August 11, 2022
NDP: FIX ONTARIO’S HEALTH CARE CRISIS WITH PUBLIC FUNDING, NOT PRIVATIZATION
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP Health Care critic France Gélinas said the Official Opposition is horrified that Health Minister Sylvia Jones suggested to media multiple times Wednesday that health care... More
August 11, 2022
FORD MUST STOP HIDING FROM USW AS WORKPLACES IN ONTARIO BECOME MORE DANGEROUS
QUEEN’S PARK – During question period Wednesday, NDP MPP Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) asked Doug Ford why his government is ignoring requests to meet with the United Steelworkers following the death... More
August 11, 2022
NDP tables motion for nation-leading health care recruitment and retention package
QUEEN’S PARK – The Official Opposition NDP is taking a hiring and retention plan to the legislature that will give current and future health care workers in Ontario raises, respect, and incenti... More
August 9, 2022
NDP slams budget that ignores inflation, health care crisis
QUEEN’S PARK – The Conservative government’s choice to re-table a months-old budget without any updates to deal with exploding inflation or the raging health care crisis will make those problems wo... More
August 5, 2022
NDP WANTS THRONE SPEECH AND BUDGET TO DEAL WITH HEALTH CARE CRISIS, INFLATION
QUEEN’S PARK — When the legislature resumes, the Official Opposition NDP wants Premier Doug Ford’s Conservatives to table a new budget — one that deals with the health care crisis, and with explodi... More
August 4, 2022
More than a ‘directive’ needed from Ford to get internationally educated doctors and nurses into hospitals
NDP Deputy Leader Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest), the Official Opposition critic for International Credentials, responded to the Conservative government’s directives to the College of Nurses of... More
August 4, 2022
MPP Wong-Tam calls for budget funding to stop gender-based violence
NDP Critic for the Attorney General, Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre) is calling on the provincial government to use their budget to fight back the growing epidemic of sexual violence Ontario. Won... More
August 2, 2022
MPP SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT, DEMANDS MORE FUNDING NEEDED TO END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
TORONTO – NDP Women's Social and Economic Opportunity Critic Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul’s) released the following statement on the troubling new report from Statistics Canada that shows the rate... More
August 2, 2022