the Financial Post), November 24, 2009
  
  
• What are the Conservatives Hiding on Tax Evasion? September 3, 2009

• Charlottetown Senator Writes Minister MacKay Regarding Federal Government Job Cuts in Atlantic Canada, January 25, 2012
  
  
• Atlantic Canada's Losses are Ottawa's Gains, November 15, 2011
  
  
• Charlottetown Senator Writes Prime Minister Harper Urging for Fairness for Atlantic Canada, October 28, 2011

• Federal Government Fails to Protect Canadians on Do Not Call List, February 4, 2009
  
  
  • Letter from Senator Downe to the Minister of Industry, February 25, 2009
    
    
  • Letter from the Minister of Industry to Senator Downe Regarding the Abuse of the National Do-Not-Call List, July 11, 2009
    
    
  • Government Fails to Collect Do Not Call List Fines, July 7, 2010

• Senator Downe Elected Vice-Chair of Senate Standing Committee On Foreign Affairs and International Trade, December 2, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe addresses Citizenship Ceremony: Welcomes “Our newest fellow Islanders”, October 28, 2010
  
  
• Senator Critical of Trade Negotiations, (By Barry Wilson of the Western Producer), November 5, 2009
  
  
• The Lessons of Peru, The Hill Times, October 26, 2009
  
  
• Senator Downe Continues to Urge Federal Government to Improve the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement, June 18, 2009
  
  
• Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement: A Second-Rate Deal for Canada, June 10, 2009

• Letter from Veterans Ombudsman who strongly supports that Veterans Affairs Canada should be exempt from the Government-wide deficit reduction exercise, November 21, 2011

• Broken Government Promises, Inquiry—Debate Continued – Senator Percy E. Downe, March 8, 2011

• Government’s Promised Veterans’ Health Care Review Has been Stopped, February 28, 2011

• Letter from Bette J. Hudson on behalf of Widows on a Warparth, February 2, 2011

• Prime Minister Harper Failing to Keep his Promises to Veterans, February 10, 2011
  
  
• Update on Veterans Issues, January 14, 2010
  
  
• Minister of Veterans Affairs Ignoring Departmental Advice, January 13, 2011
  
  
• Watchdog to Probe Veterans’ Charter: Auditor General will examine compensation of sick, wounded troops, By Bruce Campion,
  The Toronto Star, December 10, 2010
  
  
• Sheila Fraser to Audit New Veterans Charter, By Philip Ling, CTV News, December 8, 2010
  
  
• Auditor general to probe lump-sum disability payments for veterans, By Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 2010
  
  
• Update on Veterans Issues, December 8, 2010
  
  
• Canadian Veterans Still Fighting for their Rights, November 30, 2010
  
  
• Dole Out Leftover Agent Orange Funds - Widow, The Daily Gleaner, November 27, 2010
  
  
• Agent Orange Compensation for Veterans Totalling $33 Million Returned to Government Coffers, November 25, 2010
  
  
• Dallaire says Veterans Affairs should stay in P.E.I., By Ryan Ross, Charlottetown Guardian October 28, 2010
  
  
• 'You ain't seen nothing yet': Stogran, August 20th, 2010
  
  
• Veterans Affairs Canada – Reduction of Services Main Concern Among Veterans, August 19, 2010
  
  
• Justice Minister Rob Nicholson: Tough on Veterans, June 23, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe Supports Government Bill C-13, June 22, 2010
  
  
• Letter to Maria Barrados, President of the Public Service Commission, regarding Priority Employment Status for Medically Released Veterans, June 15, 2010
  
  
• Letter from Maria Barrados, President of the Public Service Commission to Senator Downe, June 10, 2010
  
  
• Feds need to instruct all departments to start hiring medically-released Canadian Forces veterans, by Liberal Senator Percy Downe, The Hill Times, published June 7, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe Urges Prime Minister to Increase Government’s Participation in Priority Employment for Veterans, May 28, 2010
  
  
• Letter written to the Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, Hon. Jean-Pierre Blackburn, regarding the War Veterans Allowance, May 26, 2010
  
  
• Letter to Maria Barrados, President of the Public Service Commission, regarding Priority Employment Status for Medically Released Veterans, May 25, 2010
  
  
• Public Service priority for widows still coming, By Kathryn May, Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe Questions Federal Government Regarding Veterans Issues, April 6, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe Asks Auditor General to Examine Implementation of New Veterans Charter, February 16, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe to Celebrate 25th Anniversary of Veterans Affairs’ Relocation, October 22, 2009
  
  
• Senator Downe Pushes for Creation of Appointment Priority for Spouses of Members of the Canadian Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Public Service Employees Who Have Been Killed in the Line of Duty.
  
  
  • Letter from Maria Barrados, President of the Public Service Commission to Senator Downe, dated July 21, 2009
    
    
  • Letter from Senator Downe to Maria Barrados, President of the Public Service Commission, dated July 8, 2009
    
    
• Save our Injured Veterans, Not Dollars, says Island Senator, by Jim Day, The Guardian, July 7, 2009
  
  
• Senator Downe Calls on Prime Minister Harper to Establish Stand-Alone Veterans Affairs Committee in Senate, February 3, 2009
  
  
• Senator Downe Urges Veterans Affairs Subcommittee to Review Agent Orange Compensation Package, November 26, 2007
  
  
• Senator Downe Says the Harper Government Misled Canadian Forces Veterans, October 17, 2007
  
  
• Islander Recognized for Military Service with Memorial in Ottawa; Senator Percy Downe Praises Recognition of Georgina Fane Pope, The Guardian, December 1, 2006
  
  
• Canadian Forces Veterans Should get Priority When Entering Federal Public Service, The Hill Times, April 17, 2006
  
  
• Senator Pushes Law to Give War Veterans Public Service Hiring Priority, National General News, April 13, 2006
  
  
• Fonction publique : priorité pourrait être donnée aux militaires ayant servi en zones de guerre, Le Droit, April 8, 2006
  
  
• Downe Wants Policy to Award Military, The Guardian, April 8, 2006
  
  
• Canadian Forces Members Deserve Priority Status to Enter Federal Public Service, April 5, 2006
  
  
• P.E.I. Senator Sees Expanded Responsibilities in DVA's Future; Percy Downe Suggests Department Can Use Expertise to Work with RCMP, Current Members of Armed Forces, The Guardian, February 2, 2005
  
  
• Remembrance Day Statement, November 8, 2004
  

• Why Hire a Company to Hire the Auditor General?, November 2, 2011
  
  
• Senator Downe Addresses the General Assembly of the Council of Europe at the Parliamentary Association of the Council of Europe Meetings in Strasbourg, France:
  
  
  • The Large-scale Arrival of Irregular Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees on Europe’s Southern Shores”, Spring 2011
    
    
  • Current Affairs Debate on the Situation in North Africa, Spring 2011
    
    
• Downe Urges Further Study of Freezing Assets of Corrupt Regimes Act, March 22, 2011
  
  
• Downe Urges Careful Study of Bill C-61, March 10, 2011
  
  
• “Was Guergis given the benefit of the doubt?” Daniel Leblanc and John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail, April 16, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe Interviewed Regarding Guergis Affair, CBC Radio One’s World This Hour, April 16, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe a Guest on CBC Radio One’s Beat the House, February 22, 2010
  
  
• Senator Downe Requests that Health Canada Take Further Action on Sodium Reduction
  
  
  • Letter from Senator Downe to the Minister of Health Canada, September 29, 2009
    
    
  • Letter from Senator Downe to Members of the Health Canada Working Group on Sodium Reduction, August 19, 2009
  
  
• Senator Downe Questions Federal Government’s Move to Override Charlottetown City Council’s Decision Regarding the Rogers Communications’ Cell Tower, June 23, 2009
  
  
• Senator Downe Raises Concerns in the Senate Chamber on Behalf of the Prince Edward Island Teachers’ Federation Regarding Bill S-209, May 29, 2009
  
  
• Auditor General Asked to Examine Flaws In the Delivery of the Guaranteed Income Supplement, December 15, 2008