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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Legislative branch |
 | | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (a 13-member body, 10 appointed by the government and three by the leader of the opposition) and the House of Representatives (15 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) | | | bicameral Parliament or Parlament consists of the Senate or Senat (81 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms; one-third elected every two years) and the Chamber of Deputies or Poslanecka Snemovna (200 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) | | | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (an 11-member body appointed by the governor, the premier, and the opposition) and the House of Assembly (40 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) |
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| | Canada |
| | The Prime Minister in turn appoints the Cabinet, drawn by convention from members of the Prime Minister's party in the House of Commons and the Senate. | | | Canadian culture was a topic of international discussion in 2003, when Canada refused to join the US-led 2003 Iraq War, moved toward legalizing same-sex marriage, and took steps towards decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. | | | The Governor General formally appoints the Prime Minister, who is usually the leader of the political party that holds the most seats in the House of Commons. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/c/ca/canada.html
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| | Canadian Senate - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
| | The Senate is the upper house of Parliament, whereas the House of Commons is the lower house. | | | The Opposition equivalent is the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, who is selected by his or her counterpart in the House, the Leader of the Opposition. | | | The Senate was intended to mirror the British House of Lords, in that it was meant to represent the social and economic élite. |
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http://www.arikah.net/encyclopedia/Canadian_Senate
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Legislative branch |
| | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (a 13-member body, 10 appointed by the government and three by the leader of the opposition) and the House of Representatives (15 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) | | | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (16-member body appointed by the governor general upon the advice of the prime minister and the opposition leader for five-year terms) and the House of Assembly (40 seats; members elected by direct popular vote to serve five-year terms) | | | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (an 11-member body appointed by the governor, the premier, and the opposition) and the House of Assembly (40 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) |
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| | CTV.ca - PM's Senate appointments under fire from Tories- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television |
| | The Prime Minister's list of Senate appointments came under fire by Conservatives who condemned his decision to name senators who will sit as members of a party they say does not exist. | | | The NDP also condemned the appointment senate, saying it would not be recognizing the appointment of New Democrat Lillian Dyck because the party believes the Senate should be abolished. | | | Kenney is referring to Martin's Thursday announcement, during which he confirmed the appointment of nine new senators, including retired general Romeo Dallaire and former Liberal cabinet minister Art Eggleton. |
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1111948032591_19/?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory
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| | Israel Commentary: November 2004 Archives |
| | Imagine if members of President Bushs cabinet were simultaneously serving in the United States Senate, and he threatened to fire them from his cabinet unless they voted a certain way in the Senate. | | | In Hungary, most of the lists of the 437,000 Jews rounded up by the Hungarian police and sent to Auschwitz in a period of 56 days in 1944 were never located, Shalev said. | | | A world left to the UN as supreme arbiter would not be the world of law of Kofi Annans incantation. |
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| | NORMAN'S SPECTATOR |
| | The death of a Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan yesterday was a tragic loss to Ottawa’s foreign service community, but it was a possibility for which members’ training had prepared them. | | | The Bloc leader noted that Option Canada, which sovereignists believe financed the huge pro-Canada rally in Montreal days before the 1995 sovereignty referendum, was created three or four weeks before the rally and received grants totalling $4.8 million from Heritage Canada in record time. | | | Marceau, 35, who was mentioned as a future leader of the party, won the Charlesbourg riding by 12,000 votes in 2004, 16,000 ahead of the Conservatives. |
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| | Aspects of Can |
| | The Canadian Monarchy: Includes Sovereigns since 1867, Members of the Royal Family, Guidance notes for meeting Members of the Royal Family, Royal Anthem | | | Governor General, the Senate, the Speaker, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, | | | The Senate: Cursor down the page to find out questions about the senate. |
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| | Aspects of Can |
| | The Canadian Monarchy: Includes Sovereigns since 1867, Members of the Royal Family, Guidance notes for meeting Members of the Royal Family, Royal Anthem | | | Governor General, the Senate, the Speaker, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, | | | The Senate: Cursor down the page to find out questions about the senate. |
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| | Canadian Pro-Life Leaders React to Stem Cell Bill Passage |
| | Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of Canada's pro-life movement commented in a release, "Future generations will hold accountable MPs who voted in favour of this legislation." LifeSite has compiled the list of how House Members voted on the legislation and has made it available at the link below. | | | Circulate List of How MPs Voted on "A Black Day for Canada" | | | We will continue to work to educate the Senators so that the chamber of somber second thought will defeat it." |
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| | News - The Mars Society |
| | Among those meeting with Dr. Zubrin were Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), the Chairman of the Senate Space Subcommittee, Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), the leading Democratic Party space advocate, aides to Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Representative Mark Udall (D-CO), and several other staffers. | | | In addition, Dr. Zubrin met with Presidential Science Advisor Dr. John Marburger and members of his staff, as well as with a representative of the White House Office of the President. | | | The publisher, Firefly Books, was kind enough to donate 30 copies to the Mars Society for this purpose, and every one of them was given out to someone powerful. |
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| | List of Canadian senators: Information From Answers.com |
| | This is a list of members of the Canadian Senate. | | | The province of Quebec has 24 Senate divisions which are constitutionally mandated. | | | In all other provinces, a Senate division is strictly an optional designation of the senator's own choosing, and has no real constitutional or legal standing. |
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| | Parliament of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The new Canadian Parliament consisted of the Queen (represented by the Governor General), the Senate and the House of Commons. | | | 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. | | | The Sovereign is normally represented by the Governor General, who appoints the 105 members of the Senate on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Legislative branch |
| | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (an 11-member body appointed by the governor, the premier, and the opposition) and the House of Assembly (40 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) | | | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (a 13-member body, 10 appointed by the government and three by the leader of the opposition) and the House of Representatives (15 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) | | | bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (16-member body appointed by the governor general upon the advice of the prime minister and the opposition leader for five-year terms) and the House of Assembly (40 seats; members elected by direct popular vote to serve five-year terms) |
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| | Canadian Cabinet [Definition] |
| | Speaker of the SenateThe Speaker of the Canadian Senate is the presiding officer of the Canadian Senate. | | | Secretaries of state, who were members of the Ministry but not the Cabinet, fulfilled most of their tasks carried out by ministers of state from 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003)... | | | Secretary of State for CanadaThe position of Secretary of State for Canada was a Canadian Cabinet position with a corresponding department. |
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| | List of Canadian senators -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | List of members of the (Click link for more info and facts about Senate of Canada) Senate of Canada in order of (Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service) seniority in the Senate. | | | (The Canadian province in the Maritimes consisting of the Nova Scotia peninsula and Cape Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns) Nova Scotia (South Shore) | | | (A Canadian province on the island of Newfoundland and on the mainland along the coast of the Labrador Sea; became Canada's 10th province in 1949) Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfoundland and Labrador) |
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| | Prime Minister of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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. | | | The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. | | | However, if the party leader is changed shortly before an election is due and the new leader is not a Member of Parliament, he or she will normally await the general election before running for a seat. |
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| | SniperShark.com - Canadian Resource Centre |
| | Members of the House of Commons Alphabetical listing of the members of the House. | | | Below that office is, the Senate, the House of Commons, the Prime Minister (Head of Government) and Cabinet. | | | Historic Moments in Canadian Politics Photos and commentary of political events in Canada, by photojournalist William C. Stratas. |
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| | Senators - 1867 to Date - By Name |
| | Voluntary retirement means the senator willingly took advantage of the above act, having been summoned to the Senate before June 1, 1965. | | | In the entitled field "End of Term", retirement means the senator retired at the age of 75 pursuant to the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act, R.S. 1985, c. | | | To view the federal political experience of a Senator, click on one of the underlined names listed below. |
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| | Hexapedia - Canada |
| | The Prime Minister in turn appoints the Cabinet, drawn by convention from members of the Prime Minister's party in the House of Commons and the Senate. | | | The Canadian Maritimes protrude eastward from the southern coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, sandwiched between the Gulf to the north and the Atlantic to the south. | | | Canadian culture was a topic of international discussion in 2003, when Canada refused to join the US-led 2003 Iraq War, moved toward legalizing same-sex marriage, and took steps towards decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. |
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| | Category:Canadian senators - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Former senators should be represented in the subcategory Category:Historical Members of the Canadian Senate | | | List of Canadian Leaders of the Government in the Senate | | | List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition in the Senate |
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| | LLRX.com - Doing Legal Research in Canada: Introduction |
| | Form of government: constitutional monarchy and a federal state with a democratic Parliament (Ottawa), consisting of a bicameral legislature composed of (i) elected federal politicians in the House of Commons, and appointed Senators in the Senate | | | Canadian federal and provincial legislation is generally not consolidated by subject matter but is instead published in its official version alphabetically by name of the statute or regulation, unlike the situation with the United States Code and many state codes. | | | Federal elections must be held every five years, and the candidate within a constituency who receives the most votes is elected for that constituency and the political party whose members win the most seats will form the government and the leader of that party will ordinarily become Prime Minister of the country. |
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| | Canada: Just the facts... |
| | The Prime Minister in turn appoints the Cabinet (A cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display) drawn by convention from members of the Prime Minister's party in the House of Commons and the Senate. | | | The prerogatives of the Head of State are exercised by the Governor General (A governor of high rank), who is generally a retired politician or other prominent Canadian appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister of Canada. | | | Canadian governments (and to a large extent, the Canadian people) support issues such as universal health care, gay marriage (additional info and facts about gay marriage) and decriminalization of marijuana. |
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| | List of Canadian senators |
| | Current (Feb. 2004) Members of the Canadian Senate in order of seniority: | | | Haynes, Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ, Gilbert E. Patterson, Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ, Backus normal form, Charles E. Blake, West Angeles Cathedral, Espionage Act of 1917, Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle, Young Ones (television series), British coin Guinea, Rosana Franco, About this article. |
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| | List of Canadian Senators |
| | Members of the Canadian Senate in order of seniority: | | | It uses material from the wikipedia article List of Canadian Senators. | | | Canadian Senators article @ Euro Online Encyclopedia'>List of Canadian Senators |
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| | 1996 BOG agenda/report |
| | A call for volunteers received some favorable replies and I put together a list of the names, addresses, and ages of over a 150 former and current ASIH members who were "Endangered" [80+ years old], "Threatened" [70- 79 years old], or of "Special Concern" [60- 69 years old]. | | | The House approved reauthorization of the Act with critical strengthening amendments; Senate action is pending. | | | In preparation for this Red List, all of the mammal species have been evaluated, which is a first time event. |
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| | Canadian Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | List of Canadian Senators who resigned and were elected to the House of Commons | | | The presiding officer of the Senate, known as the Speaker, is appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister. | | | The Senate is an appointed body, consisting of 105 members appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister. |
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