Author Archives: CML EDA

Jagmeet Singh and Charlie Angus commit to bring justice for Grassy Narrows

KENORA – On Monday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh joined NDP Critic for Indigenous Youth, Charlie Angus, in Grassy Narrows First Nation, where they heard first-hand about the impact of mercury contamination in their water.   A mill upstream in Dryden dumped mercury into the English-Wabigoon River in the 1960s and early 1970s. The contamination forced…

NDP: Liberals Must Match Feminist Rhetoric With Action for Women’s Equality

While Canada marks Gender Equality Week, women continue to bear the brunt of decades of successive Liberal and Conservative government failures to invest in the systematic problems that undermine gender equality. Women would have more to celebrate if the Liberals actually got to work and fixed the fundamental inequality that remains all too prevalent in…

NDP Statement on the first national Gender Equality Week  

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Jagmeet Singh met with Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation

THUNDER BAY – Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, along with Charlie Angus, NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay, met with Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation representing 49 First Nations in Northern Ontario. They spoke of the importance of having a federal government that understands the reality that northern communities face on issues…

NDP Statement on International Day of Peace

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NDP Statement on Armenia’s Anniversary of Independence

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Jagmeet Singh: Liberal Government Must Abandon Trans Mountain Expansion

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Wants Committee to Study Details of Pipeline Crown Corporation

OTTAWA – Daniel Blaikie, NDP Vice Chair of the Standing Committee on Government Operations & Estimates, will propose that the committee study possible structures and governance models for the Crown Corporation under which the government has proposed the completion of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project will proceed. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP Condemns Genocide Against Rohingya

Statement by Hélène Laverdière, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic and Cheryl Hardcastle, Vice-Chair of the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights:   Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

Accessibility Act Needs Substantial Amendments

OTTAWA — With the second reading of the government’s Accessibility Act on Wednesday, New Democrats are renewing their commitment to working with the Liberals to finally pass the comprehensive accessibility legislation that people living with disabilities deserve. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site