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unusual facts about Canadian parliament



Canadian Union of Postal Workers

A 1978 strike resulted in CUPW president Jean-Claude Parrot being jailed when the union defied back-to-work legislation passed by the Canadian parliament.

Charles Avery Dunning

King went to Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy asking Byng to dissolve Parliament and call a general election.

International Election Monitors Institute

The International Election Monitors Institute is an association of former Members of the United States Congress (Senate and House of Representatives), the Canadian Parliament and the European Parliament, "to provide former legislators as election observers to operate worldwide in collaboration with other democracy-building organizations".

Prostitution in Canada

The ruling gives the Canadian parliament 12 months to rewrite the prostitution laws; in the meantime, anti-prostitution laws will continue to be enforced.

The Presbyterian College, Montreal

W. G. Brown (1902) was a minister who fought for the continuation of the PCC from Red Deer, Alberta, where he served from 1907–1925, then moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where he re-organized the Presbyterian Minority groups into St. Andrew's Church in Saskatoon; and died after he was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1940.


see also

Gordon Sullivan

Gordon J. Sullivan (born 1920), Canadian politician, 28th Canadian Parliament

Nick Peros

The Isumataq project was recognized by the Canadian government in March 1993 as a work important for Canada and Canadian culture – a special ceremony was held in the Canadian Parliament, House of Commons to pay homage to Isumataq and was attended by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the Speaker of the House, the Party leaders and the Members of Parliament.

Paul Sauvé

Arthur Sauvé, his father, had been leader of the Conservative party during the Premiership of Liberal Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and left the provincial politics when elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1930 and became Postmaster General in the R. B. Bennett government.

Robert Porter

Robert Harold Porter (born 1933), member of Canadian Parliament from Alberta

United World College of the Adriatic

Chrystia Freeland (born 1968), Member of the Canadian Parliament and former Thomson Reuters managing director.