Dear Friends,
This week, the update will cover:
- The Adoption of Budget 2025, Re-election as Chair of Canada/Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group and Week in Ottawa
- The Cote Saint-Luc Elections
- One Canadian Economy
- Funding Opportunity for Employers: Canada Summer Jobs
- The Adoption of Budget 2025, Re-election as Chair of Canada/Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group and Week in Ottawa
For the last several weeks, Budget 2025 has been the talk of town. It is a Build Canada, Buy in Canada budget, we have had several days of debate and votes, but the final vote happened this week and the budget was adopted by the House of Commons. This budget is a sensible, pragmatic budget investing in economic growth, infrastructure and defense and moving to balance operating spending with revenues by the 2028-2029 fiscal year. I am very pleased that it takes a long-term vision of economic growth and that its infrastructure provisions will benefit our local communities.
On Tuesday night, I was very pleased to have been re-elected by my colleagues in the House and the Senate as Chair of the Canada/Israel Friendship Group in Parliament. Our new executive is composed of 4 Liberal MPs, 4 Conservative MPs, a Bloc MP and 3 Senators and it is a great team. I am looking forward to the work we will do together.
Our public accounts committee continued its study of the auditor general report into outsourcing contracts, and we are continuing to try to move forward with the Justice Committee study of the Combatting Hate Act.
As Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Management and Community Resilience I had multiple meetings with our stakeholders ranging from paramedics to talk about mental health support and insurance brokers to talk about flood and earthquake insurance.
I look forward to being back in the riding and continuing my meetings with local doctors on Quebec’s terrible Bill 2 and attending local events this weekend.
Cote Saint-Luc Elections
I want to congratulate David Tordjman upon his election as Mayor of City of Côte Saint-Luc. I want to thank Mitchell Brownstein for the amazing things he has done for the city over the last 35 years. I cannot imagine how difficult the back-and-forth numbers in this election have been for both men. Truthfully, I have never seen anything like this type of result locally. And both men have handled the situation with grace. I look forward to working with the new council.
Congratulations as well to Oren Sebag, Mike Cohen, Jamie Fabian, Steven Erdelyi, Mitch Kujavski, Lior Azerad, Sidney Benizri and Andee Shuster on their elections. Also a big thank you to everyone who ran in the election and put their name forward.
One Canadian Economy
This week, we announced the upcoming release of the finalized regulations stemming from the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act.
This bill, which we passed in June, removes federal barriers to internal trade and facilitates the movement of workers between provinces and territories. Through this legislation and the associated regulations, we are contributing to building a more consistent, barrier-free domestic market where the same rules apply across the country – so that we can become our own best customer.