April 13, 2005 -- You are invited to an evening with Borys Wrzesnewskyj, M.P. Saturday, April 16, 2005.

4:30 p.m. Cocktails & 5:00 p.m. Dinner at Rembrandts, Senator Hotel
Cash bar - Order and pay for your own meal
R.S.V.P. to reserve a place - Limited space - Call 306-374-7675 or 306-653-1733
Event hosted by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Saskatoon Branch

7:00 p.m. Choir concert by the Dnipro Ensemble of Edmonton, AB
For tickets and information phone the Ukraina Museum 306-244-4212

9:30 p.m. Reception at Rembrandts, Senator Hotel, 243 - 21st St. E.
Cash bar
Event sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Association of Saskatoon

Borys will speak at the dinner and the reception on Ukrainian Canadian issues involving the federal government

Biographical information about Borys Wrzesnewskyj:

On June 28th, 2004, Borys Wrzesnewskyj was elected Member of Parliament for the riding of Etobicoke Centre.

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj is a member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Standing Committee on Transport and the Special Liberal Caucus Committees on Immigration and Global Affairs.

A native of Etobicoke, the son and grandson of Ukrainian and Polish immigrants, Borys Wrzesnewskyj is the current President and owner of both the Future Bakery and M-C Dairy – well established, innovative businesses headquartered in Etobicoke. The Future Bakery, founded by his grandparents, employs more than 80 people today.

Borys Wrzesnewskyj attended Humber Valley Village Public School, transferring to Upper Canada College to complete his high school education with distinction. From there, he went on to complete his B.A. at Trinity College, University of Toronto, before taking over the family business at the age of 22. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj is conversant in French, Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian.

Since his university days Mr. Wrzesnewskyj has been keenly interested in the promotion of civil and human rights, and has dedicated much of his life to promoting tolerance and assisting various communities in a number of humanitarian causes both here and abroad.

In the late 1980s to 1991 Mr. Wrzesnewskyj worked with former Soviet political prisoners to help establish democratic fronts in the former Soviet Union.

Through Future Bakery, Borys Wrzesnewskyj was one of the original sponsors of the Out of the Cold program to aid the homeless. The Wrzesnewskyj family has also funded and organized both relief efforts for orphans, and post-secondary scholarship funds for promising students in need in Ukraine throughout the 1990s to early 2000s. Most recently, the Wrzesnewskyj family foundation donated to several Canadian NGO organizations to send election observers to Ukraine, including $250,000 to the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies to establish the Ukraine Transparency and Election Monitoring Project.

Throughout the recent crisis in Ukraine, Borys Wrzesnewskyj worked tirelessly to reach all-party consensus in Canada’s Parliament to support the struggle for democracy in Ukraine. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj spearheaded a unanimously accepted House of Commons motion on October 26, an emergency debate on November 24, and another unanimously accepted motion on November 25. He was instrumental in securing the Government of Canada’s commitment to send 500 election observers to Ukraine for the December 2004 Presidential election.

Mr. Wrzesnewskyj’s business curriculum has included participation as co-founder and executive member of the Annex Business Improvement Area, co-founder and president of the Garrison Village Business Association, and executive member of the Niagara Neighbourhood Association. He was named one of Ontario’s “Top 100 Entrepreneurs” by the Ontario Business Journal.