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Senator McPhedran also underscored some of the challenges faced by parliamentarians and policy makers when trying to apply GBA+, including those pertaining to the availability of data and the resources required to conduct parliamentary studies that adequately represent the groups effected by proposed legislation.

The Honourable Senator Peter V. Harder, P.C., Deputy Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade; and Mr. Chris d’Entremont, M.P., Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committee of the Whole.

The Canadian delegation was led by Member of Parliament Marie-France Lalonde, Chair of the Canadian branch of the Association, and consisted of Senator René Cormier, Association’s Vice-Chair, as well as Members of Parliament Lena Metlege Diab, Fayçal El-Khoury, Laila Goodridge, Denis Trudel and Dominique Vien.

The Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) was represented by Senator Marilou McPhedran, Senator Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, MP, Mr. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, MP, Ms. Iqra Khalid, MP, Ms. Lindsay Mathyssen, MP, and Mr. Sven Spengemann, MP.

From October 11 to 18, 2009, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate, led an official delegation composed of the Honourable Senators Marcel Prud'homme, P.C., David Tkachuk and Elizabeth Hubley, to Albania, Italy, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the Holy See and Malta.

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 ...

From January 16 to 20, 2012, the Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, led a parliamentary delegation on an official visit to Colombia. The delegation was composed of Mrs. Ann Kinsella, the Honourable Joan Fraser, Senator, and the Honourable Nancy Ruth, Senator. Accompanying the delegation were Ms. Janelle Feldstein, Chief of Staff of the Speaker of the Senate, and Ms ...

The following members of the Executive Committee attended the meeting: Senator Raúl Bolaños-Cacho Cué of Mexico, Vice-President (North America); MNA Radjendrekoemar Debie of Suriname, Second Vice-President (South America); and Senator Anthony Vieira of Trinidad and Tobago, Vice-President (The Caribbean).

From April 14 to 21, 2007, the Honourable David Hawker, M.P., Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia, led a parliamentary delegation to Vancouver, Whistler, Victoria, Ottawa and Niagara Falls at the invitation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Honourable Peter Milliken. The delegation was composed of Mr. Michael Hatton, M.P., the Honourable Kay Patterson, Senator, the ...

The Honourable Paul E. McIntyre, Q.C., Senator, International President of the Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaires de la Francophonie (APF) and members of the APF; Mr. Harold Albrecht, M.P., Chair of the Canada-Armenia Friendship Group and members of the Friendship Group.