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26th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF), Hanoi, Vietnam (2018)

On September 26, 2022, the Hon. Marilou McPhedran, Senator, attended a meeting of the Steering Committee of the Twelve Plus Group in her capacity as a Bureau member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) Sustainable Development Committee. Participants discussed several matters relating to the Group’s activities, including its priorities at the 145th Assembly in Kigali, Rwanda ...

The Minister-Counsellor provided information on the economic relationship between Canada and France and statistics on trade between the two countries in recent years for various industry sectors. She noted some of the industry sectors that have shown significant growth and those that have experienced some decline, and highlighted priority sectors for the Embassy’s Trade Commissioner Service ...

The Executive Secretary shall be accountable to the Executive Committee, particularly to the Chair, and shall be responsible for providing the administrative management for activities of the Association, for determining and co‑ordinating any additional resources required to support these activities and will act as Secretary for outgoing ...

During the meeting, Canadian delegates were able to hear from and exchange with parliamentarians from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Ireland, Cyprus, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Madagascar, Seychelles, Montenegro, and Fiji. Panellists from the World Economic Forum, UN Women, Oxfam Great Britain and the Equal Pay International Coalition also made presentations. Panellists and ...

The visit made it possible to strengthen ties between the Parliament of Canada and the Senate of the Italian Republic and discuss ways to make them even stronger. Speaker Marini signed a declaration of intent with Speaker Kinsella during an official ceremony in the Senate of Canada. This declaration of intent will solidify the ties between the two upper houses and increase exchanges between ...

- Diplomacy - Parliament of Canada Les sénateurs et les députés représentent le Parlement du Canada au pays et à l’étranger en participant aux activités organisées par les associations parlementaires. À l’échelle internationale, le Parlement du Canada entretient des relations parlementaires notamment par l’entremise d’associations parlementaires officielles multilatérales et ...

Founded in 1934, the SGA is the oldest of the regional governors’ associations and has a long history of promoting the common interests of the governors of the 16 U.S. southern states (see the Appendix). The SGA provides a bipartisan forum in which to help shape and implement national policy, as well as to solve regional problems, improve the quality of life of residents of the U.S. South ...

A delegation of five parliamentarians from the Canada Europe Parliamentary Association travelled to Strasbourg to participate in the summer 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 ...

6. The Statement reaffirms inter alia the key role played by WTO’s Aid-for-Trade initiative to help developing countries, particularly LDCs, to build supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructure. In connection with this topic, the Committee members were briefed by Mrs. Patricia Francis, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), on the Aid-for-Trade Work Programme ...