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Member’s Statement on the 40th anniversary of the Central Ontario Chinese Cultural Centre and the Kitchener Waterloo Chinese School

Member’s Statement on the 40th anniversary of the Central Ontario Chinese Cultural Centre and the Kitchener Waterloo Chinese School

0 March 28, 2013 2:43 pm

March 28, 2013 Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, congratulates the Central Ontario Chinese Cultural Centre and the Kitchener Waterloo Chinese School on their 40th anniversary. Tweet

MP Peter Braid on the First-Time Donor’s Super Credit

MP Peter Braid on the First-Time Donor’s Super Credit

0 March 22, 2013 1:38 pm

March 22, 2013 Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, makes a statement on the First-Time Donor’s Super Credit in the House of Commons. Budget 2013 proposes a temporary First-Time Donor’s Super Credit (FDSC) – an innovative new measure that [...]

MP Braid’s Charities Motion leads to positive change in Budget 2013

MP Braid’s Charities Motion leads to positive change in Budget 2013

0 March 21, 2013 9:46 pm

Ottawa, ON, March 21, 2013 – Today’s budget, introduced by The Honourable James Flaherty, Minister of Finance, delivers real support for Canada’s charities, responding to the Finance Committee’s report, Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving. This report was the culmination of [...]

MP Braid welcomes report on intellectual property

0 March 20, 2013 8:00 pm

Ottawa, March 20, 2013 – Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, welcomed the release of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science, and Technology’s report on the intellectual property (IP) regime in Canada, which was tabled in the House of [...]

Government of Canada supports ClimateActionWR initiative in Region of Waterloo

0 March 19, 2013 5:00 pm

March 18, 2013 Region of Waterloo, ON –Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, and Karen Leibovici, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and councillor for the City of Edmonton, Alberta, today announced Green Municipal Fund (GMF) grant [...]

Government of Canada supports the Grand River Jazz Society

Government of Canada supports the Grand River Jazz Society

0 March 11, 2013 7:32 pm

Waterloo, ON, March 11, 2013 – Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, was pleased to announce an investment of $10,000 for the Grand River Jazz [...]

MP Peter Braid – Question Period – March 1, 2013

MP Peter Braid – Question Period – March 1, 2013

0 March 4, 2013 3:35 pm

March 1, 2013 Mr. Speaker, our Conservative government is focused on what matters most to Canadians: jobs, economic growth and long-term prosperity. However, we all recognize that Canada is not immune to the global economic challenges from beyond our borders. [...]

Government of Canada Supports Innovative Technologies in Waterloo Region

Government of Canada Supports Innovative Technologies in Waterloo Region

0 February 22, 2013 2:01 pm

February 21, 2013 Kitchener, Ontario – Stephen Woodworth, Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre, and Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario [...]

MP Braid visits Nasarc Technologies

MP Braid visits Nasarc Technologies

0 February 21, 2013 1:55 pm

February 21, 2013 Today, I toured Nasarc Technologies, a small manufacturing business here in Kitchener-Waterloo, specialising in arc cutting and welding. I wish them the best of luck as they prepare to move to a larger facility later this year. It [...]

Innovation at the REAP Waterloo FELT Lab

Innovation at the REAP Waterloo FELT Lab

0 February 18, 2013 6:29 pm

On February 15, 2013, I had the opportunity to visit the FELT Lab at Quarry, an initiative of Research Entrepreneurs Advancing Prosperity (REAP Waterloo).  Tweet