Larry Maguire, Member of Parliament for Brandon-Souris, was joined today by Greg Selinger, the Premier of Manitoba, and by Shari Decter Hirst, Mayor of Brandon, to announce that the Government of Canada has conditionally set aside up to $2.9 million for the Brandon Municipal Airport Passenger Terminal Redevelopment project at McGill Field, the second eligible project in Manitoba under the New Building Canada Fund.
Today, Larry Maguire, Member of Parliament (MP) for Brandon-Souris, on behalf of the Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, officially announced the opening of three new facilities at the Goodlands, Coulter and Lyleton ports of entry in southwestern Manitoba. MP Larry Maguire and CBSA Vice President Comptrollership, Claude Rochette, marked the opening of these modern facilities at the Goodlands port of entry.
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, issued the following statement today in response to the release of the Transportation Safety Board's (TSB) final report from its investigation into the July 6, 2013 train derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec:
Once again our hearts are filled with grief and sadness as we mourn the brutal and senseless murder of an Aboriginal girl. In a pattern that has tragically become commonplace, the body of Tina Fontaine was pulled from the Red River in Winnipeg last Sunday, after being reported missing earlier this month. Barely 15, Tina was reportedly in the care of Child and Family Services.
Canada is contributing $19.8 million over four years to the Skills Training and Enhancement Project in Bangladesh. The project, implemented by the World Bank, began in 2011 with funding from the Government of Bangladesh and the World Bank.
Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for International Human Rights, on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today announced Canada's support to create a better-trained, and qualified workforce in Bangladesh.
From August 19 to September 3, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut David Saint-Jacques participates in a training mission in the Arctic to learn methods and techniques for conducting geological fieldwork that could be applied to future missions to the Moon or an asteroid.
Peter Braid, Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Communities and Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, spoke today at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario's Annual Conference regarding the New Building Canada Plan, the renewed federal Gas Tax Fund Agreement with Ontario and what they mean for municipalities across Ontario.
