Ontario Premier Ford Joins PCG Toronto’s Bonifacio Day Celebration 

Consul General Orontes V. Castro and Guest of Honor Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, during their one-on-one dialogue before the start of the Bonifacio Day celebration with the Filipino community at the Kalayaan Community Center in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on 30 November 2021.( Photos from Toronto PCG)

The Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, with Consul General Orontes V. Castro and the other officers and staff of the Philippine Consulate General in Toronto and the Heads of Philippine attached agencies (Photo from Toronto PCG)

Consul General Orontes V. Castro took the opportunity to  present to Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, the student-winners of the Sentro Rizal Toronto-Philippine Consulate General Toronto’s Padayon Art Competition titled “Paghilom at Pag-asa Mula sa Pandemya.” . (Photos from Toronto PCG)

Part of the program was the participation of Filipino Canadian students Adria Anez Maranan read the Land Acknowledgment, Nicolas Manlapaz recited from the poem of Gat Andres Bonifacio, and Soprano Renee Fajardo serenaded the crowd with Filipino kundiman songs. (Photos from Toronto PCG)

(Top from Left) Premier Doug Ford, Consul General Orontes V. Castro, and Minister Parm Gill  delivered their respective messages during the  event, which was co-hosted by the Ontario’s Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism and  was attended by around 100 Filipino community and business leaders.  (Photos from Toronto PCG)

Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, receiving the Quincentennial Award from Consul General Orontes V. Castro, with Honourable Parm Gill, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism, and Honourable MPP Deepak Anand. (Photo from Toronto PCG)