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Council of State Governments (CSG) - Eastern Regional Conference Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (CEUS) CEUS Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group August 4 - 6, 2025

Mr Nigel Evans (United Kingdom) agreed that the IPU should not open the door to a number of applications from semi-autonomous or disputed entities in the future. Senator Robert del Picchia (France) responded that this had been the aim of the amendment. He thought that the question of membership for Kosovo might be an issue in the future.

The Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association has the honour to present its report on the visit of the 78 th Rose-Roth Seminar, held in London, United Kingdom, from November 21-22, 2011 and the Visit of the Sub-Committee on Transatlantic Defence and Security Co-operation (DSCTC), held in Lincoln and Glasgow, United Kingdom, from November 22-25, 2011.

Senior public servants have been designated “accounting officers” in the United Kingdom since 1872, and as such, they have specific, personal responsibility for financial administration in their departments. Canada, on the other hand, has had vigorous debates over whether to adopt the accounting officer model. There have been concerns that it runs contrary to the doctrine of ministerial ...

From October 2 to 4, 2017, the Right Honourable the Lord Fowler, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, visited Ottawa at the invitation of the Honourable George J. Furey, Q.C., Speaker of the Senate, and the Honourable Geoff Regan, P.C., M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons. He was accompanied by Lady Fowler, Mr. Patrick Milner, Private Secretary to the Lord Speaker, and ...

Parliamentary Officers' Study Program (POSP) An English session of the Parliamentary Officers’ Study Program was held from October 7 to 11, 2024. Fifteen parliamentary officers from the following legislatures participated: Legislative Assemblies of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan (Canada); Parliament (Republic of Ghana); Legislative Council (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the ...

Canada is an observer to both the Committee of Ministers, where it has participated actively in a number of policy areas (the other observers are the Holy See, Japan, Mexico and the United States) and the Parliamentary Assembly (where the other observers are Israel and Mexico).

Today, Sark retains this independence but through a fully elected parliament (called the Chief Pleas); neither part of the United Kingdom nor European Union, yet not a sovereign state either. I thank the Executive of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Canadian Branch, for selecting me for this event.

· At present, 38 of the 50 U.S. states have Canada as their primary foreign export destination. · In 2012, Canada was the United States’ largest customer, and purchased goods valued at $233 billion; this amount exceeded the value of purchases by China, Japan and the United Kingdom combined.

The delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which attended the 57th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in London, United Kingdom from July 21 – 28, 2011 has the honour to present its Report.