Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. I'd like to start by thanking Credit Canada Debt Solutions and the many organizers of Credit Education Week. It's my pleasure to be here today to help launch the week, which is an important component of and addition to Financial Literacy Month.
Thank you for the opportunity to address your conference, and I'm sorry I could not be there to speak with you in person today. November is Financial Literacy Month, and this year the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada known as F-C, was busier than ever – hosting a national conference on financial literacy in Vancouver, launching a financial literacy resource database accessible to all Canadians, and continuing our preparations for the launch of a national strategy on financial literacy in 2015.
The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, today highlighted recent commercial successes in Japan for the Canadian aerospace industry during his trade mission.
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The B.C. Government is recognizing Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland for 100 years of providing important research for the sector with a Century Farm Award. Penticton MLA Dan Ashcroft presented the award to MP Dan Albas and staff of the Summerland facility today thanking them for their contribution to the British Columbia agriculture industry and its history.
November 13, 2014 - Ottawa, Ontario
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement today in response to the release of the Transportation Safety Board's final report following its investigation into the May 18, 2013, sinking of the fishing vessel Marie J, near McEachern's Point, New Brunswick:
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Event date: November 14, 2014-The Honourable Kerry-Lynne Findlay, Minister of National Revenue and Member of Parliament for Delta¿Richmond East, on behalf of the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology), will deliver a keynote address at this year's Polytechnics Canada Student Applied Research Showcase.
The Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State (Foreign Affairs and Consular), successfully concluded her participation at the High-Level Commemorative Event and Civil Society Forum on the 10th Anniversary of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE's) Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism.
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Chris Alexander, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister and Member of Parliament for Ajax-Pickering, on behalf of the Honourable Candice Bergen, Minister of State (Social Development), will announce funding to help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Durham Region.