Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from September 1997

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from September 1997

Delegated legislation: the weak link of parliamentary accountability?
September 22, 1997... Elizabeth Weir represents Saint John Harbour in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly. This is an edited version of a paper delivered to the 36th Canadian Regional Conference in Regina in July 1997. Delegated legislation has generally...

"Delegated administrative organization" in Alberta.
September 22, 1997... Sue Olsen represents Edmonton Norwood in the Alberta Legislative Assembly. This is an edited version of a paper delivered to the 36th Canadian Regional Conference in Regina in July 1997. The author acknowledges the assistance of Lennie Kaplan...

National consultation on privacy rights and new technologies: a town hall format for committee meetings.
September 22, 1997... Valerie Steeves is Director of the Technology and Human Rights Project at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. She was a special advisory to the Standing Committee on Human Rights and the Status of Persons...

Parliamentarians: lobbyists or instruments of lobbyists?
September 22, 1997... Normand Cherry represents Saint-Laurent in the Quebec National Assembly. A committee of the Quebec National Assembly is presently considering the registration of lobbyists and the regulation of lobbying. This task inevitably involves...

Parliamentary reform in Quebec: motives and obstacles.
September 22, 1997... Jean-Pierre Charbonneau is Speaker of the Quebec National Assembly. This article is based on his presentation to the symposium on parliamentary reform organized by Le Courrier parlementaire on February 26, 1997, in Quebec City. Ever since...

Equity statements: a new approach to public accountability.
September 22, 1997... Henry E. McCandless is a writer and consultant in accountability. A principal in the Office of the Auditor General of Canada (1978-1996), he served as the governance and accountability research associate for the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing...

Obstruction in Ontario and the House of Commons.
September 22, 1997... Chris Charlton is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Toronto. In parliamentary government there is a constant tension between the government's right to govern and the opposition's right to oppose. But when does...

Legislative Assembly, Ontario.
September 22, 1997... If one word describes the Spring 1997 sitting of the Ontario Assembly, it would be `unusual'. In the first instance, because of a motion passed in the House late in 1996, the Assembly began the Spring Sessional period on January 13....

Legislative Assembly, Northwest Territories.
September 22, 1997... MLAs returned to the Legislative Assembly on May 27 for an abbreviated sitting to deal with several pieces of legislation, including: Bill 14 Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1997-98; Bill 16 An Act to Amend the Northwest Territories...

Assemblee nationale, Quebec.
September 22, 1997... On June 19, 1997, the National Assembly adjourned its proceedings for the summer holidays after having held 47 sittings since the House resumed last March. During this period, more than 60 bills were passed, several of which were of a...

Committee Activity (Quebec Assemblee nationale).
September 22, 1997... From May through July 1997, the work of the National Assembly's committees focused on a variety of reports tabled at the conclusion of investigations initiated by committee members. This period also saw the start of proceedings by the new...

Legislative Assembly, Manitoba.
September 22, 1997... As reported in the Summer edition, the flooding situation Manitoba experienced during the spring had an impact on the sittings of the Legislative Assembly. An informal arrangement was established and agreed to on a weekly basis, whereby the...

CPA (Commonwealth Parliamentary Association) activities: the Canadian scene.
September 22, 1997... Thirty-sixth Regional Conference, Regina Approximately sixty-five parliamentarians from across Canada, representing a cross section of political parties gathered in Regina from July 12-18 for the 36th Canadian Regional Conference of the...

Presiding officers of national parliamentary assemblies.
September 22, 1997... (Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1997), pp. xiii, 120 The study of the Speakership is important for a number of reasons. If parliamentary procedure is essentially the method by which a legislature's constitutional responsibilities are...

Parliamentary practice in British Columbia, 3rd ed.
September 22, 1997... The Canadian census is decennial and so too, it appears, is the updating of Parliamentary Practice in British Columbia. Neither is going to be read cover to cover, yet both are sure to be invaluable research tools. Like its predecessor...

Legislative Assembly, Saskatchewan.
September 22, 1997... The Second Session of Saskatchewan's 23rd Legislature adjourned on May 21st after sitting for 51 days. A total of 111 public bills were introduced, with all but one of the 76 government sponsored bills receiving royal assent. None of the 35...

Legislative Assembly, British Columbia.
September 22, 1997... The 2nd session of British Columbia's 36th Parliament adjourned on July 30 after 82 sitting days. It was one of the longer sessions in recent memory, and included eight weeks of night sittings. Legislation In all, fifty-three bills...