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Meeting between the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland and the Executive Committee Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association (CANA) RUUK Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association October 30, 2024

The Chair recalled the difficulties that had been experienced in Bali concerning the procedure for the emergency item. A lack of clarity in the rules had been exacerbated by the absence of the IPU President and the inability of the Secretary General to give a firm ruling. This had resulted in the IPU Assembly being placed in the hands of the Speaker of the host Parliament. A copy of the ...

The Parliament of Canada is a member of the APPF’s executive committee, and Canadian parliamentarians also participated in the meeting of that committee on 10 November 2021. Following this meeting, Canada’s term on the executive committee, as a representative of the Americas sub-region of the APPF, was renewed for another four years.

The CPTPP and Agriculture topic was presented by Randy Hoback, MP, former Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade of the Parliament of Canada; Tori Morgan and Isabelle Rayner from the U.K.’s National Farmers’ Union; and Ken Ash, former Director of the Organisation for Co-operation and Economic Development’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate. The session ...

Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation respecting its participation at 67th annual meeting of the Council of State Government’s Southern Legislative Conference (SLC)

Over the three-day series, Members of Parliament from across the Commonwealth were invited to give presentations. Ms. Yasmin Ratansi, MP, Chair of the Canadian Branch of the CPA, gave a presentation on June 21, 2021. Her presentation focused the roles and responsibilities of standing committees in both chambers of the Parliaments of Canada.

Report Report of the Canadian Parliamentary Delegation to the Meeting of the Twelve Plus Steering Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union 1. Introduction Article 25 of the Statutes and Rules of the Inter-Parliamentary Union permits members of the IPU to form geopolitical groups. These groups play an important role in the functioning and activities of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU ...

The Canada-China Legislative Association (CACN) and the Canada-Japan Interparliamentary Group (CAJP) participated in the 28th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) to discuss regional, political, economic and environmental issues as well as the situation of women in Asia. It was an opportunity for parliamentarians to dialogue with their counterparts from both sides of ...

The parliamentarians were assisted by Mr. Leif-Erik Aune, Secretary to the Delegation, and Mr. Michael Holden, Library of Parliament Analyst to the Delegation.

Members considered a note prepared by the secretariat detailing responses received to the questionnaire on The Consolidation of IPU Reform. Doris Stump (Switzerland) thought some of the responses from the Swiss delegation may have accidentally been omitted; the secretariat undertook to make any necessary adjustments. With this proviso Members endorsed the secretariat’s summary of the ...