I am proud to be here in my city, Montréal. I am proud to be the federal MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount and proud to be one of six Quebec ministers. Thank you, Mayor Coderre, for being here with us today
I am very proud to be here today as Clerk. Like many of you, I got a new job this year and mine has three hats. I like being deputy minister to the Prime Minister – it's pretty cool many days – and I like being Secretary to the Cabinet and sitting in the corner. But I'm especially pleased to be statutorily Head of the Public Service and to be an ambassador and a spokesperson for this wonderful institution. And to be here and celebrate your personal accomplishments in getting into this community and to collectively celebrate who we are and what we do makes me especially proud. I’m really proud to be with you this evening.
It's very important in every department, agency, organization, to know your business, know your people, know the work environment, and know what you can do. As feedback to you, I would say that I'm very impressed with what the agency is doing in the field of mental health, and workplace well-being. Keep it up and share your best practices and what you learn with the rest of the Public Service.
Thank you very much. Hello everyone and thank you for the welcome. I am thrilled to be here this morning in Quebec, in the beautiful city of Montréal. We could not have had a better place for our announcement today. As you know, Montréal is a world gastronomic capital and I want to talk primarily about food today. So what better than to be here in Montréal at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, surrounded by experts in healthy lifestyles.
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This hearing is being held as part of the process to examine the policy issues surrounding the use of differential pricing practices by Canadian fixed and mobile Internet service providers.
It's good to see that support for peace in francophone countries goes beyond francophone countries. I am particularly pleased to see one of our co-chairs, Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, Bangladesh's Minister of Foreign Affairs, whom I had the pleasure to host earlier this week.
At a time when nuclear disarmament is stalled and when Canada, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's leadership, is re-engaging in the world, I cannot thank you enough for inviting me to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the start of the "Ottawa Process," which led to the Landmine Convention [Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction].
As you know, for over 100 years, the International Joint Commission [IJC] has prevented and resolved disputes over water between Canada and the United States under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty.