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| | The Canadian Senate In Focus |
 | | In 1896, Mowat was appointed to the Senate and served as Laurier's Government Leader in the Senate and Minister of Justice. | | | Jacques Flynn was summoned to the Senate in 1962 where he served as Leader of the Opposition from 1967-79 and 1980-84, and as Leader of the Government and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 1979-80. | | | Arthur Meighen was summoned to the Senate in 1932 and chosen Leader of the Government in the Senate in Prime Minister Bennett's Cabinet. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/senate/legisfocus/focus-e.htm
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| | The Canadian Senate - Political Forums |
| | It is not the fact that the Senate was appointed and not elected that made it ineffective against the FTA. | | | One of those Senator's appointed by Mulroney to assure the passage of both the FTA, and GST was one Nancy Clark-Teed. | | | If we have a Senate with the ability to actually block legislation and send it back to MP's and then back to the Senate etc etc, the Senate would be duplicating services, costing more tax money to inevitably invoke the legislation that was mandated to the government via voters in the first place (i.e. |
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http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2583
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| | Canadiana--Senate |
| | Canada did not have another elected Senator until 1990, when Stan Waters was chosen as a Senator for Alberta; he passed away in 1991, and we have not seen an elected Senator since that time. | | | The Constitutional Act of 1791 gave Upper and Lower Canada a Legislative Council with members that the Governor appointed for life. | | | In 1856, some of the Councillors began to serve elected terms, but the British North America Act in 1867 restored patronage appointments to the Senate. |
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http://www.geocities.com/coryds77/senate.html
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| | Canadian Senate Says Legalize Marijuana Now |
| | The country's police chiefs, also were guarded in their response to the senators' report. | | | The Senate committee reports that needed funds and resources are wasted in policing and prosecuting drug possession and that prohibition has drawn organized criminal elements. | | | The Senate committee also calls for an amnesty for anyone convicted in the past of possession of marijuana. |
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http://www.medicalmarihuana.ca/legalize.html
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| | CBC News: Same-sex legislation now law in Canada |
| | But Senator Nancy Ruth, who voted for the bill, danced in the red chamber moments before the vote. | | | In a late-night vote on Tuesday, the Senate approved the Liberal government's controversial Bill C-38 by a 46-22 vote. | | | The historic vote comes after gay and lesbian couples launched lawsuits in different provinces demanding the right to marry. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/20/samesex050720.html
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| | Mapleleafweb.com: The Canadian Senate: The History and Structure of Canada' s Upper Chamber |
| | The Fathers of Confederation define the role of the Senate within the new Canadian nation. | | | Nonetheless, the Senate’s structure remains virtually unchanged since the Fathers of Confederation decided to follow the example of most British North American colonies by establishing a Parliament with two chambers. | | | Two of the ten recommendations concerned the Senate. |
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http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/parliament/senate
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| | Motion on Tibet Introduced in Canadian Senate |
| | Honourable Senators, it is in support of the | | | rules of the Senate, the decision of when precisely to continue debate on the | | | currently forms the government, but not a majority in the Senate which is |
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http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1995/3/29-3_1.html
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| | Canadian Senate Passes Tibet Resolution |
| | The resolution calls upon the Senate to urge the Government of | | | It also instructs the Senate to urge the | | | Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet in Lithuania said, "I told my |
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http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/1995/6/17_2.html
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| | Senate - Committee Home Page |
| | What the Senate has asked the committee to do | | | A written account of what was said at the meetings |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/Committee_SenHome.asp?Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=1&comm_id=85
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| | Scoop: Mr Kelly’s Canadian Senate Gaff — Full Transcript |
| | Former Labour MP Graham Kelly, now New Zealand's High Commissioner to Canada, caused something of a stir with his attempts at humour whilst giving evidence at a Canadian Senate committee studying fisheries. | | | The Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans met this day at 10:45 a.m. | | | It did not matter if you were as good looking as Senator Johnson. |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00197.htm
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| | Describing a U. Senate Board Meeting can be difficult because the U.S. Jaycee Senate organization operates quite differently than the Canadian Senate. | | | In addition, each State has a Senate organization that holds meetings and each State is part of a Region that holds at least one meeting per year. | | | 4,500 Jaycees and 600 Senators enjoyed the beauty and pageantry of the Imperial City. |
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http://www.canadajcisenate.com
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| | Canadian Senate report needs action |
| | The Senate said marijuana should be legalized, regulated and taxed in Canada, citing the enormous damage done by the laws that currently make it a criminal offence to possess it. | | | "Canadians from every walk of life told us loud and clear that we should not be imposing criminal records on users or unduly prohibiting personal use of cannabis," the Senate report said. | | | "The Senate said marijuana should be legalized, regulated and taxed in Canada, citing the enormous damage done by the laws that currently make it a criminal offence to possess it"
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/750009/posts
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| | Canadian Senate/ Quebec Separatism |
| | At the Federal level of government, prime ministers have also wrestled with separatism. | | | The "regular" non-fiction titles on Canadian government and politics is | | | Basic information, for example, what the Senate's legislative versus 'customary' powers are, may be found in |
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http://schools.sd42.ca/Checks/SenQue.html
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