Author Archives: CML EDA

Jagmeet Singh calls on Liberals to reverse $800 cut to the CRB

In July, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government will cut the Canadian Recovery Benefit (CRB) for almost 2 million Canadians who depend on it to pay for groceries, rent and bills by $800 a month Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

Genuine reconciliation means stop fighting Indigenous kids in court: NDP 

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Successful NDP motion forces government to release documents on offshore tax havens

OTTAWA – Yesterday, the finance committee passed an NDP motion asking the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to produce all records and communications relating to the KPMG offshore tax scheme where hundreds of Canadians were defrauded of their savings. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

Statement on NDP MP Jack Harris’s Political Future

Earlier today, Jack Harris, the Member of Parliament for St. John’s East made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP pass motion calling for a National Action Summit on Islamophobia

OTTAWA – The news of the senseless attack on a Muslim family that left four dead and a nine-year-old boy in serious condition has rocked Canada. The NDP is seeking to urgently address the pervasive threat of Islamophobia in this country by working with the Muslim community in London and across Canada and asking the…

Committee report confirms the government is failing to provide humanitarian measures for Hongkongers: NDP 

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Statement following the release of the report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics on the WE Charity scandal 

Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay and NDP Ethics Critic, and Alexandre Boulerice, NDP Deputy Leader, issued the following statement:   Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP fighting for affordable housing in Hamilton

HAMILTON – With housing prices skyrocketing and people struggling financially because of the pandemic, it has been harder and harder for people in Hamilton to afford a place to call home. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was virtually in Hamilton today to speak to people about the NDP’s plan to fix the ongoing housing crisis. Singh…

NDP comment on the Privacy Commissioner's report on the RCMP's use of facial recognition technology

The NDP Critic for Ethics, Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay), and NDP Deptuy Leader, Alexandre Boulerice (Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie), made the following joint statement on the Privacy Commissioner’s report into the RCMP’s use of facial recognition technology: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

Gazan to call on Government to Recognize Canada’s Indian Residential Schools as Act of Genocide

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