Canada has a long history of providing observers to elections around the globe. Since 2004, Canada has contributed hundreds of election observers to seven successive Ukrainian elections to help further strengthen democracy in the country.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper receives the Canadian Election Observation Mission Final Report on Ukraine's May 25, 2014 Presidential election from Senator Raynell Andreychuk and former Ontario Premier Mike Harris on the margins of an event hosted by the Ukrainian community.
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The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, today participated in the official opening of the fifth edition of the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal. He took the opportunity to note that the Government of Canada granted funding for these two cycling competitions, the only transatlantic leg of the International Cycling Union's WorldTour races.
Suicide is an international public health concern – one affecting families around the world, in Canada, and in the Canadian Armed Forces. That's why I endorse the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention's theme for this year's World Suicide Prevention Day, "Connecting Canada".
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for La Francophonie, on behalf of the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, the Honourable Denis Lebel, and Ghislain Bolduc, Member of the National Assembly for Mégantic, on behalf of Quebec's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, Pierre Moreau, are pleased to announce that the provincial electoral district of Mégantic will receive $26,670,044 over the next five years under the new federal-provincial Gas Tax Fund agreement and from the Government of Quebec's contribution for the completion of priority infrastructure projects.