{"id":933,"date":"2016-05-22T03:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T03:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/?p=933"},"modified":"2016-05-22T03:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T03:07:14","slug":"trip-to-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/trip-to-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Ottawa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-GrpMichael.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-GrpMichael.jpg\" alt=\"Pic - GrpMichael\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-GrpMichael.jpg 5312w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-GrpMichael-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-GrpMichael-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5312px) 100vw, 5312px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-JKenney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-JKenney.jpg\" alt=\"Pic - MP JKenney\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-JKenney.jpg 5312w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-JKenney-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-JKenney-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5312px) 100vw, 5312px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-PKent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-PKent.jpg\" alt=\"Pic - MP PKent\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-PKent.jpg 5312w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-PKent-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-MP-PKent-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5312px) 100vw, 5312px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-SenEnverga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-SenEnverga.jpg\" alt=\"Pic - SenEnverga\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-SenEnverga.jpg 5312w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-SenEnverga-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Pic-SenEnverga-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5312px) 100vw, 5312px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-mix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-mix1.jpg\" alt=\"Tulip - mix1\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-mix1.jpg 5312w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-mix1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-mix1-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5312px) 100vw, 5312px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-red1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-red1.jpg\" alt=\"Tulip - red1\" width=\"2988\" height=\"5312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-red1.jpg 2988w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-red1-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-red1-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2988px) 100vw, 2988px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-yellow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-yellow.jpg\" alt=\"Tulip - yellow\" width=\"2988\" height=\"5312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-yellow.jpg 2988w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-yellow-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tulip-yellow-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2988px) 100vw, 2988px\" \/><\/a>On Thursday, May 19, the Filipino-Canadian Association of Vaughan (FCAV) travelled to Ottawa. With the assistance of Michael, Amy and Sack from the Hon. Peter Kent\u2019s office, the group toured Parliament\u00a0 Hill building including the library, standing committee room and observed first-hand how the Members of Parliament questioned each other at the House of Commons.\u00a0 Their debate included Physician Assisted Death and Electoral Reforms.<\/p>\n<p>The group met with Hon. Peter Kent, former Environment Minister; Hon. Jason Kenney, former Minister of National Defense and Minister of Multiculturalism; Senator Tobias Enverga Jr. and Senator Victor Oh. \u00a0The Speaker of the House also addressed the group.<\/p>\n<p>The group also visited the Tulips in Bloom. The tulips were amazingly gorgeous and came in different colours \u2013 yellow, red, pink, purple and white.<\/p>\n<p>FCAV trip to Ottawa was definitely remarkable and they thank the New Horizon for Seniors Program (NHSP) and the Hon. Peter Kent, MP for Thornhill, for making it possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 19, the Filipino-Canadian Association of Vaughan (FCAV) travelled to Ottawa. With the assistance of Michael, Amy and Sack from the Hon. Peter Kent\u2019s office, the group toured Parliament\u00a0 Hill building including the library, standing committee room and observed first-hand how the Members of Parliament questioned each other at the House of Commons.\u00a0 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/trip-to-ottawa\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}