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| | Unanimous motion of Canada's House of Commons urges democratic, fair presidential election in Ukraine (10/31/04) |
 | | In a surprise show of non-partisanship, Liberal MP Wrzesnewskyj's motion was supported by Government House Leader Tony Valeri, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew, the Liberal Defense and Foreign Affairs Caucus, the opposition House leaders and the foreign affairs critics. | | | I also want to thank Government House Leader Tony Valeri, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew, and my colleague the Honorable Walt Lastewka for supporting my efforts to send a strong message to the government of Ukraine. | | | OTTAWA - In response to disturbing reports of escalating intimidation and violence against opposition candidates and their supporters in the Ukrainian presidential election, Canada's Parliament on October 26 sent a strong message to the Ukrainian government to clean up its act. |
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| | The Hill Times - Newspaper Online. |
| | Many were housekeeping bills dealing with the machinery of government changes Prime Minister Martin put in place when he took office on Dec. 12, 2004. | | | With those two items on the near horizon, all parties with seats in the House of Commons are girding for what could be an unpredictable Parliamentary sitting. | | | It will hear from Justice Canada's Catherine Latimer, acting assistant deputy minister of the department's criminal law policy and community justice branch. |
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| | Canada's Government web page |
| | Canadas legislative body is called the House of Commons. | | | Americas legislative body is the congress, but our head of government is President Bill Clinton. | | | Canada was a part of Great Britain until 1867 and did not sever its ties completely until 1982. |
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| | Meanwhile, the Canadian government Wednesday used its conservative majority in Parliament to push NAFTA one step closer to ratification. | | | The meeting comes a day after the Canadian government released a report listing U.S. barriers to the free flow of goods, services and investment from Canada to the United States. | | | Legislation to implement NAFTA passed the lower house of Parliament by a 113-94 vote. |
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| | Departments and Agencies Canada Site |
| | Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Office of the | | | Leader of the Government in the Senate, Office of the | | | This comprehensive list provides direct links to the primary Web sites of Government of Canada departments, agencies and Crown corporations, as well as links to Web sites maintained by organizations for which various departments and agencies are responsible. |
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| | The Government House Leader Launches Parliamentary Agenda |
| | In his speech, the Government House Leader listed the first 11 of these Bills, to be introduced today in the House of Commons. | | | Valeri said the Government intends to pursue a robust agenda in Parliament that supports the themes laid out in the Speech from the Throne: a strong economy, the health of Canadians, children caregivers and seniors, Aboriginal Canadians, cities and communities, the environment, and the role of Canada in the world. | | | He also emphasized that the Government will propose a range of substantive issues for debate by Standing Committees, and provided specific examples. |
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| | House Leader biography .ms |
| | The Government House Leader is a senior cabinet minister who navigates the government's business in the House. | | | In Canada each political party with representation in the House of Commons has a House Leader who is a front bench MP and an expert in parliamentary procedure. | | | The House Leader is in charge of the party's day-to-day business in the Canadian House of Commons and usually conducts negotiations with other parties on the conduct of Bills and debates. |
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| | Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Canada) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Canada, the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Senate is the leader of the largest party in the Senate that is not in government. | | | The counterpart in the lower house is the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. | | | From 1993 until 2003 the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate was a Progressive Conservative despite the fact that the Progressive Conservatives were not the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, as the parties that were the Official Opposition (Bloc Québécois, Reform, Canadian Alliance) did not have Senate representation. |
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| | Wikinfo Prime Minister of Canada |
| | The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. | | | In particular, their goal is to find ways to change the insignificant and ineffectual role of elected members of the House of Commons, to create a Parliamentary committee to review appointments to the Supreme Court, and the need to abolish or radically restructure the appointed Senate. | | | If a minority government is in power, a vote of non confidence in the House of Commons may lead to a quick election (9 months in the case of the most recent Canadian minority government, the Clark government of 1979-1980). |
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| | Address In The House Of Commons-Adjournment (Canada) |
| | Once again, I reiterate that by voting for this motion today, it will be a clear signal to the country and to the Governor General that the government has lost the confidence of the House. | | | I remind the House that the motion was nonetheless adopted and that the government is duty bound to respect the decisions made by the House of Commons. | | | By denying the opposition its opportunity about once a week to choose a topic for debate and vote, the government is trampling upon one of the most basic democratic practices of this House and it is doing it all so it can avoid accountability for corruption. |
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| | Canadian House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Moreover, the Government of Canada is responsible solely to the House of Commons; the Prime Minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains the support of the Lower House. | | | The member of the Government responsible for steering legislation through the House is Leader of the Government in the House of Commons. | | | The Senate is rendered especially powerless by a clause in the Constitution Act, 1867, that permits the Governor General (with the approval of the Queen) to appoint up to eight extra senators. |
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| | Where a Government has lost the confidence of the House of Commons, the Prime Minister is obliged to either resign (allowing the Governor General to appoint the Leader of the Opposition to the office), or seek the dissolution of Parliament and a new general election. | | | If the leader of the largest party is not a member of the House of Commons, then he or she, by constitutional convention, seeks election to that House at the earliest possible opportunity. | | | The Parliament of Canada was granted limited power to amend the constitution by a British Act of Parliament in 1949, but it was not permitted to affect the powers of provincial governments, the official positions of the English and French languages, or the five-year term of Parliament. |
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| | CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Parliament: House of Commons |
| | The Head of Government, who is ordinarily the leader of the party having the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons. | | | f a party has enough members in the House of Commons to hold a majority of the seats in the House, then that party is asked by the Governor General to form the Government of Canada. | | | The composition of the House of Commons based on political party as of May 24, 2005 is outlined in the chart below. |
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| | The Opposition in a Parliamentary System (BP47e) |
| | This represented a compromise which both guaranteed the government an eventual conclusion to the debate and conceded the opposition’s point that the conclusion should be delayed until after the Supreme Court had ruled on the constitutionality of the resolution before the House. | | | In addition to its practical value, the daily confrontation of government and "loyal" opposition in the House of Commons symbolizes the inner dialogue, the continual sequence of question and answer, which distinguishes the truly civilized mind and is reflected in the social and public life of a civil community. | | | By the British North America Act of 1867 Canada inherited a constitution "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." Responsible cabinet government and the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament were thereby entrenched in the Canadian political system. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Official Opposition (Canada) |
| | The Leader of the Opposition in Canada is the Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons who leads Her Majestys Loyal Opposition (the body in Parliament recognized as the Official Opposition). | | | In Canada, the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Senate is the leader of the largest party in the Senate that is not in government. | | | In Canada the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the lower house and is elected by fellow MPs. |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Canada |
| | May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's opposition Conservative Party won the right to present a motion in the House of Commons seeking to oust Prime Minister Paul Martin& minority government. | | | Harper, leader of the largest opposition party, is seeking to force a vote to remove the Liberal Party government as early as May 18. | | | Bloc Quebecois House Leader Michel Gauthier also told reporters his party considers the vote a matter of confidence. |
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| | Leader of the Opposition - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative prime minister to the present incumbent, and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Front Bench. | | | None (1940-1945) A succession of politicians acted as Leader of the Opposition for the purpose of allowing the House of Commons to function as normally, however none of them received the salary for the post of Leader of the Opposition. | | | The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest opposition party in a Westminster System of parliamentary government. |
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| | In Canada in the House of Commons, the "political party which has the right to be called the 'Official Opposition' is the largest minority group which is prepared, in the event of the resignation of the Government, to assume office. | | | At present in Nova Scotia, there are references to the Leader of the Opposition or the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Auditor General Act, the Elections Act, the House of Assembly Act, the Members' Retiring Allowances Act and the Public Service Act. | | | Upon the death of this leader, the two parties had the same number of members and the Progressive Conservatives continued to be recognized as the official opposition. |
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| | Canadian House of Commons approves same-sex marriage - Wikinews |
| | The bill presented to the House of Commons by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin has passed mainly because of support by the left-wing New Democratic Party of Jack Layton and the support of the separatist Bloc Québécois, which enabled it to overcome the staunch opposition of the Conservative Party. | | | Those tensions have also been felt in the House of Commons itself, when Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper said on Monday, anticipating that the C-38 bill would be adopted, that the vote would "lack in legitimacy" since the bill would pass because of an unnatural alliance between the federalist Liberals and the separatist Bloc Québécois. | | | The adoption of this bill ends a longstanding political and judicial debate in Canada, with the House of Commons referring the issue to the Supreme Court of Canada last year, only to have it handed back to them by the judges. |
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| | The Hill Times - Newspaper Online. |
| | This minority government is the most undemocratic Parliament ever, says Conservative House Leader Jay Hill | | | And the government snuck its response in through the Commons Clerk's Office, not through the House of Commons. | | | The military relationship between Canada and the U.S. appears to be positively warm, according to Canada's top soldier Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hillier. |
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