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Joël Godin, MP, chairs the Bureau of the Parliamentary Affairs Committee (PAC). The Bureau is mandated to set the agenda and decide on other administrative matters for the main committee. The members attending via videoconference discussed the progress of the work already underway and the new studies to come for the next meeting of the commission. Among other studies, the Canadian Branch ...

The biannual meetings between the Canadian and French groups are the Association’s core activity. They enable parliamentarians to discuss subjects of common interest from differing points of view prompted by the unique political dynamics of Canada and France. The outcomes of the dialogue can then be relayed by members to their respective parliaments and governments. The last annual meeting ...

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 ...

On 13 and 14 October 2021, the Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF), represented by Marie-France Lalonde, Member of Parliament, participated in “ Le parlementarisme féminin en France et au Québec : où en sommes-nous?”, a symposium about women in parliament in France and Quebec hosted by the Commission ...

Visit to Canada of the Honourable Jin-pyo Kim, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, and a Parliamentary Delegation From April 17 to 19, 2024, the Honourable Jin-pyo Kim, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa at the invitation of the Honourable Raymonde Gagné, Speaker of the Senate and the Honourable Greg ...

On May 26, 2020, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s AdHoc Committee on Migration held a parliamentary web dialogue on the topic “Protecting refugees and migrants during the pandemic: Camps and closed centres under lockdown” as part of its efforts to promote inter-parliamentary dialogue on relevant security developments pertaining to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. This event focused on ...

• Yeliz Osman, Policy Specialist on Ending Violence Against Women at the UN Women Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, noted that it is too soon to reach conclusions on the impact of COVID-19 on violence against women, but emerging figures seem to indicate that it has increased during the pandemic. She explained that many countries in the Americas and the Caribbean recorded a ...

The FIPA Executive Committee had a very full agenda, which included regular business items such as budget approvals, financial reports, appointment of auditors, elections of the corporation's officers and activity reports. The agenda item that was of a particular interest was the discussion on the Trade Knowledge Workshop that was hosted by the Canadian Section of FIPA in Ottawa from March 18 ...

Mr. Trost concluded: “I agree with my colleague about the meeting’s valuable insights regarding advanced manufacturing, and I believe that there are many areas in which our countries can work together. Presenters also spoke about the importance of energy and exports to a successful manufacturing sector, and our countries have well-established energy and trade relationships. Moreover ...

Summit on the Rapprochement of Canadian Francophonies—June 12 and 17, 2021 The parliamentary delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) that took part in the summit on the rapprochement of Canadian francophonies, held by videoconference on June 12 and 17, 2021, consisted of Members of Parliament Francis Drouin, Marie-France Lalonde, Darrell ...