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Webinar: The Global Economic Crisis and the International Response By videoconference Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association (CANA)

On November 1st, 2010, the Honourable Donald H. Oliver, Senator, Speaker pro tempore and Chair of the Canadian IPU Group, addressed the participants at the International Parliamentary Conference, on the theme of Parliaments, minorities and indigenous peoples: Effective participation in politics. Chief Wilton Littlechild, former Canadian MP, former member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous ...

Senior public servants have been designated “accounting officers” in the United Kingdom since 1872, and as such, they have specific, personal responsibility for financial administration in their departments. Canada, on the other hand, has had vigorous debates over whether to adopt the accounting officer model. There have been concerns that it runs contrary to the doctrine of ministerial ...

The ERC is a regional association of legislators from 18 member legislatures from the United States and Canada (see the Appendix). By facilitating cooperation among its member jurisdictions, the ERC promotes multi-state or region-wide solutions to the problems and challenges facing U.S. state and Canadian provincial legislators.

The OSCE’s 2012 budget is €148,055,400 million, a decrease from the 2011 budget of €2.7 million. Approximately 65% of the OSCE’s budget is dedicated to 17 field missions and other field activities in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. The OSCE employs approximately 2831 individuals, the vast majority of whom are assigned to field missions. One ...

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 ...

It shall function within the mandate of the Speakers of the Senate and House of Commons and with the support of the Parliamentary Relations Secretariat and in affiliation from time to time with selected groups of Italian parliamentarians.

Sukh Dhaliwal, M.P. represented the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) as an observer at the 33rd Regional Conference of the Caribbean, The Americas and The Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association held at the Cuisinart Resort & Spa, Anguilla from June 28th to July 3rd, 2008. Other attendees included:

Mr. Bob Mills led a delegation of four parliamentarians to the Seventh Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region in Kiruna, Sweden, 2 to 4 August 2006. The delegation consisted of members from the House of Commons and included Mr. Larry Bagnell, Mr. Yvon Lévesque, and Mr. Bradley Trost. The delegation was assisted by Mr. Phillipe Méla, secretary to the delegation, and advisor Tim ...

A delegation of five parliamentarians from the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association travelled to Strasbourg to participate in the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in which Canada holds observer status along with Israel and Mexico. The delegation was led by Association president the Hon. Lorna Milne, Senator, and included from the Senate the Hon ...