OTTAWA – New Democrat MPs Niki Ashton and Brigitte Sansoucy are calling on the Liberals to increase Employment Insurance sickness benefits from 15 to 50 weeks. They are adding their voices to Marie-Hélène Dubé’s, who started the petition 15 weeks to heal is not enough!, as well as the more than half a million people who…
DetailsOttawa – Today, Liberal MPs on the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development rejected a motion from the NDP to undertake a study on Canada’s role in the Middle East. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsNDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh, made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsOttawa – NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Hélène Laverdière (Laurier – Sainte-Marie) will ask the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development to undertake a study on Canada’s role in the Middle East. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsJagmeet Singh, Leader of Canada’s NDP, issued the following statement recognizing the start of Mental Health Week in Canada: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsNPD National Revenue Critic, Pierre-Luc Dusseault (Sherbrooke), made the following statement: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsOTTAWA – NDP MP Gord Johns (Courtenay-Alberni) today urged the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change to support his motion (M-151) on a national strategy to combat plastic pollution, and to take immediate action to ban plastic straws. Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsJagmeet Singh, Leader of Canada’s NDP, issued the following statement today on World Press Freedom Day: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsThe following statement was issued by Jagmeet Singh, Leader of Canada’s NDP: Read the full release on NDP Central’s site
DetailsOTTAWA – Today NDP MP Wayne Stetski (Kootenay–Columbia) kicked off the first hour of debate on his 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
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