Today, the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Regional Minister for Southwestern Ontario, was joined by Joe Preston, Member of Parliament for Elgin-Middlesex-London, the Honourable Deb Matthews, Deputy Premier, Minister Responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy, President of the Treasury Board of Ontario and Member of Provincial Parliament for London-North-Centre, and Mark Cosens, Chair of the Elgin Area Joint Board of Management, to celebrate three major milestones in the Huron Elgin London Project for Clean Water (HELP Clean Water) initiative in Central Elgin, Ontario. Minister Finley was representing her colleague 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.
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health and the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF) were in Spruce Grove, Alberta today to announce the installation of five Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in the TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre.
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism, and Agriculture) and Member of Parliament for Beauce, 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, Pierre Moreau, Quebec's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy, and Robert Dutil, Member of Parliament for Beauce-Sud, are pleased to announce that the municipalities of the provincial electoral districts of Beauce-Nord and Beauce-Sud will receive $48,294,483 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. More precisely, municipalities in Beauce-Nord will receive $22,141,880, while municipalities in Beauce-Sud will receive $26,152,603.
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The Honourable Candice Bergen, Minister of State (Social Development), will attend and speak at the 9th annual graduation ceremony of the Neeginan College of Applied Technology.
Members of the media are invited to attend an important infrastructure event regarding the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, with Pierre Lemieux, Member of Parliament for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell; Sophie Kiwala, MPP for Kingston and the Islands and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport; His Worship Mark Gerretsen, Mayor of the City of Kingston, as well as Daniel Woolf, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University and Craig Dykers, founding partner and architect with Snøhetta.
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Their Excellencies the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and Mrs. Sharon Johnston will welcome Her Excellency Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea, at Rideau Hall, on September 21 and 22, 2014, on the occasion of her State visit to Canada.
