OTTAWA – On Wednesday, the NDP called on Justin Trudeau to urgently sit down with Doug Ford to save the French-language University in Toronto. Recently, the Premier of Ontario cancelled the project for financial reasons. This project would have been the first entirely French University in Ontario and would represent a major increase in support…
OTTAWA – In his 2018 Fall Reports, the Auditor General once again highlighted serious problems that the Liberal government is not addressing quickly and effectively. On compliance activities of the Canada Revenue Agency, the report indicated that the Liberal government failed to go after the richest corporations and instead targeted everyday Canadians. Read the full…
OTTAWA – A few hours after the Auditor General released a striking report on the “digital divide” between Canadians living in rural and urban areas, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, said in a speech at a Federation of Canadian Municipalities event that Canadians need a national plan to fix this problem once and for all. Read…
Brigitte Sansoucy, NDP critic for Families, Children and Social Development issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – Far too many families are living paycheque to paycheque, or worse, are already living in poverty, but the Liberal government continues to say that the economy is doing well. On Monday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, with the NDP’s Finance Critic and Deputy Finance Critic, Peter Julian and Pierre-Luc Dusseault, sent a letter to…
François Choquette, NDP Critic for Official Languages, made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – Today NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced the appointment of long-time senior NDP strategist Jennifer Howard as Chief of Staff to the NDP. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
BURNABY – On Thursday, as the opioid crisis claims more and more lives every day, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on the Liberal government to launch an investigation into the role drug companies may have played in fueling the opioid crisis and to seek meaningful restitution for the public costs of this crisis. Read the…
ESSEX – Growing support for the NDP’s position that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government should not sign the USMCA trade deal until steel and aluminum tariffs from the United States are gone. Small businesses, industry leaders and unions have joined New Democrats in their call, and even Conservative Deputy Leader, Lisa Raitt, agreed with the NDP…
BURNABY – With Members of Parliament spending this week back in their ridings, the NDP is hammering the government for failing to protect Canada’s supply management system for dairy, poultry, and eggs. The Liberals made major concessions on supply management in negotiating the new USMCA that will have serious negative impacts on farmers and dairy…
