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VAUGEOIS: We can and must do better than this for Ontarians with disabilities.
QUEEN’S PARK – On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, NDP Shadow Minister for Seniors & Accessibility/WSIB & Injured Workers, MPP Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North), rose in the Legislature to make the following statement:
“We heard from the Ontario Ombudsman this week...
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EQAO results expose reality: Government funds insiders, not students
QUEEN’S PARK – Following the release of the less than favorable EQAO results after the Minister of Education withheld them for months, NDP Shadow Minister for Education Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West – Nepean) released the following statement:
“The Minister of Education kept the EQAO results scores hidden...
TABUNS: Ford is shredding Ontarians’ environmental rights
QUEEN’S PARK — Yesterday’s Auditor General report revealed rampant Environmental Bill of Rights violations by the Ford government.
Shadow Minster for Environment, Conservation, and Parks Peter Tabuns (Toronto—Danforth) says it’s to be expected from a Premier with no respect for Ontarians, or for the...
Weak oversight and year-long backlogs fueled by Ford privatized health care
QUEEN’S PARK – Following shocking revelations that came from the Auditor General’s report on inaccurate physician billings, NDP health critic MPP France Gélinas released the following statement:
“The Ford government has intentionally stifled modernization meant to support physicians and strengthen...
Hamilton hospital cuts show Ford’s health care crisis is hitting the city hard
HAMILTON – Ontario NDP MPPs Sandy Shaw (Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas) and Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) are responding to news that St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton will cut 62 positions as the hospital struggles with significant financial...
Doug Ford has no plan to deliver on his health care promises, and Ontarians are paying the price
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Addictions with responsibility for Primary Care, MPP Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre) and NDP Shadow Minister for Health, France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) are responding to the Auditor General’s findings about access to primary care and questionable...
Stiles stands in solidarity with 1,000 Algoma Steel workers facing layoffs
QUEEN’S PARK — In response to the news that Algoma Steel is laying off 1,000 workers — nearly half of its Sault Ste. Marie operations — Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has issued the following statement:
“1,000 workers just had the rug pulled out from under them, right before the holidays. This is...
STILES: Taxpayer-funded propaganda, it’s all happening here
QUEEN’S PARK — Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition, is calling out the Ford government for spending more tax dollars than any other government ever on advertising in the lead up to the snap election.
In her annual report, the Auditor General flagged the rising price-tag of government advertising...
“It’s getting ridiculous”: MPP Begum continues call for Eglinton-Crosstown LRT opening date
QUEEN’S PARK — Despite continued allusions by the Ford government that the opening of the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT is near, there has still been no concrete opening date announced by the Conservatives.
Shadow Minister for Public Transit Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest) questioned the government at Queen’s...
ONDP: Nine years of rising food bank use shows Ontario families are in trouble
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Children, Community and Social Services, Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West); and Shadow Minister for Women’s Social and Economic Opportunity and Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multiculturalism, Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale—High Park); issued the following statement in...
NDP Commemorates World AIDS Day
QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, 2SLGBTQI+ Issues critic, released the following statement to mark World AIDS Day:
This World AIDS Day’s theme is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response”. For decades, I have stood in solidarity with those living with HIV/AIDS, and those who fight to...
PASMA: Minister of Education is playing political games with students’ futures
QUEEN’S PARK — Following the Minister of Education’s announcement that he is seizing control over another school board and sweeping aside the right of parents in Near North to have a say in decisions affecting their children, NDP shadow minister for education MPP Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West – Nepean) released...