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Ekens Foundation International is an international nonprofit organization, A Think Tank for Civil and Political Rights Advocates, Assisting and defending immigrants, needy, refugees and asylum seekers, and political detainees globally while Petitioning matters that require the attention of the Organs of the United Nations, 

Whether individual cases against the state party are wrongful acts, attribution, and responsibilities in violation of the nation's law is known as international law.

Whether the state party's wrongful act of retribution on their default action and abandonment of International norms and their obligations under the nation's law which is known as international law against the needy, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, detainees and political detainees 

Whether the wrongful act of the State party against the binding text which the states signed, consented to, and rectified, such as the 1951 Geneva Convention and its applicable protocols related to international protection. in conformity with the United Nations Conference on International Organization as adopted and ratified by the (UNCIO) Treaty.

Whether the state violation against the interpretation of Article 27 of the Vienna convention of the treaties, according to which the state party may not invoke the provision of internal law as a justification for its failure to perform its international obligations.

Ekens Foundation International maintains and engages in business activities as an intermediary of parastatals procurements agency

The uniqueness of our business is that our procurements are in high demand to our customers domestically and internationally 

WE MAINTAIN NON SOLICITING ORGANIZATION 

Our services include procurement and exportation of used accidental vehicles that are not road worthy which we sell in parts or fix before exporting them to our clients, we never short of inventory because we mainly purchase our goods from auto auctions  

Our procurement Includes heavy-duty machinery, used and refurbished hospital equipment, and industrial machinery, and while channeling generated profits to our Organization funding projects such as Ekens Foundation International's primary objectives are concisely described below 

Our self-funding projects and services are related to assisting Refugees and asylum seekers, political detainees, less-privileged, rejected refugees and asylum seekers, detainees facing deportation to their various agents of persecution, immigrants, ethnic and minority groups, 

Attendance of immigration detention hearing refugees and facilitate their immigrant's bail and bonds while we solicit for their immigration lawyers to facilitate their release and freedom

We also petition to United Nations Organs of Human Rights Committee as the last resort across border justice under the international law of Optional Protocols on Civil and Political Rights, whether on arbitrary detention, Compelling the state parties to comply with the international covenants 

Our projects include facilitating the treatments of the needy, such as kidney, heart, and cancer treatments for the less privileged from third world countries to India for dialysis and transplants while promoting health care in underrepresented communities and improving access to quality care

Reducing discrimination amongst mental illness people as the pandemic has shone a light on the need for mental health, but not everyone has sought treatment as mental illness statistics reported that the majority of mental illnesses were not being treated therefore we want to improve access to care for people experiencing mental illness.

ALL OUR PROJECT SERVICES ARE FREE AND SHALL REMAIN FREE OF CHARGE FOR ALL BENEFICIARIES, refer to EKENS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL

OUR PRE- AND POST-DEPORTATION MONITORING

We undertake the task is tracking, monitoring, and documenting the pre- and post-deportation of refugees.

The wrongful acts of state parties against human rights violations, abuse, torture, and arbitrary detention

We shall use such reports to lobby the host governments to change their asylum policies because what happens to refugees post-deportation is largely unknown, as they might be apprehended by their agents of persecution, aggressors, imprisoned, tortured, persecuted, or killed.

 

These are the facts that evidence is increasing that deported refugees are grossly mistreated by their aggressors, as deporting countries do not monitor what happens to them after deportation.

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This article is about Canadian-crafted immigration policies that are designed to conflict with reality on the ground.

This article is about Canadian-crafted immigration policies that are designed to conflict with reality on the ground.

By the author: Mr. Ekens Azubuike, the founder of Ekens Foundation International, Montreal, QC, Canada.

The author shares his personal experience with the Canada Border Service Agency, an organization that has faced criticism since its creation in 2005 under the jurisdiction of the Canada Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness for the implementation of what can be described as capitalist organizations against democracy.

According to Mr. Azubuike, the Canada Border Service Agency, which is proclaimed to have absolute power, can be described as a capitalist organization that works against the democratic state, thereby conflicting with the jurisdiction of the Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

The Canada Border Service Agency applies fascist ideology to our clients, making our work extremely difficult.

We, the Ekens Foundation International, have had some clients who have been placed on suicide watch while under the custody of the Canada Border Service Agency and placed on numerous mental health medications, two to three per day, who have on some occasions lost consciousness, yet the Canada Border Service Agency pretends that the client or patient is faking his mental health issues.

The article focuses on Mr. Azubiuike’s personal experience gathered by working at a grassroots organization, as well as his direct efforts to support rejected refugees and asylum seekers in Canada.

It is important to note that Mr. Azubuike has been a survivor of numerous human rights violations, reprisal actions, and systematic actions such as stereotyping, criminalization, major discrimination, and tunnel vision.

Malicious false accusation by the authority refers to a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and or otherwise unsupported by facts. False accusations are also known as groundless accusations, unfounded accusations, false allegations, or false claims. Slander and deformation were carried out via the Canada Border Service Agency on behalf of the State Party.

Has faced malicious slander and deformation, including media trials through the Canadian national news agencies in collusion with the Canadian authorities. 

Mr. Azubuike, who has been living in fear on a day-to-day basis of being killed by the Canadian authority agencies, still living in Canada to date through the order of the United Nations Human Rights Committee Special Rapporteur known as an Interim Measures against Canadian state authority and since 2015, has on numerous occasions tried to redress the injustice through the court until October  2023 the Canadian minister of justice and attorney general filed an unintelligible lawsuit against him at the federal court of Canada, seeking for the federal court to limit Mr. Azubuike’s constitutional right to seek further redress in the Canadian court, and these are examples of the length that the Canadian authorities are willing to go to suppress Mr. Azubuike.

Mr. Azubuike, whose Canadian immigration status was unjustly revoked in 2014 by the Canadian Authority, Paul Robitaille, who, as then, was a board member of the Immigration and Refugee Boards, worked for 14 years at the IRB, first in the Refugee Protection Section (RPD) and the Refugee Appeal Division (SAR).

It’s important to note that Paul Robitaille revoked Mr. Azubuike’s status in Canada because she was then focusing on pleasing the government for her political interest as he was given a ticket to contest the election and was elected as a member of parliament of the Quebec Liberal Party, representing the Broussard Sauve Electoral District in the National Assembly of Quebec Province, in 2018 after her retirement as Immigration Commissioner.

She was first assigned by Pierre Arcand, leader of the official opposition, the responsibility of spokesperson for the official opposition in matters of international relations and Francophonie.

It’s important to note that Paul Robitaille was a journalist and international correspondent who worked at Radio Canada for approximately 15 years before she served as a commissioner at the Immigration and Refugee Board, where she became an obedient servant of the government by vacating Mr. AZUBUIKE’s immigration status in violation of the International Covenant.

Unfortunately, a legal background is not required for a political appointment to the Canadian Commission for Immigration and Refugee Board.

It’s noted that Mr. Azubuike’s vacation of immigration status was carried out by a so-called obedient servant of the Conservative Party, namely Paul Robitaille, in conflict with case law jurisprudence. Refer to the decision on Canada’s Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness v. X, 2010 CanLii 66495 CA IRB on January 15, 2010.

Difficulties we face in discharging our duties
Regardless of all the difficulties and challenges we faces from Montreal practice lawyers, the Canadian Ministry of Justice, and the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA), apart from the friendly transparency of the employees of the Federal Court of Canada,

We have continued to strive to assist rejected refugees and asylum seekers across Canada. By taking up their cases at the last minute of their removal from Canada. 

We re-evaluate their case on merit for possible probable cause of state party violation of human rights and abandonment of their international obligations towards the international customary law on international covenant. 

Note: This article highlights the challenges faced by the crafted image of Canadian immigration policies, which conflicts with reality on the ground.

Who is Ekens Azubuike?

Brief introduction:

Mr. Ekens Azubuike is a politician, businessman, philanthropist, and humanitarian.

A police science private investigator with a global surveillance network

International security and surveillance expert.

Counterintelligence and countermeasures expert, remote monitoring consultant

Policy development and strategic partnership expert.

Real-time intelligence gathering and analysis expert.

Cybersecurity and deep web investigator.

Owner of the Ekens Smart Phone by Ekens Global Visions.

The founder of Ekens Global Holdings and Consolidations, Panama, specializes in banking instrument intermediary agencies with reputable providers with a face value ranging from $250,000.00 to $500,000.000.00. Two hundred and fifty thousand (USD) dollars to five hundred million (USD) dollars

an escrow agent, asset control management, and consolidations. International Business Formation packages Citizenship by Investment Packages

The founder of the Ethnic Voters Party Movement of Canada, specialized in changing the Landscape of Electoral results through the Alliance of Ethnic Grassroots Electorates.

Holding politicians accountable for good governance in pre- and post-elections, advocating for political reforms, and executing legitimate grievances Advocating for grievance votes from the ethnic communities against unperformed politicians to make them serve only for one tenure.

Supplementary global profile:

Ekens and Hellas International Limited has the privilege of having officially been in business. following the first incorporation in Abuja, Nigeria, under Corporate Affairs Commission CAC registration number 310 315, dated March 27, 1997,

specializes in Parastatals Procurement Agents and has been a major Nigerian crude oil marketing business with a large success rate in securing contracts.

Licensed by the Nigerian Export Promotion Council in 2005 and was recognized as a Partner in the promotion of the Nigerian Non-Oil sector, license number NE2240/LA/05

Ekens and Hellas International Limited is registered in Athens, Greece, with Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industries cooperation number 197011, dated 2001.

Ekens and Hellas International Limited is registered in Dublin, Ireland, with incorporation number CRO number No. 412560, 2015.

Ekens and Hellas International Limited, incorporated under the Canada Business Industries with cooperation number 6906184 on January 16, 2008.

Ekens and Hellas International Limited The United Kingdom and Great Britain with registration number 09785718.

The President of Ekens and Hellas International Limited, a Canadian federal corporation incorporated in 2008, specialized in general import and export and international business bureau consultants. Parastatals Procurement Agent

The President of Ekens Security and Law Science Corp. Canada, a Canadian federal corporation incorporated in 2008, is an international security and counterintelligence expert and consultant. Details are at www.ekenssecurity.com.

The founder and board member of the Ekens Foundation International is a Canadian independent human rights commission. Think Tank Civil and Political Rights Activists are helping the less privileged refugees and asylum seekers, victims of torture, political detainees, and victims of human rights abuses. an international consortium investigative journalist, Bringing Issues that Require the United Nations Attention free of charge, and an international human rights petitioner.

Ekens Foundation International Canada also engages in the export of used vehicles, heavy-duty equipment, and used or new hospital equipment to earn foreign exchanges to facilitate her projects globally as a non-soliciting self-funding organization; hence, our services to refugees, asylum seekers, and the less privileged are free of charge for all. Details at www.ekensfoundation.org

As the President of Ekens and Hellas Oil and Gas, a global facilitator of Nigerian Bonny Light Crude Oils licensed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Commission (NNPC), in the capacity of Ekens and Hellas Oil and Gas, we have successfully secured various contracts ranging from 1 year, 5 years, to ten years. With a minimum of one million barrels of Nigerian crude oil per barrel, namely the Bonny Light, and a minimum commission of $ per barrel, multiply by a minimum of one million barrels per month and subtract from the original OPEC price, which is $102.67 per barrel as of today, September 6, 2023. www.ekensonline.com

President of Ekens and Hellas LNG Gas Plant, Nigeria 

Ekens Azubuike, an advocate of police reform, prisons, foreign affairs, and the human rights of detainees and rejected refugees and asylum seekers, has participated in various protests against government brutality over the people facing deportation.

Academic Background and Awards in Resume

Ekens Azubuike graduated with postgraduate diplomas and postgraduate certificates with internship components.

First Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Criminology,

First Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Criminal Psychology

First Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Police Science and Law Enforcement and Protection

First-Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Behavioral Psychology

First-Class Honors and Distinction in Political Ideologies

First-Class Honors and Distinction
Diploma in International Convention and Maritime Law

First-Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in English Literature

First Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Ethical Hacking

First Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Legal Paralegal Studies

First-Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Journalism

Certificate of Completion: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)

Certificate of Completion: Law for (LLB) Students Comprehensive

Certificate of Completion: Digital and Computer Forensics Investigation

Deep Web (Tor) Investigation Certificate of Completion:

Certificate of Completion: Criminal Justice

Certificate: Corporate and Business Law
Criminal Law.

Certificate: Application of human rights frameworks
International Human Rights Law and Education

First Class Honors with Distinction: Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights and Competitive Law

Certificate in Legal Studies: Laws and Judicial System

First Class Honor with Distinction: Diploma in Strategic Management

Diploma in Labor Law and Statutory Compliance for Human Resources

Certificate of Completion: Expert Witness

Certificate of attendance, in accordance with Canadian diplomacy and the United Nations

Certificate in International Relations

Certificate of attendance: Montreal Cybersecurity Conference 2018.

Certificate of Attendance: Canada East Virtual Cybersecurity Summit 2021

Certificate of Completion: Counter-Terrorism,

Certificate: Counterintelligence, Cyber Terrorism, Cyber Threats
Studies
MM SCM in International Law
MM SCM in International Humanitarian Law
MM SCM in International Human Rights Law
MM SCM in International Refugee Law
MM SCM in International Investment Law
Currently.  Pursuing an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Psychology

Ekens Azubuike, the author and publisher of Political Philosophy and Psychological Leadership, is available on Amazon 

Ekens Azubuike. A Researcher, Transnational Organized Crime Research Republic of Ireland, 

Details are at the below link.

https://www.growkudos.com/projects/the-transnational-organized-crime-r-research

Ekens Foundation International’s pro bono budget is $150,000.00 annually on expenses for the service of rejected refugees and asylum seekers in Canada

Ekens Foundation International is an international petitioner that specializes in International Humanitarian Law, International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Customary Law, known as International Law, in which state parties have consented under the International Covenant, signed and ratified under international treaties, while the state party cannot invoke their domestic law to justify violating or deviating from their international obligations;

Ekens Foundation International has proposed four key strategic legislative bills to the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, which would assist in fostering the efficiency and effectiveness of the Canadian immigration and refugee procedural processes.

The blueprint of the bill would be handed over personally to the Prime Minister, who will be nominated as the sponsor of the bill at the Ottawa Parliament.

Proposal Bill 1: The Canada Immigration Ombudsman for the oversight of the Canadian immigration and refugee decisions, as to make a secondary review of the decisions of the immigration officers to assure that individuals are not denied their application based on the officiating officer’s personal opinion, grievances, misinterpretation of law, or reprisal action, systematic oppression, and natural dislike of particular ethnic groups.

Proposal Bill 2: The oversight, control, and limitation of power of the integrity department of the Canada Border Service Agency’s integrity department in the
manner in which they desecrate the integrity of the Canadian government on the international stage in terms of violation of international law against refugee claimants by using the country of prosecution and the same agents of prosecution of refugee applicant that are directly implicated in the refugee applicant’s plight as a source of information in the determination of international protection against the guidelines and stipulations of the 1951 Geneva Convention and its
applicable adversary, including the handbook of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)

Proposed Bill 3: To harmonize the solution for all the immigrants who have worked for a long time in Canada and, in the process of denial of their immigration application, ask to leave Canada or are forcefully removed from Canada with little or no resources to start life again, regardless of their decades-long employment insurance contribution in Canada.

Proposed Bill 4: the deportation of those rejected refugee and asylum seekers in Canada with mental health issues, considering that it is very difficult to follow up with medical expenses to get them paid for psychologists in Canada, not to mention the hardship it would result to those who have been deported to their country of origin or third-world countries.

We have requested a meeting with the honorable Marc Miller, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship of Canada, and a meeting with the honorable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety of Canada.

Currently, Ekens Foundation International is a non-soliciting organization with self-funded projects; we inject our own funds into Ekens Foundation International projects.

Our programs range from assisting rejected refugees and asylum seekers who have exhausted all their domestic remedies from the host countries, especially those facing eminent removal from Canada, detention, or harassment or intimidation from the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA), mostly those with histories of mental health problems including but not limited to depression, anxiety, hallucinations, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),

We pay for their various applications, such as those for humanitarian purposes, which cost $570.00 for the application fee and $513.00 for residency rights. $155.00 for a work permit.

We pay for their medication sometimes.

Example: We have had personal experiences in situations where the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) on two occasions in the months of September and October 2023 went to a psychiatric hospital, both at the Douglas Institute of Montreal and Albert Provost mental health, and swept away our clients. And then influence the doctor to write a false report against our client, in writing that there is nothing wrong with him and he does not need any medical treatment; neither does he need hospitalization.

For example, this particular client has been on multiple mental health medications since March 2020.

Regardless of all this compelling evidence, it has been overlooked by the officers of the Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA).

Despite administrative deferral of removals (ADR), the ADR is meant to address temporary measures when immediate action is needed to temporarily defer removals in situations of humanitarian crisis.

While Section 48 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) directs that a removal order be enforced once it has come into effect,

The Canada Border Service agency then arranges for those clients to board an aircraft from Montreal Trudeau Airport to be deported out of Canada.

The client refused to board the aircraft, and their refusal was based on fear that their mental health would not be adequately taken care of in their country of origin.

The Canada Border Service Agency is still holding those clients out of their will to date at the Laval immigration prevention center under the pretense that the clients are faking their mental health. Regardless, those clients are still on multiple mental health medications.

Example: We filed a complaint to the attention of the Canada Border Service agency directorate in Ottawa, and till date, there has been no answer to redress that issue.

These are examples of our free services to those affected: rejected refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants in Canada.

Other services include helping those immigrants fill out and pay to secure work permits, renewing student permits, restoration of status, humanitarian and sponsorship applications, and assisting them with the various challenges of their self-representation at the federal court, including paying their legal bills.

Helping them to petition their case to the International Human Rights Committee by compelling the host country to abide by their international obligations under international customary law;

As noted earlier, we are not soliciting organizations, but in the future, we intend to revert to a soliciting organization to support some various programs both domestically and internationally, including
scholarship program for orphans that is designed to assist children in need of financial aid in the educational sector, mostly in third-world countries.

Our scholarship funds would be used to further the education and learning purposes of children in rural areas.

Our Save a Child program is designed to assist orphans in need of assistance, such as blind kids and children with chronic illnesses.

For a few pennies, you could change the life of a child living with HIV/AIDS. Your donation when we become a soliciting organization will help feed, clothe, and educate children in need around the globe. Especially the rejected refugees and asylum seekers in various detention facilities.

Finally. Regardless of Mr. Azubuike’s personal contact with notable Canadian politicians, the Canadian political elite still sees Mr. Azubuike as a threat to their political positions, thereby making them adamant about redressing all the issues above. 

Regardless of the Canadian government’s proclamation to champion human rights around the globe, they are still hanging on to systematic operations and reprisal action against Mr. Azubuike.

Despite all these humanitarian contributions to Canadian society by Mr. Azubuike and his organizations, regardless of how he spends his personal resources helping rejected refugees and asylum seekers across Canada, the only rewards he gets from Canadian authority are systematic oppression and reprisal action against him.

Note: This article will be updated from time to time based on the availability of the author. inquiry should be directed to info@ekensfoundation.org or ekens@ekensonline.com 

Honorable Stéphane Maurice Dion, 

Honorable Stéphane Maurice Dion, PC, is a Canadian diplomat, academic, and former politician who has been the Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco since 2022 and special envoy to the European Union since 2017. Dion was Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2008

Stéphane Dion is a distinguished Canadian diplomat, public servant, and academic.

As Canada’s Ambassador to Germany and the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe from 2017 to 2022, he helped deepen Canada’s relationship with Germany while advancing Canada’s interests throughout Europe, for the benefit of people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Prior to this role, he served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2015 to 2017, where he championed Canadian leadership in the world, including the promotion of universal human rights, peace and stability efforts, the global climate challenge, and Canada’s enduring commitment to multilateralism.

In 2006, he became Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, a position that he retained until 2008. Mr. Dion was previously Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005, when he secured what was praised as one of the greenest budgets in Canada’s history. In 2005, he chaired the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP11/MOP1), where he reconciled the diverging interests of member countries to effectively implement the Kyoto Protocol.

As Minister responsible for Official Languages from 2001 to 2003, he crafted and launched the Action Plan for Official Languages, still used as a reference today. Serving as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs between 1996 and 2003—longer than any other Canadian since Confederation—Mr. Dion played a primary role in promoting Canadian unity.

He served as a Member of Parliament first in 1996, representing Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, and was re-elected seven consecutive times.

Honorable Emmanuel Dubourg MP (born December 26, 1958) is a Canadian politician, chartered accountant, and teacher from Quebec. He was the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Viau from 2007 until 2013. On November 25, 2013, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election to become the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Montreal riding of Bourassa. Still serving the members of parliament.

Honorable Rachel Bendayan, MP, is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on February 25, 2019, following the resignation of former New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair. She was re-elected in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Outremont

Rachel Bendayan was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Outremont in 2019.

Ms. Bendayan has previously served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade.

Over a period of close to 10 years, Ms. Bendayan built a successful legal practice at Norton Rose Fulbright in the fields of litigation and international arbitration, specializing in international trade law.

Ms. Bendayan also taught at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. She later served as Chief of Staff to the federal Minister of Small Business and Tourism.

A mother and a deeply engaged member of her community, Ms. Bendayan has a strong connection to the families she represents in the Montréal neighborhoods of Outremont, Mile End, and Côte-des-Neiges.

Honorable Justin Pierre James Trudeau, PC MP, is a Canadian politician who has served as the 23rd prime minister of Canada since 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to represent the riding of Papineau in the House of Commons. He was the Liberal Party’s official opposition critic for youth and multiculturalism in 2009, and the following year he became a critic for citizenship and immigration. In 2011, he was appointed as a critic for secondary education and sports. Trudeau won the leadership of the Liberal Party in April 2013 and led his party to victory in the 2015 federal election, moving the third-placed Liberals from 36 seats to 184 seats, the largest-ever numerical increase by a party in a Canadian federal election. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark; he is also the first to be the child of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.

Honorable Emmanuella Lambropoulos is a Canadian politician who has been serving as the Member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent since 2017. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, she was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election, succeeding Stéphane Dion.

Honorable Rachel Bendayan, MP, is a Canadian politician who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on February 25, 2019, following the resignation of former New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair. She was re-elected in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Outremont

Rachel Bendayan was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Outremont in 2019.

Ms. Bendayan has previously served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade.

Over a period of close to 10 years, Ms. Bendayan built a successful legal practice at Norton Rose Fulbright in the fields of litigation and international arbitration, specializing in international trade law.

Ms. Bendayan also taught at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. She later served as Chief of Staff to the federal Minister of Small Business and Tourism.

A mother and a deeply engaged member of her community, Ms. Bendayan has a strong connection to the families she represents in the Montréal neighborhoods of Outremont, Mile End, and Côte-des-Neiges.

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Honourable Minister David T. Lametti,

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Honorable Minister Mélanie Joly, PC MP, is a lawyer who has served as minister of foreign affairs since October 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Joly represents the Montreal-area riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the House of Commons, taking office as a Member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 federal election. She has held a number of portfolios, including Canadian heritage, tourism, and La Francophonie. Joly ran for mayor of Montreal in the 2013 Montreal municipal election, placing second behind eventual winner Denis Coderre.

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Honorable Minister Ahmed Hussen, PC, MP, has been serving as the Minister of International Development since July 26, 2023. A member of the Liberal Party, Hussen has also sat as the Member of Parliament for the Toronto-area riding of York South—Weston since the 2015 federal election as a former minister of immigration and citizenship Canada.

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