OTTAWA — NDP Critic for Indigenous Services Lori Idlout (Nunavut) and NDP Deputy Critic for Indigenous Services Niki Ashton (Churchill—Keewatinook Aski) are calling out the Liberals for dragging their feet on fixing the housing crisis in Northern and Indigenous communities — revealing the government’s own statistics showing that it’s going to take as long as…
OTTAWA—NDP Housing Critic Jenny Kwan issued the following statement in response to a report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) on the Liberals’ failure to meet their housing goals for Canadians, while a recent report shows a 10.7 per cent hike in rent prices since one year ago: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA — On Thursday, the NDP joined MOBI-O, an advocacy group for sustainable transportation solutions in the Gatineau region, in calling on the Liberal government to release federal funding to build the Ottawa-Gatineau tramway project. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada’s NDP, will lead a vote in the House of Commons that calls on each member of parliament to decide: should health care funding be used to rebuild the understaffed public system, or to set up for-profit corporations that will poach nurses and doctors? Read the full release on…
NDP raises family doc cash-for-care operation, calls for Trudeau to act Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – NDP MP Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan-Malahat-Langford) has tabled a bill that would force the Canada Pension Plan to invest only in companies that do not violate human rights or environmental laws. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Food Price Inflation critic Alistair MacGregor made the following statement in reaction to a successful NDP-led motion extending the investigation into food prices and corporate greed to compel the CEOs of Loblaw, Metro and Empire to answer questions in Ottawa: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA — Canada’s NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said the Liberals need to stop the Rogers-Shaw merger before Friday’s deadline — not stall while higher cell phone and internet bills loom. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
NDP Public Services and Procurement critic Gord Johns made the following statement in reaction to an NDP motion to expand the investigation of outsourcing government work successfully passing on Monday: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
OTTAWA – On Monday, NDP Veterans Affairs critic Rachel Blaney demanded that the Liberal government stop outsourcing services that Veterans rely on to for-profit companies that keep failing to deliver. In the summer, the Liberals gave a $560 million contract to a company owned by Loblaw despite calls from Veterans, unions and New Democrats for…
