| Privy Council Office | speeches
Next week, I mark 36 years in the Public Service. From Trudeau to Trudeau in 36 years. My wife considers me a failed retiree. I tried to leave in 2014, and Janice Charette asked me to stay and do another job, and I tried to leave in 2016, and the Prime Minister asked me to stay and do another job. I will get it right one of these days!
| Privy Council Office | speeches
You are part of the solution if we are going to recapitalize and modernize our IM/IT platform and provide cybersecurity. You are going to have to work with your partner departments, in different ways, depending on their needs.
| Privy Council Office | speeches
Let me start with a few words of thanks. I would like to thank Rabbi Bulka for the very inspiring presentation. It is very relevant to what you are doing. Kindness is a good way of presenting it. I want to credit the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service (APEX), who started work on civility and respect several years ago and have opened that dialogue.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | speeches
Hello everyone, and thank you very much to Mrs. Blouin for that nice introduction. What a pleasure to be with you today! First of all, I would like to respectfully acknowledge that the lands on which we gather today are the traditional lands of the Algonquin people
| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission | speeches
It’s an honour for me to stand before all of you for one last time. To reflect on everything we’ve done and everything we’ve accomplished over the past five years. But most of all to thank you all for your exceptional work.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | speeches
This year’s conference theme of Human Rights and Constitutionalism is very fitting. When we speak of human rights and constitutionalism, one of the most informed persons on this matter in Canada is Mr. Roger Tassé, the father of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | speeches
Thank you, Ted [Hewitt, President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada], distinguished guests, honoured colleagues, and most importantly, our social sciences and humanities researchers.
| Employment and Social Development Canada | speeches
As Canada’s first ever Minister for Persons with Disabilities, it is an honour for me to represent Canada at this 10th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
| Privy Council Office | speeches
This is the 150th anniversary of Confederation. Obviously there were people here before 1867, but the Canadian state is 150 years old. It also means 150 years of the Public Service. We were there on the first day. It has been an arrangement that has served Canadians very well for 150 years.
| Health Canada | speeches
Speech from Joël Lightbound, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, to the Dietitians of Canada National Conference.
