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Ukrainian Heritage Month Act

An Act respecting Ukrainian Heritage Month

Summary

  • Designates September as Ukrainian Heritage Month across Canada.
  • Recognizes the historic arrival and ongoing contributions of Ukrainian-Canadians to Canada's social, economic, political, and cultural life.
  • Encourages remembrance, celebration, and education about Ukrainian-Canadian heritage.
  • Creates no new programs, regulations, or funding obligations; it is a symbolic designation.

Builder Assessment

Neutral

This bill is overwhelmingly symbolic and does not materially advance the economic objectives central to Build Canada’s tenets. It neither conflicts with the tenets nor delivers substantive steps toward productivity, competitiveness, exports, or tax reform.

  • It creates no economic, regulatory, fiscal, or service-delivery changes.
  • Potential soft-power or diaspora-network benefits are indirect and speculative.
  • To align, it would need concrete measures linking heritage recognition to entrepreneurship, trade, investment, and workforce development.
  • Suggested additions: diaspora investment and trade initiatives; export and supplier-matching programs; credential recognition and talent pathways; targeted tax incentives for Ukrainian-Canadian SMEs; and annual public–private forums during September focused on Canada–Ukraine commercial ties.

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Principles Analysis

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Canada should aim to be the world's most prosperous country.

A symbolic designation with no direct economic measures; any impact on national wealth is indirect and minimal.

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Promote economic freedom, ambition, and breaking from bureaucratic inertia (reduce red tape).

Does not change regulations or reduce red tape; primarily cultural recognition.

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Drive national productivity and global competitiveness.

No provisions affecting productivity, skills, or competition.

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Grow exports of Canadian products and resources.

No trade, market access, or export-promotion mechanisms are included.

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Encourage investment, innovation, and resource development.

Does not include investment incentives, innovation policy, or resource measures.

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Deliver better public services at lower cost (government efficiency).

No service-delivery or cost-efficiency changes; minimal fiscal impact.

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Reform taxes to incentivize work, risk-taking, and innovation.

No tax provisions.

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Focus on large-scale prosperity, not incrementalism.

Symbolic recognition without economic scope; neither advances nor hinders large-scale prosperity.

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S-210

PartySenate
StatusAt second reading in the Senate
Last updatedMay 28, 2025
TopicsSocial Issues
Parliament45