A new chair in parliamentary democracy at Carleton University.
Canadian Parliamentary Review › Vol. 32 Nbr. 2, June 2009
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A new chair in parliamentary democracy at Carleton University.
In 2009, Carleton University launched the Honorable Dick and Ruth Bell Chair for the Study of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy. The Chair, which resides in the Department of Political Science in Carleton's Faculty of Public Affairs, is created through a generous gift from Dr. Ruth Bell in honour of her late husband, Richard A. Bell, a prominent attorney and parliamentarian. Elected to the House of Commons four times between 1957 and 1968, Dick Bell also served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in the Diefenbaker government. Ruth Bell is a Carleton alumnus and longtime educator and activist. She was one of the initial members of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women and was a founder of both the Canadian Commission for Learning Opportunities for Women and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. This article outlines the mandate of the Chair and some areas in which it plans to encourage research.
********** The mandate of the Chair is to support teaching, research and public education into Canada s dynamic and ever-changing system of parliamentary democracy. This is a most appropriate time for the launch of a Chair as events in recent months ...See the full content of this document
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