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Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program Celebrates Canada’s 150th Birthday

Oct 4, 2017 | Featured

Iryna Hrechko and Oleksandra Lebed for NP-UN.

The Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP) was established in 1991 by agreement with the Speaker of the House of Commons John Fraser. The program has been supported by the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada for each of the past 27 years.

The CUPP program has received recognition from President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Members of Parliament, Senators and political scientists. The endowment Fund, which sustained the CUPP Program, was exhausted in 2015. But CUPP will nevertheless continue. The Program’s founder and only director, Ihor Bardyn, past President of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada, has worked hard to secure funding for the program for another 27 years. CUPP Alumni are also campaigning to establish a new Endowment Fund.

In 2017 the continuation of the CUPP program will be assured with the assistance of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada (UNF), Canada’s oldest community organization with branches and members from Quebec to British Columbia, the UNF FOUNDATION, and the University of Toronto John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History.

On 12th September, Canada’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Roman Waschuk welcomed a group of CUPP Alumni and Interns selected for the 2017 Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP) at his residence in Kyiv. The occasion was to celebrate Canada’s 150th Anniversary and provide an opportunity for Ambassador Waschuk to prepare the Interns for their internship in the Canadian Parliament.

In addition to celebrating Canada’s 150th Anniversary, the meeting was an opportunity to celebrate the strong ties between Canada and Ukraine, the countries’ common values and shared ambitions. At the meeting, Ambassador Waschuk spoke about Canada’s proud traditions of multiculturalism and of his belief that the ‘Ukrainian DNA’ has been deeply integrated into the Canadian identity, placing particular stress on the important role that the Ukrainians have played in contributing to the ethnic diversity and history of the Canada as we know it today.

Among the guests were some of the brightest and most prominent CUPP alumni, as well as the newest group of interns who departed for Canada the following day. Each year only the very best applicants are selected through a countrywide competition, to complete their internship during the Fall Sitting of the House of Commons in Ottawa.

Many of the CUPP Alumni who attended the meeting have become senior government officials in Ukraine, and among those who attended were the current Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan (CUPP 1999), his deputy Viktor Dovhan (CUPP 2000); former Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky (CUPP 1999); deputy Minister of Justice Serhiy Petukhov (CUPP 2005); Head of the Department of International Cooperation and European Integration of the Department of Education Anna Novosad (CUPP 2013), Counselor of Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Security and Defense Yuri Chyzhmar (1995).

Also present were co-founder of the Ukraine Crisis Centre and coordinator of the Professional Government Association of Ukraine Vasyl Myroshnychenko (CUPP 1996); Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers Yuriy Lubkovych (CUPP 2009); President of the CUPP Alumni Association Yuri Kushnir (CUPP 1998); former Member of Parliament Elena Shyshkina (CUPP 2003); Deputy Director of the Investment Promotion Office Ulyana Khromyak (CUPP 2001); founder of “Teach for Ukraine” Andrew Sorohan (CUPP 2013), as well as a number of CUPP’s past coordinators.

Unable to attend were Deputy Minister of the Department of Economic Trade and Development Nataliya Mykolska (CUPP 2000); and Director of “Teach for Ukraine” Rimma El Joueudi (CUPP 2011).

Iryna Hrechko, who had an internship in 2016 with Member of Parliament Jamie Schmale, joined the CUPP 2017 as the program coordinator. The CUPP Interns past and present were appreciative of Ambassador Waschuk’s hospitality and his support for the only international internship program available to Ukraine’s university students every year. Ambassador Waschuk wished the 2017 Interns success in their upcoming internship and a safe flight to Ottawa.

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