| The national coordinating body for Ukrainian Canadians – the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) – concluded its 22nd Triennial Congress in Winnipeg from 19-22 October 2007 under the slogan of “Connecting our Community.”
The Congress elected Toronto lawyer and business person Paul Grod as its national President. In his acceptance speech, Grod outlined a program of increasing the reach of the UCC to make it more active in Canadian society. He plans to ensure that the Holodomor Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1932-33 is properly commemorated in this, the 75th Anniversary of this criminal act. Grod also pledged that the UCC will have a government and public affairs presence in Ottawa by October 2008. Grod thanked outgoing President Orysia Sushko for her tremendous work on behalf of the UCC and acknowledged the numerous successes that characterized her tenure as president. Delegates at the well-attended meeting discussed a variety of issues including the preservation of Canada’s Ukrainian heritage, Ukrainian language education, UCC’s support for the continued development of Ukrainian Canadian culture and how Canada’s relationship with Ukraine will be further developed. Also a critical review was undertaken of how UCC can better serve its membership and the broader community. All the sessions produced important resolutions which were adopted by the convention and which will serve as a guide for the UCC Board of Directors for the next three years. These resolutions will be available on the UCC web-site (www.ucc.ca). Particular attention was devoted to connecting Ukrainian Canadian youth to the work of the UCC. A highlight of the congress was the concurrent meeting of the Ukrainian Canadian Student’s Union, commonly known by its Ukrainian acronym SUSK, which for the first time in many years, held its national convention in conjunction with the UCC Congress. UCC committed itself to assisting SUSK in reinvigorating its network across Canada. |
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