The UCC Parliamentary Internship Program is a program offered by the UCC Charitable & Educational Trust.
For the most up-to-date information, please see: https://www.ucccetrust.ca/programs/parliamentary-internship/

About the UCC Parliamentary Internship Program
The UCC Parliamentary Internship Program was re-established in 2017, thanks to the generous support of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada, including intern training by the Paul Yuzyk Institute for Youth Leadership, and many individual donors. We want to ensure that the Ukrainian Canadian community continues to play a significant role in shaping Canada’s political landscape and policies for decades to come.
This is a paid internship program. Interns will work in Ottawa with Members of Parliament for 10 months on policy research, communications, legislative affairs and constituency work. They will learn firsthand about Canada’s Parliament and all aspects of the legislative and governmental process. To be eligible for the program, you must be a recent post-secondary graduate or a final-year student graduating this spring or summer from post-secondary institution. Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada.
This is a paid internship program. Interns will work in Ottawa with Members of Parliament for several months on policy research, communications, legislative affairs and constituency work. They will learn firsthand about Canada’s Parliament and all aspects of the legislative and governmental process. To be eligible for the program, you must be a recent post-secondary graduate or a final-year student graduating this spring or summer from post-secondary institution. Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada.
The renewal of the UCC Parliamentary Internship Program in the past two years has been made possible through the generous support of major donors, including the Shevchenko Foundation Ukrainian Canadian Veterans Fund, the Ukrainian National Federation and the Ukrainian Credit Union Ltd. We also sincerely thank and recognize the generous support of Paul & Adrianna Grod, Oleh & Bozhena Iwanusiw and many other individual donors. For the full list of supporters of the UCC Parliamentary Internship Program, please see here.
In 2020 the Roman Waschuk & Oksana Smerechuk Fund was created within the UCC Charitable & Educational Trust to support the UCC Parliamentary Internship Program, as well as to the UCC Community Development Fund, which supports important community programming initiatives.
How to Apply
Applications Due: May 15, 2023
Alumni
Testimonials from Internship Alumni

Larysa Lubka-Lewyckyj

Ostap Woychyshyn

Volodymyr Palagniuk
SUPPORTING THE PROGRAM
In order to bring more interns to Parliament Hill, we need the support of individuals and organizations to provide financial resources for the UCC Parliamentary Internship Program.
Click here to make a charitable donation to support the Parliamentary Internship Program
The UCC expresses its gratitude to all those who have generously donated to support the program this year, and foster a new generation of young Ukrainian Canadian leaders. Along with our major founding sponsor the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada, there have been many individual donors.
A full list of the generous donors to the Parliamentary Internship Program is available by clicking here.