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…
DetailsBrigitte Sansoucy, NDP critic for Families, Children and Social Development issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsOTTAWA – 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…
DetailsFrançois Choquette, NDP Critic for Official Languages, made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsOTTAWA – 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
DetailsBURNABY – 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…
DetailsESSEX – 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…
DetailsBURNABY – 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…
DetailsJagmeet Singh, Leader of Canada’s NDP, issued the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsOTTAWA – In their budget last February, the Liberal government announced that they would hold consultations on improving pension security for seniors. The NDP’s Pensions Critic Scott Duvall has been demanding answers from the Seniors Minister Filomena Tassi about when and how these consultations will be held. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
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