Nguyen Thanh Hai (left), head of the NA’s Ombudsman Committee and Chairwoman of the Vietnam-Canada Friendship Association, and peaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Darryk Plecas. (Photo: VNA)Ottawa (VNA) – A delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly ledby Nguyen Thanh Hai, head of the NA’s Ombudsman Committee and Chairwoman of theVietnam-Canada Friendship Association, has paid a working visit to Canada.
During their stay in Canada from November 27-December 4, the delegation hadmeetings and working sessions, with Speaker of the Legislative Assembly ofBritish Columbia Darryk Plecas, British Columbia’s Ombudsperson Jay Chalke, Ministerof State for Trade George Chow and other parliamentarians of the state.
At the meetings, the Canadian side highly valued the visit to Canada of the delegation andexpressed their pleasure with the growing ties between the two countries.
Hai said the delegation got useful information and experience relating to thesystem of Canada’s law enforcement agencies, voters’ meeting, settlement andsupervision of the settlement of citizens’ complains.
She expressed her hope for the development of cooperation between the twocountries’ legislatures.
The delegation had also working sessions with the lawfaculty at the University of Victoria, public policy faculty at the Universityof British Columbia, visited Vietnam’s Consulate General in Vancouver and metwith the Vietnamese community at the Consulate General.
According to the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, there areabout 4.5 million Vietnamese people living aboard, including 250,000 in Canada. Vietnam has ranked first in South East Asia and fifth in theworld as a source country for international students in Canada with more than 20,000 students./.
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