OTTAWA – Today, Liberals on the Government Operations and Estimates Committee killed an urgent NDP motion to review Canada Post’s negotiating tactic to target sick and vulnerable workers in the current round of collective bargaining. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Tuesday, the NDP motion calling on the Liberal government to reallocate the hundreds of millions of dollars in lapsed funding to improve services and benefits for Canadian veterans, passed the House of Commons with all-party support. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Monday, the NDP announced they are using their Opposition Day Motion to force the Liberal government to spend all allocated funding to immediately improve services for Canada’s veterans. The NDP says veterans are not getting the respect or services they deserve from the Liberal government following $372 million in unspent funding. Read…
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh today called on the Trudeau government to do more to restore democracy and prevent more violence in Sri Lanka: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
Today, the NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
TORONTO – Standing in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced he is committed to eliminating tax loopholes that only help the super-rich get even richer, while regular Canadians are struggling to get by. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Hélène Laverdière (Laurier – Sainte-Marie) welcomes the creation of the Women, Peace and Security Ambassador. Today, Laverdière called on the Liberal government to guarantee funding for the newly created Ambassador during the second hour of debate on Motion 163 today. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – Nearly a year after the Prime Minister’s official apology to the LGBTQ2+ community in the House of Commons, the Department of National Defence is saying they will not remove dishonourable discharges for those who were kicked out of the military because they were LGBTQ2+. Instead of a record revision, a note will be placed on these records stating that any previous notes were inappropriate. Read the full release on…
OTTAWA – Today, NDP MP Linda Duncan (Edmonton- Strathcona) introduced a motion calling on the federal government to enact legislation that would establish a legal process to ensure binding measures for greater transparency and accountability on Canada’s commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called the lack of any new laws to protect workers’ pensions from being raided by banks and creditors in the government’s BIA is a “moral failure” on the part of the Liberal government. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
