Translation of "parliamentary privilege in canada " (English → French) :

privilege [ parliamentary prerogative | parliamentary privilege ]

breach of privilege [ breach of parliamentary privilege | prima facie breach of privilege ]

parliamentary privilege [ personal privilege | Member's immunity ]

For an in-depth treatment of the subject, the reader is referred to two principal sources. The first is Erskine May’s Treatise on The Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, which lays out the practice and precedents of the British House of Commons. The second is Parliamentary Privilege in Canada by Joseph Maingot, which focusses on the history and workings of privilege in Canada.

The second edition of Maingot's Parliamentary Privilege in Canada states, on page 42, that parliamentary privilege protects the member “when he speaks in Parliament, but when he speaks outside, or publishes outside what he says inside Parliament, Parliament offers no protection; only the common law does, if it is offered at all”.

The introduction of this specific category of servants does not affect Article 29 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities, laid down by Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Staff Regulations’, which provides that internal competitions are only open to officials and temporary staff, and no provision of this Regulation may be construed as giving accredited parliamentary assistants privileged or direct access to posts of officials or other categories of servants of the European Communities or to internal competitions for such posts.

After a first decision, taken by the Chamber of Deputies (on 16 March 1999), that the facts at issue in the criminal proceedings pending before the Magistrate's Court in Milan, were covered by Italian parliamentary privilege, the Constitutional Court, as the outcome of a conflict of powers, between the Parliament and the Court of Appeal of Milan, pursuant to Article 68(1) of the Constitution, annulled that decision finding that insults and acts of resistance and violence are in no way acts to which parliamentary privilege may apply.