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Special Events
Reaching out by hosting these 4 special events allows me to say thank
you and it also promotes the importance of community involvement. More
information will be available as the event itself gets closer.
1. January 29, Perogy Lunch at St Mary's
The Protectress Villa,
Please call Roldan 230-9328, to confirm a seat.
2. March 21 anti-racism day
3. July 1, Canada Day at Tyndall Park School
4. September, Family Day
Public Meetings
Community Development
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What will it take to make a difference in our communities?
MP question and answer sessions
Seniors - a discussion about seniors and issues seniors are facing.
1. Youth Activity Committee
- Insuring opportunities for youth to be involved in sports activities such as Basketball and Soccer.
2. Special Events Committee
- Organize the four special events and develope the agendas for public meetings.
Petitions can be used as a
tool in order to raise issues/concerns that people have on the floor of
the House of Commons. If you are interested in signing or
circulating a petition please print the one that most interests you.
After printing the petition please return it to my
office with a minimum of one signature on it. You can also mail
it, postage free to me at the following address. Kevin Lamoureux MP,
House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario
1. The Government of Canada must play a stronger role in national health
care standards and improve accountability on how health care services
are being delivered.
2. Preventing crimes is just as important as being tough on crime.
3. The Government of Canada needs to increase the amount of
pension money given to our seniors
4. Weddings, graduations, birthdays, funerals, other family gatherings
and family needs must be given more consideration in the granting a
visiting visa.
5. Lengthy processing times in some immigration categories causes thousands of
families to every year are being kept apart
6. Farmers in Western Canada by
allowing them to determine themselves about the future need and role of
the Canadian Wheat Board and allow for a plebiscite on the future of the
CWB.
7.
What the Government of Canada did to the Postal workers was not fair.
8. Government of Canada that they have done nothing to date to enforce
Air Canada’s obligations. This lack action has caused anxiety to
thousands of people and cost Manitoba valuable jobs
Issues
1. Health Care
One of the most important services provided by any government in this
country is health care. From doctors to hospitals to equipment, our
publicly-funded system may be important to Canadians but it certainly is
not cheap. Here in Manitoba, the provincial government spends over 40%
percent of its entire budget on health care,
Funding for health care is a shared responsibility between the
provincial and federal governments. While the provinces are responsible
for the administration of health care services, the Government of Canada
transfers billions of dollars to the provinces each year to assist with
the costs of such services.
The Canada Health Act is what provides the
federal Government the opportunity to insure quality health care
services to all Canadians.
I believe that Canada needs more accountability in Health care and more
national standards and I will advocate that position in Ottawa and every
where else.
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In order to visit Canada from the Philippines a person must
acquire a visiting visa first before they can enter Canada. The
problem is, far too often people are denied the opportunity to
get a visiting visa with the number one reason for the refusal
being that the immigration official at the embassy feels that
the applicant might not return to the Philippines.
The number of refusals taking place is not acceptable and
we need to take action to improve the system. Even though one
could argue on many points as to why we need the change I will
focus on two for now. First as a general rule I believe families
living in Canada have a right to be able to have other family
members who live in other countries be able to visit them here
in Canada. For someone to be denied that right, it should be
rare and for a very good reason such as a serious criminal
record. This is not the case today and that is why I believe we
need to improve the system.
In short, if I was born in the Philippines and immigrated
to Canada, I would be mad and very upset if I was told that my
brother was not able to come to my wedding here in Canada.
Canadians as a whole would support and would expect that
a sister from a foreign country would be allowed to visit a
sibling that is terminally ill here in Canada.
The economics of thousands of visiting visas being denied on an
annual basis is also significant. The reality is that families
here are often forced to travel to the Philippines in order to
visit with parents because their parents were not allowed to
come to Canada. Every year there are hundreds of people
travelling to the Philippines because the person who they wanted
to visit was not given a visa.
It is safe to say that millions of dollars of economic
benefit is lost every year in Canada because of the number of
visiting visas being rejected.
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