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The Canadian delegates participated in the full range of meetings and related panel sessions held during the 119 th IPU Assembly. [3] During the emergency debate on “The role of parliaments in containing the global financial crisis and its economic impact, both on developing and developed countries,” Senator Oliver said:

Members considered a note prepared by the secretariat detailing responses received to the questionnaire on The Consolidation of IPU Reform. Doris Stump (Switzerland) thought some of the responses from the Swiss delegation may have accidentally been omitted; the secretariat undertook to make any necessary adjustments. With this proviso Members endorsed the secretariat’s summary of the ...

The Ukraine-NATO Interparliamentary Council is composed of two members and two alternates nominated by each of the Assembly’s five Committees plus up to ten members of the Ukrainian Parliament. In general, the Council meets twice each year – once at NATO HQ in Brussels and once in Ukraine and considers matters of common interest to NATO and Ukraine. It provides a parliamentary counterpart ...

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association held the second of its CPA High-Level Roundtables with Commonwealth High Commissioners based in London and representatives of Overseas Territories.

PNWER, which was created in 1991, is a statutory, bi-national public-private partnership composed of five U.S. states – Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington – and, in Canada, three provinces and two territories – Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. It has two meetings each year: its annual summit in the summer, and its economic ...

The presenters took turns sharing initiatives undertaken by NHRIs and Parliaments within their jurisdictions to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities. They also discussed some of the challenges faced by persons with disabilities within their countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by NHRIs and Parliaments to mitigate them. During their presentations ...

The health and socio-economic crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the already notorious inequalities existing in the hemisphere, has deepened citizen distrust in institutions, and has given rise to growing social discontent, which has manifested in various ways including social mobilization and widespread protests across the region. Recognizing the complexity of these ...

To achieve this objective, Georgia was pursuing a comprehensive agenda of political, socio-economic and security reforms, despite the dual challenge of dealing with the impact of the global financial and economic crisis and the political and economic aftermath of the August 2008 conflict.

At the invitation of the Speaker of the Parliament of New Zealand, the Honourable Margaret Wilson and the two Presiding Officers of the Parliament of Australia, the Honourable Paul Calvert, Senator, President of the Senate and the Honourable David Hawker, M.P., Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honourable Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, and a parliamentary ...

The Canadian delegation to the 28-29 February 2008 meeting of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (the Standing Committee) consisted of the Honourable Yoine Goldstein. Accompanying the delegation was Mr. Tim Williams from the Parliamentary Information and Research Service of the Library of Parliament as advisor to the delegation.