NDP Statement on Pride Month – Celebrating Courage and Hope
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP: Victory for CUPW Demonstrates Need for Pay Equity Legislation
OTTAWA – Today, an arbitrator ruled that Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) do equal work to urban letter carriers, and acknowledged the wage gap between the two groups, siding with the methodology presented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP calls on prime minister to support Canadian steel and aluminum workers
Following today’s announcement that the United States will apply massive tariffs on Canada’s steel and aluminum sectors the NDP is saying the Liberal government must do much more to protect Canadian workers. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Statement on the Churchill Railway
NDP MP Niki Ashton (Churchill-Keewainook Aski) made the following statement on the announcement on Churchill’s railway. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Statement on Historic Vote in Commons Affirming the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
NDP Reconciliation Critic, Romeo Saganash, made the following statement on the passage of his Private Member’s Bill C-262 today in the House of Commons. The Bill will now proceed to the Senate. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Bill to Establish a National Local Food Day Receives Unanimous Support
OTTAWA – Today the House of Commons voted unanimously at second reading in support of NDP MP Wayne Stetski’s Private Member’s Bill C-281, An Act to establish a National Local Food Day, which would designate the Friday before Thanksgiving of each year as National Local Food Day. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Statement on Vesak
Jagmeet Singh, Leader of Canada’s NDP issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Statement on 70 Years of UN Peacekeeping Service and Sacrifice
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP: Auditor General Delivers Damning Indictment of the Liberal Government
In his 2018 Spring Reports, the Auditor General called the Phoenix fiasco “an incomprehensible failure,” among many other serious errors on the part of the Liberal government. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP: Trudeau Pipeline is a Failure of Leadership
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says that today’s announcement on the Kinder Morgan pipeline is a bad deal for Canada and demonstrates a failure of leadership. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
