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	Sarkis Assadourian at AllExperts
		Sarkis Assadourian (born January 25, 1948 in Aleppo, Syria) is an Armenian-Canadian politician from the Liberal Party of Canada.
		Assadourian was first elected as member for Don Valley North in 1993.
		In 1997, Assadourian moved seats to Brampton Centre.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/sarkis_assadourian.htm (271 words)

	NOW On / Newsfront / News / Jun 22 - 28, 2000
		Assadourian, who before this debate was better known for taking on the tobacco industry, is sketchy about what it was that prompted him to sponsor the bill in the first place.
		Assadourian's bill has upset efforts by the CJC, which is still waiting for the prime minister to deliver on assurances they said he made during a visit to Auschwitz two years ago -- and later denied -- that there would be federal funds for a Holocaust museum.
		Assadourian, who is distancing himself from the coalition -- although he's used their support to pump his cause in the House -- nevertheless shares the group's views when it comes to the model being proposed by B'nai Brith.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2000-06-22/news3.html (1253 words)

	Canadian MP submits bill supporting genocide exhibit in Ottawa (03/07/99)
		Assadourian, the Liberal Party's MP for the Brampton-Centre riding in Ontario officially submitted the proposal, registered as Bill C-479, for consideration in the House of Commons in Ottawa, and it duly received first reading.
		Assadourian told The Weekly in an interview on February 24 that he intends to secure the support of 100 colleagues in the House of Commons to avoid a "lottery" legislation-winnowing process, ensuring that his bill would pass directly to a Private Business Committee hearing.
		Assadourian was a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Rights, and from 1994 to 1995 he was a member of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, serving on a subcommittee that investigated immigration consultants.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/109912.shtml (921 words)

	canoe -- CNEWS: - Liberals throw stones in Khan affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Assadourian said he didn't initially complain that his job turned out to be a sham because he hoped Martin would eventually honour his end of the bargain.
		In recent days, Assadourian and Leung have found their names bandied about as part of the controversy surrounding Khan, the erstwhile Liberal MP whom Harper appointed last summer as his special adviser on the Middle East and South Asia.
		As to Assadourian's complaint that his appointment was a sham designed get him to resign his seat, Martin spokesman Jim Pimblett said the advisory roles were never intended to be paid positions.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Canada/2007/01/20/pf-3413842.html (698 words)

	Welcome To B'nai Brith - Articles
		Assadourian’s appointment is in exchange for giving up his riding so that Manitoba-born Ruby Dhalla, a Toronto chiropractor, can run for the Liberals in his place.
		Assadourian hosted a reception recently to provide a representative of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem with a platform to explain why his organization was suing the Israeli government over the construction of its security fence.
		Assadourian’s appointment comes at a time when Canadian Jews are beginning to ask themselves where exactly the Government stands on issues of concern to the Jewish community.
	www.bnaibrith.ca /article.php?id=436 (629 words)

	1ARMENIAN HERITAGE PARK8
		Sarkis couragously worked with the underground network led by General Mourad to exchange gold pieces for Armenian children, and to place them in orphanages.
		Bedros Assadourian, who was a United States citizen, swore in an affidavit that Sarkis was a relative.
		Palig, Garabed and Sarkis were caught in the mass of Armenians fleeing from the Turks.
	www.providenceri.com /heritage_park/ARMENIAN_HERITAGE_PARK8.html (6594 words)

	Genocide museum should remember all
		Liberal MP Sarkis Assadourian, who represents Brampton Centre in Ontario, is trying to change that.
		Assadourian says the bill hasn't encountered much opposition from his own party, and is unlikely to find any when it's debated in the House of Commons.
		Assadourian says he hopes for fairness and balance in the exhibit, but says the impossibility of absolute equality should not diminish the fact that all groups will be represented.
	www.carleton.ca /Capital_News/12031999/n1.htm (783 words)

	Armenian General Benevolent Union - Publications
		In Canada's House of Commons, Sarkis Assadourian's strong accent is not unique among his multicultural peers who represent a diverse cross-section of communities across Canada.
		Assadourian recalls that he briefly encountered his challenger during the campaign and he took her aside joking that his license plate read "MP2B"-something, he said, he would happily give her after the election.
		Assadourian's Don Quixote-style, according to one detractor, was causing grief and embarrassment to Armenians.
	www.agbu.org /publications/article.asp?A_ID=36 (1920 words)

	Canadian Alliance to Blame for Soured Canada-U.S. Relations: Liberal MPs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Assadourian said the incident cast a pall over the meetings, which took place during the war, and that he was stuck doing damage control.
		Assadourian, while admitting that relations between Canada and the U.S. have soured considerably since the Liberal government decided not to support the U.S.-led war effort, stressed that when travelling abroad, politicians should avoid airing their dirty laundry in public.
		Assadourian, Parliamentary secretary to Immigration Minister Denis Coderre (Bourassa, Que.), said that Alliance MP Rob Merrifield (Yellowhead, Alta.), his party's health critic, gave the American politicians the documents and that he later confronted the Alliance MP about the matter upon his return to Ottawa.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/897487/posts (2294 words)

	Genocide memorial in Ottawa gains support (03/28/99)
		Sarkis Assadourian, a member of Parliament (MP) from Brampton, Ontario, introduced Bill C-479 on February 15, which mandated "the establishment of an exhibit in the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) that recognizes the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated during the 20th century."
		Assadourian's Ottawa office, confirmed that a decision on whether the bill is votable is expected in about eight weeks, but he cautioned against relying on strict timelines.
		Assadourian's initiative and to work with the many Canadian ethnocultural communities who are in favor of a Genocide Museum in our nation's capital," it read.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/139904.shtml (1163 words)

	Armenian presidential elections 1998 - Assadourian travels to Armenia to attend inauguration of new president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Assadourian travels to Armenia to attend inauguration of new president
		Assadourian met with the Armenian Ambassador to the US, Robert Shugarian in Wa-shington as well as the Arme-nian Chargé d'Affaires to the UN, Dr. Movses Abelian in New York the last week of March.
		Assadourian also met with US Department of State rep-re-sen-tative David Rodearmel to gain an updated perspective of US foreign policy towards Armenia.
	www.asbarez.com /aol/election98/98040809.htm (283 words)

	Judge Sarkis Assadourian The Syrian Honorary Consulate Community Centre Toronto Canada
		Sarkis Assadourian is a well-known and well-respected community leader in the Greater Toronto Area.
		Assadourian was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
		Citizenship judges are appointed by order-in-council and are responsible for making decisions with regard to applications, presiding over citizenship ceremonies and administering the oath of citizenship to new citizens.
	www.syriatoday.ca /judge-sarkis.htm (230 words)

	Promotion of Public Awareness of Great Famine
		The keynote speaker at the week's concluding event was Sarkis Assadourian, the Brampton-based federal member of Parliament (MP) who is spearheading an effort to establish a museum commemorating victims of crimes against humanity in Ottawa.
		Assadourian noted that his approach aims to avoid controversies over what is genocide and what is not, and to head off pointless debates that "compare catastrophes?"
		Assadourian averred that a museum should be built to mark all such crimes and that Canada is the best country for such a facility.
	www.faminegenocide.com /commemoration/commemoration-ut99.html (1340 words)

	Brampton Centre
		Parachuted in after he lost Don Valley West thru redistribution, Assadourian's never really gelled w/local Liberalism, and with a big CA surge this could be teetering on vulnerability...
		Expect Assadourian's share of the vote to slip under 45 percent, but he should still win easily.
		Working with Sarkis Assadourian, and helping with canvassing, I feel that this riding will be taken by the liberals.
	www.electionprediction.org /2000_federal/on/brampton-centre.html (647 words)

	Edited Evidence * FAIT * Number 012 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Assadourian mentioned, it says we, as a committee, are inviting the House of Commons to recognize the genocide of Armenians.
		Assadourian is trying to do as an Armenian, an Armenian Canadian, and we've spoken about this before, I would ask, what effect do we actually have in bringing up tragedies that happened before anybody in this world was born?
		I would also say what is most important is for us to consider what effect it will have to bring up a tragedy that happened before anyone was born...and the relationship between the Armenian people and Turks today.
	cmte.parl.gc.ca /cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=13568 (9056 words)

	Edited Evidence * FAIT * Number 002 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I know that will be difficult on the staff, but I think they will have to group it that way.
		Sarkis Assadourian: So I don't have to put in a motion in written form requesting to do this.
		Sarkis Assadourian: Motion number three, Robinson on Armenia.
	cmte.parl.gc.ca /cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=56060 (4842 words)

	Bill C-479 Postcard Desk
		Historical photos are by courtesy of Shi Young, author of The Rape of Nanking - An Undeniable History in Photographs and Alliance in Memory of Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
		Sarkis Assadourian's Bill C-479 Recognition of Crimes Against Humanity Act.
		The postcard is a historical photo of the Forgotten Asian Holocaust 1931-1945.
	www.vcn.bc.ca /alpha/postcards.htm (89 words)

	Canadian Alliance to blame for soured Canada-U.S. [Archive] - The Forum at GOPUSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Liberal MP Sarkis Assadourian (Brampton Centre, Ont.) said he learned about the situation during a recent trip to Washington, D.C., as part of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group when one of his American counterparts, Republican Congressman Don Manzullo, showed him the documents.
		Assadourian said the incident cast a pall over the meetings, which took place during the war, and that he was stuck doing damage control.
		Assadourian, while admitting that relations between Canada and the U.S. have soured considerably since the Liberal government decided not to support the U.S.-led war effort, stressed that when travelling abroad, politicians should avoid airing their dirty laundry in public.
	www.gopusa.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-660.html (313 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings - Candidates and Ridings - Appointments
		Brampton-Springdale had promised to be a contentious nomination battle for the Liberals.
		The incumbent in the riding, Sarkis Assadourian, and former John Manley organizer Andrew Kania were gearing up for a political fight.
		Assadourian was appointed the government's special advisor for Near East and South Caucasus affairs.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/candidatesridings/appointments.html (412 words)

	Eye Weekly - Feds: Federal grits dump on Dalton - 04.01.99
		McGuinty?" sniffed Sarkis Assadourian, MP and pride of Brampton Centre, when contacted by a scribe at The Star (where, it should be said, legions of reporters are as busily laboring to elect Dalton -- just as much as the nutty folks at The National Post are sworn to the service of Preston Manning's United Alternative).
		The unhelpful comments of Sarkis could perhaps be dismissed as sour grapes.
		Assadourian has a greater public profile than Dalton McGuinty.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.01.99/news/feds.php (707 words)

	Fred Assadourian: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		This automatically-generated summary was created using 1 reference found on the Internet.
		FRED ASSADOURIAN, 86, of North Bergen died Tuesday.
		He was born in Turkey and came to the United States in 1920.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/assadourian_fred_165947550.aspx (340 words)

	Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group Parliamentary Exchange
		In April, 2001, a Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group was created in the Parliament of Canada under the leadership of Sarkis Assadourian Liberal M.P. In October of the same year, an Armenia-Canada Parliamentary Friendship Group was established within the Armenian National Assembly.
		In May of 2002, a delegation of the Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group comprised of Sarkis Assadourian, M.P., Eleni Bakopanos, M.P., Tom Wappel, M.P., Senator Shirley Maheu, Senator Raynell Andreychuk, Alvin Curling, M.P.P. (Ontario), Yvan Bordeleau, MNA (l'Acadie, Quebec), visited Yerevan.
		Meeting at the Prime Minister's Office; from left to right:Ambassador Ara Papian, Sarkis Assadourian, M.P. House of Commons, Chairman of Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Prime Minister Jean Chretien, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Armen Khachatryan.
	www.armembassycanada.ca /News/Canada_CAPFG_2001.html (220 words)

	ACAO WEB - Armenian Church Stamp
		The Honorable Andre Ouellet, former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and MP Sarkis Assadourian officially unveiled the stamp in a very touching historic ceremony in Canada's Parliament, organized in collaboration with the Armenian Cultural Association of Ottawa.
		The participation of numerous Canadian Cabinet Ministers, Senators and Members of Parliament with many clergymen, ambassadors and journalists and a large Armenian group from Canada and the US was memorable.
		He said he heard the National Anthem of Armenia for the first time tonight, played by Canadian young composer Kevork Andonian, and that he was deeply touched by the melody.
	acao.0catch.com /stamp/article.html (446 words)

	Citizenship Judge Appointments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shaben was appointed a citizenship judge in Edmonton.
		A former member of Parliament, he is also the former Executive Director of the Armenian Community Centre in North York.
		He was appointed a citizenship judge in Toronto.
	www.cnn1.net /News/citizenship_judge_appointments.htm (207 words)

	CJNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From left, Peter Adams, Ovid Jackson, Daniel Turp, Senator Marie Poulin, Lorne Nystrom, Shimon Peres, Sue Barnes, Monte Solberg, Sarkis Assadourian and Carmen Provenzano.
		Assadourian, who was born in Syria and left in 1967, said the highlight of his trip was a visit to Rabin's tomb.
		"It was a very emotional moment," said Assadourian, who had nominated Rabin for the Nobel Peace Prize.
	www.cjnews.com /pastissues/99/july15-99/main.htm (749 words)

	Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net \| Armenian News Agency - SARKIS ASSADOURIAN ELECTED CHAIR OF COMMITTEE ON CITIZENSHIP ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Deputy of the Canadian Parliament Sarkis Assadourian was elected as Chair of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration by the members of the Committee.
		As reported by the deputy's office, the Committee gathers information on all legislative initiatives relating to citizenship and immigration, as well as reviews the legislation introduced by the Government before discussion by the Parliament.
		It should be noted that before M.P. Assadourian was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
	www.panarmenian.net /news/eng/?nid=9852 (168 words)

	Region of Peel - Having Fun in Peel
		Students were asked what their "favourite part" of the project was, or what they learned and many listed the experience of learning first-hand about a different culture or community, while at the same time discovering many similarities between ages and cultures.
		Sarkis Assadourian, M.P., Brampton Centre-Ottawa Report, Winter 19
		Sarkis Assadourian, M.P., Letter dated June 8, 2000
	www.region.peel.on.ca /heritage/oralhistory/connec.htm (463 words)

	UkraiNewstand at BRAMA -- Community Press Releases
		The Subcommittee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, National, dealing with the recognition of the Soviet Ukraine Famine, supports ongoing efforts for the creation of a Canadian Museum devoted to the commemoration of crimes against humanity in which the Ukrainian Genocide will be honoured.
		Sarkis Assadourian, MP from Brampton, whose Bill C-479 was supported by UCC across Canada has launched a post-card writing campaign aimed at getting the government to establish a Museum of Reconciliation.
		The all inclusive Museum, based on Bill C-479, is to be devoted to crimes committed against humanity in the 20th century and to reflect Canada's Multicultural makeup.
	www.brama.com /news/press/990804ucc.html (1279 words)

	Armenian Committee in Support of the Tibet China Negotiations - www.phayul.com
		Sarkis Assadourian, Canadian MP of Armenian origin supports Tibet China negotiations campaign
		Sarkis Assadourian, MP for Brampton Centre, Ontario has joined 132 other MPs and has signed the letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada in support of Tibet-China negotiations.
		Assadourian for his understanding, compassion and solidarity", says Mr.
	www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=6216&t=1&c=1 (398 words)

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