OTTAWA – Today, Liberal and Conservative MPs have acted in concert to defeat Bill C-331, the International Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Act. The bill would have given non-citizens the ability to bring civil suits to Canadian federal courts for clear violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights, labour, environmental and basic human rights committed outside of Canada. Read the…
OTTAWA – Today, the House of Commons passed NDP Human Rights Critic Cheryl Hardcastle’s unanimous consent motion regarding the atrocities committed in Sri Lanka against the Tamils. Together, all parliamentarians agreed to seek justice for all families, survivors and victims of violence and war in Sri Lanka. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Tuesday, New Democrat MPs Georgina Jolibois (Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River) and Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East) once again called on the Liberal government to not only enact provisions of Bill S-3, but also to entirely end systemic discrimination against First Nations women. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Tuesday, NDP Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Ethics Committee, Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay), raised concerns over the Toronto Sidewalk Labs deal. The evidence gathered in recent parliamentary hearings has raised serious questions about the public benefit of this project. In a supplemental report to the committee’s report on privacy and digital government…
