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Lord Purvis of Tweed (U.K.) and Ms. Marie-France Lalonde (MP, CAN) addressed a future Canada-U.K. Trade Agreement, while Mr. McKay (in collaboration with High Commissioner Goodale) and Mr. Darren Jones (MP, U.K.) led the discussion on trade and cybersecurity.

Led by Lord Purvis of Tweed, the cross-party delegation also included Mr. Andrew Percy, MP, Mr. Stephen Doughty, MP, and Ms. Anum Qaisar, MP. In support of the delegation’s objective to deepen trade ties between the two countries, RUUK organized a series of meetings and roundtable sessions with over 20 Canadian parliamentarians ...

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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 ...

Lord Purvis of Tweed (U.K.) and Ms. Marie-France Lalonde (MP, CAN) addressed a future Canada-U.K. Trade Agreement, while Mr. McKay (in collaboration with High Commissioner Goodale) and Mr. Darren Jones (MP, U.K.) led the discussion on trade and cybersecurity.

The 2014–2015 OSCE PA President, Ilkka Kanerva (Finland), chaired the Standing Committee meeting. During its meeting, the Standing Committee heard a report from the PA’s outgoing Treasurer, Mr. Roberto Battelli (Slovenia) and approved a budget increase of 2.4% increase in the budget to cover increased election observation activities, general administrative expenses, and expenses related to ...

Her Excellency Susannah Goshko, recently appointed British High Commissioner to Canada, invited the Canada–United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association (RUUK) Executive Committee to attend an informal reception at her residence on 2 December 2021. Ms. Goshko opened the event by underscoring the important relationship between Canada and the United Kingdom (U.K.) and by sharing her ...

Two decades of civil war in northern Uganda, involving the cult-like Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), cost tens of thousands of lives and forced some two million people into camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The Chair recalled the difficulties that had been experienced in Bali concerning the procedure for the emergency item. A lack of clarity in the rules had been exacerbated by the absence of the IPU President and the inability of the Secretary General to give a firm ruling. This had resulted in the IPU Assembly being placed in the hands of the Speaker of the host Parliament. A copy of the ...

The President Hon. Michael Turner opened the meeting, thanked the Head of the British delegation, Sir Menzies Campbell, for his delegation’s hosting of the Standing Committee meeting, and welcomed all participants.