Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from June 1998

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from June 1998

Canadian Region of CPA: a personal memoir.
June 22, 1998... Ian Imrie was Executive Secretary of the Canadian Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association until his retirement in December 1995. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (founded in 1911) is an international association of...

Evolving speakership.
June 22, 1998... Gary Levy is editor of the Canadian Parliamentary Review. This article examines three issues related to the Office of Speaker in Canada's elected legislatures -- how Speakers are chosen, how long they remain in office and the circumstance...

Women in Canadian legislatures 1978-1998.
June 22, 1998... Norma Gauld is a Senior Reference Librarian, Reference and Information Services, National Library of Canada. She co-ordinated the research for the National Library's electronic resource: "Then & Now: Women in Canadian Legislatures." It is...

Reform of the committee system in Quebec.
June 22, 1998... Lucie Giguere is a lawyer in the Department of research and parliamentary procedure at the Quebec National Assembly. This is a revised version of a presentation to the Presiding Officers' Conference in Victoria in January 1998. The process...

Interview (with Sean Conway, Jacques Baril, John Reynolds and Lorne Nystrom, long-time members).
June 22, 1998... Due to the high turnover rate in Canadian elections, very few legislators who were in office in 1978, when the Canadian Parliamentary Review was founded, are still in office today. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Review we have interviewed...