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The delegation has the honour to table its Report The delegation was comprised of the following members: The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Senator, Speaker of the Senate Mrs. Ann Kinsella The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Senator The Honourable George Furey, Senator The Honourable Michael MacDonald, Senator Ms. Janelle Feldstein, Chief of Staff Mr. Charles Robert, Principal Clerk, Chamber ...

The delegation concluded its visit in Macao, a former Portuguese colony that was retroceded to China in 1999. The Special Administrative Region of Macao offers business opportunities in the areas of agri-food, transportation, entertainment, professional services and security technology and provides yet a different perspective of China’s development. Objectives · To further strengthen the ...

From 6–7 December 2014, Mr. Gord Brown, M.P., Co-Chair of the Canadian Section of the Canada–United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG), led a delegation to the 2014 winter meeting of the Western Governors’ Association (WGA) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The other delegate was Senator David Wells, and the delegation was accompanied by Ms. June Dewetering, Senior Advisor to the Canadian ...

The Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association has the honour to present its report on the Meeting of the Standing Committee and the Secretaries of Delegation, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from March 22 to 24, 2013. Canada was represented by Senator Raynell Andreychuk, Senator Joseph A. Day, Cheryl Gallant, M.P., Jack Harris, M.P., and Michelle Tittley, Association Secretary. SECRETARIES OF ...

The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate, and a delegation of senators visited Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta from October 7 to 15, 2006.

Founded in 1975, the National Conference of State Legislatures is a bipartisan organization serving the legislators and legislative staff of the 50 U.S. states as well as its commonwealths and territories. The NCSL provides research, technical assistance and a venue for the exchange of ideas on state issues. It also advocates state interests before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies. The ...

The delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which attended the 55th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Arusha, Tanzania from September 28 to October 6, 2009, has the honour to present its report.

The Chair agreed with the idea of adding a fourth column to the table of strategic directions in order to state which activities were effectively carried out and at what cost. He wondered, however, what percentage such activities had within the whole IPU budget compared to, say, travel expenses or staff costs. The primary budget had decreased by about 8%, but due to fluctuations of the Swiss ...

The objectives of the visit were as such: · discuss the current political dynamic in the United Kingdom and Canada · compare and contrast parliamentary systems · explore the functioning of minority parliaments · discuss the relationship between the federal and provincial governments within Canada and the powers of the Welsh Assembly and Westminster · discuss the role of party politics and ...

I am very honoured to be chairing this session on Trade and Economic Cooperation in the Mediterranean at this year’s OSCE PA Mediterranean Forum. As you know, I have a very strong and longstanding interest in both the Mediterranean and in trade and economic issues. I have attended many meetings of the Mediterranean Forum; I also attended the special hearing organized by Mr. Alcee Hastings ...