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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 ...

The Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) is composed of 58 branches, 18 associate branches and 19 observers, and it meets in annual session once a year. It has four standing committees – the Political Committee, the Parliamentary Affairs Committee, the Education, Culture and Communication Committee, and the Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs Committee – which meet once ...

On May 1st 2020, Ms. Yasmin Ratansi – Chair of the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) – participated in a meeting on the topic of “Virtual parliamentary sessions during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The virtual meeting was co-hosted by CPA and ParlAmericas; it was chaired by Bahamian Senator Ranard Henfield, Vice-President (Caribbean) of ParlAmericas’ Open ...

Just recently two parliamentary committees released reports with recommendations for Arctic policy; regarding the use of the Coast Guard to protect Canada’s interests,([1]) and the need for involvement of the people of the North in decision-making.([2])Other parliamentary Committees are actively pursuing issues related to Canada’s North, including the House of Commons Standing Committee on ...

Representing the House of Commons: Bruce Stanton, Hon. Wayne Easter, Scott Simms, Dave Mackenzie, Irene Mathyssen and Ginette Petitpas Taylor, MPs.

At this meeting, MP Cheryl Gallant joined other members of the Committee in attendance to consider two draft reports. The first was a special report entitled “COVID-19, International Security, and the Importance of NATO’s Science and Technology Network,” and the second was a report of the Sub-Committee on Technology Trends and Security ...

Visit to Canada of His Excellency Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the National Council of the Republic of Austria, and a Delegation From September 26 to 28, His Excellency Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the National Council of the Republic of Austria, led a delegation to Ottawa and Toronto at the invitation of the Honourable George J. Furey, K.C., Speaker of the Senate, and the Honourable ...

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 Working Group of the Network of Women Parliamentarians of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF) is mandated to develop a policy to prevent and manage harassment within the APF. The Working Group met by videoconference on 8 December 2020. Marie France Lalonde, Member of Parliament, attended the meeting on behalf of the Canadian Branch of the APF. At this meeting, the Chair ...

Bilateral Visit to London, Lydd and Belfast, United Kingdom, and Dublin, Ireland