Irene R. Mathyssen ( born August 16, 1951 in London, Ontario ) is a Canadian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons.

Mathyssen is also a member of the Ontario Health Coalition.

Mathyssen is the chair of the NDP Women's Caucus.

The NDP was defeated by the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1995 provincial election, and Mathyssen was personally defeated in Middlesex, finishing third behind Reycroft and Progressive Conservative Bruce Smith.

The Liberals unexpectedly lost the 1990 provincial election to the New Democratic Party, and Reycraft lost his riding to NDP candidate Irene Mathyssen by 520 votes ( out of 38, 382 cast ).

Mathyssen ran provincially in London — Fanshawe for a second time in the 2003 provincial election, and this time finished a strong second, losing to Liberal Khalil Ramal by fewer than 2, 000 votes.

In the House of Commons, Mathyssen has tabled a Private Members Bill, known as the Housing Bill of Rights, that would provide for secure, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians.

Mathyssen has apologized for the incident, and was criticized in the media for it.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature for the riding of London — Fanshawe in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal Peter Mancini and New Democrat Irene Mathyssen in a close three-way race.

Mathyssen has been involved in the Pride Parade and the London AIDS walk, the Women's Community House, the London Coalition Against Pesticides and the Coalition of Canadian Immigrants.

During a parliamentary session on December 5, 2007, Mathyssen committed a blunder when she stood in the Commons and accused Conservative James Moore of looking at images of " scantily clad " women on his personal laptop computer at his desk in the House of Commons.

Later in the day, Mathyssen and Moore spoke in person about the incident ; Moore explained that the woman he had been looking at on his laptop computer screen was his girlfriend.

During a parliamentary session on December 5, 2007, Irene Mathyssen stood in the Chamber and accused Moore of looking at images of " scantily clad " women on his personal laptop computer.

Mathyssen was educated at the University of Western Ontario from 1970 to 1975, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Drama, and a Bachelor of Education degree.

Notwithstanding her previous defeats, Mathyssen was considered to have a strong chance of defeating Pat O ' Brien in the 2004 federal election.

Mathyssen won the riding with 34 % of the vote, becoming one of 29 New Democrats elected.

Mathyssen made the charge publicly before talking to Moore, and later when Mathyssen and Moore spoke in person about the incident, Moore explained that the woman in the image was of his girlfriend.

O ' Brien has stated that up to 90 % of his constituents were opposed to same-sex marriage, and in the 2004 election, he defeated New Democrat candidate Irene Mathyssen by over 3000 votes, a supporter of same sex marriage.

In the 2006 election, although he did not run, he endorsed a Conservative who opposed same-sex marriage ; but this time, Mathyssen won the riding.

The Progressive Conservatives had lost much of their urban support by the time of the 2003 provincial election, and Mazzilli dropped to a third-place finish in London — Fanshawe against Mathyssen and the winner, Liberal Khalil Ramal.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

The NDP has elected Members of Parliament ( MPs ) from New Brunswick, but most of the focus of the party at the federal and provincial levels is currently in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia.

This is attributed to a few factors: ( 1 ) he felt the federal NDP could not achieve power, because of Tommy Douglas's inability to attract voters in Quebec, ( 2 ) Trudeau expressed doubts about the centralizing policies of Canada's socialists ( he favoured a more decentralized approach ), and ( 3 ) there were " real differences " between his approach and the NDP's " two nations " approach to the Canadian constitution and the role of Quebec within Canada.

In Internet Protocol Version 6 ( IPv6 ) networks, the functionality of ARP is provided by the Neighbor Discovery Protocol ( NDP ).

Out of Canada's three most prominent political parties, neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party is officially in favour of abolishing the monarchy ( though the latter makes support for constitutional monarchy a founding principle in its policy declaration ) and the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has no official position on the role of the Crown.

Bouterse is the chairman of the Surinamese political combination Megacombinatie ( Megacombination ) and the leader of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ), which is part of the Megacombination.

In the House of Commons of Canada, The Pas is part of the Churchill riding, held by NDP MP Niki Ashton.

For IPv6, however, on-link determination is different in detail and requires the Neighbor Discovery Protocol ( NDP ).

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia ( BC NDP ) is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada.

The BC NDP is the provincial arm of the New Democratic Party of Canada.

As pertains to relations with the United States, currently the Conservative Party advocates close relations, the NDP is more skeptical of American power, and the Liberals in between.

On March 26, 2011, in response to Harper's allegations that a coalition is not a legitimate or principled way to form government, Duceppe stated that Harper had once tried to form a coalition government with the Bloc and NDP.

Welland is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by the NDP MP Malcolm Allen, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by the NDP MPP Cindy Forster, representing the federal and the provincial ridings of Welland.

Brian Pallister told parliament, " the Manitoba NDP government is planning to proceed with a plan to force every worker on the Red River floodway expansion to unionize, despite the fact that 95 % of Manitoba's construction companies are not unionized.

:: I've heard it said of the NDP that we are too attached to the past, but I tell you that it is our political opponents who are the Jurassic Park of Canadian politics.

The NDP is currently the second largest party in the Canadian House of Commons and the holder of the title of The Official Opposition.

In the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Campbell River is represented by the North Island ( Claire Trevena, NDP ) riding.

The Ontario New Democratic Party ( ONDP ) or ( NDP ), formally known as New Democratic Party of Ontario, is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada.

She distanced the ONDP from former Premier Bob Rae, now interim leader of the federal Liberal Party of Canada, by pointing out that he is the exception to the rule of NDP Premiers in other provinces who have been able to balance provincial budgets.

The leader is head of the parliamentary party and leads the party caucus in the Ontario legislature and is the party's presumed candidate to lead an NDP government should the party be called upon to form a government.

NDP leader Ed Broadbent had a firm position that abortion is a medical matter, not a criminal one, and should be left to a woman and her doctor.

The area is in the political riding of Beaches — East York, and is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by Michael Prue of the provincial New Democratic Party ( NDP ).