{"id":2056,"date":"2023-07-31T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T07:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gqq.gfl.temporary.site\/website_23b9925e\/rechie-valdez-becomes-the-first-filipino-woman-to-serve-the-canadian-cabinet\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T07:50:16","slug":"rechie-valdez-becomes-the-first-filipino-woman-to-serve-the-canadian-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Rechie Valdez Becomes The First Filipino Woman To Serve The Canadian Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making history in another country, Filipino-American Rechie Valdez created another milestone not only for herself but also for Filipinos after being named the new Minister of Small Business.<\/p>\n

On July 27, Valdez penned a post on her Facebook account expressing her gratitude after being appointed as the new member of the Canadian cabinet. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI am truly honored and privileged to serve as Canada\u2019s Minister of Small Business. I look forward to working with and supporting small businesses across our country,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Being declared the leader for small businesses in Canada, Valdez wanted to highlight its essence to the community and emphasize the presence of Filipinos in the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a profound moment for me to know that I was representing the close to one million Filipinos now here in Canada,\u201d Valdez said in an interview with an international broadcasting company. <\/p>\n

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In this one-of-a-kind moment of serving the people internationally, she expressed her deepest gratitude to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and her supporters for making this possible. <\/p>\n

“I also want to give a special thank you to the constituents of Mississauga\u2014Streetsville for your support. To my Cabinet colleagues, I am excited to get to work!” Valdez said. <\/p>\n

Back in October 2021, Valdez was also the first Filipina to serve as a member of the parliament, specifically in Mississauga\u2014Streetsville, Ontario.<\/p>\n

During her term as a member of parliament, she advocates programs concerning climate change, investing in women entrepreneurs, healthcare investments, and supporting small business owners.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit:
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rechiea.valdez<\/credit> <\/p>\n

Source:
\nhttps:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/, https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filipino-American Rechie Valdez makes history again by being appointed Canada’s Minister of Small Business, championing Filipinos and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}