National Public Service Week was celebrated across Canada from June 14 to 20. It is a time to recognize Public Service employees who contribute to their country by proudly serving Canadians. At the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), protection and service are part of our motto – it is who we are. We work hard every day to protect Canadians, to support our mandate to keep our communities safe from dangerous goods and people, to identify threats and to safeguard the economy.
International Trade Minister Ed Fast today hosted a Go Global export workshop on e-commerce at Google Canada's Toronto office, where he highlighted the enormous benefits of Canada's pro-export plan to create jobs and growth and the tools available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
International Trade Minister Ed Fast today announced the conclusion of negotiations of an agreement on science, technology and innovation (ST&I) between Canada and South Korea. This delivers on the commitment to develop an agreement first announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and South Korea's President Park Geun-hye during President Park's visit to Canada on September 22, 2014.
The lockdown put in place at Edmonton Institution on July 14, 2015 has ended and an exceptional search has been completed. The institution has resumed its normal operations.
OTTAWA – Fifteen members of the Canadian Armed Forces are participating in Exercise SABER GUARDIAN / RAPID TRIDENT 15, a multinational exercise at the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Yavoriv, Ukraine, from July 17 to 31, 2015.
The lockdown put in place at the medium security unit at Drumheller Institution on July 15, 2015 has ended and an exceptional search has been completed. The institution has resumed its normal operations.
Today, the Honourable Steven Blaney, Canada's Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, delivered a keynote speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade that focused on the ties between a strong economy and national security.
David Wilks, Member of Parliament for Kootenay-Columbia, on behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today announced infrastructure investments totalling $46 million in several Parks Canada projects across Kootenay National Park.
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today concluded successful meetings at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, where heads of state or government, ministers of finance, foreign affairs and development cooperation, and other special representatives from the international community gathered to discuss innovative ways to finance the United Nations Post-2015 International Development Agenda.
