OTTAWA – On Wednesday, NDP Emergency Preparedness and Climate Resiliency critic Richard Cannings moved a bill that would have recognized the right of all Canadians to live in a healthy environment and would hold governments to account for their existing obligations to uphold that right. But the Liberals and Conservatives teamed up to vote against it.

 

Canada’s NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued the following statement:

OTTAWA – On Tuesday, NDP Environment Critic Laurel Collins brought forward a motion which would create a Youth Climate Corps, like the United States has done, to generate more training and job opportunities for young people in clean energy and conservation.

OTTAWA—On Monday, after months of delay from the Liberals to ‘stabilize’ grocery prices, New Democrats are forcing the CEO of Sobeys back before a parliamentary committee later this afternoon. The Sobeys’ CEO appearance comes after Canadians have been struggling with the huge cost of food for almost two years and coincides with a strike at Pete’s Frootique – a Sobeys owned grocery store in Halifax. While these striking workers are fighting for a fair wage,...

OTTAWA — On Monday, the NDP called on the Liberals to immediately enact special immigration measures to facilitate the evacuation of extended family members of Canadians and permanent residents in Gaza, as the humanitarian crisis there worsens.

NDP Critic for Disability Inclusion Bonita Zarrillo made the following statement:

NDP 2SLGBTQI+ critic Randall Garrison and deputy critic Blake Desjarlais made the following statement:

NDP critic for Indigenous Services, Lori Idlout, and NDP critic for Women and Social Equality, Leah Gazan, made the following statement: