Joint address (Canada)
A joint address to Parliament is a speech made by a distinguished visitor, usually a foreign head of state or head of government, to Members of the Senate and the House of Commons under a special procedure of the Canadian Parliament, in which members of the House of Commons and Senate sit jointly in the chamber of the House of Commons, that chamber acting, for the occasion, as an auditorium. The speaker of the House of Commons takes his chair, as normal, with the speaker of the Senate seated to their right.