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The Clayton Knight Committee, was founded by Billy Bishop and Clayton Knight in 1940. Homer Smith and several German émigrés, who wanted America to join the war against the Axis powers, provided funding for the secret and unlawful commissioning agency.
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) is a committee in the House of Commons of Canada that focuses on Canada's foreign policy and international development. Before the 39th Parliament , the committee was known as the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade .
The House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence is a permanent committee established by the Standing Orders, the written rules under which the House of Commons regulates its proceedings. It is mandated to review all matters pertaining to the Department of National Defence ("the department") and the Canadian Armed Forces.
The League established the Canadian Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, also chaired by MacLeod, [5] and was involved in organizing the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion and support for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, generally. [6] [7] The League produced the pamphlet Spain's Democracy Talks To Canada in 1936. [8]
The Government of Canada, which is formally referred to as His Majesty's Government, [6] [7] is defined by the Canadian constitution as the sovereign acting on the advice of the Privy Council; [8] [9] what is known as the Governor-in-Council, [10] referring to the governor general of Canada as the King's stand-in.
In order to ensure that social programs such as health care and education are funded consistently throughout Canada, the "have-not" (poorer) provinces receive a proportionately greater share of federal "transfer (equalization) payments" than the richer, or "have", provinces do; this has been somewhat controversial. The richer provinces often ...
The Committee looks over and summarizes the administrative and management designs of Department of Justice and its subsidiary agencies Canadian Human Rights Commission, Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs of Canada, Supreme Court of Canada, Courts Administration Service, Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada, and Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
Prorogation is the end of a parliamentary session in the Parliament of Canada and the parliaments of its provinces and territories. It differs from a recess or adjournment, which do not end a session; and differs from a complete dissolution of parliament, which ends both the session and the entire parliament, requiring an election for the House of Commons in the bicameral federal parliament ...