The Honourable

The Honourable - Entitlement. In the United Kingdom, all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls are styled with this prefix. (The daughters and younger sons of dukes and marquesses and the daughters of earls have the higher style of Lord or Lady before their first names, and the eldest sons of dukes, marquesses and earls are known by one of their father or mother's subsidiary titles.) The style is only a courtesy one, however, and on legal documents they are describ ...

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The Honourable, The Honourable - British usage, The Honourable - Entitlement, The Honourable - Usage, The Honourable - American usage, The Honourable - Australian usage, The Honourable - Canadian usage, The Honourable - Hong Kong usage, The Honourable - New Zealand usage

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The Honourable - Entitlement. In the United Kingdom, all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls are styled with this prefix. (The daughters and younger sons of dukes and marquesses and the daughters of earls have the higher style of Lord or Lady before their first names, and the eldest sons of dukes, marquesses and earls are known by one of their father or mother's subsidiary titles.) The style is only a courtesy one, however, and on legal documents they are describ ...

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The Honourable, The Honourable - British usage, The Honourable - Entitlement, The Honourable - Usage, The Honourable - American usage, The Honourable - Australian usage, The Honourable - Canadian usage, The Honourable - Hong Kong usage, The Honourable - New Zealand usage, The Honourable - Manx usage

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Generally within the Commonwealth, ministers and judges are The Honourable unless they are appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, in which case they are The Right Honourable. Such persons generally include Prime Ministers and judges of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, and several other Commonwealth prime ministers. The Right Honourable - Australia. In Australia some Premiers of the Australian colonies in the 19th century were appointed members of the UK Privy Council and wer ...

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The Right Honourable, The Right Honourable - Entitlement, The Right Honourable - Corporate entities, The Right Honourable - Use of the honorific, The Right Honourable - Outside the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable - Australia, The Right Honourable - Canada, The Right Honourable - Ireland, The Right Honourable - New Zealand

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The merger to form the new Conservative Party of Canada was announced on October 15, 2003, by the two party leaders (Stephen Harper of the Canadian Alliance and Peter MacKay of the Progressive Conservatives), and was ratified by the membership of the Alliance on December 5 by a margin of 96% to 4%, and by delegates of the PC Party on December 6 by a margin of 90% to 10%. On December 7, 2003, the new party was officially registered with Elections Ca ...

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Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada - Background, Conservative Party of Canada - Leadership election, Conservative Party of Canada - Controversy, Conservative Party of Canada - Aftermath, Conservative Party of Canada - Party leaders, Conservative Party of Canada - 2004 election campaign team, Conservative Party of Canada - Provincial parties

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Canada This article is part of the series: Politics of Canada Executive The Crown (Queen Elizabeth II) Governor General (Michaëlle Jean) Prime Minister (Paul Martin) Cabinet Legislative Parliament Senate Speaker of the Senate Government Leader in the Senate Opposition Leader in the Senate Canadian Senate divisi ...

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• Canadian Senate - History
• Canadian Senate - Senators
• Canadian Senate - Qualifications
• Canadian Senate - Officers
• Canadian Senate - Procedure
• Canadian Senate - Committees
• Canadian Senate - Legislative functions
• Canadian Senate - Relationship with the Government
• Canadian Senate - Recent developments
• Canadian Senate - Current composition

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The Honourable Annette Faye King (born 13 September 1947) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party, and currently serves in Cabinet as Minister of Health and Minister of Food Safety. King was born in Murchison, a town in the West Coast region. After receiving primary and secondary education in Murchison, she attended the University of Waikato and gained a BA degree. She then obtained a post-graduate diploma in dental nursing, and worked as a dental nurse from 1967 to 1981. She was a tutor ...

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The structure of the Australian Government may be examined in light of two distinct concepts, namely: Federalism - Australia has both a federal government called the Commonwealth Government as well as state and local governments; and Separation of powers into legislative, executive and judiciary branches of government. Separation of powers is implied from the structure of the Constitution which breaks down the branches of government into separate chapters. Government of Australia - Federalis ...

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• Government of Australia - Structure of the government
• Government of Australia - Federalism
• Government of Australia - Separation of Powers
• Government of Australia - Head of state
• Government of Australia - Legislature
• Government of Australia - Opposition
• Government of Australia - Executive
• Government of Australia - Executive Council
• Government of Australia - Cabinet
• Government of Australia - Departments
• Government of Australia - Judiciary
• Government of Australia - Footnote

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A courtesy title is a form of address in the British peerage system used for wives, children, and other close relatives of a peer. These styles may mislead those unacquainted with the system into thinking that they have substantive titles. If a peer of the rank of Duke, Marquess or Earl has more than one title, his eldest son, not himself a peer, uses one of the lesser titles; that title is only "loaned" to him - technically the son actually remains a commoner. (The eldest sons of Barons and Viscounts do not receive such a priv ...

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• Courtesy title - Choosing a courtesy title
• Courtesy title - Other children and wives
• Courtesy title - Precedence status of courtesy titles
• Courtesy title - Adopted Children
• Courtesy title - Marriage
• Courtesy title - Indirect inheritance
• Courtesy title - Divorced wives
• Courtesy title - Divorced wives who remarry
• Courtesy title - Widows

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People entitled to the prefix in a personal capacity are: Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the Privy Council of Northern Ireland This includes all current and former members of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, which is a committee of the Privy Council; Barons, viscounts and earls (marquesses are "The Most Honourable" and dukes are "The Most Noble" or "His Grace", and, if Privy Councillors, retain these higher styles); and The holders of certain offices of state in some Commonwealth realms (e.g. in Canada, the Governo ...

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The Right Honourable, The Right Honourable - Entitlement, The Right Honourable - Corporate entities, The Right Honourable - Use of the honorific, The Right Honourable - Outside the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable - Australia, The Right Honourable - Canada, The Right Honourable - Ireland, The Right Honourable - New Zealand

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The Honourable Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr. (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. The son of politician and professor Dalton McGuinty Sr. and full-time nurse Elizabeth McGuinty, McGuinty grew up in an large Irish Canadian Catholic family with nine brothers and sisters. He earned a science degree from McMaster University and a law degree from the ...

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• Dalton McGuinty - Member of Provincial Parliament
• Dalton McGuinty - First term in opposition
• Dalton McGuinty - Second term as opposition leader
• Dalton McGuinty - First year in office
• Dalton McGuinty - Second year
• Dalton McGuinty - Toward the 2007 election

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The Honourable Dalton Kingsley Camp, PC, OC, M.Sc, LL.D (September 11, 1920 – March 18, 2002) was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Despite having never been elected to a seat in the House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and a popular commentator for decades. He is a central figure in Red Toryism. Dalton Camp - Quotations. "Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies." ...

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• Dalton Camp - Quotations

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The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. The party most recently formed the Official Opposition in the House of Commons until Parliament was dissolved on November 29, 2005. The Honourable Stephen Harper is the current leader of the party. Since the merger of the Progressive Conserv ...

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• Conservative Party of Canada - Background
• Conservative Party of Canada - Leadership election
• Conservative Party of Canada - Controversy
• Conservative Party of Canada - Aftermath
• Conservative Party of Canada - Party leaders
• Conservative Party of Canada - 2004 election campaign team
• Conservative Party of Canada - Provincial parties

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The Honourable Carol Thatcher (born 15 August 1953) is a British journalist and the daughter of the late Sir Denis Thatcher and Baroness Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister. Despite her mother's fame, Carol Thatcher kept a relatively low profile (though she had a stint presenting radio programmes for LBC) until her late 2005 participation in the TV show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! She is the author of several books, including: Below the parapet : the biography of Denis Thatcher (1996) Diary of an election : with Marg ...

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A viscount is a member of the European nobility, especially, as in the British peerage, ranking above a baron, below a (British) earl or (his continental equivalent) count. The word viscount comes from Old French visconte (modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin vicecomitem, accusative of vicecomes, from Late Latin vice- "deputy" + Latin comes "companion, delegate of the emperor" (see count). As a rank in British peerage, first recorded in 1440, when John Beaumont, 1st Visco ...

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• Viscount - Viscount in Britain and the Commonwealth
• Viscount - Coronet
• Viscount - Continental forms of the title
• Viscount - Equivalent titles
• Viscount - Reference

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The honorific is normally only used on the front of envelopes and other written documents: for example, The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP is otherwise referred to simply as "Mr Blair". In the House of Commons, members refer to each other as "the honourable member for ..." or "the right honourable member for ..." depending upon whether or not they are Privy Counsellors. However the title "the honourable member" is ...

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The Right Honourable, The Right Honourable - Entitlement, The Right Honourable - Corporate entities, The Right Honourable - Use of the honorific, The Right Honourable - Outside the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable - Australia, The Right Honourable - Canada, The Right Honourable - Ireland, The Right Honourable - New Zealand

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The prefix is also added to the name of various corporate entities, e.g.: The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (of the United Kingdom &c.) in Parliament Assembled (the House of Lords); The Right Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses (now usually the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom &c.) in Parliament Assembled (the House of Commons); and The Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (the Board of Admiralty) The Right Honourable the Lords of ...

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The Right Honourable, The Right Honourable - Entitlement, The Right Honourable - Corporate entities, The Right Honourable - Use of the honorific, The Right Honourable - Outside the United Kingdom, The Right Honourable - Australia, The Right Honourable - Canada, The Right Honourable - Ireland, The Right Honourable - New Zealand

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Graham grew up in Montreal and Vancouver. He attended Upper Canada College, Trinity College, Toronto, the University of Toronto and the University of Paris where he received his Doctorate in Law. While attending Trinity College he served as XCVI, the 96th scribe of the Venerable Father Episkopon. After some time in private practise, he went on to become a professor at the University of Toronto teaching subjects such as International Trade Law. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Université de Montréal and McGill University. Graham ...

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Bill Graham politician, Bill Graham politician - Personal life, Bill Graham politician - Political life, Bill Graham politician - Honours

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Campbell has publicly identified himself as a moderate centrist. His political positions have put him in conflict with some of the more left-leaning members of his Coalition of Progressive Electors party who had expected Campbell to take the city's government in a more radical direction once elected. Shortly after Campbell's election, infighting broke out within his COPE party between the moderate Mayor and his like-minded city councilors versus some of their further left colleagues. On December 14, 2004, Campbell and councilors Jim G ...

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Larry Campbell, Larry Campbell - Election, Larry Campbell - Mayor, Larry Campbell - Controversy, Larry Campbell - The need to try a safe-injection site

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Dryden was drafted fourteenth overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1964 NHL Amateur Draft. Rather than play in Boston, Dryden pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at Cornell University, where he also played hockey until his graduation in 1969. At Cornell, Dryden led his team to the 1967 National Collegiate Athletic Association championship and three consecutive ECAC tournament championships. He is generally regarded as the gre ...

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Ken Dryden, Ken Dryden - Hockey career, Ken Dryden - Education, Ken Dryden - Writing career, Ken Dryden - Business career, Ken Dryden - Political career, Ken Dryden - Criticisms, Ken Dryden - Notes

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Rae was re-elected to the federal parliament in the 1980 election. During the same period, the Ontario New Democratic Party was suffering from internal disunity under the leadership of Michael Cassidy, a figure from the NDP's left wing who was neither supported nor respected by the party establishment. Cassidy resigned as leader after a poor performance in the 1981 provincial election, and a movement began to draft Rae as his replacement. In 1981, a provincial delegation led by Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Dave Cooke tried to ...

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Bob Rae, Bob Rae - Family, Bob Rae - Early career, Bob Rae - Ontario NDP Leader, Bob Rae - Premier, Bob Rae - Since 1996

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