Translation of "férule " (French → English) :

policy of the big stick

With us are Marc LeBlanc and Sam Banks are Library of Parliament analysts who give us tremendous support, research, insight and background into what we do; Senator Pana Merchant from Saskatchewan; Lynn Gordon is clerk of the committee and makes it run exceptionally well; Senator Judith Seidman is a relatively new senator from Quebec; Senator Daniel Lang from the Yukon; and Senator Bert Brown from Alberta.

Communications and discussions amongst governments and legislative bodies are inevitable and desirable, but federal-provincial executive agreements on constitutional packages involving explicit or implicit undertakings to use the parliamentary whip to force passage of amendments through legislative bodies as rubber stamps are inherently abusive and, whatever their outcome, can cause disappointment, bitterness, anger and prejudice to sound government.

Mr. Garlicki: Mr. Chairman, there were some cases, especially after the war, where some people, former citizens of the then communist-dominated countries, could not go back to their own countries.

Z. whereas, after 20 years of independence under the rule of President Isaias Afewerki, Eritrea is one of the most repressive and closed countries in the world, with a tremendously poor human rights record which includes the imprisonment, torture and killing of its citizens; whereas on 5 July 2012 the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution strongly condemning the continued widespread and systematic violations of human rights committed by the Eritrean authorities, the severe restrictions on freedom of opinion and expression, and the forced conscription of citizens for indefinite periods, also appointing a Special Rapporteur on the ...[+++] situation of human rights in Eritrea in order to break with the country’s isolation and investigate and report on abuses; whereas the Swedish-Eritrean citizen Dawit Isaak has been kept incommunicado in jail without trial in Eritrea for the last 11 years;