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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. ...

N Amer. a certificate or voucher presented as a gift and exchangeable for a specified value of goods, usu. at a specific store. 24   In the Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, A Merriam-Webster, 1986, the definition of the phrase “gift certificate” is as follows: gift certificate n (1942): a certified statement entitling the recipient to select merchandise in the establishment of the issuer to the amount stated thereon 25   In ascertaining the import of section 181.2 of the Excise Tax Act, it is useful to keep in view the provisions of section 13 of the Official Languages Act, which reads: Any journal, record, Act of Parliament, instrument, document, rule, order, regulation, treaty, convention, agreement, notice, advertisement or other matter referred to in this Part that is made, enacted, printed, published or tabled simultaneously in both languages, and both language versions are equally authoritative. ...

In this case, the transfer occurred in two steps and therefore it is necessary to identify the “precise point in time” [52] that the transfer occurred. [144] When interpreting legislation, “[i]t is assumed that the legislature is an accomplished user of language and has fully mastered the linguistic conventions through which meaning is communicated to an audience”. [53] It is therefore instructive to consider the grammatical meaning of the text used by the legislature. [145] The preamble uses the phrase “has transferred”. ...

For example, the definitions of “builder”, “charity”, “consumer”, “convention”, “debt security”, “financial service”, “money” and “office”. [184] See, generally, the presumptions regarding legislative drafting described in Ruth Sullivan, Statutory Interpretation, 3rd ed (Toronto: Irwin Law Inc, 2016), at page 129, particularly the third presumption. [185] See, for example, Walker v Ritchie, 2006 SCC 45 at paras 24 to 28. [186] Guindon at para 60. [187] Guindon at paragraph 60. ...

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.  ...

In those cases, the phrase “beneficial owner” was referenced as it appeared in a particular tax convention. ...

., 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)). ...

(opération) opération Sont assimilés à une opération une convention, un mécanisme ou un événement. ...

Dec. 6, 1988 Convention Centre minutes: “Blond with glasses---Where is the money that our notes secure? ...