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		The government leader's counterpart on the Opposition benches is the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
		Early Canadian cabinets would include several Senators who would be answerable to the Senate for government actions and in the nineteenth century it was not considered unusual for a Senator to be Prime Minister as was the case with Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell.
		In 1969 the position of Leader of the Government in the Senate became an official cabinet position with the appointment of Paul Joseph James Martin.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Leader_of_the_Government_in_the_Senate_(Canada) (445 words)

	Canadian House of Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moreover, the Government of Canada is responsible solely to the House of Commons; the Prime Minister stays in office only as long as he or she retains the support of the Lower House.
		The member of the Government responsible for steering legislation through the House is Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.
		The Senate is rendered especially powerless by a clause in the Constitution Act, 1867, that permits the Governor General (with the approval of the Queen) to appoint up to eight extra senators.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_House_of_Commons (3903 words)

	Prime Minister of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Legislative Parliament Senate :Speaker of the Senate :Government Leader in the Senate :Opposition Leader in the Senate House of Commons :Speaker of the House :Government House Leader :Leader of the Official Opposition
		However, if the leader of the governing party is changed shortly before an election is due and the new leader is not a Member of Parliament, he or she will normally await the general election before running for a seat.
		If a minority government is in power, a vote of non confidence in the House of Commons may lead to a quick election (9 months in the case of the second-most recent Canadian minority government, the Clark government of 1979-1980).
	hallencyclopedia.com /Prime_Minister_of_Canada (2023 words)

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		The government is seized with the gravity of the situation.
		Senator Roche: Honourable senators, the point that I am raising with the government leader is that the Government of Canada should be acting now, before any deployment procedure in the first years of the next century, when it will be too late for Canada to absent itself from this misplaced effort.
		Senator Graham: Honourable senators, I would be pleased to bring those recommendations to the attention of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister.
	www.math.yorku.ca /sfp/newslett/s4p101 (394 words)

	Jack Austin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable Jacob "Jack" Austin, PC (born March 2, 1932) is a Canadian politician and current Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate.
		He was appointed to the upper house by Pierre Trudeau on August 8, 1975 and represents British Columbia.
		Government of Canada Privy Council Office - Office of the Leader of the Government in the Senate
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Austin (170 words)

	Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist: A Friend of Science
		Senator Frist has long been involved in science budget and policy issues, and is well-known as a friend of science.
		That fall, he was one of 38 senators to sign a letter to the Senate's leadership advocating a five year doubling of the NSF budget.
		He was also one of 36 senators who sent a letter to the Senate leadership in support of a substantial increase in funding for the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
	www.aip.org /enews/fyi/2003/004.html (905 words)

	Government cuts Opposition Senate questions - National - theage.com.au
		But the Government leader in the Senate, Robert Hill, dismissed the rage from Labor and the minor parties as "the stunt we had to have".
		The same plan was circulated by the newly re-elected Senate President Paul Calvert yesterday morning, prompting Labor's deputy Senate leader, Stephen Conroy, to call him "the stool pigeon of the Government" rather than an independent officer of the Parliament.
		Greens Senator Bob Brown called the new order an "outrage", saying it was part of Prime Minister John Howard's plan to kill the Senate slowly with "a few sprinkles of arsenic in the sandwiches".
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/government-cuts-opposition-senate-questions/2005/08/09/1123353321927.html?from=moreStories (499 words)

	CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Parliament: Senate: Leader of the Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Senate is the Upper House of the Parliament of Canada with concurrent legislative authority.
		During Senator Austin’s term as Chairman he participated in the organization of some 29 forums for NAMI on a variety of topics including a meeting with the three foreign ministers of Canada, the United States and Mexico in Santa Fe in the summer of 2000.
		Former Leaders of the Government in the Senate
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/senate_lg.html (1141 words)

	Key Terms: Parliament and Government
		Senator Natasha Stott Despoja is a member of Parliament (Senate, South Australia) but is not a member of the government.
		Senator Richard Alston is a member of Parliament (Senate, Victoria) and is also a member of the government (Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, and Minister for Communications and Information Technology).
		Member of the governing party - this is the term often used to describe a backbench member of parliament who is not a government minister, but who belongs to the same party.
	www.australianpolitics.com /democracy/terms/parliament-government.shtml (630 words)

	Kenyon College - Campus Government Constitution: Senate Statutes
		Removal of the leader of a media organization is always viewed as a serious event, only contemplated with the utmost reluctance.
		Should the leader be removed, the director of student activities will meet with the remaining members of the organization to assist in their selection of a new leader.
		Appeals by an organization or the leader of an organization against findings of the Board about that organization or individual may be made to the dean of students.
	www.kenyon.edu /x7503.xml (2362 words)

	Articles - Dufferin Roblin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		During the 1940s, the Manitoba Conservatives were part of a coalition government with the Liberal-Progressives, and Conservative leader Errick Willis was a prominent cabinet minister in the governments of John Bracken, Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.
		He was the Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate during Joe Clark's brief tenure as Prime Minister (1979-1980), and served as Deputy Opposition Leader from 1980 to 1984.
		Following Brian Mulroney's landslide victory in the 1984 election, Roblin was appointed Leader of the Government in the Senate, and served in Mulroney's cabinet until June 29, 1986.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Duff_Roblin (940 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leader of the Government in the Senate and variously as Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations (until April 21, 1991) as Minister responsible for Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (June 1987 to September 1988 and Acting Minister of Communications (December 1988 to 30 January 1989).
		Murray served as Government Leader in the Senate until the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Kim Campbell in 1993.
		When the new party was created he refused to join the new Conservative caucus and remains one of three Senators (the others being William Doody and
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Lowell_Murray (148 words)

	Government Whip in the Senate 11 February 1997
		The Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Robert Hill, has congratulated Senator Paul Calvert on his appointment as Government Whip in the Senate.
		Senator Calvert was elected to the position at a Senate Party Room meeting last night.
		Senator Hill says Senator Calvert's elevation to the position of Government Whip is a tribute to his ability and a fitting recognition of his hard work in the position of Deputy Whip.
	www.ea.gov.au /minister/env/97/mr11feb97.html (175 words)

	July 1999:
		Senator Hill: I think the two chief reasons are firstly that people do not appreciate the opportunity and we are trying to address that through, for example, a new public education program last week, which is just one step.
		Senator Harradine: Everybody knows that if you want credibility in regard to native title you have got to have a system which gives genuine native title claimants an opportunity to have their rights heard and understood, and that also excludes bogus claims.
		Senator Harradine: The second thing is that the Wik decision recognised that in certain circumstances and certain places native title can co-exist with pastoral leaseholds but where there is a conflict of interest then the interests of the pastoral leaseholders prevail.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10276/20010706/www.peo.gov.au/resources/learning_parliament/talk_back/introduction.htm (14530 words)

	CalCoast News
		Now, incoming Senate leader Don Perata is giving the upper house a makeover.
		Perata, an Oakland Democrat, outlined his plan Wednesday to combine and eliminate several Senate committees, cut the number of members on each panel and reduce the amount of bills introduced next session.
		Democratic senators narrowly elected Perata in August as the next Senate president pro tem, replacing John Burton, who will leave office Nov. 30 because of term limits.
	www.calcoast.org /news/cpr0041118.html (778 words)

	CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Parliament: Senate: Leader of the Opposition
		The leader of this party becomes the Leader of the Official Opposition but is most often a Member of the House of Commons.
		He or she will therefore appoint a Leader of the Official Opposition in the Senate, sitting directly across from the Leader of the Government in the Senate.
		Former Leaders of the Opposition in the Senate
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/senate_loo.html (301 words)

	Deputy Leader of the Senate
		The Leader of the Government in the Senate, Robert Hill, today paid tribute to Senator Richard Alston, his deputy in the Senate since 1993.
		Senator Hill said Senator Alston had made a huge contribution to the Senate and as a senior member of the Liberal Party.
		Senator Hill wished Senator Alston well in his future endeavours and said he looked forward to working with Senator Nick Minchin, who will take up the Deputy Senate Leader position next week.
	www.minister.defence.gov.au /Hilltpl.cfm?CurrentId=3154 (114 words)

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		Consiglio Di Nino: Honourable senators, on December 2, 2002, a court in the Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province in China sentenced to death Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup for alleged political offences.
		Jack Austin (Leader of the Government): Honourable senators, I thank the Honourable Senator Prud'homme, because the matter that was raised by Senator Di Nino has some urgency.
		Lobsang Dhondup, as Senator Di Nino said yesterday, was sentenced to an immediate death penalty and Tenzin Delek was sentenced to death with a suspension of two years.
	www.studentsforafreetibet.org /downloads/TDRQ&A.doc (645 words)

	Senate leader's apology fails to satisfy Democrats - 12/12/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A Lott spokesman said Wednesday night that the Senate leader was not endorsing the university's interracial ban when he filed the brief but rather was expressing a "concern that this could create a precedent for all religious schools to lose their tax exempt status."
		No Republican senator has called for Lott to step down from the majority leader post he is to take over next month.
		The Tennessee organization is the successor to the United Confederate Veterans and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers.
	www.detnews.com /2002/politics/0212/13/a02-34077.htm (705 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Senate Majority Leader Stewart Iverson, a Dows Republican and farmer, called for a sweeping review of Iowa's tax system.
		Senate Minority Leader Michael Gronstal, a Council Bluffs Democrat, was skeptical.
		House Majority Leader Chuck Gipp, a Decorah Republican and farmer, called for changing regulations and permits that are hampering business growth.
	desmoinesregister.com /news/stories/c4780934/19888382.html (735 words)

	The Observer \| Leaders \| Leader: Government and BBC must reform
		Instead of heralding a new era of trust between government and governed, we have seen public confidence in our political institutions sink to an all-time low amid a widespread feeling that the report represented a 'whitewash' for the Government and an unequal attack upon the BBC, the latter now more trusted than Number 10.
		For while the public is right to feel deep suspicion over a report that gave the Government the benefit of the doubt on every questionable issue while punishing the BBC, that is not the full story.
		Investigations by the Senate and House intelligence committees - to be published this month - while they will clear administration officials of improperly interfering in intelligence, are nevertheless expected to widely criticise the intelligence that led to war.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,6903,1136406,00.html (1016 words)

	CBC News:MPs return to full agenda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper has criticized the government's agenda, saying it includes nothing to deal with the slowing economy or the crises facing the beef and lumber industries.
		Although a new Liberal leader will be chosen at a Nov. 15 convention in Toronto, Chrétien's plan is to remain head of government until February.
		Tabling of the bill on gay marriages is still months away because the government first wants the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the constitutionality of its wording.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/09/14/commons030914 (524 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Government politician Barnaby Joyce secured the last seat for Queensland state in the upper house Senate after weeks of counting under Australia's preferential system of voting, the Australian Electoral Commission said.
		Government Senate leader Robert Hill said it left the administration unqiuely positioned to carry out its manifesto.
		Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett lamented the government's new control of both houses and said it meant the opposition Labor Party, and the smaller Greens and Democrats, could not prevent the passage of bad legislation or even ensure it was properly scrutinised.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_asiapacific/view/113982/1/.html (721 words)

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		He has consistently tried to portray himself as the leader of a new government that is completely different from the one led by his predecessor.
		Exactly half (19 of 38, excluding the Leader of the Government in the Senate) of Martin's ministers and secretaries of state served as ministers or secretaries of state in the Chretien ministry.
		The wise choice is for them to go after the Liberal party itself, the government as a whole, as being old, tired, and corrupt.
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	CBC News: Senate will work through summer to pass bills
		The Senate will have to sit as many as 15 extra days this summer, at a cost of about $85,000 a day, in order to pass the Liberal government's budget measures and the law allowing same-sex marriage across Canada.
		Senator Serge Joyal, also from Quebec, said working as late as August might actually be good for the health of his colleagues.
		He says the Senate could have chosen to deal with the bills in the fall, though that might have been dangerous for Paul Martin's government.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/07/04/senate-summer050704.html (356 words)

	Comments by Hon. Alasdair Graham (Leader of the Government) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Alasdair Graham (Leader of the Government): Honourable senators, Senator Serge Joyal, P.C., OC, has been known to many of us to be an active, dynamic presence in Canadian and Quebec political life, beginning with his election to the House of Commons in 1974.
		Honourable senators, in everything he puts his hand to, Serge Joyal is a man of principle, a man of quality.
		I welcome Senator Joyal to this place, to a chamber which is the workshop of government or, as Senator John Connolly said many years ago, which is the custodian of our rights and freedoms.
	www.sen.parl.gc.ca /sjoyal/e/features/graham_comment.html (311 words)

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