Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from December 2005

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from December 2005

The Vaid case and the protection of parliamentary employees against human rights discrimination.(Towards a Theory of Parliamentary Privilege in Canadian Public Law)
December 22, 2005... The law of Parliament in Canada with respect to privilege is now substantially clearer due to a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court issued on May 20th, 2005. In this landmark decision, entitled House of Commons and the Honourable Gilbert...

Bill 202: the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act.
December 22, 2005... This article looks at the Standing Orders and Practices used for dealing with Private Members' Bills in Alberta. It describes the obstacles that had to be overcome in order to deal with drug abuse among children. ********** In 1993...

A Quebec perspective on women in politics.
December 22, 2005... Women currently hold 40 of the 122 seats in the Quebec National Assembly. In the April 2003 election, there was a remarkable 7.2% increase in the number of women elected, the second largest increase in Quebec's contemporary parliamentary...

The Office of the Auditor General in Ontario.(Ontario Audit Act amendments and history )
December 22, 2005... Variations among democratic governments are endless but a common characteristic is the way control of the public purse is exercised. This is particularly true in Westminster style legislatures based on principles of responsible government. Even...

Rethinking the role of parliamentary libraries.
December 22, 2005... Parliamentary and legislative libraries usually have a very pragmatic approach to the documentary needs of elected representatives and their staffs. The collections built up over the past 200 years devoted considerable room to literary and...

Round table : the changing role of a legislators.
December 22, 2005... One of the sessions at the Twenty-Seventh Canadian Regional Seminar of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association featured a discussion of the changing role of Members of Parliament and provincial legislators. The following extracts from the...

New speaker in British Columbia.(Bill Barisoff appoints speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... On September 12, 2005, Bill Barisoff, Member for Penticton-Okanagan Valley, was elected as the 36th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Mr. Barisoff served as Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection and Minister of...

New speaker in Ontario.(Michael A. Brown)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... The new Speaker of the Ontario Legislative Assembly is Michael A. Brown. He represents the riding of Algoma-Manitoulin. Born in Sarnia, he is a graduate from Humber College of Applied Arts and Technologies and the University of Western...

Twenty-seventh Canadian Regional Parliamentary Seminar.(CPA Activities: The Canadian Scene)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... Prince Edward Island was host of the 27th Canadian Regional Parliamentary Seminar from October 20-23, 2005. Approximately forty five delegates and observers from all jurisdictions except the Northwest Territories were represented. Speaker Greg...

Fourth Canadian Parliamentary Seminar.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... From November 20-26, 2005 some twenty-one individuals from all parts of the Commonwealth attended a seminar hosted by the Canadian Branch of CPA. The first session dealt with the Commonwealth and the Role of the CPA. The Speakers were...

New Clerk of the House.(Audrey O'Brien appointed by house of commons of canada)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... On October 7, 2005 Audrey O'Brien was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons replacing William Corbett who retired. She had been Acting Clerk since May 2005 and Interim Head of Parliamentary Precinct Services since March 2005. A native of...

New Parliamentary Librarian.(William R. Young )(Brief Article)
December 22, 2005... William R. (Bill) Young was appointed Parliamentary Librarian in November 2005. He rejoins the Library of Parliament after a two-year secondment to the Department of Social Development as Departmental Assistant to the Deputy Minister....

Manitoba.(John Loewen resignedhis seat in Manitoba Legislature)(Manitoba Legislature was honoured Michaelle Jean on her first official visit)(Legislative reports)
December 22, 2005... The Manitoba Legislature has been relatively quiet since the House adjourned for the summer on June 16, 2005. Legislative activity resumed first in the Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, which met on four occasions this fall. During...

Assemblee Nationale: Quebec.(Legislative Reports)(Jean-Charles-Bonenfant Foundation grants scholarships to university graduate students)(Roch Cholette elected as member of the National Conference of State Legislatures)(Michel Bissonnet submitted a brief to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
December 22, 2005... The President of the Assembly, Michel Bissonnet, submitted a brief to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) concerning the accessibility of the Quebec National Assembly Channel to all cable television customers....

House of Commons.(canada legislative assembly reports)
December 22, 2005... Parliament reconvened on September 26, 2005. Following a tense spring marked by several attempts to defeat the government, Members returned for what would likely be the final months of the 38th Parliament. Prime Minister Paul Martin promised to...

Prince Edward Island.(Prince Edward Island government case against federal government on fisheries management)(Commonwealth Parliamentary Association host for Canadian Region Parliamentary Seminar)(Marion L. Reid will publish her new book 'These Roots Run Deep ')
December 22, 2005... The Third Session of the Sixty-second General Assembly began on November 16, 2005, with the reading of the Speech from the Throne by J. Leonce Bernard, Lieutenant Governor. In recognition of 2005 being the Year of the Veteran, Gregory J....

Newfoundland and Labrador.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2005... The Second Session of the 45th General Assembly opened on March 15th as Lieutenant Governor Edward Roberts delivered the second Throne Speech of the Williams Administration. Prior to the start of the Session, on February 14th, the Governments...

Ontario.(Alvin Curling appointed as Canadian Ambassador to the Dominican Republic)(Legislative Assembly of Ontario conducting election for Speaker of the Legislative Assembly)
December 22, 2005... On June 13, 2005 the Ontario Legislature adjourned for the summer. On August 19, 2005, Alvin Curling, MPP for Scarborough-Rouge River and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly resigned to take up an appointment as Canadian Ambassador to the...

Saskatchewan.(Legislative appointments)
December 22, 2005... In anticipating the opening of the Second Session on November 7th, Premier Lorne Calvert announced that Len Taylor will assume the duties of Government House Leader from Harry Van Mulligen. Mr Taylor will remain as Minister of Government...

Senate.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2005... As the second house of Canada's Parliament, the Senate is dependent on the House of Commons for the bulk of its legislative business and has a constitutional role to give "sober second thought" to the legislation it receives. The autumn months,...

British Columbia.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2005... Following the May 17, 2005 provincial election, reported on in the previous issue, the first session of the Thirty-Eighth Parliament opened on September 12, 2005. The election of the Speaker was the first order of business for the newly elected...

Nunavut.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2005... Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, a former journalist, author and Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, was appointed Nunavut's new Commissioner in April of this year. Her first official appearance in the Chamber was on May 5, when she gave...

New Brunswick.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2005... Several Standing Committees have been active since the adjournment of the House on June 30, 2005. The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Standing Committee on Crown Corporations each held several weeks of meetings in an effort to...

David C. Docherty, Legislatures (The Canadian Democratic Audit Series).(Legislatures)(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... David C. Docherty, Legislatures (The Canadian Democratic Audit Series), Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. Legislatures offers an audit of the democratic nature of Canada's legislative bodies. As part of the Canadian Democratic Audit Series, the...

Busboy: From Kitchen to Cabinet.(Parliamentary Book Shelf)(Book Review)
December 22, 2005... Busboy: From Kitchen to Cabinet by Don Boudria, Optimum Publishing International Inc., Montreal, Maxville, Ottawa, 2005. For more than twenty years Don Boudria was an observer and participant in most of the political and parliamentary...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
December 22, 2005... Sir: In his review of my book, Elections, Dennis Pilon while agreeing with many of my conclusions about various Canadian election procedures, takes exception to my analysis of the efficacy of First Past the Post (FPTP) and characterizes my...