Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from December 2006

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from December 2006

Radio frequency identification and the need to protect personal information.
December 22, 2006... Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an emerging use of technology that could permit unprecedented collection of personal information. This, in turn, linked with other information data bases, many without the knowledge or consent of...

Quebec National Assembly's Communication Plan.
December 22, 2006... This past spring the Office of the National Assembly of Quebec adopted its Public Communications Plan for 2005 to 2009. This article summarizes the objectives of the Plan, as well as the means to be used in achieving them. Since the end of...

Round table on Senate reform.
December 22, 2006... On May 30, 2006, the Government introduced Bill S-4 which would introduce an eight-year tenure for new Senators instead of the present provision which allows Senators to remain in office until age 75. A Special Senate Committee, chaired by...

Party discipline and democratic reform in Japan.
December 22, 2006... In 2005, the Japanese Upper House defeated the government's postal privatisation bill. Several members of the governing Liberal Democratic Party voted with the opposition. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took this defeat as tantamount to a...

Parliamentary review of estimates: initiatives and prospects.
December 22, 2006... There appears to be a strong consensus, if not unanimity, among parliamentarians and parliamentary observers about the need for Parliament and its committees to become more effective in reviewing government spending. Few recent commentators on...

A Model Legislature in Alberta.
December 22, 2006... There is a pregnant silence on the floor of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, interrupted by three staccato raps on the heavy mahogany doors at the front of the chamber. The doors swing open, members shuffle to their feet, and a man intones,...

Interview with Canada's Parliamentary Librarian.(Interview)
December 22, 2006... Why did you want to take on the role of Parliamentary Librarian? I must say, I was honoured to be considered for this role because it is one that draws on my passion as a political historian and my strong desire to help parliamentarians...

Assemblee nationale: Quebec.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... Committees On September 13, 2006, in compliance with an order given by the National Assembly to hold a general consultation with reference to the document entitled "Towards a Government Policy to Combat Racism and Discrimination", the...

House of commons.(Legislative Reports)(Canada)
December 22, 2006... With the summer adjournment at an end, the House reconvened on September 18, 2006, under the shadow of mounting casualties in Afghanistan and of the terrible events at Dawson College in Montreal. Members were also informed that a vacancy had...

Yukon.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... Yukoners elected their 32nd Legislative Assembly on October 10, 2006. The Yukon Party won a majority, taking 10 of the Assembly's 18 seats. The Liberal Party won five seats with the New Democratic Party claiming the other 3. This result marked...

Senate.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... When Parliament resumed after the summer adjournment at the end of September, the Senate faced a barrage of criticism for its lengthy committee study of Bill C-2, the Federal Accountability Act. As the Conservative government's first piece of...

New Brunswick.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... The Fifty-fifth Legislative Assembly was dissolved on August 18, 2006, just over three years into the Bernard Lord Government's mandate. At dissolution the standings in the House were: 28 Progressive Conservatives; 26 Liberals, and one...

Saskatchewan.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... Gordon Barnhart delivered his first Speech from the Throne on October 26th at the Opening of the Third Session of the 25th Legislature. Dr. Barnhart had been installed as Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan on August 1st. His arrival at the...

Ontario.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... On October 31, 2006, Claude DesRosiers, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario announced his retirement effective December 31, 2006. Mr. DesRosiers has served as Clerk for 20 years and will be greatly missed. Mr. DesRosiers started...

Manitoba.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... Following the summer recess, MLAs returned to the Chamber on November 15, 2006 to hear Lieutenant Govemor John Harvard deliver the NDP Government's ninth Speech from the Throne, opening the 5th Session of the 38th Manitoba Legislature. ...

Prince Edward Island.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... The Fourth Session of the Sixty-second General Assembly opened on November 16, 2006, with the reading of the Speech from the Throne by the Lieutenant Governor, Barbara A. Hagerman. This occasion marked her inaugural Speech from Throne; she was...

British Columbia.(Legislative Reports)
December 22, 2006... On September 5, 2006, the government announced in the media that the House would likely convene for a one-day sitting this fall, rather than for the regularly-scheduled seven weeks indicated in the parliamentary calendar. Members of the...

CPA activities: the Canadian scene.(Commonwealth Parliamentary Association)(Conference news)
December 22, 2006... 28th Canadian Regional Parliamentary Seminar The 28th Annual CPA seminar was held in Victoria, British Columbia from October 12-14, 2006. The host for the session was Bill Barisoff, Speaker of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly....

Keep democrary out of court.(Letter to the editor)
December 22, 2006... Sir: Heather MacIvor raises some interesting points in her guest editorial in the autumn edition of the Canadian Parliamentary Review. Her main point is that electoral reform could be achieved by using s. 3 of the Charter to challenge some...