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Canadian Member of Parliament Hon. Melissa Lantsman Visits the Philippine Consulate General in Toronto

2022-02-10

PR-2021-03

04 February 2022, Toronto – The Philippine Consulate General in Toronto was visited today by the Honourable Member of Parliament (MP) Melissa Lantsman, a member of the Conservative Party who represents the riding of Thornhill in Toronto.

MP Lantsman’s visit and meeting with Consul General Castro aims to strengthen her connection with the Filipino Community, which is one of the fastest growing migrant populations in the whole of Canada. She highlighted that it is important to reach out to every community, “particularly a community that has been so close to me in my personal journey and is a growing community in the riding that I come from, Thornhill.” According to her, there are about 5,000 Filipino Canadians in her riding (legislative district).
MP Lantsman also commended the health care workers of the Filipino Community who played key roles on the frontlines, taking care of the sick and the seniors during the pandemic. She expressed willingness to help and meet with the Consulate General and the Filipino community leaders on issues to improve people-to-people ties and credentialling.

During the meeting with MP Lantsman, Consul General Castro informed her of Credential Recognition in Canada (CRC) Project of the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa, with the support of the Philippine Consulates General in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, for Philippine trained/educated Filipino professionals, particularly the Filipino nurses. Consul General Castro expressed the hope that meetings like this with MP Lantsman will open avenues to “discuss things that will redound to the benefits of and at the same time maximize potentials and capabilities of Filipino Canadians here, to be able to contribute to the development of both the Philippines and Canada.”

MP Lantsman was accompanied during the call by her assistant, Mr. David Hwang, and some Filipino Canadian community leaders under her constituency in Thornhill. END-

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Consul General Orontes V. Castro (right) welcomed Member of Parliament Honourable Melissa Lantsman (center) and her Assistant David Hwang (left) to the Philippine Consulate General in Toronto on 4 February 2022.

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Clockwise from top left: Consul General Orontes V. Castro and MP Hon. Melissa Lantsman; Consul General Castro presented to MP Hon. Melissa Lantsman the Padayon artworks of students from the Toronto and Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Boards; MP Lantsman during her interview with OMNI News-Filipino; and MP Lantsman (centre), Mr. Mauro Calaguio (left), Mrs. Ining Calaguio (right) and
Mr. David Hwang (farthest right), with Consul General Castro (second to the left).

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As part of Post’s promotion of Philippine exports, MP Hon. Melissa Lantsman was presented with the Cobonpue-designed basket of the Philippine Export Promotion Package (PEPP).

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Consul General Orontes V. Castro with MP Hon. Melissa Lantsman, and Filipino community leaders Mr. and Mrs. Mauro Calaguio, Jr. at the end of the meeting at the Philippine Consulate General on 4 February 2022.

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