Jon Reyes was born on 1971 or 1972 and is a Canadian politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
17 Facts About Jon Reyes
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Jon Reyes is the first Canadian-born person of Filipino descent to serve in the Manitoba legislature.
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Jon Reyes was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, around 1972.
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Jon Reyes served 10 years in the Canadian Forces in both the Communication Reserves and the regular force with the Royal Canadian Navy, including 5 years stationed on HMCS Winnipeg.
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Jon Reyes served with the RCN until 2000 as a Naval Combat Information Operator and then as an instructor at Canadian Forces Fleet School Pacific, located at CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island.
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Jon Reyes received a Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management at Royal Roads University.
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In 2010, Jon Reyes founded the Manitoba Filipino Business Council and served as the organization's first president until 2015.
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Jon Reyes has served as a former member of the Manitoba Football Officials Association and as a support crew member for the Canadian Football League.
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Jon Reyes was a director of the Kidney Foundation of Canada - Manitoba Branch from 2013 until 2016, where he initiated the Filipino Kidney Health Initiative.
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Jon Reyes was named to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commanding Officer's Cultural Diversity Advisory Committee in 2015.
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On May 10,2017, Jon Reyes was named to the Fiscal Responsibility Committee of Cabinet, a committee tasked to examine priority matters of the Government of Manitoba related to fiscal and budgetary responsibility, which included strategic transformation priorities, providing oversight for key transformation projects identified in the Fiscal Performance Review and assuming responsibility for other strategic initiatives as directed by Treasury Board or Cabinet.
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Jon Reyes was appointed President of the Manitoba Branch of the Assemblee parlementaire de la Francophonie in March 2018 and met with provincial and territorial representatives to address the state of Francophone affairs in Manitoba, at the 34th Session of the APF Regional Assembly in Quebec City on July 10,2018.
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On, December 6,2018, Jon Reyes was named to the Economic Growth Committee of Cabinet, a committee which oversees a whole-of-government approach to growing the provincial economy.
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The St Norbert constituency was abolished leading up to the 2019 provincial election, and Jon Reyes sought election in the newly formed constituency of Waverley.
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Jon Reyes faced NDP candidate David Pankratz, a former paramedic and firefighter, who ran his campaign primarily on healthcare, a key issue in the election campaign.
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Jon Reyes has been a member of the Knights of Columbus since 2013.
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On January 8,2022, Jon Reyes was heavily criticized and made international headlines for posting a photo of his wife on Twitter shoveling their driveway after she finished a 12-hour shift as a nurse working during the COVID-19 pandemic.