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Report From the Senate: Hon. Paul Massicotte, Senator and Hon. Michel Rivard, Senator. From the House of Commons: Hon. Bryon Wilfert, P.C., MP (Leader of the delegation) and Mr. Merv Tweed, M.P. Staff: Ms. Elizabeth Kingston, Delegation Secretary. The Hon. Bryon Wilfert, P.C., M.P., led the Canadian parliamentary delegation that participated in the 14th Annual Assembly of the Asia Pacific ...

The Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region MEETING IN SVALBARD 3 June 2013 at 16.30 Venue: Radisson Blue Polar, Longyearbyen (Item 7 and 8 were decided at a meeting in Ny-Ålesund 5 June) Draft minutes

La rencontre visait principalement à galvaniser l’élan en faveur de la participation politique des jeunes femmes, à prendre conscience des difficultés que vivent les jeunes femmes quand elles souhaitent assumer des responsabilités politiques, à permettre aux participants de témoigner de leurs expériences et de renforcer leurs capacités, à trouver des solutions stratégiques et à ...

As Mary Simon has stated: “ When we can no longer hunt on the sea ice, and eat what we hunt, we will no longer exist as a people.” Farley Mowat, a Canadian writer who loves the Arctic, used to remind us that it is more than a place; it is a state of mind. As Nuttal, Forest and Mathiesen put it so excellently:

Robert Aubin, MP (Canada), presented a summary of a draft report on women and the cooperative movement in La Francophonie on behalf of Senator Pierrette Ringuette (Canada), who serves as co-rapporteur with Lydienne Epoube, Member (Cameroon).

Nothing precludes an independent Senator or MP from being a member of the executive. To the extent that it is possible given the desirability that each political party should be represented on the executive and the size of these parties, members should not be eligible to serve on more than one association’s executive committee.

The observers who have signed this report had the opportunity to visit eight polling stations each in Lubumbashi, for a total of 24. A list of the stations is appended. The observers were present for the opening and closing, and the counting of votes, at one of the stations. In each location, they watched the voting process for about 30 minutes. General observations

A delegation of two parliamentarians from the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association travelled to Paris, France, to participate in the annual meeting of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with representatives of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The delegation was led by Association ...

Mr. Corneliu Chisu, MP, Head of delegation; Senator Michel Rivard; Mr. Bev Shipley, MP; Ms. Nycole Turmel, MP; and Ms. Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet, MP; travelled to Strasbourg to participate in the first part-session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE or Assembly), in which Canada enjoys observer status, along with Israel and Mexico. They were accompanied by Association ...

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 sitting of the 285th session of the International Executive Committee which took place virtually on 22 January 2021. Members agreed to a ...