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Visit of the Honourable George J. Furey, QC, Speaker of the Senate, and a Parliamentary Delegation, Democratic Republic of Nepal and Republic of India From February 10 to 14, 2020, the Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable George J. Furey, QC, led a parliamentary delegation to the Democratic Republic of Nepal and the Republic of India. The delegation consisted of the Honourable Senator Donald ...

The 206th Session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Governing Council (Extraordinary Virtual Session) took place 1–3 November 2020. The Governing Council is the primary oversight body of the IPU and is made up of representatives from all member parliaments. It has a variety of subsidiary bodies which report to it, including the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, the ...

In addition, the Chair informed participants that the Canadian Section of FIPA had elected Mr. Randy Hoback, M.P, as its new Chair at its annual general meeting, and asked that the he be designated as the parliamentary delegate of Canada to the FIPA Executive Committee in replacement of outgoing Chair of the Canadian section, Mr. James Bezan, M.P. This request was submitted to the ...

For over 25 years, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has held post-election seminars for national and sub-national parliaments. The seminars provide parliamentarians with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of their roles and responsibilities including those relating to parliamentary practices, procedures, legislation, scrutiny, oversight, and representation. They also ...

The Canada-Africa Parliamentary Association was represented by the Honourable Mauril Bélanger, P.C., MP and Co-Chair, the Honourable Raynell Andreychuk, Senator and Co-Chair, the Honourable Mobina S.B. Jaffer, Q.C., Senator and Vice-Chair, David Christopherson, MP and Vice-Chair, Lois Brown, MP and Vice-Chair, Tyrone Benskin, MP and Director, Cheryl Gallant, MP, Mike Lake, MP, and Wai Young ...

Consisting of Bernard Trottier, MP, the delegation was accompanied by Philippe Méla, acting Administrative Secretary of the Branch.

Between May 2nd and May 10th 2015, 22 Parliamentarians from Canada, Cook Islands, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Malta, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Rwanda, Seychelles, and Uzbekistan travelled to the United Kingdom to observe the May 7th general election. The Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association was represented by Senator Nancy Ruth (Conservative), Senator David Smith ...

MP Francis Drouin, President of the Canadian Branch and First Vice-President of the APF, chaired the meeting on behalf of the APF’s President. The members of the permanent delegation discussed the political situations in Armenia, Lebanon and Mali.

In New Zealand, the delegation met with: the Honourable Dame Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General of New Zealand; the Right Honourable Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand; the Honourable Margaret Wilson, MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives; the Honourable Chris Carter, Minister of Conservation; Dr. the Honourable Lockwood Smith, M ...

The Honourable David McGuinty, P.C., M.P., President of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and the Union interparlementaire (UIP) Executive Committee Vice-President for the Twelve Plus geopolitical Group (12+), the Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Senator and President of the IPU Committee on Middle East Questions and Sven Spengemann, M.P. and member of the Bureau of the ...