The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new report, Fiscal Sustainability Report 2020: Update, as well as a newlegislative costing note, Cost Estimate of Bill C-214, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (qualifying environmental trust). These will be available online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post two new PBO reports entitled Fiscal Analysis of Federal Pay Equity and Supplementary Estimates (B) 2020-21. Call 613-992-8026.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (North Vancouver, B.C.) and Liberal MP Wayne Long (Saint John-Rothesay, N.B.) along with the University of New Brunswick will make a virtual announcement regarding ecosystem health and Atlantic salmon recovery. Call 506-381-0296.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages (Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec) Élisabeth Brière (Sherbrooke, Que.) will announce Government of Canada financial support to enhance innovation and technology transfer in clean technologies within Quebec SMEs thanks to a major project at the Université de Sherbrooke. Details online.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton-Stanstead, Que.) and André Lamontagne, Quebec Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, along with Ernest Desrosiers, President and CEO of La Financière agricole du Québec, and Marcel Groleau, President of the Union des producteurs agricoles, will announce funding to protect the health and safety of agricultural workers in Quebec. Details online. Call 343-549-2326.
McGill University hosts a webinar on “Policy Making and China.” Former Canadian ambassador to China Howard Balloch will discuss the policy challenges posed by a rapidly changing China in an increasingly uncertain global environment. This event will take place online.
The Conference of Defence Associations hosts a webinar on “Peace, Order and Good Government in Mali: Transatlantic Perspectives.” Participants include former Canadian ambassador to Mali Isabelle Roy; Angel Losada Fernandez, EU special representative to the Sahel; Frédéric Bontems, French special envoy for the Sahel; and Brig. Gen. Cyril Carcy, former deputy commander of Operation Barkhane. This … Read more
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan (St. John’s South–Mount Pearl, Nfld.) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources Paul Lefebvre (Sudbury, Ont.) will make a clean technology funding announcement for Canada’s mining industry. This event will take place online. Call 613-447-3488.
The Canadian International Council’s Edmonton chapter hosts a webinar on “Canadian Foreign Policy and the National Interest Post-COVID-19.” Panelists include Ann Fitz-Gerald, director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs; Robert Murray, president of Grande Prairie Regional College; and Stephen Wallace, former deputy of the governor general of Canada and career public servant. This event will take place online.
The Canadian International Council’s Victoria chapter hosts a webinar on “The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election – What Next and Where Next For America?” featuring former Canadian ambassador Jeremy Kinsman and former senior White House official and journalist Larry Haas. This event will take place online.
