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  Liberal.ca :: In the House of Commons :: Borys Wrzesnewskyj
Ottawa, ON Borys Wrzesnewskyj was first elected in June 2004 and was re-elected in January 2006.
A native of Etobicoke, the son and grandson of Ukrainian and Polish immigrants, Borys Wrzesnewskyj is the current President and owner of both the Future Bakery and M-C Dairy – well established, innovative businesses headquartered in Etobicoke.
Wrzesnewskyj spearheaded a unanimously accepted House of Commons motion on October 26, an emergency debate on November 24, and another unanimously accepted motion on November 25.
www.liberal.ca /members_e.aspx?id=12866   (286 words)

  
  Borys Wrzesnewskyj - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj (born November 10, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Etobicoke Centre in the Canadian House of Commons.
Wrzesnewskyj attended Humber Valley Village Public School and Upper Canada College.
Wrzesnewskyj was actively involved in the Canadian delegation to the contested Ukrainian election of 2004 and often spoke to Canadian media on its behalf.
encyclopedia.quickseek.com /index.php/Borys_Wrzesnewskyj   (146 words)

  
  Borys Wrzesnewskyj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borys Wrzesnewskyj (born November 10, 1960) is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Etobicoke Centre in the Canadian House of Commons.
Wrzesnewskyj attended Humber Valley Village Public School and Upper Canada College.
Wrzesnewskyj was actively involved in the Canadian delegation to the contested Ukrainian election of 2004 and often spoke to Canadian media on its behalf.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borys_Wrzesnewskyj   (160 words)

  
 Election 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wrzesnewskyj is a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, and the Special Liberal Caucus Committees on Immigration and Global Affairs.
Wrzesnewskyj has been keenly interested in the promotion of civil and human rights, and has dedicated much of his life to promoting tolerance and assisting various communities in a number of humanitarian causes both here and abroad.
Wrzesnewskyj spearheaded a unanimously accepted House of Commons motion on October 26, an emergency debate on November 24, and another unanimously accepted motion on November 25.
www.ctv.ca /mini/election2006/candidates/35022_LIB.html   (344 words)

  
 Borys Wrzesnewskyj and UKL
Wrzesnewskyj played a phenomenal role during the Orange Revolution and understands that maintaining a high level of Canadian engagement in Ukraine as a sine qua non for the success of Orange reforms requires up-to-the minute access to analytical information about Ukraine, which The Ukraine List provides for a global select audience.
Wrzesnewskyj funded, organized and supported civil rights groups and democratic reform on the ground in Ukraine prior to glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Wrzesnewskyj has been keenly interested in the promotion of civil and human rights, and has dedicated much of his life to promoting tolerance and assisting various communities in a number of humanitarian causes both here and abroad.
www.uottawa.ca /academic/grad-etudesup/ukr/ukl_dopomoha.html   (1757 words)

  
 My Way News
Scott Brison and Carolyn Bennett said fellow Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj cannot retain his post as a foreign affairs spokesman after declaring that Canada should negotiate directly with Hezbollah as part of a bid to restore peace in Lebanon.
Wrzesnewskyj's comments, made over the weekend during a tour of the Middle East with NDP and Bloc colleagues, became the unwelcome focus on the first of the Liberals' three-day summer caucus retreat, which was supposed to plot strategy for the fall session of Parliament.
Wrzesnewskyj was initially reported as saying that Hezbollah should be dropped from the list of terrorist organizations.
othernews.ca.myway.com /article/20060822/31695021.html   (1016 words)

  
 My Way News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj originally denied he made the comments, but on Wednesday he offered his resignation to interim leader Bill Graham and admitted to reporters his statement was an error.
Wrzesnewskyj created a backlash within his own party when he said during a visit to Lebanon at the beginning of the week that Canada should negotiate directly with Lebanon's Hezbollah.
But Kennedy said that comment was included in Wrzesnewskyj's blanket explanation Wednesday that he shouldn't have drawn conclusions and spoke in the heat of the moment.
othernews.ca.myway.com /article/20060823/33445023.html   (863 words)

  
 'Not unfair' to compare Hezbollah to Nazis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wrzesnewskyj, who is the associate foreign affairs critic for the Liberal party, later denied supporting the de-listing of Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
Wrzesnewskyj released a statement on Monday saying he believes Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and should remain on the list.
Wrzesnewskyj and his party shouldn't try to backpedal from the comments, calling them irresponsible, especially for someone who is his party's associate foreign affairs critic.
www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c618ce44-a4ff-4e7e-a6ae-833d069c108e&p=1   (531 words)

  
 Wrzesnewskyj travels to Ukraine, again (12/26/04)
Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Center, Ontario) is among 500 Canadians who will serve as official observers when Ukrainians vote in the second presidential run-off election on December 26.
Wrzesnewskyj said he had been "naively optimistic" the situation would improve when he returned as a monitor for the November 21 run-off election.
Wrzesnewskyj said he believes that Ukrainians would be impressed by the size of the Canadian observer mission - the largest from any country - and the fact that a former prime minister would head it.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/520409.shtml   (864 words)

  
 Our Campaigns - Candidate - Borys Wrzesnewskyj
Borys Wrzesnewskyj was first elected in June 2004 and was re-elected in January 2006.
Through Future Bakery, Borys Wrzesnewskyj was one of the original sponsors of the Out of the Cold program to aid the homeless.
Wrzesnewskyj spearheaded a unanimously accepted House of Commons motion on October 26, an emergency debate on November 24, and another unanimously accepted motion on November 25.
www.ourcampaigns.com /cgi-bin/r.cgi/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=52192   (296 words)

  
 What's New
Wrzesnewskyj is a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Standing Committee on Transport and the Special Liberal Caucus Committees on Immigration and Global Affairs.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj attended Humber Valley Village Public School, transferring to Upper Canada College to complete his high school education with distinction.
Wrzesnewskyj has been keenly interested in the promotion of civil and human rights, and has dedicated much of his life to promoting tolerance and assisting various communities in a number of humanitarian causes both here and abroad.
www.ucc.sk.ca /branches/saskatoonBr/20050416borysw_mp.htm   (528 words)

  
 Press Release from the Lebanese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The LCCC commends the Liberal Party caucus which apparently has convinced beleaguered Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj to immediately resign his position as deputy foreign affairs critic in the aftermath of his questionable and condemned comments uttered in Lebanon while on a fact-finding Middle East mission with two other opposition MPs.
Wrzesnewskyj found himself distanced from his own Liberal party when he made the statement during a fact-finding mission to Lebanon last week.
MP Wrzesnewskyj had suggested the Middle East peace process would benefit from Canada being more open to talking to Hezbollah, The comments quickly became the central topic of the three-day Liberal caucus retreat in Vancouver, which was supposed to be a strategy session for the upcoming session of Parliament.
www.10452lccc.com /lccc%20releases/borys.lccc24.8.06.htm   (269 words)

  
 Grit MP underfire for comments on Hezbollah's presence on terror list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the Liberals' associate foreign affairs critic, was quoted in media reports Monday from Lebanon saying he favoured lifting the terrorist label from Hezbollah, which has been on Canada's terror list since 2002.
But Wrzesnewskyj, who was in Lebanon with two other MPs on a fact-finding mission over the weekend organized by the National Council on Canada-Arab Relations, released a statement Monday saying he made no such comments.
Wrzesnewskyj could not be reached for comment Monday as he prepared to board a flight out of the Syrian capital of Damascus en route to a Liberal caucus retreat in Vancouver.
www.canada.com /nationalpost/news/story.html?id=a11201b4-02c8-4e1d-934f-34f139fb64c4&k=25098   (625 words)

  
 Canada should help Lebanon clean up coastal oil slick, save fishery: MPs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wrzesnewskyj, New Democrat Peggy Nash and Bloc MP Maria Mourani are on the delegation visiting Mideast countries.
Wrzesnewskyj said the delegation believes Canada needs to act now to help the cleanup effort and, in the long run, help Lebanon re-establish its fisheries.
Wrzesnewskyj said the meetings were "fruitful" and "gave us a very good picture of what Syria is looking for," without going into details.
www.cbc.ca /cp/national/060818/n0818128.html   (561 words)

  
 35022 - Etobicoke Centre
Borys also gave a visionary speech in the 2004 election about a national vision tied to a local vision and he has failed to deliver on any of that vision.
Bory had the 6th highest number of votes in the province and came in number 16th for margin of win in ont, he got like 16000 vote that higher then rock ever had.
Had Borys not stood in the way, though, there is little doubt as to whom this seat would have been perfect for, especially in how it would've assured the stately cabinet pattern continuing--Ken Dryden.
www.electionprediction.org /2005_fed/riding/35022-etobicoke-centre.htm   (1695 words)

  
 GUELPHMERCURY.COM | INSIDER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Liberal foreign affairs critic Borys Wrzesnewskyj offered his resignation yesterday over statements he made in a Mideast tour.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj originally denied he made the comments, but yesterday he offered his resignation to interim leader Bill Graham and admitted to reporters his statement was an error.
But Kennedy said that comment was included in Wrzesnewskyj's blanket explanation yesterday that he shouldn't have drawn conclusions and spoke in the heat of the moment.
www.guelphmercury.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=mercury/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1156412886638&call_pageid=1050067726078&col=1024322199505   (579 words)

  
 Embattled Liberal critic resigns over statements about Hezbollah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj created a backlash within his own party when he made the statement during a visit by opposition MPs to Lebanon last week.
The suburban Toronto MP's comments became the focus of the Liberals' three-day summer caucus retreat that was supposed to concentrate on strategy for the upcoming fall session of Parliament.
Wrzesnewskyj (pronounced Rez-NEV-skee) has denied he wants Hezbollah dropped from Canada's list of terrorist groups but argued that does not mean Canada should not communicate with it.
www.cbc.ca /cp/national/060823/n082354.html   (405 words)

  
 McLeod - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation trolling or polling for removing Hezbollah from terrorist list? - cbcwatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It seems that the last chapter has yet to be written on Liberal deputy foreign affairs critic Borys Wrzesnewskyj, who resigned last week in the public heat over his controversial statement on Hezbollah.
Wrzesnewskyj said that Canada should negotiate directly with Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is on Canada's list of terrorist organizations.
Wrzesnewskyj, himself the pit of election campaign anti-Semitism when his election signs were defaced by Swastikas, devil's horns and a Hitler moustache, seems to have learned very little about what he then described as the"ugly side to politics".
www.cbcwatch.ca /?q=node/view/2025/8334   (725 words)

  
 Borys Wrzesnewskyj and UKL
Wrzesnewskyj on behalf of the University of Ottawa and noted that the donation represents a critically important gesture for the development of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies into a national program devoted to the study of contemporary Ukraine.
Wrzesnewskyj is a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Standing Committee on Transport and the Special Liberal Caucus Committees on Immigration and Global Affairs.
Wrzesnewskyj is conversant in French, Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian.
www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca /ukl_dopomoha.html   (1757 words)

  
 Edited Evidence * JUST * Number 063 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj: The intention is the same as what I'd previously stated with regard to all of my amendments, which are friendly amendments.
It would be referred to, in its traditional way, as a sunset clause, that the provisions of this bill would cease to have any effect after five years or, if Parliament is not sitting, within 90 days of their resuming sitting.
My intent, similar to Borys', is to try to inoculate this from the challenge that I expect inevitably will come at some point to this bill.
cmte.parl.gc.ca /cmte/committeepublication.aspx?sourceid=138221   (2984 words)

  
 Sudan: The Passion of the Present: MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj Paints Optimistic Picture of Darfur
Wrzesnewskyj also says aid workers from the UN and other relief agencies told him attacks from the Janjaweed, a militia group believed to have the backing of the Sudanese government, have reduced dramatically.
Wrzesnewskyj's optimistic assessment of the security situation in Darfur is echoed by Robert Zoellick, the U.S Assistant Secretary of State, who on Sept. 28 told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that there's a substantial decrease in large-scale organized violence in Darfur.
Wrzesnewskyj says the international community has an obligation to ensure that pressure is brought upon the warring factions in the region to solve the dispute in a peaceful way.
platform.blogs.com /passionofthepresent/2005/10/mp_borys_wrzesn.html   (2255 words)

  
 Borys Wrzesnewskyj: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
During the trip, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the Liberal member for Etobicoke called for an end to the designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization saying such a label discourages negotiation.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the Liberals' associate Foreign Affairs critic, was quoted in reports from Lebanon saying he favoured lifting the terrorist label from Hezbollah, which has been on Canada's terror list since 2002.
Wrzesnewskyj, who was in Lebanon with two other MPs on a fact-finding mission over the...
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Wrzesnewskyj_Borys_301199722.htm   (223 words)

  
 Edited Evidence * JUST * Number 063 (Official Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Borys Wrzesnewskyj: The intention is the same as what I'd previously stated with regard to all of my amendments, which are friendly amendments.
It would be referred to, in its traditional way, as a sunset clause, that the provisions of this bill would cease to have any effect after five years or, if Parliament is not sitting, within 90 days of their resuming sitting.
My intent, similar to Borys', is to try to inoculate this from the challenge that I expect inevitably will come at some point to this bill.
www.parl.gc.ca /infocomdoc/38/1/JUST/Meetings/Evidence/JUSTEV63-E.HTM   (2968 words)

  
 MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj leads parliamentary delegation to Ukraine (12/05/04)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
OTTAWA - For the third time, Etobicoke Center Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj is leading a Canadian Parliamentary Delegation to Kyiv to bolster the democratic movement in Ukraine.
Wrzesnewskyj led a Canadian parliamentary fact-finding mission to Ukraine between the two rounds of voting and a Canadian parliamentary observer delegation during the second round of the election.
Wrzesnewskyj on the all-party parliamentary delegation are Conservative MP Peter Goldring, Bloc Quebecois MP Bernard Bigras, and New Democratic Party MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/490408.shtml   (328 words)

  
 Canada-Israel Committee - CIC Calls for Liberal Party to Censure Borys Wrzesnewskyj   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wrzesnewskyj for his outrageous comments regarding Hezbollah and his accusation that Israel is a state sponsor of terrorism and guilty of war crimes.
Wrzesnewskyj betrays a profound ignorance of the facts and a distorted view that confuses the arsonist with the firefighter by suggesting that Israel’s accidental shelling of Q'ana is anything other than an example of the tragic consequences that accompany all conflicts.
Wrzesnewskyj to draw a moral equivalence between Israel and such outlawed terrorist organizations is a gross affront to basic Canadian values."
www.cicweb.ca /media/news_060821.cfm   (267 words)

  
 Borys Wrzesnewskyj resigns
Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has resigned as associate foreign affairs critic for his party after controversial comments he made about the conflict in the Middle East.
Wrzesnewskyj, who will meet with reporters this afternoon, came under fire earlier this week for suggesting he favoured removing Hezbollah from Canada’s list of terrorist organizations.
Wrzesnewskyj has denied making some or all of the comments in question at different times, it seems.
www.stevejanke.com /archives/193697.php   (3230 words)

  
 The Borys Wrzesnewskyj affair: Let's only debate what we agree on
On Tuesday (August 21) it was reported in the Toronto Star that Wrzesnewskyj had made statements that Israel's latest offensive against Lebanon was an act of “state terrorism” and that Canada should, for the purpose of conflict resolution and peace, engage in direct talks with militant organizations such as Hezbollah.
Wrzesnewskyj made those remarks while touring southern Lebanon on a fact finding mission.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj put forward the idea that the Canadian government debate the option of talking, for the purpose of peace, with organizations some circles label as terrorist.
www.straight.com /node/53481/print   (481 words)

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