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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.
PM BREAKS GROUND ON NEW NIAGARA COLLEGE APPLIED HEALTH INSTITUTE - October 9, 2009.
Project to create new jobs and give health care students tools for future success
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today broke ground on the new Niagara College Applied Health Institute, strengthening the college’s ability to train the highly-skilled workers of tomorrow and creating jobs for the Niagara Region. The new facility, which will accommodate up to 1,000 new applied health care students each year, is delivered through Canada’s Economic Action Plan’s Knowledge Infrastructure Program in partnership with the Government of Ontario.
“This new facility, like others delivered through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program, shows how Canada’s Economic Action Plan is working for Canadians,” said Prime Minister Harper. “In addition to the jobs and millions of dollars of economic activity this project will create for the Niagara Region, our action is helping to ensure that graduating students have the tools they need for success, now and in the future.
