COVID and Canada’s chance to defend and renew democracy worldwide By Tom Cormier and Kevin Casas-Zamora. Published on Ipolitics on Nov 4, 2020. When Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne met with exiled Belorussian leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Vilnius, Lithuania, recently, he assured…
710-155 rue Queen St, Ottawa, ON, K1P 6L1 October 9th, 2020 Parliamentary Accountability for the Security Sector in Ukraine (PASS Ukraine) Will Strengthen Oversight by the Verkhovna Rada Ottawa – The Parliamentary Centre today announced a partnership with the Kyiv-based…
On June 25, 2018 the Parliamentary Centre and the Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMReF) launched a Parliamentary Research Training Manual. This first tool of its kind intended to help build the capacity of local Myanmar organizations to support their parliaments…
The Parliamentary Centre celebrated its 50th Anniversary on April 23rd in Ottawa. We were honored to receive over 350 guests who listened to the Hon. Geoff Regan, Speaker of the House of Commons, the Hon. Scott Brison, Acting Minister of…
It is with great sadness that we have learnt that His Excellence Dr. Salifou Diallo, Speaker of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, passed away in Paris on August 19, 2017. The entire Parliamentary Centre team presents its deepest condolences…
The Parliamentary Centre’s Annual Report for 2016 is now available! We invite you to learn more about our success stories this past year, which include helping to empower women in Indonesia to have their voices heard using an innovative SMS…
The Speaker of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, Dr. Salifou Diallo, was in Canada from May 28 to June 7, 2017, accompanied by a delegation of six MPs, of which three are women, as well as three senior parliamentary officials.…
Since its independence in 1948, Myanmar has been suffering under one of the longest running civil wars among the country’s numerous ethnic groups, fueled by the lack of agreement on the constitutional fundamentals and the country’s model of governance. The…
For the extractive industry to act as a vector for sustainable development, a strong involvement of legislators in overseeing the government action is required. This was the key message the Parliamentary Centre delivered in Guyana (December 2nd, 2016) and in…
The Parliamentary Centre is pleased to announce the visit to Ottawa of its local Colombian partner Juan Fernando Londoño, from October 24th to 28th, 2016. Mr Londoño is a member of the government team that negotiated the second point of…