Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from March 2006

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from March 2006

Democracy in the 21st century: advice for newly elected members of Parliament.(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... My first word of advice to a newly elected member is to stay grounded and do not lose your families. After most elections 40% of members do not return. The average life span of a parliamentarian is barely six years. If you reach ten years you...

The Prince Edward Island plebiscite on electoral reform.
March 22, 2006... On November 28, 2005 the voters of Prince Edward Island rejected a proposal for the introduction of a Mixed Member Proportional electoral system by a 2 to 1 majority. This culminated five years of discussion on electoral reform in Canada's...

How to organize an effective constituency office.
March 22, 2006... In contrast to the prestige of working on Parliament Hill, life in a constituency office takes place far from the media spotlight and away from the power of high politics. However, these unique and often overlooked institutions not only help to...

Agents of Parliament: a new branch of government?
March 22, 2006... Recently scholars in the United States and Canada have questioned the traditional conceptions of government. They have drawn attention to certain institutions, both existing and emerging, that do not fit neatly into the three-branch (executive,...

Regional responses to electoral reform.
March 22, 2006... No two democratic political systems organize elections the same way. Recognizing how central democratic party competition is to the organization and management of political power, communities create electoral systems to reflect their unique...

Procedural resources at the National Assembly of Quebec.
March 22, 2006... Over the past several years the National Assembly of Quebec has produced a wide range of documentary tools and resources in the field of parliamentary procedure. This work of compilation, analysis and publication in a variety of formats is, by...

Canada in the making: a project to digitise early official publications.
March 22, 2006... By spring 2006, Canadiana.org will be nearing completion of its rather ambitious project to digitise Canada's major official publications from the 18th and 19th centuries. Upon completion of the project, over 1.5 million pages of some of this...

New Speaker of the Senate.(Noel A. Kinsella)(Brief article)
March 22, 2006... Noel A. Kinsella was named Speaker of the Senate on February 7, 2006. Senator Kinsella was a senior public servant serving as Associate Under-Secretary of State of Canada when he was summoned to the Senate of Canada on September 12, 1990. ...

23rd Canadian Presiding Officers Conference.(CPA Activities: The Canadian Scene)
March 22, 2006... The 23rd Canadian Presiding Officers Conference took place in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories from January 19-22, 2006. The conference was attended by Speakers, Deputy Speakers, Chairs of Committee of the Whole and Clerks-at-the-Table from...

Manitoba.
March 22, 2006... On October 27, 2005, Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard delivered the NDP government's eighth Speech from the Throne, opening the Fourth Session of the Thirty-Eighth Legislature. The House sat for just over six weeks, recessing for the winter...

Alberta.(bills)
March 22, 2006... The Fall Sitting of the First Session of the 26th Legislature adjourned on December 1, 2005 after 11 sitting days. By the conclusion of the sitting, 18 Government Bills and one Private Bill were passed by the Assembly. During the Fall Sitting,...

Senate.(Legislative Report)
March 22, 2006... With the near certainty of a federal election campaign on the horizon, the Senate had to work expeditiously to clear its legislative agenda before the dissolution of the 38th Parliament. Of the bills that were dealt with by the Senate during...

Newfoundland and Labrador.(House proceedings)
March 22, 2006... The House resumed sitting on November 21, 2005. Compared to the Spring sitting the Fall sitting was relatively uneventful. The House passed 33 Bills including ten relating to a number of health care professional groups modernizing their...

New Brunswick.( Fifty-fifth Legislature)
March 22, 2006... The Third Session of the Fifty-fifth Legislature opened on Tuesday, December e, 2005, with the Lieutenant-Governor, Hermenegilde Chiasson, delivering the Speech from the Throne. The Throne Speech laid out government's blueprint for building on...

Assemblee Nationale: Quebec.(Legislative Reports)
March 22, 2006... On Wednesday December 14, 2005, the Government House Leader moved a motion to adjourn the Assembly proceedings until March 14, 200e. The following day, December 15, at the request of Premier Jean Charest, the National Assembly was convened to...

Prince Edward Island.
March 22, 2006... In late November 2005, the province held a plebiscite on a form of mixed member proportional representation. The question presented to electors was: "Should Prince Edward Island change to the Mixed Member Proportional System as presented by the...

Northwest Territories.
March 22, 2006... The fourth Session of the Fifteenth Legislative Assembly sat from May 25 to June 2, 2005. It reconvened on October 12, 2005 and concluded on October 27 with a total of nine Bills receiving assent: * Bill 3, An Act to Amend the Access to...

Yukon.(new bills )
March 22, 2006... The 2005 Fall Sitting of the Yukon Legislative Assembly began on October 27 and ended on December 19 after 30 sitting days. Ten government bills were introduced during this Sitting. These bills were: * Bill No. 16, Fourth Appropriation Act,...

Ontario.
March 22, 2006... The Second Session of the 38th Parliament adjourned on Thursday, December 15, 2005 until Monday, February 13, 2006. In the fall session, the Legislature passed a number of bills including Bill 214, An Act to amend the Election Act, the Election...

Saskatchewan.(Lorne Calvert unveils cabinet)
March 22, 2006... Premier Lorne Calvert unveiled a new cabinet on February 3rd following a wide sweeping reassignment of portfolios. The shuffle was preceded by two ministers indicating that they did not intend to seek re-election and would be leaving cabinet....

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2006... Sir: My Guest Editorial on the future of the Crown in Canada (Autumn 2005) endeavoured to clear away some unnecessary confusions and occasional emotion attending consideration of reform and modernization of our constitutional institutions...