Senator Yonah Martin

BURNABY, BC – The Honourable Yonah Martin, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, along with Minister James Moore, Minister Alice Wong, Parliamentarians, Ambassador Kie-Cheon Lee, and the Vancouver Korean Canadian Community, celebrated the conclusion of the Canada Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) at a community event with the Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper. Veterans of the Korean War were also in attendance to receive a standing ovation. A reception…

  SEOUL, KOREA – The Honourable Yonah Martin, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate accompanying Prime Minister Stephen Harper, along with Ministers Ed Fast and James Moore, Parliamentarians and National Stakeholders to Seoul, Korea, for the official signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Canada and Korea on March 10th 2014.   CLICK FOR MORE...

VANCOUVER BC, The Honourable Yonah Martin, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, highlighted important details of the $53B New Building Canada Plan which will benefit the Korean Canadian community. The key elements of the New Building Canada Fund will provide territories and municipalities with the information they need to plan infrastructure projects in their jurisdictions. This includes dedicated funding for small communities, Provincial-Territorial allocations, project categories el…

OTTAWA, ON – The Honourable Yonah Martin, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate applauds the Conservative Government on the 2014 Economic Action Plan.  “This is our Conservative Government’s tenth budget since 2006.  Over that period, our country has been confronted by some unprecedented global economic challenges from beyond our borders.  In good times and bad though, we have never strayed from our commitment to strengthen our economy for all Canadians,…

COQUITLAM, BC –The Honourable Yonah Martin held a media conference with Eunice Oh (Chair), Young-ran Chin (President) and Aekyung Woo (Director) of the Rose of Sharon Foundation on January 21, 2014 to discuss the successful fundraising campaign in support of the people of the Philippines in the typhoon devastated regions. On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines killing 6,201, injuring 27,665 and leaving 1,785 people missing. Today’s media conference focused on the f…