Arcv-McGee MNA Report l've been privileged to be your MNA for D'Arcy-McGee Riding over the past four years, and to work with and for a community that so well reflects the warmth, solida- rity, diversity, modernity as well as respect for tradition that distinguish our thriving Quebec within Canada. I look forward to the continued opportunity to serve you. I invite you to learn more about our activities together, in the texts below. As always, I welcome your comments, criticism and suggestions. DB nal agencies within their boundaries. That is why having the headquarters of the World so important. I was pleased to be asked to shepherd a private bill theough the National Assembly to help ensure WADA's continued presence, In order to effectively discharge My third international conference school tax rates and of a bil to delay school school I'm proud to see Quebec show ts expertise on the intemational stage, and to play a role in that effort. For the thied year in a row, boards had requested. I co-presided with Minister David over four consultations on joint strategies to combat conjugal violence with community and social service stakehol ders and professionals in Rivière du Loup, Montreal, Quebec City and Quebec's North Shore and nal conterence o Education Ministers (CONFEMEN). The event was in Bathurst nal sport and the honest athletes who Calling out Lisée on Kippahgate, The Premier present in and necessary and exceptional level of immu- early childhood intervention to the gathe felt it was my responsibility to call out our community ring, and shared our experience with PO Leader Jean-François Lisée when he Some 400 people attended ou Ministers from Africa, Europe and Asia nity. Our private bill, adopted in the final days of the National Assembly session Town bizamely equated my wearing of the kippah Hall meeting with the English-speaking ensured and confirmed that protection in the National Assembly as I commemo-community of Quebec at Dawson College in rated Yom Hashoah with his sporting of a ealy Spring. The Premier made an impor- PQ party pin on his lapel. Demonstrating the tant speech and joined a panel that I had dog-whistle' politics that both he and CAQ the Leader François Legault seem to sady Kathleen Wel, Carlos Leitão and Andre master, Lisée protested when he was tokd Fortin. Mr. Coullard also paid us he honor to remove his pin, as per the rules, by the of meeting with the Holocaust survivors who National Assembly declarations honoring proud Quebecers MNAs have the honor of entering into the of- ficial National Assembly record one-minute derstand, was that his political promo was no different than the 4.000 year-old emblem moration of the Shoah at Congregation of Jewish identity and perseverance. I ex Tidereth Beth David Jenusalem It was his plained my discomfort with his positon in in second time doing so during terviews with TVA, La Presse, The Gazette mandate. our current Support for our communities storefront help for local residents My role as Montreal Caucus Chair Our Volunteer Work Support Program is individuals, events and milestones. Over the past months, I have paid tribute to the legendary sportswriter (and D'Arcy McGee resident) Red Fisher, I called for the release of unjustly imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi in Saudi, Arabia, marked the passing of I was pleased to convene a City Hall mee- ting of our Montreal Liberal Cauous with Mayor Valéne Planse, soon after her elec- tion. As Caucus Chair, I am working with and ndviduals who do s0 much, often with very Ittie, to enhance the lives of local residents. We were proud over the last few morths to support a diverse and worthy listor causes, including MADA Food Baskets, the Club des petts dejeuners, the St-Raymond Bocce Association, Sun Youth, Seniors Action Québec, Beth Rivka Academy, S nal Expo Rusty Staub and exposed the litie-known story of the forced exodus of Jews from Arab lands tegether regularly to exchange on important Kehilla ground-breaking, school sues brought to each of us by our consti upgrades and JGH Phase IV Outf Artists of Quebec, Shakespeare in th e Park and the Black Coalition of Quebec. Regards, project in our riding w be built on Jewish community generosity, with $5 25 million from the Sociésé d Habtation du Québec L'École desAmis du Monde in Cote Fighting conjugal violence providing school tax relief AS Sebastien Proulx and Hélène David. Im of en called upon to announce education Hospital, for the Phase IV u Saint-Luc has gotten the green light for the buiding of some eight new and sorely-need classrooms, as has the Jewish General [email protected] 514 488-7028 ssistant to Ministers rooms and common spaces throughout the hospital. Also, last week, we inaugurated a long-awaited CPE daycare for children of Legislative support for the World DavidBinbaumt Anti-Doping Agency s and strategic initiatives. In ad- debates and Commission hearings in sup- port of our major adjustment of inequities in employees at the JGH One o the key success indicators for major cries is the presence of intematio-