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The Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Senator, Vice-president of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Committee on Middle East Questions (MEQ), called an extraordinary meeting of this committee to discuss recent developments in Palestine and in Libya.

From May 13 to 17, 2016, the Speaker of the Senate of Canada, the Honourable George J. Furey, Q.C., conducted an official visit to the United Kingdom. Accompanying the Speaker were Mrs. Karen Furey, Mr. Michel Patrice, Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel and Chief Parliamentary Precinct Services Officer, and Mr. Stuart Barnable, Chief of Staff.

On July 7-10, 2008, the NATO PA Science and Technology Committee’s Sub-Committee on Energy and Environmental Security visited Ottawa and Montreal. The delegation was composed of fifteen members of parliament from various countries and the visit was hosted by the Committee’s Rapporteur, Canadian Senator Pierre Claude Nolin. The delegation examined such issues as nuclear disarmament and non ...

The first Executive Committee meeting was held prior to the General Assembly. The Executive Committee deliberated on the meeting agenda, the IPSS Charter, and the nominations of IPSS President and two Vice-Presidents. The Canadian delegate was re-elected to one of the two international vice-presidents positions.

The Honourable Donald H. Oliver, Senator, Q.C., was Canada’s representative at this workshop. During the session entitled Enhancing Accountability, he presented a paper that examined the adoption of the accounting officer model in Canada.

At the meeting, honourable Éric Forest, Senator and rapporteur of the Canadian Branch, presented his work on the draft report on the four areas of international cooperation for climate change. These four areas are financial support, technology transfer, sharing information and best practices, and technical support for developing countries.

The delegation was led by Mr. James Rajotte, M.P. and included the following members of the delegation: Hon. Ghislain Maltais, Senator, Hon. Terry Mercer, Senator, Mr. John Carmichael, M.P., and Mr. Malcolm Allen, M.P. The delegation was accompanied by Elizabeth Kingston, Executive Secretary of the Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association. The prescribed themes of the visit were ...

On April 16th, 2020, Senator Rosa Galvez – Vice-Chair of the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas and Vice-President (North America) of ParlAmericas' Parliamentary Network on Climate Change – participated in ParlAmericas’ first meeting held since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. This virtual meeting in Spanish was designed for Parliamentary staff. At the meeting, which was ...

The delegation was made up of the Hon. Rose-Marie Losier-Cool, Senator and Chair of the APF Network of Women Parliamentarians. The Macedonian Branch was also in attendance.

The French delegation was led by National Assembly Member Christopher Weissberg, Chair of the French Branch of the Association, and Senator Yan Chantrel, Chair of the France–Canada Friendship Group in the Senate.