NDP Innovation, Science and Industry Critic Brian Masse (Windsor West, Ont.) made the following statement on Canadians’ sky-high cellphone bills: “Canadians pay some of the highest telecom costs in the world. Instead of defending consumers, the Liberal government is just letting them soar even higher. Justin Trudeau has the ability to lower these costs, but he … Read more
NDP transport critic Taylor Bachrach (Skeena—Bulkley Valley, B.C.) called for a suite of changes to air passenger protections.Bachrach said the Liberals’ original design of its Air Passenger Protection Regulations left massive loopholes that allow airlines to avoid paying people. As a result, the Canadian Transportation Agency has a backlog of 33,000 complaints from people who say they’ve … Read more
NDP Ethics Critic Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, Ont.) made the following comment about calls for a parliamentary committee to examine contracts the Liberal government has awarded to McKinsey & Company: “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has people and companies in his inner circle. And they get things the rest of us couldn’t even dream of. Canada has a … Read more
NDP National Defense Deputy Critic Randall Garrison (Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, B.C.) issued a statement: “We all want the men and women in the Canadian Armed Forces to have the best equipment and support possible to carry out the difficult and dangerous work that we ask them to do. But years of political games between the Liberals and Conservatives have left our … Read more
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, B.C.) issued a statement: “This holiday season, Canadian families are having to stretch their budgets even more as the cost of groceries and housing continues to skyrocket while inflation as a whole went down by 0.1 per cent. As inflation continues to stabilize, food prices continue to go up: making … Read more
In response to the agreement at the COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, NDP Environment and Climate Change critic Laurel Collins (Victoria, B.C.) issued a statement: “New Democrats welcome the agreement that came out of the COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Montreal. This agreement highlights the bare minimum that countries around the world, including Canada, must do … Read more
NDP Transport Critic Taylor Bachrach (Skeena–Bulkley Valley, B.C.) and Tax Fairness and Inequality Critic Niki Ashton (Churchill-Keewatinook Aski, Man.) called out the Liberals for pushing forward their plan to privatize the passenger rail service between Toronto and Quebec City. The Liberals appointed former SNC Lavalin lawyer Robert Prichard to an arm’s length subsidiary of Via Rail whose … Read more
On Dec. 15, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, B.C.) was in Montreal calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) to urgently work with the province to tackle the health-care crisis across Quebec. “New Democrats have been calling on Trudeau to stop hiding and meet with premiers across the country to find solutions and … Read more
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, B.C.) issued a statement: “It’s been clear throughout this sitting: despite saying all the right things, without New Democrats forcing them to act, the Liberals were never going to deliver the help families need to get by and get ahead,” he said. “Every day this sitting, we used our … Read more
In response to a recent Statistics Canada report on household debt in Canada, NDP finance critic Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood–Transcona, Man.) issued the following statement: “This holiday season, Canadians’ budgets are stretched thin as the cost-of-living climbs. A new Statistics Canada report shows that Canadians are having to go deeper into debt in order to pay for … Read more
