The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement amid reports of merciless attacks perpetrated by the Assad regime and its backers in eastern Aleppo and reported civilian killings and disappearances
The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement regarding the presidential election in Ghana
The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement marking Human Rights Day
The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement on International Anti-corruption Day
The International Joint Commission's (IJC) updated Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River regulation plan, also known as Plan 2014, consists of technical rules on water releases at Moses-Saunders Power Dam on the St. Lawrence River and an updated supplementary order of approval on criteria regulating these outflows.
The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada and the United States have taken action to reconcile the economic importance of the Lake Ontario–St. Lawrence Seaway system and the restoration of the health of its ecosystem. This has occurred by updating the rules regulating water levels and flows contained in the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River regulation plan.
As Canada marked International Anti-corruption Day, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today announced $13.6 million over four years to work with communities, civil society organizations, public institutions and businesses to combat corruption in the following 12 countries: Argentina, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mozambique, Nigeria, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
We meet once again in uncertain times, when global and regional security are threatened. I will focus on four major issues for Canada: the fundamental principle of territorial integrity, conventional arms control, human rights and respect for diversity.