August 16, 2025 — Canadian Filipinos who voted for Liberal Mark Carney as Canada’s prime minister on April 29 now have 10 reasons to rejoice as PM Carney marks his 100 days in office this month.
Although he was a few votes short of having a majority government, he got a strong mandate and now leads a stable Liberal government with support from provincial premieres and territory leaders.
The Liberal Party of Canada proudly announced 10 campaign promises that PM Carney has delivered so far.
1. Passage of One Canadian Economy Act to break down federal barriers to internal trade, speedup nation building projects and unlock the country’s potential.
2. Middle class tax cut saving families up to $840 a year.
3. Secure Canadian borders sovereignty including reinvesting and rearming the Canadian Armed Forces and increase the budget for national defence.
4. Increase the Canada Child Benefit up to $7,997 per child, to better help parents with the cost of raising a family.
5. Expand the Canadian Dental Care Plan which has already helped 2 million Canadians access the care they need.
6. Introduce the Canada Strong Pass to help families save money and discover what Canada offers this summer from national parks, museums and galleries.
7. Eliminate GST for first-time home buyers of homes up to $1million.
8. Commit to meet NATO’s 2% of GDP defence target by the end of 2025 – a half decade ahead of schedule.
9. Invest in Canada’s workers and industrial capacity to meet the major projects that will transform and unite Canada’s economy.
10. Bring fares down on the Confederation Bridge and inter-provincial ferries in Atlantic Canada to make life affordable for Canadians and create opportunities for workers and businesses.
CFNet vigourously campained for PM Carney’s election as PM in its by weekly newsmagazine CanadianFilipino.Net and continues to monitor his Liberal government’s progress and report his activities regularly to its readers.
Editor of Canadian Filipino Net
Eleanor R. Laquian has written four best-selling books, and co-authored four others with husband Prod Laquian. She has served in various capacities at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research as manager of administration and programs; editor and chair, publications committee; and primary researcher of the Asian Immigration to Canada project. She has a degree in journalism from Maryknoll College in the Philippines, and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of the Philippines. She did postgraduate studies at the School of Public Communications, Boston University in the U.S.
She has been researching and writing about Filipino immigration to Canada since 1969. For her Master's degree in Public Administration at the university of the Philippines, she conducted in 1972 the first, and up to now, the only nationwide survey of Filipinos in Canada. It was done by mailed questionnaires with self addressed stamped envelopes for replies and followed up by personal in depth interviews of respondents who agreed to be interviewed, Interviews were done on a two-week drive from Ottawa to Vancouver in the summer of '72.
Her Master's thesis was published in 1973 in Ottawa by the United Council of Filipino Associations in Canada. It was titled A Study of Filipino Immigrants in Canada, 1962 - 1972. As the primary researcher of UBC Institute of Asian Research immigration Project, she edited in 1998 a book titled The Silent Debate: Asian Immigration and Racism in Canada published by UBC. In 2005 she co-authored with her husband a book to update her MA thesis and titled it Seeking a Better Life Abroad: A Study of Filipinos in Canada 1957 - 2007. It was published in 2008 by Anvil Publishing in Manila.In 2023 she edited Indomitable Canadian Filipinos, a book on the 70-year history of Filipinos in Canada, published by Friesen Press in Manitoba, Canada.
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