Ambassador Rodolfo Robles (2L) hosted lunch for MP Rechie Valdez (3R) and MP Kevin Lamoureux (2R).

1 December 2021, Ottawa – Philippine Ambassador to Canada Rodolfo D. Robles hosted lunch on Wednesday, 1 December 2021, in honor of Member of Parliament Rechie Valdez. Valdez was elected last September to the federal House of Commons, making history as the first female Canadian of Filipino heritage to sit as a federal Member of Parliament.  She is only the second Filipino-Canadian elected to the federal parliament after Dr. Rey Pagtakhan who represented the riding Of Winnipeg North – St. Paul from 1997 to 2004.

MP Kevin Lamoureaux, Chair of the Canada-Philippines Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group, introduced Valdez to Ambassador Robles during the lunch.