Liberal Quebec Senator Roméo Dallaire, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity, announced the presence in Ottawa of Hassan B. Jallow, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in Ottawa. During his visit, the prosecutor will exchange … Read more
Speaker of the House of Commons Andrew Scheer (Regina-Qu'Appelle, Sask.) tabled the Report to Canadians 2013 in the House. The Report to Canadians is an important component of the House Administration’s Planning and Measurement Framework, reporting on the objectives that are established in the Strategic Outlook.
The minutes for Board of Internal Economy meetings have been tabled with the Clerk of the House of Commons for September 16, June 10 and June 3, 2013. The full release is available online. Call 613-995-7882.
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance is making available on its website the online submissions from more than 330 Canadian groups and individuals who submitted their input this summer. These submissions can be viewed at: Pre-Budget Consultations Briefs 2013. As the Committee noted in June, this input was requested as part of the … Read more
The Board of Internal Economy has decided to further improve the public reporting of Members’ expenditures. In addition to the changes in the most recent Members’ Expenditures Report posted on www.parl.gc.ca, the following improvements will take effect as of April 1, 2014. Present service contracts as a stand-alone category (currently Employees’ salaries and Service contracts are … Read more
Conservative MP John Weston (West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, B.C.) convened an event on Parliament Hill to kick-off for a campaign inviting all MPs to highlight National Health and Fitness Day, on June 7, 2014. Special guests Olympian Sue Holloway and Conservative British Columbia Senator Nancy Greene Raine attended the event and spoke about their … Read more
Conservative MP Gord Brown (Leeds-Grenville, Ont.) and Conservative Nova Scotia Senator Michael L. MacDonald represented the Canadian Section of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG) at the fall meeting of the Canadian/American Border Trade Alliance (Can/Am BTA) in Washington, D.C. At the meeting, they had the opportunity to speak to the meeting’s participants about the … Read more
The Members’ Expenditures Report for 2012–2013 is now available to the public on parl.gc.ca. The Members’ Expenditures Report provides detailed information on members’ budgets and how they are used, as well as an overview of resources that are provided to Members by the House. Every dollar that is spent within members’ budgets is reported on. … Read more
From Sept. 19-22, 2013, two vice-chairs from the Canadian Section of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG) – Conservative Nova Scotia Senator Michael L. MacDonald and NDP MP François Lapointe (Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup, Que.) – led a delegation to the annual national conference of the Council of State Governments (CSG) in Kansas City, Missouri. The other members … Read more
Co-Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, Conservative MP Gord Brown (Leeds–Grenville, Ont.) and Conservative MP Brad Trost (Saskatoon-Humboldt, Sask.) attended the annual meeting of the Southern Governors’ Association (SGA) in Louisville, Kentucky. The meeting was focused on the theme of “Advanced Manufacturing in the American South.” “Canada and the 16 SGA states have a … Read more
