Reality Check: Environment Minister fails to take responsibility for his government’s climate failures

  OTTAWA — Canadians are already living through the deadly and catastrophic impacts of the climate emergency while the Liberals drag their feet.    The Minister of Environment, Steven Guilbeault, recently said he could accelerate climate action if he didn’t have to “fight” Conservatives.   While Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives aren’t interested in fighting the…

NDP calls for a fair deal as the Liberals refuse to negotiate in good faith with Ontario Indigenous police forces

OTTAWA – On Monday, NDP MP Carol Hughes (Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing) and NDP MP Lori Idlout (Nunavut) stood with representatives of the Indigenous Police Chiefs of Ontario to urge the government to negotiate in good faith with the First Nations and Inuit policing organizations.    Hughes and Idlout are making the call after the government adopts a…

NDP secures critical funding for Indigenous housing through Confidence and Supply Agreement 

OTTAWA – On Thursday, NDP Critic for Housing, Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East) and NDP Critic for Indigenous Services, MP Lori Idlout (Nunavut) secured $287.1 million for National Indigenous Collaborative Housing Incorporated (NICHI) to address the housing crisis for Urban Rural and Northern Indigenous, Metis and Inuit people leaving away from their home community. Under the Liberal government,…