Sentences with phrase «canadian federal parliament»
When in eastern Canada, compare and contrast the Canadian Federal Parliament in Ottawa, and the Quebec National Assembly in Quebec City.
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Matt Kellway, the federal NDP Member of Parliament for Beaches - East York will be adding to Canadian efforts in Bangladesh as he accompanies media and labour reps from UNIFOR, CUPE, PSAC, the UFCW and USW there later this month.
For the next week, the federal Liberals will be holding their annual «Summer Caucus» in Edmonton and the party's 37 Members of Parliament be criss - crossing the Canadian West, hosting events, promoting local candidates and knocking on doors.
Twenty - one years ago, in a federal election that reshaped the Canadian political landscape, the Liberals swept Edmonton, electing Members of Parliament in four of the city's six federal ridings.
It has become a very effective group in parliament, according to Adams, meeting regularly with advocates for postsecondary and research interests (such as the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences) and assisting them in communicating their views within the federal system.
The federal government's bill C - 45 to legalize marijuana in Canada will jeopardize the health of young people and Parliament should vote against it, argues the interim Editor - in - Chief of CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) in an editorial.
«If you're thinking of buying something frivolous, like a yacht or a Mercedes, you might want to consider trading that for an experience that very few Canadians will ever have, which is to sit in the federal Parliament of Canada,» he says.
Andrew Weaver is the first Green party member ever to be elected to the legislative Assembly; his election continues the trend started by Elizabeth May, who was the first ever federal Green party member to be elected to the Canadian Parliament in the 2011 election.
All four opposition parties in the Canadian Parliament — who together won 60 percent of the vote in the last federal election — are opposed to Northern Gateway and support an oil tanker ban.
Kyle Peterson was elected as a Member of the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament in the 2015 Canadian Federal Election.
In 1982 Parliament — that same body elected by the Canadian people that now complains so bitterly — decided that Canada needed not just another law on par with all other federal laws, but a Constitutional law elevated as the «supreme law of Canada» [section 52 (1)-RSB- that would set limits and restrictions on all government powers in accordance with fundamental rights and freedoms inherent to all Canadians.
Chris Paliare was on his feet today, arguing for Friends of the Earth in a Federal Court judicial review to to force the Canadian government to follow the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, passed by Parliament a year ago.
In Friends of the Earth — Les Ami (e) s de la Terre v. Canada (Governor in Council) 2009 FCA 297 [leave to appeal dismissed 2010 CanLII 14720 (S.C.C.)-RSB-, the Federal Court of Appeal let the Canadian government get away with open defiance of a statute of the Parliament of Canada, the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, 2007 (KPIA).
An appointment to a position for life (the moral equivalent of a «Life Lord» in England or a Senator in the Canadian Parliament, or a federal judgeship in the U.S.) is not prohibited.
Supreme Court of Canada holds that the Canadian Human Rights Act applies to all federal government employees, including those working for Parliament.
Section 91 of the Canadian Constitution (the Constitution Act, 1867) gives the Parliament of Canada (i.e., the federal government) exclusive jurisdiction over «Indians and Lands reserved for the Indians».
Canadians renew pressure on Harper government to implement votes of Parliament TORONTO — On Tuesday afternoon the Federal Court of Canada granted Kimberly Rivera leave to appeal the decision in her Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA).
We have a booming tech sector, a vibrant legal community, a stellar law school, the national headquarters for both the Canadian Bar Association and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Canada's Parliament, its Supreme and Federal courts, and the Federal Department of Justice.