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Canadians Providing Aid to Haiti- January 18, 2010.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Laureen Harper visited the Canadian Red Cross office in Ottawa to make a personal donation towards the relief efforts in Haiti.
Cash donations are the fastest, most efficient way to get help to people living in a disaster zone. Our Government encourages all Canadians to show their generosity by contributing to the registered charity of their choice to help in the earthquake relief. In order to avoid potential fraud, we urge everyone to ensure that their charity of choice is a registered charity. More information can be found at: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/donors/index.html
To acknowledge the generosity of Canadians, our Government has announced that we will match, dollar for dollar, Canadians’ charitable contributions to registered organizations for disaster assistance in Haiti. Thus far, over $30 million has been donated. This is in addition to the $5M preliminary emergency contribution announced earlier this week.
The Canadian Press made a good call, the only sensible and appropriate one they could've, naming Stephen Harper Canada's 2009 Newsmaker of the Year. Not that this tumultuous year began auspiciously for Harper, who closed out 2008 with a fresh, strengthened, minority mandate, but his government on the ropes, threatened by a cobbled-together, Bloc-supported, Liberal/NDP coalition ready to jettison principle in a brazen grab for power.
Harper was rescued from potential political oblivion by Governor General Michaelle Jean agreeing to let him prorogue Parliament and regroup in the face of opposition fury over the government's post-election pre-budget fiscal update announcing elimination of taxpayer subsidies to political parties.
The Conservatives dropped that provision, delivering a new budget in late January containing instead a package of fiscal stimulus measures the opposition parties could hardly vote down. Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was hastily thrown under the bus and replaced provisionally by Michael Ignatieff, whose lack of coalition enthusiasm effectively neutralized that threat, marking a turning of the tide, which pretty much lifted Harper for the rest of the year.
With A Little Help From My Friends PM performs "With A Little Help From My Friends" at the 2009 NAC Gala
For more information on projects in the Niagara Falls riding funded by the Government of Canada, click here.
PM meets with owners and operators a Niagara Region tourism businesses. - Sept 3, 2009
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today hosted a roundtable for owners and operators of tourism businesses in the Niagara Region to hear their perspectives on the current challenges and future opportunities facing their industry.
“Domestic and international tourism are major sources of economic activity on the Niagara Peninsula, just as they are in numerous other regions of our country,” said the Prime Minister. “Thousands of jobs depend on the tourism sector, which is why all levels of government and private industry must work together to promote the many amazing tourism experiences that Canada has to offer.”
More than 1.7 million Canadians depend on tourism-related jobs for their employment. In the Niagara Region alone more than 20,000 jobs depend on tourism-related activity.
The Prime Minister hosted the roundtable on a rehearsal stage at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s world-renowned Shaw Festival. As part of its long-term commitment to help grow tourism in Canada, the Harper Government recently invested $2.1 million in the Shaw Festival as part of its Marquee Tourism Events Program. Shaw Festival organizers used the funding for, among other things, better promotion of their Born Yesterday production in the Toronto market – an investment which resulted in a 40-per cent increase in ticket sales.
“The Shaw Festival is a perfect example of how government, the arts community, and local businesses can co-operate in attracting new visitors and bringing in more tourism dollars,” said the Prime Minister. “We will continue to work with tourism owners and operators in identifying new ways to support this sector and all of the jobs that depend on it.”
Canada’s Marquee Tourism Events Program provides targeted, time-limited support to existing tourist attractions so that they can enhance their programs and bring additional tourists to Canada during the summer vacation period.
PM tours Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory
Congratulates Canadian researchers for their groundbreaking work fighting the H1N1 flu
Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory today. He congratulated the researchers and public health professionals on completing the full genome sequencing of the H1N1 flu virus samples from Canada and Mexico.
Annual General Meeting
Date: February 20, 2010, 10am
Location: Royal Canadian Legion #479
5603 Spring Street, Niagara Falls
