The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, today met with Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, and James Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense. It was an opportunity to discuss key foreign policy, defence and security issues of shared interest while strengthening the bilateral relationship between Canada and the United States.
The Government of Canada is taking a new approach to building confidence in the Canadian aquaculture industry. We are committed to moving forward in a way that protects the environment, the oceans and the fish stocks and that will create thousands of jobs for middle class Canadians.
Ottawa – The Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality, today issued the following statement on the passage of the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2, which includes legislation to create the Department for Women and Gender Equality (WAGE):
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement on the granting of Royal Assent to Bill C-47, An Act to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and the Criminal Code
The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, issued the following statement:
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Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, issued the following statement regarding the collective bargaining negotiations between Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW):
One of the hard-won lessons of the 20th century was the recognition that the protection of human rights is a prerequisite for peace. This realization led to the creation of one of the documents that underpins the rules-based international order: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [UDHR], whose first article states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
“After the horrors of the Second World War, the nations of the world came together to adopt the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to end impunity for those complicit in genocide.”
