Monthly Archives: September 2018

NDP Statement on National Indigenous Peoples Day Bill

NDP Critic for Indigenous Services, Georgina Jolibois (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River), made the following statement on the passage of her Private Member’s Bill C-369 today in the House of Commons. The Bill will now proceed to committee. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Tables Bill to Protect Nuclear Workers' Pensions

OTTAWA – Today, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood—Transcona), alongside representatives of the Canadian Alliance of Nuclear Workers, is taking action to protect the pensions of employees at the Canada Nuclear Laboratories (CNL). Blaikie’s bill would extend the grace period under which CNL employees continued to contribute to the Public Service Pension Plan. The NDP is…

NDP Statement on World Contraception Day

NDP MP Irene Mathyssen (London-Fanshawe) made the following statement on World Contraception Day: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Calls on Liberals to Disavow Trump’s Retreat from Multilateralism

Hélène Laverdière, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, issued the following statement :  Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

Jagmeet Singh and Charlie Angus commit to bring justice for Grassy Narrows

KENORA – On Monday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh joined NDP Critic for Indigenous Youth, Charlie Angus, in Grassy Narrows First Nation, where they heard first-hand about the impact of mercury contamination in their water.   A mill upstream in Dryden dumped mercury into the English-Wabigoon River in the 1960s and early 1970s. The contamination forced…

NDP: Liberals Must Match Feminist Rhetoric With Action for Women’s Equality

While Canada marks Gender Equality Week, women continue to bear the brunt of decades of successive Liberal and Conservative government failures to invest in the systematic problems that undermine gender equality. Women would have more to celebrate if the Liberals actually got to work and fixed the fundamental inequality that remains all too prevalent in…

NDP Statement on the first national Gender Equality Week  

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Jagmeet Singh met with Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation

THUNDER BAY – Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, along with Charlie Angus, NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay, met with Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation representing 49 First Nations in Northern Ontario. They spoke of the importance of having a federal government that understands the reality that northern communities face on issues…

NDP Statement on International Day of Peace

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NDP Statement on Armenia’s Anniversary of Independence

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