Rob Oliphant, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit Slovakia on July 9 to participate in a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Omar Alghabra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Diversification, will deliver an address at the Stampede Investment Forum, highlighting trade diversification and investment attraction in Alberta.
Today, the Honourable Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification, announced that EllisDon Construction Ltd. was awarded the contract for the design, build and operation of the Canada Pavilion and Public Presentation at Expo 2020 Dubai. Together with consortium members Moriyama & Teshima Architects, and Lord Cultural Resources, along with Hatch, Kubik, Thornton Tomasetti, NGX and Cisco, EllisDon and team will deliver the pavilion and its public presentation space.
Canada views the news of the interim power-sharing agreement between the Transitional Military Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change in Sudan as a positive step forward.
Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC) - $5 million (2019/20 to 2021/22) to address barriers, increase access to quality education and improve learning outcomes and employability for girls and women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
Canada is committed to advancing gender equality and ensuring that girls, adolescent girls and women have access to quality education, especially in conflict and crisis situations.
Expanding access to international markets allows Canadian businesses to create jobs for the middle class here in Canada. The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) helps Canadian exporters sell products and services abroad and helps foreign governments purchase Canadian solutions.
The Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister of International Development and Minister for Women and Gender Equality, is in Paris, France, to participate in the G7 Development and Joint Development and Education Ministers’ Meetings on July 4 and 5, 2019.