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Prime Minister of Yemen The Prime Minister of the Republic of 1990.
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 List of Lists
List of Canadian Ministers of Citizenship and Immigration
List of Canadian Ministers of Manpower and Immigration
List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
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 Prime Minister of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
Since the Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as the head of state.
The function, duties, responsibilities, and powers of the Prime Minister of Canada were established at the time the country was created as an independent nation in 1867 and were modeled upon those of the existing office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
www.peacelink.de /keyword/Prime_Minister_of_Canada.php   (1496 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the event of the resignation or death of a Prime Minister, the governing party or coalition would choose an interim leader, or in the case in which extended notice is given, hold a leadership convention.
The only official duty of the Deputy Prime Minister is to answer on behalf of overall government policy during Question Period in the absence of the Prime Minister.
In fact, one Deputy Prime Minister, Sheila Copps, attracted controversy in 1993 by simply asserting that she was "in charge" of government business while the Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, was out of the country on a state visit.
www.ipedia.com /deputy_prime_minister_of_canada.html   (435 words)

  
 Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The insurrection was quelled by the government of Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and JVP leaders were jailed for treason.
In 1991 a LTTE suicide bomber killed former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in retaliation for the IPKF and the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord.
At the end of 2001 a new Parliament was elected and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe declared a ceasefire, responding to the LTTE which had declared a ceasefire in December 2001.
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 Deputy Prime Minister of Canada - Current List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The designation, Deputy Prime Minister, is strictly an honorary title conferred at the discretion of the Prime Minister on a member of the Cabinet.
Allan J. MacEachen Deputy Prime Minister as well as Government House leader in an interview with the press subsequent to the nomination of his Cabinet, September 16th, 1977.
Instruments of advice are usually used when the Prime Minister wishes to inform or solicit the Crown in matters related to the Royal Prerogative.
www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/people/key/DepPrimeMin.asp?lang=E&Hist=N   (289 words)

  
 The Right Honourable Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ VariedTastes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1972 Labour Prime Minister Gough Whitlam declined appointment to the Privy Council, but the practice was resumed by Malcolm Fraser in 1975.
In 1983 Bob Hawke declined the appointment, and the appointment of Australians to the Privy Council was abolished shortly thereafter.
Canadian appointments to the British Privy Council were ended by the government of Lester Pearson.
www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/The_Right_Honourable   (1458 words)

  
 Deputy Prime Minister of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unlike the Vice-President of the United States the Deputy Prime Minister does not assume the Prime Minister 's office if he or she dies resigns.
In the event of the resignation death of a Prime Minister the governing or coalition would choose an interim leader or in the case in which notice is given hold a leadership convention.
The position of Deputy Prime Minister was by Pierre Trudeau in 1977 largely to recognize the long years service of Allan J. MacEachen.
www.freeglossary.com /Deputy_Prime_Minister_(Canada)   (343 words)

  
 Jean Chrétien
Political opponents, like former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, used this affliction as a basis for political attacks, accusing Chrétien of both figuratively and literally "talking out of the side of his mouth," but this tactic was liable to backfire when made insensitively, as Campbell learned to her misfortune.On September 10, 1957, he married Aline Chainé.
In 1977, he was named Minister of Finance; in 1980, he was appointed Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and also served as Minister of State for Social Development and Minister Responsible for constitutional negotiations, playing a significant role in the patriation of the Constitution of Canada.
In 1982, Chrétien was appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources.After Pierre Trudeau announced his retirement in early 1984, Chrétien sought the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, losing on the second ballot to John Turner at the Liberal leadership convention that June.
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 GuruNet — Content Map
List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States
List of Canadian athletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics
List of Canadian cities with large Chinese populations
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Prime Minister Wim Kok offers $180 million, in addition to past restitutions, to the Central Jewish Congress, while Gypsies receive an extra $13 million, and Indonesians who sided with the Dutch during Indonesia's fight for independence in 1949 are offered $110 million.
August, 2000: Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser calls for a national apology for the "stolen generations," the one in ten Aboriginal children who were removed from their families between 1920 and 1971 in a government effort to "civilize" them by assimilation into white society.
November 7, 2000: Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland apologizes to the Jewish community for the extradition of eight Jews to Germany in 1942.
www.upenn.edu /pnc/politicalapologies.html   (7418 words)

  
 Flit
The Canadian public knocked that down to only eight, allowing more room for singers and hockey players, suggesting the public as a whole sees military matters as even less relevant to their lives than our public broadcaster does.
The postwar gains in Canadian self-determination were entirely a tribute to the battlefield performance of the men he led, which also contributed to the beginnings of a distinct Canadian identity separate from British immigrant roots.
LIST UPDATE: Since beginning to write this, regrettably the one living Canadian on the list, Air Commodore Len Birchall (#7) passed away on Sept. 10.
www.snappingturtle.net /flit/archives/2004_10_18.html   (4177 words)

  
 NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - Comcast.net
The legislators approved a list of 27 ministers and five acting ministers, ushering in Iraq's first elected government since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
But Al-Jaafari himself, a Shiite, will be acting defense minister, a position that was supposed to go to a Sunni Arab, and disputes remained over two deputy prime minister slots and the defense, oil, electricity, industry and human rights ministries.
Shiite leaders rejected his initial choices for a Sunni deputy prime minister and defense minister because of suspicions they had ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which brutally repressed Iraqi's majority Shiites and Kurds.
www.comcast.net /news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2005/04/28/119281.html   (782 words)

  
 NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - Comcast.net
Lawmakers allied with the premier said that in addition to the prime minister and three deputies, the Cabinet would have 17 Shiite Arab ministers, eight Kurds, six Sunni Arabs and one Christian, fulfilling promises by leaders of the Shiite majority to share power among ethnic and religious groups.
Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jaafari discussed his proposal with President Jalal Talabani on Tuesday, the premier's spokesman, Abdul Razak al-Kadhimi, said.
Absent from the proposed Cabinet was outgoing Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Iraqi List party, which had asked for at least four ministries, including a senior post and a deputy premiership.
www.comcast.net /news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2005/04/26/117833.html   (835 words)

  
 Prime Minister of Canada:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister responsible for Status of Women
Minister for Internal Trade, Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, and Associate Minister of National Defence
Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and Minister responsible for the Francophonie
www.pm.gc.ca /eng/new_team.asp   (163 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sharon was foreign minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud government when he issued this nationalistic appeal in 1998, less than a year after Israel ceded parts of Hebron to the Palestinian Authority under the Wye agreement.
And then in late October, the Bush administration rejected a list of unauthorized outposts Israel had submitted, claiming the number was actually much higher.
But Likud ministers, notably Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz and Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, believe that Israel’s top priority should be the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four isolated settlements in the northern West Bank, which is scheduled to start in the third week of July.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5957   (1348 words)

  
 cbc.ca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sunni factions had been promised six ministers and one deputy prime minister, but they received four portfolios considered relatively insignificant.
Two of the four deputy prime minister's slots are still vacant.
Chalabi, who insisted that Saddam Hussein was hoarding weapons of mass destruction, will serve as deputy prime minister and acting oil minister.
www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2005/04/28/world/iraq050428   (226 words)

  
 U.S., Canada, Mexico to tighten security - Boston.com - Canada - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the same time, they promised to expand what is already the world's largest trading partnership by developing a single program to facilitate the free flow of people and goods across their shared borders.
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan said 300 proposals were under review to ensure security and the free flow of North American trade and harmonize the screening of dangerous people or cargo.
The White House praised the efforts of the ministers, who said they would report back to their leaders in the fall.
www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2005/06/28/us_canada_mexico_to_tighten_security?mode=PF   (728 words)

  
 JointCTR.org
It is characterized by the curtailment of individual freedoms; excessive reliance on actual, and the threat of, violence and punishment; virtual unaccountability of government officals; and the aversion of the decision-making process to consultation, persuasion and the necessity of forging a policy consensus.
Based on the principle of proportional representation; voters choose between party lists, the number elected from each list being determined by the percentage cast for each list out of the total vote.
Activity engaged in by individuals or organizations (directly or through hired representatives) that is directed to elements of government in an attempt to influence legislation or policies in a way that is favorable to the interests of the lobbying group.
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 Crosswalk.com - Security, Prosperity on Agenda for US, Canada, Mexico Meeting
At a one-day meeting in Ottawa to be chaired by Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, the officials hope to find ways to ease trade through regulation rather than new legislation, they said.
He believed the ministers would agree on another tranche of a similar value at their Monday meeting.
Another Canadian official said that the ministers would be presented Monday with "one hundred-plus" initiatives to improve trade flow between the three countries.
www.crosswalk.com /news/1337090.html   (394 words)

  
 Municipalities - Canadian Social Research Links
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is a national organization of 1000 plus cities in Canada.
"Canadian cities are becoming increasingly fragile, with the gap between the haves and have-nots widening as a burgeoning population of immigrants struggles to enter the work force and the cost of living rises, a new report says.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is the national voice of municipal governments, dedicated to improving the quality of life in all communities by promoting strong, effective and accountable municipal government.
www.canadiansocialresearch.net /municipal.htm   (5960 words)

  
 Israel Commentary: November 2004 Archives
In Hungary, most of the lists of the 437,000 Jews rounded up by the Hungarian police and sent to Auschwitz in a period of 56 days in 1944 were never located, Shalev said.
There are additional cabinet ministers and deputy ministers who have not been vocally critical of the Gaza plan, but are known to privately harbor serious misgivings about it.
Right now, sixteen of the eighteen cabinet ministers, and all three of the deputy ministers, are all Members of the Knesset.
www.israel-commentary.org /archives/2004_11.html   (9835 words)

  
 Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 074 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ralph Goodale (Minister of Finance, Lib.) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-43, an act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 23, 2005.
The petitioners would like to draw to the attention of the House that the majority of Canadians believe that the fundamental matters of social policy should be decided by elected members of Parliament, not by the unelected judiciary.
They therefore call upon Parliament to use all necessary legislative and administrative measures, including the invocation of section 33 of the charter, commonly known as the notwithstanding clause, to preserve and protect the current definition of marriage being the legal union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.
www.parl.gc.ca /38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/074_2005-03-24/HAN074-E.htm   (2591 words)

  
 Updated List of Canadian Politicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On October 25, 1993, the Canadian Federal Election saw a significant re-alignment on the federal political scene.
The Liberal Party of Canada won 177 seats and the new Prime Minister of Canada is now Liberal Leader Jean Chretien.
Attached is an up-dated list and mailing addresses for relevant Ministers and critics.
www.nisto.com /cree/Lubicon/1993/19931101.html   (94 words)

  
 Being American in T.O.: Canada Archives
Or maybe the issue is that Canadians participating in the "insurgency" tends to minimize the claim that said "insurgency" is an Iraqi-based resistance.
Acknowledgment that Canadians are fighting in Iraq raises a number of questions, such as what will their status be if they decide to return to Canada.
Gomery is annoyed that the Martin government had a secret exchange of letters with Chretien's lawyers acknowledging that even as the former prime minister dropped his court case alleging Gomery's bias against him, he could make the same accusations later after the release of the judge's findings.
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 Encyclopedia: Deputy Prime Minister of the United...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Homelessness - Les sans-abri
Canadians continue to lay off their veggies, but they are reaching for more fresh fruit, according to the latest data on food consumption.
The Canadian Conference on Homelessness is the first national, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary forum for sharing and collaboration in order to explore the links between research and action, and to continue to move towards effective long-term solutions in homelessness issues.
Housing New Canadians is a research partnership focused on housing access and discrimination in the Toronto area, where about forty percent of all newcomers to Canada settle.
www.canadiansocialresearch.net /homeless.htm   (11252 words)

  
 M - Appendix B: Background Information on Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
The following descriptive list constitutes the 36 terrorist groups that currently (as of 30 January 2003) are designated by the Secretary of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Claimed responsibility for the attempted assassinations of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi in August 1993 and Prime Minister Atef Sedky in November 1993.
The group attempted to assassinate former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shabaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province, in January 1999.
www.state.gov /s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2002/html/19991.htm   (10013 words)

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