Parliamentary rules of procedure

• Wit and Substance Absent From the House

Now, voters are supposed to be impressed with these questions, and how they're used as weapons in the cut and thrust of the parliamentary arena. We're supposed to think, "She's got him now! How can anybody wiggle out of that one? My! Those questions are ingeniously sharp!" But, watching this for even a short time, the questions become "Who elected these intellectual juveniles to office? Why aren't there rules in parliamentary procedure preventing the use of such non-starter questions? The main opposition party is the product of what used to be two distinct entities, whose political marriage of convenience suffers from the honeymoon they didn't have time to have. Not everything in their relationship is dysfunctional. All political parties have "wings", but this one has "lumps" which mig...

• Windspeaker
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 3, June 2005

• Chapter 2 - Budget Implementation Act, 2009

... adjustments to the Tax-Free Savings Account rules and the scientific research and experimental devel...It sets out the procedure for informing employees as to whether an equitable...(b) as in section 3 of the Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act, in relation to...

• Canada Gazette Nbr. 604, May 05, 2009
• Part III - Acts of Parliament

• Democratizing the Constitution, Reforming Responsible Government.

... need for a cabinet manual to set out the rules of governance. Such suggestions were not very help... prime minister to abuse the rules and procedures of the House of Commons that are meant to allow th...

• Canadian Parliamentary Review
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, September 2011

• Toronto Coalition to Stop the War c. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2010 FC 957 (2010)

... been defeated in the most recent parliamentary elections. Galloway is notorious in Britain and ab... Courts Immigration and Refugee Protection Rules , SOR/93-22 to provide a certified copy of the dec... toute décision, ordonnance, procédure ou tout autre acte de l’office fédéral. ...

• Cour Fédérale

• A declaration of ethics for presiding officers?

... respect, personal honour, and regular procedure for the protection of all opinions, even those of ... with better instruction on the many rules of order and decorum, and to send out a reminder t...

• Canadian Parliamentary Review
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, September 2011

• National Assembly of Quebec: new rules for a more effective parliament.

... to the presentation of the new rules of procedure, regarding which there is now a consensus. . The C...

• Canadian Parliamentary Review
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 4, December 2009

• R. v. Hape, 2007 SCC 26 (2007)

...By virtue of parliamentary sovereignty, it is open to Parliament to enact leg... of the host state if those laws and procedures are consistent with the fundamental principles ema...35 As I will explain, certain fundamental rules of customary international law govern what actions...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Canada (Information Commissioner), 2011 FCA 326 (2011)

...[10] The evidence reveals the procedure set up by the CBC to process access to information... the CBC’s submission that the parliamentary debates demonstrated that Parliament had not wante... judge did not correctly apply the relevant rules of statutory interpretation. [25] According to the...

• Federal Court of Appeal

• P.E.S.R.A. Regulations and Rules of Procedure - Regulations Amending

• Canada Gazette Nbr. 8, April 20, 2005
• Part II - Official regulations
• Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act

• Parliament and Congress: Representation and Scrutiny in the Twenty-First Century.

...It is not a manual of parliamentary procedure but rather a genuine mapping of the development of... on the institutions' principal procedural rules and their history. Another innovative feature, of ...

• Canadian Parliamentary Review
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 1, March 2011