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Pasma slams school board budget changes as power grab
OTTAWA — NDP Shadow Minister for Education Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West—Nepean) released the following statement after a new process under the Minister of Education’s new Education Act gave uncontested power to unelected CEOs:
“Once again,...
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NDP: London students left in uncertainty thanks to Ford’s cuts
LONDON — Ontario NDP MPPs Peggy Sattler (London West), Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe), and Terence Kernaghan (London North Centre) have issued the following statement, as the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) is forced to cut classes thanks to the Ford government’s crushing underfunding of...
Northern NDP MPPs call for collaboration and consultation to strengthen Canada’s First Nation water legislation
SIOUX LOOKOUT - Deputy Leader Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) and MPP Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) are urging the Prime Minister to change course on the new long-awaited new legislation tabled yesterday, Bill C-37, An Act respecting water, source water, drinking water, wastewater and related infrastructure on...
Ford MPPs lose their appeal to work less this summer, NDP votes to continue committee work
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP MPPs Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) and Alexa Gilmour (Parkdale – High Park) are calling out the Ford government’s attempts to cut corners and cancel meetings for the Standing Committee on Government Agencies (SCGA):
“Every single PC MPP should be embarrassed for trying to cut...
NDP calls for audit into Ford government giving $1 billion to private administrators of public services
TORONTO — Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Finance and Treasury Board Jessica Bell (University—Rosedale) has written to Auditor General Shelley Spence, requesting an audit into three private companies that have received more than $1 billion in taxpayer dollars from the Ford government to administer funding to...
“Will the Solicitor General please stand up?” — NDP calls for accountability
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Shadow Solicitor General Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines), and Shadow Attorney General Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) are continuing to call for accountability from Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, as Ontario’s jails remain in an untenable state.
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STILES: Big Spender Ford needs to stop lighting tax dollars on fire
QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has issued the following statement, after Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from The Trillium revealed that Doug Ford spent nearly $10 million on his “Protect Ontario” advertising campaign in...
Vaugeois calls on MPP Kevin Holland to meet with OPSEU workers
THUNDER BAY – Ontario NDP MPP Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North) is calling on Thunder Bay – Atikokan MPP Kevin Holland to formally apologize for hitting an OPSEU Local 740 worker with his...
Mamakwa: Ontario must respect Grassy Narrows First Nation’s right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent
SIOUX LOOKOUT – Ontario NDP Deputy Leader Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) and Shadow Minister for Indigenous and Treaty Relations is calling on the Government of Ontario to respect the right of Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) to free, prior and informed consent for all developments...
NDP call on Ford, Carney to release secret Billy Bishop plan
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP MPP Chris Glover (Spadina—Fort York) and Shadow Finance Minister Jessica Bell (University—Rosedale) say the secrecy from the Ford government, the Toronto Port Authority (TPA), and the federal government surrounding the proposed Billy Bishop expansion must come to an end.
The...
McKenney: Where are the homes Doug Ford promised to build
OTTAWA – NDP Shadow Minister for Housing, Catherine McKenney (Ottawa Centre) called out Doug Ford and his Minister of Housing for not delivering on the promised 1.5 million homes, as housing starts took a dip in May:
“Doug Ford...
Only thing growing under Ford’s watch is health care wait times and hallway medicine
HAMILTON and NICKEL BELT – As Ontario continues to face hospital overcrowding while Ford’s Minister of Health has been awarded a 5-month long summer vacation, NDP Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Addictions, with responsibility for Primary Care, Dr. Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre), and Shadow Minister of...