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President's Report Ukrainian Canadian Congress Head Office: 952 Main Street, Suite 203 Winnipeg MB R2W 3P4 Canada Tel: (204) 942-4627 Fax: (204) 947-3882 National Office: 130 Albert Street, Suite 806 Ottawa ON K1P 5G4 Canada Tel: (613) 232-8822 Fax: (613) 238-3822 E-mail: [email protected] Internet : [email protected] Paul M. Grod, LL.B., MBA President Direct (905) 625-9900 x 225 [email protected] President’s Report To UCC Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting, London, Ontario Date June 23-24, 2012 Re: UCC Activities June 25, 2011 to June 23, 2012 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – YEAR IN REVIEW ............................................................................ 1 PROGRAMMING .......................................................................................................................... 3 1. UCC COMMITTEES ............................................................................................................... 3 2. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ....................................................................................................... 4 3. FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................ 4 YEAR IN REVIEW ........................................................................................................................ 4 FUTURE PLANS .......................................................................................................................... 5 4. PLANNED EVENTS FOR 2011-12 ........................................................................................... 5 CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................. 5 Executive Summary – Year in Review The focus since the last annual general meeting (AGM) in June 2011 has been to: . strengthen UCC and our community, and . represent the Ukrainian Canadian community’s concerns relating to develops in both Ukraine and Canada. Specifically, UCC has been actively advocating our community’s concerns as they relate to: . democracy, civil society and the rule of law in Ukraine, and . the governance, content and design of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. - 2 - During the past year we celebrated a significant milestone in our community with the 120th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada. Connected with these celebrations across Canada, UCC hosted its first Ukrainian Day on the Hill which was two days of intense advocacy concluded with an impressive exhibition of Ukrainian achievements in Canada paired with a fabulous concert featuring prominent Ukrainian Canadian artists. An equally important milestone was the official opening of UCC’s National Office in our nation’s capital city of Ottawa. We have seen the results of this presence almost immediately with a series of impressive initiatives being lead from that office, including Ukrainian Day on the Hill and the Ukraine at a Crossroads Conference. On October 14, 2011, close to 600 people gathered at a Tribute dinner in Toronto where the Taras Shevchenko Medal was bestowed upon The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada for his and the Government’s many contributions to the Ukrainian- Canadian community and the people of Ukraine. The Shevchenko Medal Award is the highest form of recognition given out by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Ukrainian Carollers at Prime Minister’s residence - for the first time UCC together with the Ottawa Ukrainian Canadian community were welcomed at the Prime Minister’s residence to sing Ukrainian Christmas carols. UCC welcomed the Council of Churches and Religious Organizations of Ukraine who participated in the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter project in Ottawa in May 2012. - UCC welcomes motion honouring Metropolitan Sheptytsky by Parliament The Canadian government has been actively assessing, commenting and acting upon the current political situation in Ukraine. In addition to multiple meetings ranging from senior public servants, Ministers of Foreign Affairs (John Baird) and International Cooperation (Bev Oda) to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, UCC participated in a number of missions to Ukraine with the Minister of International Cooperation and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs which just recently table in Parliament its report on the current situation in Ukraine. There have been a number of programming initiatives which have been firsts for our community, including a well-attended National Ukrainian School Teachers Conference. UCC has continued its campaign of accountability for Canadian Human Rights Museum (CMHR). The Ukrainian Canadian Congress has publicly supported the Canadian Museum for Human Rights since 2003 and our community has provided significant financially support, based on assurances that the Museum will house a permanent gallery on the Holodomor and a permanent exhibit for the World War I Internment Operations. We have repeatedly written to, met with, made submissions to and intervened at every opportunity with the Museum’s senior management, staff and consultants in an attempt to present our position. Despite these many representations we find it objectionable that the Holodomor is absent from the Museum's inaugural. The UCC has called for an inclusive and equitable Museum that would include both Holocaust and Holodomor galleries. We resent and condemn any attempts to sensationalize this position as somehow opposing or competing with a Holocaust gallery. To the contrary, we believe that by setting these two human rights atrocities inside a single historical frame will tell a human rights story like no other Museum - 3 - in the world. Placing the Holodomor into a gallery with all other genocides recognized by Canada will diminish the true nature of this story. We believe that because of its distinct pedagogical value to human rights education, the Holodomor, arguably one of the greatest acts of genocide in 20thcentury European history, should be displayed in a permanent and prominent gallery in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. We are further concerned that Canada’s World War I Internment Operations will not have a permanent and prominent place in the Museum. Programming The programming activities of the Congress are largely dependent on the work UCC Committees appointed by the Board. 1. UCC Committees The following are the Committees established by the UCC Board: (i) Executive Committee – Pavlo Grod, Chair (ii) Canada-Ukraine Committee - Jars Balan, Chair (iii) Fundraising Committee – Eugene Roman, Chair (iv) Immigration/Resettlement Committee - Eugen Duvalko and Serhiy Koroliuk, Co-Chairs (v) Internment Committee - Olya Grod, Chair (vi) National Holodomor Commemoration Committee - Iryna Mycak, Chair (vii) National Holodomor Education Committee – Valentyna Kuryliw, Chair (viii) Sports Council - Renata Roman, Chair (ix) Awards & Recognition Committee – Michael Hantzsch, Chair (x) National Arts Council - Halyna (Kvitka) Kondracki (Hon. Chair), Andrea Kopylech and Orest Skliarenko (Co-chairs) (xi) National School Council – Volodymyr Boychuk, Chair (xii) Youth Council – Yuri Broda, Chair (xiii) Communications – Daria Luciw, Chair (xiv) Multiculturalism Task Force – Daria Luciw and Hania Szyptur (Co- chairs) (xv) Governance Committee – Hania Szyptur, Chair (xvi) CMHR Task Force – vacant (xvii) Community Development - vacant Each of the Committees has specific terms of reference and mandate. Committees are expected to develop workplans, budgets and membership for Board approval. An important focus will be to encourage further Board involvement in the Committees and broader cross- Canada representation on almost every Committee. - 4 - 2. Executive Committee The Executive Committee continues to meet every two weeks and maintain regular email and phone contact on regular matters that the UCC must address. 3. Finance and Administration Our financial base has been eroded due to increased costs associated with our new National Office and Programming expenses. It is the first time in the last 4 years that UCC has experienced a loss. We have kept our expenditures well under budget, however, have not hit our fundraising targets. The staff and Executive Committee are actively looking at various ways to keep costs down and find further operating efficiencies. Fundraising is critical for UCC to continue to meet the needs of our community. We continue to search for a Fundraising Coordinator and are trying to grow our Advisory Council (>$20,000), Presidents Circle ($5,000), Presidents Club ($1,000), and Friends of UCC ($100) annual commitments. We require active involvement of our Board in the fundraising and programming activities of the Congress. Year in Review (a) Unveiling of Taras Shevchenko monument in Ottawa – June 26, 2011 (b) Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Conference (Pottsdam, Germany) – June 28-30, 2011 (c) Ambassador Ostash Tribute – Ottawa/Toronto – July 10, 2011 (d) August 10, 2011 – UCC met with incoming Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, Mr. Troy Lulashnyk and participated in farewell reception to Ambassador Ostash hosted by Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird. (e) August 19, 2011 – UCC launched a joint fundraiser for African Famine Relief. Memories of the millions of lives lost in Ukraine’s genocidal famine in 1932-1933, the Holodomor moved Ukrainian Canadians to launch a campaign which contributed $110,000 to UNICEF Canada for famine relief. This sum was matched by the government of Canada representing $220,000 raised for famine relief. (f) World Forum of Ukrainians
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