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The delegation has the honour to table its Report The delegation was comprised of the following members: The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Senator, Speaker of the Senate Mrs. Ann Kinsella The Honourable Lowell Murray, P.C., Senator The Honourable George Furey, Senator The Honourable Michael MacDonald, Senator Ms. Janelle Feldstein, Chief of Staff Mr. Charles Robert, Principal Clerk, Chamber ...

The Honourable Éric Forest, Senator, participated in the meeting of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie’s (APF) Cooperation and Development Committee by videoconference on 6 October 2021. Senator Forest proposed that a new project be developed on the impact of climate change on island, coastal and waterfront territories in francophone areas. The Committee approved this proposal.

The Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate, and a delegation of senators visited Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta from October 7 to 15, 2006.

The Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association has the honour to present its report on the Meeting of the Standing Committee and the Secretaries of Delegation, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from March 22 to 24, 2013. Canada was represented by Senator Raynell Andreychuk, Senator Joseph A. Day, Cheryl Gallant, M.P., Jack Harris, M.P., and Michelle Tittley, Association Secretary. SECRETARIES OF ...

The Honourable Éric Forest, Senator, participated in the meeting of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie’s (APF) Cooperation and Development Committee by videoconference on 6 October 2021. Senator Forest proposed that a new project be developed on the impact of climate change on island, coastal and waterfront territories in francophone areas. The Committee approved this proposal.

The delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association which attended the 55th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Arusha, Tanzania from September 28 to October 6, 2009, has the honour to present its report.

The Chair agreed with the idea of adding a fourth column to the table of strategic directions in order to state which activities were effectively carried out and at what cost. He wondered, however, what percentage such activities had within the whole IPU budget compared to, say, travel expenses or staff costs. The primary budget had decreased by about 8%, but due to fluctuations of the Swiss ...

I am very honoured to be chairing this session on Trade and Economic Cooperation in the Mediterranean at this year’s OSCE PA Mediterranean Forum. As you know, I have a very strong and longstanding interest in both the Mediterranean and in trade and economic issues. I have attended many meetings of the Mediterranean Forum; I also attended the special hearing organized by Mr. Alcee Hastings ...

This year’s Annual Spring Session was the third held in Berlin. The first came four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1993, with 16 member nations of the then North Atlantic Assembly . In November 2000, Berlin again hosted the 46 th Annual Session of the newly re-named NATO Parliamentary Assembly which by then included 19 member parliaments. This year, the now 26 delegations from ...

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 ...