The Canadian Programs

The Parliamentary Centre assists Canadian Parliaments and Canadian Parliamentarians by supporting their engagement internationally and building their effectiveness at home.

International Engagement

Capitalizing on the Parliamentary Centre's active engagement in parliamentary development worldwide, our focus is to develop and support innovative relationships between Canadian Parliamentarians and parliamentary development actors worldwide.

Canadian Parliamentarians and parliamentary officials at the national and provincial levels have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with their counterparts around the world - and vice versa. The Centre works in close cooperation with parliaments across Canada to create learning and knowledge-sharing relationships between Canadian parliamentarians, Canadian parliamentary officials and staff, and their counterparts in other countries. This is done through the dozens of projects the Centre implements with parliaments in all major regions of the world, including in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

The Parliamentary Centre also builds relationships between Canadian parliamentarians with their counterparts from other regions of the world by supporting inter-parliamentary networks, including:

Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC)
Inter-parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA)
African Poverty Reduction Network (APRN)
African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC)
Africa Gender Network

Parliamentary Effectiveness

The Centre develops programs and conducts applied research aimed at developing the effectiveness of Parliamentarians in Canada. The principle initiative is the magazine Parliamentary Government.