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Ms Salma ZAHID (Canada)

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Member
Liberal Party of Canada

Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association
CA - K1A 0A6 - Ottawa
Canada

http://szahid.liberal.ca

Working language: English

Mandates

In the political groups

In the Assembly

  • from 24/01/2022 to 21/01/2024 Substitute - Canada
  • from 16/04/2020 to 23/01/2022 Representative - Canada
  • from 21/01/2019 to 26/01/2020 Representative - Canada

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

Interventions

Last speeches

24/06/2022 | 10:43:08 Fellow parliamentarians and esteemed colleagues, Thank you for the opportunity to debate this important topic with you all today. I have been looking forward to doing some anti-vaccine myth-busting. Countering the disinformation regarding vaccines, especially vaccines for COVID-19, is vital to addressing vaccine hesitancy. But if we are myth-busting, then we must also bust the myth that our healthcare systems are not also responsible for some of this hesitancy. In Canada, at least one poll... 22/06/2022 | 17:54:01 Thank you, Mister President. Esteemed colleagues and fellow parliamentarians, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to these critically important topics today. The Women, Peace, and Security Agenda is now more than 20 years old. The notion that peace processes and political reconciliation need to incorporate women and account for the gendered effects of conflict has since become an established principle in international peace studies. And we have seen progress. Between 1992 and... 24/01/2022 | 19:47:53 Good afternoon, dear colleagues. Thank you to the rapporteur and the members of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons for their report entitled European Union Pact on Migration and Asylum: a human rights perspective. As chair of Canada's House of Commons Standing Committee on Ctizenship and Immigration, I would like to focus my remarks on children which were one of the five focus areas of this report, and share Canada's policies regarding unaccompanied and separated... 25/06/2019 | 18:28:27 Fellow parliamentarians, Thank you for being here today to discuss gender equality, a topic that is of great importance to each of our countries. In Canada and in the European Union, we have made significant efforts to mainstream gender considerations in the work of our parliaments and governments. During our presidency of the G7, Canada actively sought to mainstream gender equality in the work of the G7. For example, Canada created a Gender Equality Advisory Council composed of leaders from...

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