Category Archives: News from Central

Le NPD réclame des modifications au Code criminel pour que les survivantes d’agression sexuelle puissent raconter leur propre histoire 

OTTAWA – Mercredi, la députée néo-démocrate Laurel Collins a exhorté le gouvernement à veiller à ce que les victimes d’agression sexuelle aient le choix de raconter leur propre histoire en apportant d’autres modifications au règlement sur les ordonnances de non-publication que le ministre de la Justice a annoncé la semaine passée.  Read the full release on…

NDP MP calls for more changes to criminal code so that sexual assault survivors can tell their own stories

OTTAWA – On Wednesday, NDP MP Laurel Collins  urged the government to ensure sexual assault survivors have the choice to tell their own stories by making further changes to the publication ban regulations the Justice Minister announced last week. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

New Democrats call for real action on forced and child labour in Canadian supply chains

OTTAWA – On Wednesday, New Democrats will vote against a private member’s bill that does nothing to fight forced labour and child labour in Canadian supply chains—S-211. Instead, the NDP will keep fighting for bills introduced by NDP MPs in this Parliament, C-262 and C-263, which would require businesses to establish processes to identify, prevent…

NDP Statement on World Press Freedom Day

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

NDP motion calling on Liberals to recognize MMIWG2S crisis as a Canada-wide emergency adopted

OTTAWA – On Tuesday, an NDP motion calling on Liberals to recognize the ongoing genocide of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two spirit people (MMIWG2S) crisis as a Canada-wide emergency was adopted unanimously by all parties in the House of Commons. The motion was tabled by NDP critic for Women and Gender Equality Leah Gazan (Winnipeg…

NDP calls on Liberals to recognize the MMIWG2S crisis as a Canada-wide emergency

OTTAWA — On Tuesday, ahead of Red Dress Day, NDP Critic for Women and Gender Equality Leah Gazan will introduce a motion calling on the Liberal government to declare the ongoing genocide of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people (MMIWG2S) a Canada-wide emergency. From 2016 to 2021, 247 Indigenous women were identified…

Jagmeet Singh statement on May Day

The Leader of Canada’s NDP Jagmeet Singh made the following statement on May Day: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP statement on Mental Health Week

NDP Mental Health and Harm Reduction Critic Gord Johns made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site

NDP statement on the National Day of Mourning 

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

NDP MP Randall Garrison announces he will not seek re-election after a long political career 

OTTAWA— NDP MP for Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, Randall Garrison, announced today that he will not seek re-election in the next federal election after over a decade in federal politics. As an MP Garrison successfully led initiatives to add transgender rights to the Canadian Human Rights Code and the hate crimes section of the Criminal Code, to ban conversion…