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Riel called together 12 representatives of the English-speaking parishes and 12 representatives of the French-speaking Métis parishes, known as the “Convention of 24”.  ... Parliament, after vigorous debate and the failure of a motion to delete the section providing the children’s grant, passed the Manitoba Act on May 10, 1870. [31]                           The delegates returned to the Red River Settlement with the proposal, and, on June 24, 1870, Father Ritchot addressed the Convention of 40, now called the Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia, to advocate for the adoption of the Manitoba Act.  ...

The Tribunal was, in her view, obliged to follow the vertical convention of precedent. ...

The Constitution gives the Governor General the formal power of selecting the Prime Minister and Cabinet, but by convention she invariably appoints the leader of the party that has won the majority of seats in Parliament (assuming that there is one) as Prime Minister, and follows his recommendations in appointing the other ministers (see Hogg, supra, at p. 255; H. ...

The counselling provided by the Society assists immigrant women in learning the social conventions and practical realities of a job interview, résumé preparation, applying for employment, and the like.  ...

., Jurisdiction in International Law (1999), 139, at p. 154.   65                                The Permanent Court of International Justice stated in the Lotus case, at pp. 18-19, that jurisdiction “cannot be exercised by a State outside its territory except by virtue of a permissive rule derived from international custom or from a convention”.  ...

In the words of Professor Sullivan, “[t]he legislature is presumed to know its own statute book and to draft each new provision with regard to the structures, conventions, and habits of expression as well as the substantive law embodied in existing legislation” (Sullivan (2014), at p. 422 (footnote omitted)). ...