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The Canada–Africa Parliamentary Association was represented by the Honourable Mauril Bélanger, PC, MP, Co-Chair; the Honourable Raynell Andreychuk, Senator, Co-Chair; the Honourable Lois Brown, MP, Vice-Chair; the Honourable Jim Munson, Senator and Director; Mike Hillyer, MP; and Yvon Godin, MP The delegation was accompanied by the Association secretary, Alexandre Roger, and the Advisor for ...

The Honourable George J. Furey, Q.C., Speaker of the Senate; The Honourable Geoff Regan, P.C., M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons; The Honourable Andrew Scheer, P.C., M.P., House Leader of the Official Opposition; Mr. Michel Patrice, Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel and Chief Parliamentary Precinct Services Officer, Senate, and Mr. Gilles Duguay, Director General of Parliamentary ...

Yuen Pau Woo, Senator, Member of the Executive Committee, was invited to be a panellist. He presented an overview of a parliamentary committee system, including examples of best practice from the Senate of Canada.

A delegation of three parliamentarians from the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association travelled to Strasbourg to participate in the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in which Canada enjoys observer status along with Israel and Mexico. The delegation was led by Association president the Hon. Lorna Milne, Senator, and included from the Senate the Hon ...

Members of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) who registered for the event include: Senator Salma Ataullahjan, Senator Pate, Mr. Spengemann, and Ms. Andréanne Larouche, MP.

The delegation met with German government and military officials, leading think-tank experts and private companies in the Berlin and Munich areas, and discussed biological and chemical threats to Euro-Atlantic and global security, the military-technological aspect of the NATO mission in Afghanistan, and in particular Improvised Explosive Devices, unmanned military systems, and food and water ...

April 16, 2024 Lunch between French Senator Chantrel, the Chair, and the Vice-Chairs Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canada-France Inter-Parliamentary Association

· In response to the global crisis, governments and central banks took various actions. Governments implemented fiscal stimulus measures, which in a number of countries are in the process of being withdrawn, and central banks took action as well, such as lowering their target for the overnight interest rate and – in some countries – such other measures as quantitative easing.

From May 12 to 15, 2008, at the invitation of the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate, Mr. William Hay, M.L.A., Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa and Halifax. The delegation was composed of members of the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission: Mr. Stephen Moutray, M.L.A.; Mr. Paul Butler, M.L.A.; Reverend Dr. Robert Coulter, M.L.A ...

The delegation met with the President of the Senate and three senators from the mainstream parties represented. The parliamentarians began by discussing the similarities and differences between the Canadian and French parliamentary agendas, the impact of a parliamentary prorogation, the use of omnibus bills, and the relationships between both ...