Event Location: Mexico City, Mexico

The Canadian Section of ParlAmericas travels to Mexico City, Mexico for the Annual Gathering of the Group of Women Parliamentarians. June 23-25. More information is available online.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) announced that he will join Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, and Barack Obama, President of the United States, for the seventh North American Leaders’ Summit in Toluca, Mexico, on Feb. 19. He will be accompanied by International Trade Minister Ed Fast (Abbotsford, B.C.), Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney (Levis-Bellechasse, Que.), and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver (Eglington-Lawrence, Ont.). At the summit, the three … Read more

Speaker of the Senate Noel Kinsella and a parliamentary delegation will participate in the G20 Speakers Consultation 2013 in Mexico. More information is available online.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Oshawa, Ont.) will take part in the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Mexico City. Call 613-996-7861. 

Twenty young Canadian entrepreneurs from across Canada are travelling to Mexico City where they will form the official Canadian delegation at the G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit. G20 YES is an annual international summit of dedicated and influential entrepreneurs of the G20 countries, coordinated by the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance. The global delegates will work together … Read more

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Oshawa, ON) will attend the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meetings. The event will take place at Hotel Nikko, Campos Eliseos 204, Col. Polanco. Call 613-996-7861. 

Governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney will moderate a panel at the G-20 Agenda under the Mexican Chairmanship conference, organized by the Institute of International Finance in partnership with the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico and Banco de México. The topic of the panel is "Strengthening Multilateralism: The G-20 Agenda … Read more

Environment Minister Peter Kent (Thornhill, ON) will travel to Mexico to meet with his international partners at a ministerial meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme. During his visit, Kent and his international partners will discuss ways to move forward on reducing emissions of short-lived climate forcers in order to more rapidly address global climate … Read more

The Speaker of the House of Commons Peter Milliken (Kingston and the Islands, ON) and Nova Scotia Conservative Senator Gerald Comeau will be leading a parliamentary delegation to Mexico to attend the XVII Canada-Mexico Inter-parliamentary Meeting. Call 613-992-5042.

Governor General Michaëlle Jean will attend Mexico’s celebration of the bicentennial of its independence and centennial of its revolution. Call 613-957-5555.