OTTAWA – Today, NDP MP Linda Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) will present ground-breaking legislation to enshrine environmental rights in Canadian law. Duncan’s Private Member’s Bill, C-438, An Act to establish a Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights, will have its first hour of debate in the House of Commons today. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – Tonight at 6:45 p.m. EDT, the Senate Aboriginal People’s committee will sit in the Senate of Canada building to discuss NDP MP Romeo Saganash’s Bill C-262 that would ensure that the laws of Canada are in harmony with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The witnesses during the first…
OTTAWA – Nathan Cullen, MP has responded to calls from NDP Fisheries Critic Gord Johns and the NDP candidate for Victoria, Laurel Collins, alongside caucus colleagues Randall Garrison, Alistair MacGregor and Rachel Blaney by agreeing to make room for the last hour of debate needed on Bill S-203, which bans the captivity of whales and…
MONTREAL – In the face of an accelerating climate crisis, NDP Deputy Leader and Environment Critic, Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie), has officially endorsed the Climate Emergency Declaration (CED), a citizens’ initiative that has called for recognizing the climate crisis since its creation in 2016. “Climate change is already upon us. The climate crisis is very…
OTTAWA — On Friday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh presented his bold climate change and jobs creation plan. Singh and the NDP put forward a plan that is on the side of people with climate solutions that will take on big polluters, reduce our emissions and make sure that working people have more opportunities for good jobs…
Cheryl Hardcastle, NDP Critic for Persons Living with Disabilities, issued the following statement: “New Democrats welcome the adoption of Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act: An Act to Ensure a Barrier-free Canada. However, there is still much work to do to make Canada barrier-free for people living with disability. We have worked with leading disability…
Yesterday, MP Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan-Malahat-Langford) asked the Liberal Government to commit funding to raise the Lake Cowichan Weir to protect the Cowichan Watershed in light of the crisis facing the Cowichan River.