CUPP Interns in Ottawa

The Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP) 2012 will have 33 participating student interns, who will be arriving in Ottawa on September 15. Their extended stay on Parliament Hill working in assigned offices of Members of Parliament and Senators will provide them with experience and insight into Canada’s parliamentary process and governance.

Tentatively planned for November 14^th, they depart Ottawa for Quebec City, Montreal, and Toronto. Then, they depart Toronto on November 22 for Kyiv and participate in the Model Ukraine Conference at the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Allan Rock, President of the University of Ottawa, is the Keynote Speaker.

Among students with more unique backgrounds are two students from Georgia who are sponsored by the East-West Foundation. One Ukrainian student is from Irkutsk, Siberia. Another student is from Belarus who has written an interesting article about Ukrainians in Portugal. Some others include three from CUPP 2011 - Ustyna Mykytyuk (Lviv), Olya Shudrak (Berlin) and Oleksandr Zheva (Kyiv).

It is anticipated that the CUPP 2012 interns will meet with the participants of “Canada’s Parliament Education Forum” organized by the Paul Yuzyk Institute for Youth Leadership, which takes place in Ottawa, October 3-7.