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The interaction with state legislators enables members of the Canadian Section of the IPG to achieve better the aim of finding points of convergence in respective national policies, initiating dialogue on points of divergence, encouraging exchanges of information and promoting better understanding on shared issues of concern. Moreover, the meetings with state legislators provide members of the ...

At the invitation of Her Excellency Raziah Ahmed, Senator, President of the Senate, and His Excellency Wade Mark, M.P., Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, the Honourable Leo Housakos, Speaker pro tempore of the Senate, led a parliamentary delegation on an official visit to Trinidad and Tobago on March 15-17, 2015.

The Canadian Section of the IPG has a long association with the Can/Am BTA, and typically attends both the fall meeting in Washington, D.C. and its spring meeting in Ottawa. The Can/Am BTA is a coalition of businesses, public-sector organizations and individuals with an interest in bilateral trade and tourism. Its mission is to maximize commercial activity and ensure continued growth in cross ...

The NGA, which meets in the winter and summer each year, is supervised by a chair, vice chair and nine-person executive committee, and governors participate on four issue-related standing committees – Economic Development and Commerce; Education and Workforce; Health and Homeland Security; and Natural Resources; on occasion, they also participate on special ad hoc bipartisan committees and ...

From August 31st to September 7th 2011, nine Canadian parliamentarians were in France for the 38th Annual Meeting of the Canada-France Interparliamentary Association. Senator Claudette Tardif led the delegation, comprised of Senator Gérald Comeau, Senator Jean-Claude Rivest, and Members of Parliament Lois Brown, Jacques Gourde, Bernard Trottier, Yvon Godin, Robert Aubin, and Mauril Bélanger ...

· creating an independent procurement ombudsman who will ensure that the government has an open and fair competitive bidding process for government contracts.

However, Denmark had experienced first-hand how difficult it was sometimes to coordinate procurement of new capabilities, when it failed to convince seven of its partners to buy new armoured personnel carriers jointly. It was important therefore to start with small, modest projects, the speaker noted.

In assessing the defence budgets of NATO members, it is important to recognize that there is no shared understanding of what a defence budget is. Thus, to capture defence procurement a member state may make outside of its defence budget, NATO’s Policy and Planning Division considers defence expenditures as a whole.

However, Denmark had experienced first-hand how difficult it was sometimes to coordinate procurement of new capabilities, when it failed to convince seven of its partners to buy new armoured personnel carriers jointly. It was important therefore to start with small, modest projects, the speaker noted.

The interaction with state legislators enables members of the Canadian Section of the IPG to achieve better the aim of finding points of convergence in respective policies, initiating dialogue on points of divergence, encouraging exchanges of information and promoting better understanding on shared issues of concern. Moreover, the meetings with state legislators provide members of the Canadian ...