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OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and ODIHR Joint Event on "Realizing Gender Equality in Parliaments: Transforming Institutions, Delivering for all Women and Men" By videoconference Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (SECO)

A Canadian delegation participated in the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU’s) parliamentary event, organized with UN Women and held during the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) on 5 March 2013 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The IPU’s theme was Parliamentary strategies for tackling violence against women and girls, which complemented ...

Meeting of the Bureau of the Network of Women Parliamentarians – June 2, 2020 The Bureau is the organizing committee of the APF’s Network of Women Parliamentarians. It sets the agenda and decides on other administrative matters for the main committee. At the Bureau’s videoconference meeting, Member of Parliament Marie-France Lalonde, rapporteur of the Canadian Branch of the AP,F was ...

The meeting was attended by the Honourable Senators Jim Munson, Co-Chair; Salma Ataullahjan; René Cormier; Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia; and MPs Sven Spengemann, Co-Chair; Rob Oliphant; Terry Duguid, Yasmin Ratansi; and Gabriel Ste-Marie. First, they welcomed the Chargé d’affaires and a Minister representing the Kenya High Commission in Canada, who discussed current affairs in Kenya and answered ...

Within 60 days of a delegation returning to Canada from abroad, a report is published, disclosing travel and hospitality expenses broken down by individual or group.

A delegation of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visited the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from February 19-24, 2011. The Canadian Branch was represented by the following delegation: · Mr. Russ Hiebert, MP, Chair of the Canadian Branch, Leader of the delegation · The Honourable Elizabeth Hubley, Senator · The Honourable Donald Plett, Senator · Mr. Merv ...

The members of the delegation actively participated in debates in the Assembly and in a number of committee meetings, in particular, the Political Affairs Committee, the Economic Affairs and Development Committee, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, and the Committee on Refugees, Migration and Population. The Canadian delegates also attended meetings of the various political ...

Webinar: The Global Economic Crisis and the International Response By videoconference Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association (CANA)

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 ...

MP Leona Alleslev, a rapporteur for this committee, participated in a virtual visit to Germany, together with the Honorable Vernon White, Senator and MP Cheryl Gallant. The meeting was divided into two panels: the first addressed biological weapons and biosecurity, and the second addressed outer space. An informal discussion followed on the committee’s upcoming activities, scheduled to take ...