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MPP Gurratan Singh calls on Ontario to annually recognize first week of November as Sikh Genocide Awareness Week
QUEEN’S PARK — Today, Gurratan Singh, MPP from Brampton East, rose in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to introduce his private member’s bill to recognize the first week of November each year as Sikh Genocide Awareness Week. Singh described the widespread and targeted violence Sikhs have faced in India...
NDP calls for transit to be built faster with moratorium on using P3s to build transit
Transit critic asks AG to review Eglinton Crosstown and Ottawa LRT fiascos
QUEEN’S PARK — Jessica Bell, Ontario NDP Transit critic, is calling on Doug Ford to speed up the delivery of upcoming transit projects by stopping the use of P3 procurement, at least until the auditor general conducts a review of...
NDP calls for plan to help local business owners hurt by Eglinton Crosstown delay
QUEEN’S PARK — Jill Andrew, NDP MPP for Toronto-St. Paul’s, called on the Doug Ford government to put a plan in place to support local business owners who are suffering because of the Liberal and Conservative failures on the P3 Eglinton Crosstown. Andrew’s call comes after local business owners learned that...
Ford’s tax breaks are benefiting the top 20 per cent, not families struggling to pay bills
QUEEN’S PARK — Sandy Shaw, NDP critic for Finance and Treasury Board, released the following statement, in response to findings from today’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) of Ontario’s report:
“Today’s FAO report shows Doug Ford’s tax breaks are benefiting Ontario’s...
Ontarians’ safety shouldn’t be jeopardized by Ford’s license plate vanity project: NDP
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Jennifer French, NDP critic for Transportation and Highways, said Doug Ford needs to tell Ontarians how he’s going to handle the licence plate problem he created. The new PC Party blue plates are under review because they can’t be read under some lighting conditions, but the existing white...
Contracting out employment services to foreign multinationals will hurt job matching: NDP
QUEEN’S PARK — The Doug Ford government is gutting OW and ODSP employment services with its new scheme to contract out the program to multinational companies — one of which is a for-profit corporation — and the Ontario NDP is worried that will mean fewer Ontarians successfully supported into the job or...
NDP statement on annual Women’s Memorial March for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
QUEEN’S PARK — Suze Morrison, Ontario NDP critic for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Response, issued the following statement in recognition of the annual Women’s Memorial March for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls:
“Today we recognize the annual Women’s Memorial March...
NDP statement in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Sol Mamakwa, the Official Opposition critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, released the following statement in support of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and supporting actions throughout the nation:
“The recent arrests by the RCMP in Wet’suwet’en Nation...
NDP demanding LCBO board member behind “Vaughan Working Families” come to committee to answer questions
Ontario families deserve to know who is funding shadowy ad campaign
QUEEN’S PARK — Taras Natyshak, the Official Opposition New Democrats’ critic for Ethics and Accountability, is calling for Ford-appointed LCBO board member Quinto Annibale to return to the Government Agencies committee for questioning...
New Democrats call on Elections Ontario to investigate possible collusion between “Vaughan Working Families” and Doug Ford PCs
QUEENS PARK — In a letter to Elections Ontario, MPP Peter Tabuns is calling for an investigation into possible collusion between Doug Ford’s government and the Vaughan-area Conservatives who financed “Vaughan Working Families” ads attacking teachers in major newspapers last weekend.
“Prominent...
NDP renews call for Ontario to recognize Eating Disorders Awareness Week
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Culture and Women’s Issues critic Jill Andrew (Toronto-St. Paul’s) released the following statement renewing her call for the Doug Ford government to pass her bill (Bill 61) to recognize the first week of February as Eating Disorders Awareness Week:
“Ontario could be...
Doug Ford’s war on the environment will take Ontario emissions back to the coal-burning era
QUEEN’S PARK — Peter Tabuns, Official Opposition NDP critic for Energy and the Climate Crisis, says a new report shows that under the Doug Ford Conservatives, the climate gains made by eliminating coal-fired power plants will be wiped out.
By 2023, Ontario will have a shortfall in energy generation,...
