The Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Natural Resources, announced a new call for expression of interest to support CCUS across the country. Funded under the Energy Innovation Program (EIP), this call will support Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies that have the potential to reduce the impact of carbon emissions.
Day: August 9, 2021
Effective immediately, Canada is imposing new sanctions in response to gross and systematic human rights violations committed in Belarus.
The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced new sanctions under the Special Economic Measures Act in response to the ongoing, gross and systematic violations of human rights in Belarus. These new measures impose restrictions on key sectors of the Belarusian economy and minimize Belarusian state actors’ access to international finance. The targeted sectors include transferrable securities and money market instruments, debt financing, insurance and reinsurance, petroleum products and potassium chloride products. These measures are being taken in solidarity with those of international partners.
In honour of National Peacekeepers’ Day, we join Canadians in paying tribute to our peacekeepers, past and present, for their service and commitment toward building a safer world.
Yvonne Jones, Member of Parliament for Labrador, will make an announcement regarding support for the regional airport’s post-COVID recovery.