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Meeting between Her Excellency Melita Gabric, Ambassador of the European Union to Canada and Mr. Francesco Sorbara, MP, President of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association

MP Francis Drouin, President of the Canadian Branch and First Vice-President of the APF, chaired the meeting on behalf of the APF’s President. The members of the permanent delegation discussed the political situations in Armenia, Lebanon and Mali.

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.

The Pan-African Parliament Bureau extended an invitation to the Honourable Mauril Bélanger, PC, MP, in his capacity as Co-Chair of the Canada-Africa Parliamentary Association, to take part in the opening ceremony for the Sixth Ordinary Session and to address Parliament.

The Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Senator, Vice-president of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Committee on Middle East Questions (MEQ), called an extraordinary meeting of this committee to discuss recent developments in Palestine and in Libya. The Committee received a briefing from the Secretariat regarding the ...

The Right Honourable Lindsay Hoyle, MP, Chairman of Ways and Means of the House of Commons, and Sir Robert Rogers KCB, Clerk of the House of Commons; Mr. Bob Twigger, Secretary to the House of Commons Commission; and Dr. William M. Shija, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).

On April 7, 2021, the Hon. Salma Ataullahjan, Senator, the Hon. Kim Pate, Senator, Ms. Iqra Khalid, MP, and Ms. Yasmin Ratansi, MP, attended a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on women’s economic empowerment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Ataullahjan highlighted that Canadian women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. She also noted that the ...

Nothing precludes an independent Senator or MP from being a member of the executive. To the extent that it is possible given the desirability that each political party should be represented on the executive and the size of these parties, members should not be eligible to serve on more than one association’s executive committee.

As Mary Simon has stated: “ When we can no longer hunt on the sea ice, and eat what we hunt, we will no longer exist as a people.” Farley Mowat, a Canadian writer who loves the Arctic, used to remind us that it is more than a place; it is a state of mind. As Nuttal, Forest and Mathiesen put it so excellently:

Mr. Simon Blackburn, Private Secretary to the Lord Speaker, House of Lords. The objectives of the meetings were to exchange information between the three Upper Houses about how their houses can address political disengagement amongst their citizens; strategies for improvement, including transparency and accountability; and what the different ...