Parliamentary procedure is the accepted rules,ethics,and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. Its object is to allow orderly deliberation upon questions of interest to the organization and thus to arrive at the sense or the will of the majority of the assembly upon these questions. Self-governing organizations follow parliamentary procedure to debate and reach group decisions,usually by vote,with the least possible friction.
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada,seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa,and is composed of three parts:the King,the Senate,and the House of Commons. By constitutional convention,the House of Commons is dominant,with the Senate rarely opposing its will. The Senate reviews legislation from a less partisan standpoint and may initiate certain bills. The monarch or his representative,normally the governor general,provides royal assent to make bills into law.
The government of Canada is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. A constitutional monarchy,the Crown assumes distinct roles:the executive,as the Crown-in-Council;the legislative,as the Crown-in-Parliament;and the judicial,as the Crown-on-the-Bench. Three institutions—the Privy Council,the Parliament,and the judiciary,respectively—exercise the powers of the Crown.
Marcel Proulx is a retired Canadian politician.
The following list outlines the structure of the federal government of Canada,the collective set of federal institutions which can be grouped into the legislative,executive,and judicial branches. In turn,these are further divided into departments,agencies,and other organizations which support the day-to-day function of the Canadian state.
Diane Marleau,was a Canadian politician. She represented the riding of Sudbury in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2008,and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. Marleau was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Sir John George Bourinot,was a Canadian journalist,historian,and civil servant,sole author of the first Canadian effort in 1884 to document Parliamentary Procedure and Practice,and remembered as an expert in parliamentary procedure and constitutional law.
Salter Adrian Hayden,was a Canadian lawyer and senator.
Charles Beverley "Bev" Koester,was a Canadian naval officer,civil servant and Clerk of the House of Commons of Canada.
A parliamentary authority is a book of rules for conducting business in deliberative assemblies. Several different books have been used by legislative assemblies and by organizations' deliberative bodies.
The Clerk of the Parliaments is the chief clerk of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The position has existed since at least 1315,and duties include preparing the minutes of Lords proceedings,advising on proper parliamentary procedure and pronouncing the Royal Assent. Many of the Clerk's duties are now fulfilled by his deputies and the Clerk of the Parliaments' Office.
The Access to Information Act or Information Act is a Canadian Act providing the right of access to information under the control of a federal government institution. As of 2020,the Act allowed "people who pay $5 to request an array of federal files". Paragraph 2. (1) of the Act ("Purpose") declares that government information should be available to the public,but with necessary exceptions to the right of access that should be limited and specific,and that decisions on the disclosure of government information should be reviewed independently of government. Later paragraphs assign responsibility for this review to an Information Commissioner,who reports directly to parliament rather than the government in power. However,the Act provides the commissioner the power only to recommend rather than compel the release of requested information that the commissioner judges to be not subject to any exception specified in the Act.
John Roderick Dahmer was elected a member of the House of Commons of Canada in 1988. His background was in education. A school teacher,guidance councillor,principal,and later involved in adult education,correctional education and vocational training as a director at Lakeland College.
Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms is a Canadian parliamentary authority. The first edition was published in 1922 by Arthur Beauchesne,Clerk of the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1949.
Bourinot's Rules of Order is a Canadian parliamentary authority originally published in 1894 by Sir John George Bourinot,Clerk of the House of Commons of Canada under the title A Canadian Manual on the Procedure at Meetings of Shareholders and Directors of Companies,Conventions,Societies,and Public Assemblies generally. The title page states that it is an abridgement of the author's larger work,but it should be seen as a shorter re-write,dealing in considerable depth with public meetings outside and separate from the Parliament in Ottawa. The fourth,posthumous,edition of the work was given the cover title of the present article. The document is widely used in Canada to set procedures for formal meetings in government,companies and other organizations.
Thomas Barnard Flint was a Canadian lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Yarmouth in the House of Commons of Canada from 1891 to 1902 as a Liberal member.
Camille Montpetit was the second Deputy Clerk of the House of Commons of Canada,having served from 1998 to 1999. He and Robert Marleau coedited the first edition of House of Commons Procedure and Practice which was published in 2000.
The minister of Sport is a Government of Canada cabinet minister responsible for Sport Canada,who typically assists the minister of Canadian Heritage.
Member of Parliament is a term typically used to describe an elected politician in the House of Commons of Canada,the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Canada.
