Canadian Parliamentary Review articles from September 1998

Canadian Parliamentary Review archives from September 1998

Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations.
September 22, 1998... A lawyer, Normand Grimard was appointed to the Senate in 1990. He is author of L'indispensable Senat: Defense d'une institution mal aimee, Editions vent d'ouest, Hull, 1995. Regulations give form and substance to legislation. Departmental...

PARLINFO: electronic access to Canada's parliamentary heritage.
September 22, 1998... Claude Brind' Amour is Chief, Dissemination Section at the Library of Parliament. With Mike Graham, he co-ordinated the first part of the Parlinfo project (1966-today) and will be co-ordinating the second part (1867-1965) in forthcoming years....

Electoral systems and representative legislatures.
September 22, 1998... Lisa Young is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. This article is based on a presentation to the Canadian Study of Parliament Group on April 25, 1998. There are several reasons for...

Testifying before parliamentary committees.
September 22, 1998... David McInnes works in Ottawa in the government relations and public affairs fields. This article is an extract from a book to be published this fall by the University of Ottawa Press (in the collection sponsored by the Centre on Governance)....

Canada's culture/trade quandary and the magazine case.
September 22, 1998... Dennis Browne is Director of the Centre for Trade Policy and Law at Carleton University. This article is based on a presentation to a Library of Parliament seminar on February 20, 1998. Canada has long been a strong supporter of open...

Our referendums are not direct democracy.
September 22, 1998... Don Rowat is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Carleton Unviersity, Ottawa. He is former president of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group. This is a revised version of his remarks at the 1998 CSPG Spring Conference. Though the...

Yukon celebrates its 100th anniversary.
September 22, 1998... Patrick L. Michael is Clerk of Yukon Legislative Assembly and Chief Electoral Officer. To mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Yukon Territory following the Gold Rush of 1898, the Legislative Assembly travelled to Dawson City...

Manitoba (legislative reports).
September 22, 1998... The 4th Session of the 36th Legislature continued to sit during the months of May and June. A significant portion of Assembly time was spent on the consideration of departmental estimates in the three sections of the Committee of Supply. Three...

CPA activities: the Canadian scene: 37th Canadian Regional Conference.
September 22, 1998... The annual conference bringing together parliamentarians from the branches of the Canadian Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association was held in Toronto from July 18 - 24, 1998. More than 90 legislators and observers from every...

Parliamentary privilege in Canada 2d ed.
September 22, 1998... by J.P. Joseph Maingot, Q.C., published by House of Commons and McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997, pp. xxiv, 404 Privilege does not really fit into the traditional definition of parliamentary procedure since it involves legal rights,...

Senate (considered several government bills).
September 22, 1998... The eight-week period between the resumption of sitting following Easter break and the adjournment for summer is usually a busy one for the Senate. In addition to debating legislation already before the Senate from the House of Commons as well...

Assemblee nationale Quebec.
September 22, 1998... The extensive hours of meeting at the Assembly took place from 26 May 1998 to 19 June 1998. During this period, the Assembly passed thirty-six Government bills - three of which were adopted within the framework of a motion to suspend rules of...