June 24, 2016

 Government Liaison Program (GLP) Weekly
June 24, 2016
PEO GLP CHAPTER CHAIR MEETS NDP ENVIRONMENT CRITIC
PEO East Toronto Chapter GLP Chair Harneet Panesar, P.Eng., and Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE)
CEO Sandro Perruzza spoke with Peter Tabuns MPP (Toronto-Danforth), NDP Environment, Climate Change,
and Energy Critic, at his annual event on June 16. For more on this story, see page 3.
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TOP STORIES THIS WEEK
1. LONDON CHAPTER TO HOST TAKE YOUR MPP TO WORK DAY
2. TORONTO MPP TO BE GUEST SPEAKER AT PEO EAST TORONTO CHAPTER LICENCE CEREMONY
3. PEO AND OSPE TO HOST JOINT GOVERNMENT RELATIONS CONFERENCE
4. PEO WILL HOST 10TH QUEEN’S PARK MPP RECEPTION
EVENTS ATTENDED
ONTARIO LEGISLATIVE INTERNS VISIT WITH PEO
Ontario Legislature
Internship
Programme (OLIP)
Interns for 2015-16
visited PEO on June
20 to learn about
PEO, the work that
it does and the
current issues it is
dealing with.
Matt Banninga,
Brittany Davis,
Olivia Labonté,
Sara O’Sullivan,
Julia Redmond,
Eric Zinn and
Justyna Zegarmistrz
participated.
They were hosted
by PEO Manager of
Government Liaison
Programs Jeannette
Chau, P.Eng., at PEO
headquarters. PEO
Ontario Legislature Internship Programme (OLIP) Academic Director Dr. Peter Constantinou (front row, right) joined
the 2015-2016 OLIP interns for their visit to PEO headquarters on June 20. With him are (back row, left to right) PEO has been a sponsor
of the program for
Government Relations Consultant Howard Brown, OLIP Interns Brittany Davis, Julia Redmond, Sara O’Sullivan,
PEO Manager of Government Liaison Programs Jeannette Chau, P.Eng. OLIP Interns Olivia Labonté, Eric Zinn, PEO the last nine years.
Summer engineering student Yourdanos Tsegay; (front row) OLIP Interns Matt Banninga and Justyna Zegarmistrz.
Each intern has worked with a Parliamentary Assistant and an Opposition Critic in five-month shifts respectively. PEO
talked about the Government Liaison Program (GLP) and the regulatory work of PEO. The interns shared informative
thoughts on how regulators and other stakeholders like PEO can work better with the government and opposition.
Also participating in the session were OLIP Academic Director Dr. Peter Constantinou, PEO summer engineering
student Yourdanos Tsegay, PEO Government Relations Consultant Howard Brown and Brown & Cohen Account
Executive Blake Keidan.
Mr. Constantinou took over as Academic Director from Dr. Henry Jacek. Mr. Constantinou worked at Queen’s Park for
more than a decade prior to becoming an academic and for the last 20 years has been the Practicum and Internship
Coordinator in the Public Policy and Administration Programme at York University.
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PEO COUNCILLOR ATTENDS
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN OTTAWA
PEO Eastern Regional Councillor Guy Boone,
P.Eng., attended a special announcement on
funding for the Ottawa Innovation Centre at
Bayview Yards on June 15. Federal Innovation,
Science, and Economic Development Minister
Navdeep Bains, MP (Mississauga-Malton),
announced that the Ottawa centre will receive
$8 million from the federal government as it
readies to open in the fall.
Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi, MPP
(Ottawa-Centre) emceed the event. Also
attending were Infrastructure Minister Bob
Chiarelli MPP (Ottawa West-Nepean), Federal
Environment and Climate Change Minister
Catherine McKenna, MP (Ottawa-Centre),
PEO Eastern Regional Councillor Guy Boone, P.Eng., attended the special
Ottawa Deputy Mayor Mark Taylor (Ward 7)
announcement from Federal Innovation, Science, and Economic Development
and University of Ottawa Engineering Dean
Minister Navdeep Bains, MP (Mississauga-Malton), on June 15.
Claude Laguë, P.Eng.
“The goal is to give small- and medium-sized companies the support they need to bring their goods and services to
market a lot faster,” said Minister Bains. Around 1,200 businesses will use the centre once it’s up and running, which
will create around 280 jobs and generate tens of millions of dollars in investment.
For more information, click here: http://goo.gl/qt5kAP.
PEO GLP CHAPTER CHAIR MEETS NDP ENVIRONMENT CRITIC
Peter Tabuns MPP (Toronto-Danforth),
NDP Environment, Climate Change, and
Energy Critic, hosted his annual event on
June 16.
PEO East Toronto Chapter GLP Chair
Harneet Panesar, P.Eng., and Ontario
Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE)
CEO Sandro Perruzza participated in the
event.
Mr. Panesar told the GLP Weekly he
discussed a future meeting to discuss the
importance of engineers in developing
environmental policy, as well as other
ongoing PEO issues.
Brown & Cohen Account Director Laura
Casselman also attended the event.
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PEO East Toronto Chapter GLP Chair Harneet Panesar, P.Eng., (left) and Ontario
Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) CEO Sandro Perruzza (right) spoke with
Peter Tabuns MPP (Toronto-Danforth), NDP Environment, Climate Change,
and Energy Critic, at his annual Chinese Banquet on June 16.
WORK IN PROGESS
LONDON CHAPTER TO HOST TAKE YOUR MPP TO WORK DAY
PEO London Chapter has invited Jeff Yurek, MPP (Elgin-MiddlesexLondon) PC Health and Long-Term Care Critic (left), to participate in a
Take Your MPP to Work Day in St. Thomas on August 23.
PEO London Chapter GLP Chair Tomiwa Olukiyesi, P.Eng., (right) is
organizing the event. The group will take a plant tour of Presstran
Industries in St. Thomas. This will be London Chapter’s third Take Your
MPP to Work Day since the program started in 2013.
Other participating MPPs have included: Labour Minister Kevin Flynn,
MPP (Oakville), Associate Finance Minister (Ontario Retirement Pension
Plan) Indira Naidoo-Harris, MPP (Halton), Yvan Baker, MPP (Etobicoke
Centre), Parliamentary Assistant to the President of the Treasury
Board, Mike Colle, MPP (Eglinton-Lawrence), Parliamentary Assistant
to Minister of Labour, Sophie Kiwala, MPP (Kingston and the Islands),
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport,
Arthur Potts, MPP (Beaches-East York), Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Bob Bailey, MPP (Sarnia-Lambton) Deputy Whip, PC Democratic and Senate Reform, and Intergovernmental
Affairs Critic, Teresa Armstrong, MPP (London-Fanshawe), NDP Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade
and Seniors’ Affairs Critic, Cindy Forster, MPP (Welland) NDP Labour Critic, France Gélinas, MPP (Nickel Belt), NDP
Aboriginal Affairs, Francophone Affairs and Health and Long-Term Care Critic, and Peggy Sattler, MPP (London West),
NDP Women’s Issues, Training, Colleges, Universities, Research and Innovation Critic.
Take Your MPP to Work Days allow MPPs to visit local engineering companies to learn more about PEO and the work
professional engineers do in their communities. These events help increase an MPP’s understanding of engineering
work and PEO’s regulatory role. They also develop a deeper relationships between the MPPs, local engineers and
PEO chapters.
TORONTO MPP TO BE GUEST SPEAKER AT
PEO EAST TORONTO CHAPTER LICENCE CEREMONY
Arthur Potts, MPP (Beaches-East York),
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister
of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
(right), will be the guest speaker at the
PEO East Toronto Chapter licensing
ceremony on June 29.
Chapter GLP Chair Harneet Panesar,
P.Eng., will be hosting the event.
Fourteen new engineers will receive
their licences.
The event will be held at the Arts &
Letters club in Toronto.
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PEO WILL HOST 10TH QUEEN’S PARK MPP RECEPTION
PEO will host its 10th Queen’s Park Day MPP reception on October 26. It will be held at Queen’s Park.
The event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. The event will bring engineering leaders and chapter representatives from
across the province to Queen’s Park to meet with their MPPs.
Last year’s reception, which was also held in October, had almost 200 engineers and MPPs attend, including eight
Ministers and 48 other MPPs. Former Attorney General Madeleine Meilleur, PC Leader Patrick Brown MPP (Simcoe
North), PC Education Critic, and Catherine Fife MPP (Kitchener-Waterloo), NDP Finance and Treasury Board Critic,
addressed the crowd.
PEO AND OSPE TO HOST GOVERNMENT RELATIONS CONFERENCE
PEO and OSPE will be hosting a joint Government Relations Conference this
year with members of PEO GLP and OSPE Political Action Network (PAN) .
This will take the place of the Regional Academies and Congresses in 2016.
In 2017, the Regional Academies and Congresses will resume. The
conference objectives are to learn how engineers can improve their
government relations work and how regulatory and advocacy bodies can
work effectively together.
A variety of MPPs from all parties have been invited to discuss how to build
strong, lasting relationships. Other regulators have also been invited to
share what they found to be valuable and beneficial in their own programs.
Federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau, P.Eng., MP (Notre-Dame-deGrâce-Westmount) has been sent an invitation to be a keynote speaker.
The last Government Relations Conference hosted by PEO was in 2011.
The guest speakers then were Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
CEO Doris Grinspun, former Ontario Education Minister Sean Conway, and
renowned Canadian author Terry Fallis.
This year’s conference, by invitation only, will be held at Hart House.
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Federal Transportation Minister Marc
Garneau, P.Eng., MP (Notre-Dame-de-GrâceWestmount) has been sent an
invitation to be a keynote speaker.
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 26 – Ontario PC Women in Politics will host an evening with PC Leader Patrick Brown MPP (Simcoe North), PC
Education Critic, at Maple Banquet Hall, 1325 Eglinton Ave. East, Mississauga, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $35
each. For more information, visit https://secure.ontariopc.com/PartyEvents/1137.
June 27 – Michael Harris MPP (Kitchener-Conestoga), PC Research, Innovation and Transportation Critic, will host the
2nd Annual Blue Chip Golf Classic at the Rebel Creek Golf Club, 1517 Snyder’s Rd., Petersburg, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For more information, visit https://goo.gl/4e7yXg.
NEW! June 29 – Deputy Premier, Chair of Cabinet, Digital Government, Advanced Education and Skills Development
Minister Deb Matthews, MPP (London North Centre) will host her 9th Annual Garden Party at Blackfriar Estate,
London, starting at 4 p.m. Tickets are $350 each. For more information, call 519-858-2323 or visit
http://goo.gl/GIbkmX.
NEW! June 29 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, MP (Papineau) will host US president Barack Obama, Mexican
President Enrique Peña Nieto and other speakers at the North American Leaders’ Summit at the University of
Ottawa, Social Sciences Building, 75 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, starting at 7:30 am. Tickets are $55 each. For more
information call Greg Stulen at 519-802- 5352 or visit https://goo.gl/vvR92m.
July 13 – Laurie Scott MPP (Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock), PC Deputy House Leader, and Citizenship,
Immigration, International Trade, and Women’s Issues Critic, will host her annual PC Classic Golf Tournament at
Lindsay Golf and Country Club, 282 Lindsay St. South, Lindsay, starting at 11 a.m. Tickets are $150 each and $50 just
for dinner. For more information, contact Greg Welton at (705) 328-5048 or gwelton@lindsaygm.ca.
NEW! July 20 – Yvan Baker, MPP (Etobicoke Centre), Parliamentary Assistant to the President of the Treasury Board,
will host an event at 2607 Lake Shore Blvd. West, Etobicoke, starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 for ages 14 to 24
and $125 for ages 25 and older. For more information, call 416-259- 3202 or visit http://goo.gl/MfX2BX.
July 21 – Joe Dickson MPP (Ajax-Pickering), Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Northern Development and
Mines, will host the Ajax-Pickering-Whitby-Oshawa Charity Golf Tournament at the Deer Creek Golf Centre, 2700
Audley Rd. North, Ajax, starting at 11 a.m. For more information, contact ddickson@pearlearth.com.
August 3 – Premier Kathleen Wynne MPP (Don Valley West) will host her 11th Annual Patio Party at Malaparte
TIFF Bell Lightbox, 6th Floor, 350 King St. West, Toronto, from 6 to 8 p.m. Tickets are $500 each. For more
information, contact Suaad Ali at 416-260-1608, ext. 240, or sali@ontarioliberal.ca.
September 11 – Monte Kwinter MPP (York Centre), Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Citizenship,
Immigration and International Trade, will host his “Fall Fiesta” at Montecassino Hotel & Event Venue, 1st Floor, Salon
B, 3710 Chesswood Ave., Toronto, from 12 to 2 p.m. There is no cost to attend. For more information, contact
mkwinter.mpp@liberal.ola.org.
October 13 – PC Leader Patrick Brown MPP (Simcoe North), PC Education Critic, will host the Ottawa Leader’s Dinner
at Shaw Centre, 55 Promenade Du Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $500 each. For more
information, contact Terrance Oakey at (613) 601-2350 or visit https://goo.gl/7NYeoT.
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