NDP response to COVID-19 audit by Ontario’s Auditor General

QUEEN’S PARK — A new report by Ontario’s Auditor General reveals unpreparedness, delays and conflicts as Doug Ford chose to have pandemic decision-making driven by politicians and bureaucrats while public health was pushed onto the...

QUEEN'S PARK - Ontario NDP critic for Women's Issues Jill Andrew made the following statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women:

"Today we acknowledge the ongoing global need to prevent and eradicate violence against women and girls.

In Canada, women and...

QUEEN’s PARK – On Tuesday Windsor West MPP Lisa Gretzky directly questioned Education Minister Stephen Lecce about the COVID-19 outbreak at the F.W. Begley Public School, and took the minister to task over the Ford government’s failure to proactively keep students and education workers safe.

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QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Jeff Burch (Niagara Centre) has demanded the Ford government reverse a directive from the Ministry of Health that tells hospitals to stop paying frontline heath care workers who self-report when they are exposed to COVID-19 and are forced to go into isolation.

“This government likes...

Ford still refuses to invest in helping Brampton survive lockdown and the pandemic

QUEEN’S PARK — Brampton NDP MPPs Sara Singh (Brampton Centre), Gurratan Singh (Brampton East) and Kevin Yarde (Brampton North) released the following statement today, following NDP Deputy Leader Sara Singh’s questions to...

NDP says city should get more support from fund for municipalities, not less

CAMBRIDGE — It’s wrong for Doug Ford to rip support away from Cambridge mid-pandemic with a cut to its Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund allocation, says NDP Deputy Leader John Vanthof. Vanthof is calling on Ford’s...

TORONTO — NDP MPPs Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park) and Peter Tabuns (Toronto—Danforth) introduced a bill urging Ontario to establish a series of action plans to prepare for and mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis.

The MPPs discussed their bill, which will be debated Wednesday in the...

Ford couldn’t find enough votes to defend his deal

QUEEN’S PARK — An NDP motion condemning Doug Ford’s move to give Charles McVety the right to grant university degrees has passed. Every last PC MPP who registered a vote backed the Ford-McVety deal – although many, apparently unable to defend...

QUEEN’S PARK – France Gélinas, MPP for Nickel Belt and NDP Health critic, questioned the Minister of Health Christine Elliott this morning regarding the government’s pandemic pay promise, which has yet to materialize.

“At the end of September this year, it was announced that PSWs working in the Ontario...

QUEEN’S PARK — The NDP is calling for a non-partisan discussion about the government’s plan to re-appoint Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams, and will not provide unanimous consent today to allow that critical pandemic decision to be made on the fly.

“The Chief Medical Officer of Health...

QUEEN’S PARK – A motion from NDP MPP Ian Arthur (Kingston and the Islands) has been defeated on its final vote, meaning more help to recruit and retain family doctors in Kingston and the Islands is not on the way from the Ford government. Arthur said the issue is still a priority for the NDP.

In 2015 the...

YORK SOUTH-WESTON — New Democrats in York South—Weston have selected sitting MPP Faisal Hassan to be their NDP candidate in the 2022 provincial election. Hassan currently serves as the Official Opposition’s Youth Engagement critic and is the first Somali-Canadian elected to provincial office.

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