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Good Monday morning, Foreign Affairs Minister MÉLANIE JOLY will lay out a larger vision of Canadian diplomacy when she speaks today at a lunch event in Toronto hosted by the Economic Club of Canada. The United Nations passed a resolution on Friday calling for an immediate “humanitarian truce” and a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas. Canada abstained and the United States and Israel voted against, citing the absence of language condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
head quits: MPs on the House Human Resources Committee will get a chance to question Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation President and CEO ROMY BOWERS this afternoon about her decision to quit halfway through her five-year term. Bowers announced on Friday that she is leaving the agency in December to take a job at the International Monetary Fund.
in April 2021. Her chief financial officer, MICHEL TREMBLAY, will take over in an interim capacity while the government looks for a long-term successor. The Crown corporation is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on the government’s housing plans now that the Liberals have realized voters care about housing costs. It’s not clear yet how Bowers’ departure will affect those plans.
Canada’s ambassador to Armenia, will appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this morning to discuss the security situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Turner, a career diplomat, was named last month to head a new embassy in Armenia. The Senate Security and Defence Committee will meet at 3 p.m. Ottawa time to begin five hours of witness testimony on Bill C-21, the government’s sweeping firearms bill.
a human rights activist based in Scotland whose brother JAGTAR SINGH JOHAL who has been detained in India since 2017, will deliver the keynote address. Canada’s chief accessibility officer, STEPHANIE CADIEUX, will join other experts for a panel discussion on what it will take to meet the federal government’s 2040 targets for disability and accessibility. The event will be hosted by the CSA Public Policy Centre this evening at the National Arts Centre.
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