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Good morning. I'm pleased to be here with you today, for my final press conference as Governor of the Bank of Canada, to discuss our January Monetary Policy Report Update.
The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, issued the following statement today on the death of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan:
| Employment and Social Development Canada
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On behalf of the Government of Canada, I would like to thank John Manley, Derek Burney, Pamela Wallin, Paul Tellier and Jake Epp for their hard work in producing this substantive and thoughtful report that contains recommendations regarding Canada's future role in Afghanistan.
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"Our government welcomes the praise from UNICEF Canada's CEO, Nigel Fisher, for our innovative programs and research aimed at reducing child deaths in poverty-stricken African countries.
During World War II, millions of Jews perished in the Holocaust. Some, however, were saved by the efforts of courageous individuals like Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with saving the lives of more than 100,000 Hungarian Jews.