The pact's most important accomplishment would be to formally bind Quebec to the Canadian confederation, in return for recognition in the Constitution of the French-speaking province as a "distinct society" with the implied right to develop laws and powers different from other provinces.
The use of a new test format implied having to develop a bank of new questions, requiring the input of more members of our faculty than had been previously required for our MEQ.
It implies a commitment to develop and use technology to help meet the most pressing human and societal needs, while making every reasonable effort to anticipate and mitigate adverse implications or unintended consequences.
In volcanology, this implies a necessity to develop scenarios of future eruptions based on the most complete possible study of the geological record in order to best constrain the eruptive history of a volcano.
Achieving this requirement, in turn, implies the need to develop a theoretical framework for the HRL index that is coherent and valid and reliable cross-nationally, but whether this aim can be credibly achieved is a moot point.
Another main issue identified by staff is the entrenched gender bias from refugees' countries of origin, which in many cases prohibit women from full participation in education – a dynamic which implies the need to develop gender sensitive approaches to providing education (Anselme & Hands, 2010).
However these observations are subjective, implying the need to develop methods to quantify lateral instability.
This focus on partnership with service users implies a need to develop the capacity of the workforce in ensuring that staff have the right skills to work in a collaborative way.
The fast and uncontrolled expansion of industries, agriculture and settlements in developing countries implies a definite need to develop strategies for effective land management.
This implies the urgent need to develop more formalized systems to objectively assess the value of biobanks or biobank networks over time.
Another key principle is accountability, which implies state's obligation to develop mechanisms that enable citizens and human rights bodies, to monitor and evaluate progress (25– 28, 40).
