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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJCuWAJi9dA#action=share This Saturday after sundown, Jews across Canada and around the world will be gathering with friends and family to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Hanukkah gives all Canadians an opportunity to remember the story of Judah Maccabee, a story of hope triumphing over despair, of perseverance triumphing over oppression, […]

Oliphant, M.P. for Don Valley West and Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, announced, alongside Members of the Committee from all parties, the release of the Committee’s report: Healthy Minds, Safe Communities: Supporting our Public Safety Officers through a National Strategy for Operational Stress Injuries. This report comes after a […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNiXwUtwrGk#action=share I was proud to rise in the house this week to support our government’s budget and its implementation. In budget 2016, our government announced the Canada Child Benefit, perhaps the most significant new social program in a generation. I cannot stress enough the importance of this initiative. By combining the existing child benefits, making […]

Thank you to everyone who joined me and my colleague Marco Mendicino, M.P. for Eglinton-Lawrence, for our joint Pre-Budget Consultation about how we can make the economy work for you and your family. Constituents provided valuable thoughts and insights that will help shape the vision for Budget 2017 as we build on our momentum to […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIqkW4bwzNE#action=share I was honoured to join Principal Vincent Tanzini, current and past students, parents and teachers to celebrate and share memories at St Monica Catholic School on it`s centennial anniversary. It’s evident that St. Monica’s holds a special place in the hearts of both present and past students and teachers. Today I salute the St. […]

I am travelling across Canada with the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, which I Chair. We will be listening to Canadians and experts, gathering their opinions regarding Canada’s national security framework. The last major revision to the Framework was under the previous Conservative government, which they did through the adoption of Bill […]

This is a chance for you to set the agenda. I want to hear what’s on your mind, issues facing us here in DVW or more broadly facing our country or the world around us. Please join me for a coffee and let me know what you are thinking. Saturday, November 5 9:30am-10:30am, Tim Hortons […]

This afternoon, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced that the Canadian government will restore funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). UNRWA provides basic services to millions of Palestinian refugees, and receives donations from many of Canada’s allies, including the […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpglc0Dry0#action=share When the Sun goes down this evening, Jews around the world will begin the observation of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is a time for repentance and renewal for Jewish communities and individuals in Don Valley West, across this country and around the world. […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTLJRaxMaxs#action=share Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began yesterday at sundown. Rosh Hashanah is a time of celebration and renewal, to come together with family and friends to rejoice in another year under God’s grace. Rosh Hashanah is also the beginning of the ten Days of Awe, culminating in Yom Kippur. Next week, I will […]