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The newly elected members of the Dominican House of Assembly participated in the post-election seminar, which is the oldest program run by the CPA. This was the second virtual seminar of its kind and was attended by representatives from throughout the Commonwealth. Ms. Yasmin Ratansi, M.P., Chair of the Canadian Branch, was invited to be a panelist. She presented approaches to conducting ...

The President noted that the OSCE PA had always been a strong supporter of the Kazakh Chairmanship of the OSCE and applauded the personal work of the Secretary of State and Foreign Minister, Kanat Saudabayev. In this regard, he expressed his full support for the efforts of the Kazakh Chairmanship to organize an OSCE summit meeting this year.

Les sénateurs et les députés représentent le Parlement du Canada au pays et à l’étranger en participant aux activités organisées par les associations parlementaires. À l’échelle internationale, le Parlement du Canada entretient des relations parlementaires notamment par l’entremise d’associations parlementaires officielles multilatérales et bilatérales qui œuvrent pour la ...

From 22–24 February 2022, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) UK, in partnership with the non-governmental organization Mission 89, held a virtual workshop to explore techniques to prevent sports trafficking, a form of human trafficking where individuals are “exploited through the false promise of the opportunity to play sports professionally.” Sébastien Lemire, Member of ...

SECO Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly

More than 40 heads of national delegations and the elected members of the Bureau met on July 7, 2020 to a Standing Committee meeting. The Standing Committee meets three times a year to guide the work of the Assembly and would have met in Vancouver this week had the 2020 Annual Session not been cancelled due to the pandemic.

The new Speaker of the House of Commons, the Honourable Greg Fergus, was in attendance, along with several senators, Members of Parliament, and former staff. Former Senator Andreychuk and Ms. Bélanger highlighted how the Association has played an important role in the co-founders’ lives and has had a positive influence on Canadian and African parliamentarians. The Honourable René Cormier ...

In partnership with the UK Modern Slavery & Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (Modern Slavery PEC), CPA UK hosted this two-day international virtual conference for parliamentarians, survivors of modern slavery, human trafficking and forced labour, NGOs, government officials, researchers and civil society organisations from around the Commonwealth and beyond on “Assisting and Protecting ...

From 18–22 July 2015, Senator David Wells, Vice-Chair led a delegation from the Canadian Section of the Canada–United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG) to the 69th Annual Meeting of the Council of State Government’s Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) in Savannah, Georgia. The other members of the delegation were Senators Jane Cordy and Céline Hervieux-Payette, P.C. and Ms. Libby ...

Recherche Rapport MEMBRES DE LA DÉLÉGATION ET PERSONNEL Du 15 au 18 juillet 2012, M. Rick Dystra, député, vice-président, a représenté la Section canadienne du Groupe inteparlementaire Canada-États-Unis à la 67e Réunion annuelle de la Conférence législative du Midwest (CLM) de la «Council of State Governments »