| Natural Resources Canada | backgrounders
On January 29, 2025, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced an investment totalling close to $13.4 million to support made-in-Alberta technologies to reduce pollution while growing jobs.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | backgrounders
Mr. Guilmette currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Boralex, where he is responsible for several divisions, including Finance and Accounting, Taxation, Investor Relationst and Internal Controls. Prior to this, he served as Interim Chief Investment Officer at the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), and held previous roles as the Senior Vice-President of Infrastructure Investments PSP Investments, and as Senior Director Private Equity Investments at the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.
| Democratic Institutions | backgrounders
Foreign interference poses a growing threat to Canada’s democratic institutions. The Government of Canada is working to ensure that Canadians can maintain their trust in Canada’s democratic institutions. This includes a series of measures already in place, as well as ongoing work to further strengthen our electoral system against foreign interference.
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
Canada is imposing sanctions against individuals and entities in relation to the Lukashenko regime’s ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations in Belarus, as well as its support of Russia’s violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada | backgrounders
Ms. Houle was appointed as Canada’s first Federal Housing Advocate in 2022, marking a new chapter in a career defined by her work in the affordable housing and homelessness sector. Ms. Houle is an experienced leader who is recognized for her community activism, expertise in human rights, and extensive knowledge of the housing and homelessness system.
| Health Canada | backgrounders
Today, the Governments of Canada and the province of Ontario signed the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Disease (DRD) agreement to invest over $535 million over three years to improve access to new drugs for rare diseases for Ontario residents and to support enhanced access to existing drugs, early diagnosis, and screening for rare diseases.
| Natural Resources Canada | backgrounders
On January 23, 2025, Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, along with Member of Parliament Bardish Chagger, announced over $4.5 million in funding for nine projects in southern Ontario or with national reach under Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Program (CCAP).
| Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario | backgrounders
Today, the Honourable Ruby Sahota, Minister of Democratic Institutions and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), along with the Honourable Mona Fortier, Member of Parliament for Ottawa–Vanier, announced a combined investment of nearly $4.2 million to support five women-led organizations to scale-up, modernize their ventures, and grow.
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
Robin Wettlaufer (BA [International Relations], University of British Columbia, 1998; MA [Political Science], York University, 2000) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1998. At Headquarters, she has worked as desk officer for Iraq and as conflict prevention adviser for the G8 foreign ministers’ process, and she has also served in Regional Security and Peacekeeping and in the Japan Division. She was senior adviser to the Darfur peace process, from 2010 to 2011, and deputy director for the Sudan and South Sudan Task Force from 2011 to 2013. Overseas, she served in Ramallah from 2005 to 2008; in Islamabad from 2008 to 2010; in Istanbul, as Canada’s special representative for Syria, from 2014 to 2019; and again in Ramallah, as representative to the Palestinian Authority, from 2019 to 2022. Most recently, she was director of the Centre for International Digital Policy and the Rapid Response Mechanism (2022 to 2024).
| Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions | backgrounders
The following information is in addition to the news release issued on January 20, 2025, on CED’s financial assistance, the recipient businesses and organizations, and their respective projects.
