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On October 18, 2024, the Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable Raymonde Gagné, O.M., C.M., participated virtually in the Second Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in Geneva, Switzerland. The preparatory meetings for the Sixth World Conference are attended by Speakers nominated from the ...

Participation of the Honorable Raymonde Gagné, Speaker of the Senate, at the First Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, and the First Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Fifteenth Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) , Geneva, Switzerland On May 16 and 17, 2024, the Speaker of the ...

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On 28 June 2021, the Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association (RUUK) and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK (CPA UK) held their third bilateral meeting of 2021. As well as allowing participants to continue exploring topics of mutual interest, this meeting provided members with the opportunity to enter into conversation with two guest speakers, the Honourable Ralph ...

Mr. Robert Walter (UK) was of the opinion that ‘conflict’ was a generic term, and therefore the initial version should suffice. Mrs. Doris Stump (Switzerland) stated that during the Executive Committee meeting, she had spoken out against the amendment, but that the Kuwaiti representative had fought hard to have it included, and won the day.

Senators and Members of Parliament represent the Parliament of Canada at home and abroad by participating in activities organized by Parliamentary Associations. The Parliament of Canada's international parliamentary relations are carried out in part through formal parliamentary associations that operate on multilateral and bilateral levels to promote Canada's interests. These associations ...

June 10, 2025 Meeting with a Delegation from the Falkland Islands Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CCOM)

Ms. McPherson was a featured panellist. In her remarks, she noted that Canada has made progress in increasing women’s political participation, particularly in terms of nearly achieving a critical mass of women parliamentarians in the House of Commons (29.5%) and gender parity in the Senate (49.5%).

Many Speakers of Parliaments had not wanted to take positions since they considered it was up to the IPU bodies to decide on the matter. Moreover a few of them, although they had not supported the idea of an international treaty, and more generally, the Secretary General’s vision of the IPU’s future, had not thought that they had the ...

The multiple members of the parliamentary delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) that attended the seminar held by the APF Network of Women Parliamentarians, which addressed both the role of women parliamentarians in promoting a gender perspective while preparing national budgets and the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of ...