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Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation respecting its participation at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southern Legislative Conference (SLC) Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America July 16 – 20, 2011

On 5 May 2022, the Executive Committee of the Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association (RUUK) hosted a luncheon for Her Excellency Ms. Susannah Goshko, British High Commissioner to Canada. Members of the Executive Committee had previously met with Ms. Goshko at the British High Commission in December 2021 and were pleased to resume the fruitful dialogue they had commenced on that ...

During the 63rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, whose priority theme was "Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls", the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women have organized a parliamentary meeting entitled "Investing in gender equality: Parliaments ...

Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation respecting its participation at the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York, New York, United States of America, March 11, 2015 - Diplomacy - Parliament of CanadaTravel Costs

On April 16th, 2020, Senator Rosa Galvez – Vice-Chair of the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas and Vice-President (North America) of ParlAmericas' Parliamentary Network on Climate Change – participated in ParlAmericas’ first meeting held since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. This virtual meeting in Spanish was designed for Parliamentary staff. At the meeting, which was ...

Members of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union UIPU) participated, two of whom, Rachel Blaney, MP and Sven Spengemann, MP were featured presenters together with Dr. Pechdau Tohmeena from Thailand’s House of Representatives and David Clarke from the World Health Organization. Senator Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia also attended.

At this meeting, MP Cheryl Gallant joined other members of the Committee in attendance to consider two draft reports. The first was a special report entitled “COVID-19, International Security, and the Importance of NATO’s Science and Technology Network,” and the second was a report of the Sub-Committee on Technology Trends and Security entitled “Urban Warfare.”

From December 17 to 18, 2009, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate, led an official delegation composed of Mrs. Ann Kinsella, Ms. Janelle Feldstein, Chief of Staff of the Speaker of the Senate, Ms. Catherine Piccinin, Secretary to the Delegation and Deputy Principal Clerk, Parliamentary Exchanges, to the United Nations in New York, United States.

As the relationship between China and Canada has seen many improvements in the recent years between governments, businesses and civil society, calls for a renewal of parliamentary relations between the two countries have been more frequent. In 2009, the Chinese minister of Foreign Affairs invited Speaker Kinsella to come on an official visit to China. This invitation was reiterated by Mr. LU ...

The opening ceremony included an address from David Carty, Honourable Speaker of the Anguilla House of Assembly, Chairman of the Regional CPA and President of the Anguilla Branch. Mr. Carty emphasized that the CPA makes up for the often limited training available to Parliamentarians.