Table of Contents

• Administrative Setting
  • Administrative Structures and Services
  • Overall Authority of the Speaker
  • Board of Internal Economy
  • Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs
  • The Clerk and the Clerk’s Management Group
  • For More Information
• Canadian Parliamentary System
  • Introduction
  • The Canadian Constitution
  • The Crown and the Governor General
  • The Legislative Branch (Parliament)
  • The Executive Branch
  • Political Parties in Canada
  • For More Information
• Committees
  • Introduction
  • What do committees do?
  • Who is at a committee meeting?
  • How do committees organize their work?
  • How are committee meetings structured?
  • What are the records of committee business?
  • For more information
• Debate, Voting and Decorum
  • Introduction
  • Process of Debate in the House
  • Motions
  • Curtailment of Debate
  • Voting
  • Unanimous Consent
  • Rules of Debate & Decorum
  • Points of Order
  • For More Information
• Financial Procedures
  • Introduction
  • Parliamentary Review and Approval
  • An Overview of the Financial Cycle
  • For More Information
• Legislative Process
  • Introduction
  • Types of Bills
  • Stages in the Legislative Process
  • Videos on the Legislative Process
  • For More Information
• Parliamentary Cycle
  • Introduction
  • Terminology
  • Opening of a Parliament or Session
  • Prorogation
  • Dissolution
  • For More Information
• Parliamentary Privilege
  • Introduction
  • The Structure of Privilege
  • Rights and Immunities of Individual Members
  • Collective Rights of the House
  • Procedure in Matters of Privilege
  • Limitations of Privilege
  • Privilege Versus Contempt
  • For More Information
• Parliamentary Procedure
  • Introduction
  • Standing Orders of the House of Commons
  • Provisional, Sessional and Special Orders
  • Speakers’ Rulings
  • Practice
  • House of Commons Procedure and Practice
  • For More Information
• Parliamentary Publications
  • Introduction
  • Journals
  • House of Commons Debates (Hansard)
  • Order Paper and Notice Paper
  • Projected Order of Business
  • Status of House Business
  • Bills
  • Committee Documents
  • Indexes
  • For More Information
• Physical Setting
  • Introduction
  • The Parliament Buildings and Grounds
  • The House of Commons Chamber
  • Committee Rooms
  • For More Information
• Private Members’ Business
  • Introduction
  • Private Members’ Bills
  • Motions
  • Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers
  • List for the Consideration of Private Members’ Business and the Order of Precedence
  • Votable and Non-votable Items of Private Members’ Business
  • Private Members’ Hour
  • Time Limits on Debates on Items of Private Members’ Business
  • Votes on Items of Private Members’ Business
  • Effects of Prorogation on Private Members’ Business
  • For More Information
• Questions
  • Introduction
  • Oral Questions
  • Adjournment Proceedings (Late show)
  • Written Questions
  • For More Information
• Speaker and Other Presiding Officers
  • Introduction
  • Procedural Role
  • Administrative Role
  • Representative Role
  • Election of the Speaker of the House
  • Deputy Speaker
  • Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole and Assistant Deputy Speaker and Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole
  • For More Information
• Typical Sitting Day
  • Introduction
  • Daily Order of Business
  • Daily Proceedings
  • Routine Proceedings
  • Government Orders
  • Private Members’ Business
  • Adjournment Proceedings (Late Show)
  • Other Weekly Business
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