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The Honourable David McGuinty, P.C., M.P., President of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Executive Committee Vice-President for the Twelve Plus geopolitical group, participated in the second online sitting of the 286th session of the International Executive Committee which took place on November 2, 2021. The meeting provided the ...

Mr. Spengemann acknowledged that, while Canada has a high global ranking regarding UHC, the system is not perfect. Among the challenges Canada faces as it strives to implement UHC more broadly is the country’s vast geography and the related difficulty of accessing remote communities. He highlighted the difficulties faced by Indigenous peoples as well as recommendations by national and ...

Though this constitutional commonality, Canada and the United Kingdom share, among other things, longstanding parliamentary practices that include parliamentary privilege. The concept and protection of parliamentary privilege has received much discussion in the United Kingdom.

À la suite des résultats de la 45e élection générale, la composition du Conseil interparlementaire mixte est actuellement en cours de révision. Sa composition définitive sera confirmée sous peu.

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), gave the keynote address, highlighting how the pandemic has affected the economic situation in the Americas and Caribbean region and outlining proposals that could help mitigate its effects. She explained that ECLAC expects that, in 2020, the gross domestic product of the Americas and ...

5th Gathering of ParlAmericas Open Parliament Network (3rd Meeting of the Parliamentary Staff Network on Open Parliament) By videoconference Canadian Section of ParlAmericas (CPAM)

3) ASEAN Parliament: The Meeting articulates that AIPA has been studying about the strength of ASEAN for establishing ASEAN Community in 2015. Interestingly, the Meeting poses a question to AIPA Member Parliaments and Canadian Parliament about the possibility of establishing ASEAN Parliament. The Meeting also notes the comparison between European Parliament and the expected ASEAN Parliament ...

Mr. Spengemann acknowledged that, while Canada has a high global ranking regarding UHC, the system is not perfect. Among the challenges Canada faces as it strives to implement UHC more broadly is the country’s vast geography and the related difficulty of accessing remote communities. He highlighted the difficulties faced by Indigenous peoples as well as recommendations by national and ...

The COTRA delegation was headed by Mr. Tomás Reyes Ortega, Chair, and included 11 diplomats from EU member states, and two representatives from the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU and the EU’s European External Action Service. COTRA’s work focuses on EU relations with the United States and Canada and covers a broad range of issues, from cyber, energy and security policy to ...

The committee held a regular meeting on 4 June 2020 via videoconference. Members reported on the health and socio-economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic in the Arctic, the responses and common challenges of Arctic nations. Common challenges experienced across Arctic nations included: the downturn in tourism upon which a number of Arctic communities depend; COVID-19 border closures affecting the ...