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The Honourable Joseph Day, Senator and the Honourable Bryon Wilfert, P.C., M.P., led the Canadian parliamentary delegation which participated in the 16 th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentarians Forum (APPF), held in Auckland, New Zealand, from January 21 to January 25, 2007. Delegates from 27 member parliaments and several observer countries attended the 16 th Meeting. The Forum ...

In Chile, His Excellency Sebastián Piñera of the centre-right Coalition for Change, a successful businessman and senator from 1990 to 1998, won the first round of the presidential election on December 13, 2009, with 44.05% of the vote.

Just recently two parliamentary committees released reports with recommendations for Arctic policy; regarding the use of the Coast Guard to protect Canada’s interests,([1]) and the need for involvement of the people of the North in decision-making.([2])Other parliamentary Committees are actively pursuing issues related to Canada’s North, including the House of Commons Standing Committee on ...

The Delegation was composed of members of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Defence and Security Co-operation, led by Sub-Committee Chair Senator Joseph A. Day (Canada).

A delegation of three 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 enjoys 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 ...

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 ...

On March 24-27, 2008, the Sub-Committee on Democratic Governance of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security visited Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. The delegation was composed of 15 members of parliament from 10 different countries and was led by the Chairman, Tchetin Kazak (Bulgaria). Canada was represented by Senator Percy Downe, Mr. Leon Benoit, M.P ...

From March 4 to 9, 2012, His Excellency Dag Terje Andersen, President of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Norway, led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa, Victoria and Vancouver at the invitation of the Honourable Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons. The delegation was composed of Mr. Per Sandberg, Deputy Parliamentary Leader and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Justice, Ms ...

A delegation of six parliamentarians representing the Canadian Section of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA), led by the Honourable Pierrette Ringuette, Senator, travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina from 15 March through 19 March, 2010. Also participating were the Honourable Michel Rivard, Senator, Bev Shipley, M.P., Pablo Rodriguez, M.P., Nicole Demers, M.P. and Peter Julian ...

From 8 to 11 October 2010, a delegation of Canadian parliamentarians travelled to Palermo, Italy to attend the 9th Fall Meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The delegation comprised two parliamentarians: Mr. Daniel Petit, M.P., who also was Acting Head of Delegation, and the Honourable Hedy Fry, M.P. The delegation was ...