Monthly Archives: May 2018

NDP calls on prime minister to support Canadian steel and aluminum workers

Following today’s announcement that the United States will apply massive tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum sectors the NDP is saying the Liberal government must do much more to protect Canadian workers. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Statement on the Churchill Railway

NDP MP Niki Ashton (Churchill-Keewainook Aski) made the following statement on the announcement on Churchill’s railway. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Statement on Historic Vote in Commons Affirming the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

NDP Reconciliation Critic, Romeo Saganash, made the following statement on the passage of his Private Member’s Bill C-262 today in the House of Commons. The Bill will now proceed to the Senate. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Bill to Establish a National Local Food Day Receives Unanimous Support

OTTAWA – Today the House of Commons voted unanimously at second reading in support of NDP MP Wayne Stetski’s Private Member’s Bill C-281, An Act to establish a National Local Food Day, which would designate the Friday before Thanksgiving of each year as National Local Food Day. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Statement on Vesak

Jagmeet Singh, Leader of Canada’s NDP issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Statement on 70 Years of UN Peacekeeping Service and Sacrifice

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP: Auditor General Delivers Damning Indictment of the Liberal Government

In his 2018 Spring Reports, the Auditor General called the Phoenix fiasco “an incomprehensible failure,” among many other serious errors on the part of the Liberal government.  Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP: Trudeau Pipeline is a Failure of Leadership

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says that today’s announcement on the Kinder Morgan pipeline is a bad deal for Canada and demonstrates a failure of leadership. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Calls for an End to Processing Delays for Iranian Nationals

NDP MP Thomas Mulcair (Outremont) and NDP Critic for Immigration, Jenny Kwan (Vancouver-East), demanded again today that the federal government fix the exceedingly long processing delays for permanent residence applications for Iranian nationals. Currently, the processing wait time for these individuals can be from 300% to as high as 1200 % longer than other applicants.…

NDP Statement on Bike to Work Day: #CycleLife

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site