Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Long-Term care Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) and Shadow Minister for Health France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) are calling for more transparency in response to the government’s plans to remove long-term care inspection reports from public access. “Every family in Ontario deserves transparency when it comes to the care their loved ones receive in long-term care homes,” ...

June 11th, 2025 Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Long-Term care Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) and Shadow Minister for Health France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) are calling for more transparency in response to the government’s plans to remove long-term care inspection reports from public access. “Every family in Ontario deserves transparency when it comes to the care their loved ones receive in ...

June 9th, 2025 As wildfires burn across the province, the Official Opposition NDP are calling on the Ford government to reverse cuts to wildland firefighting and acknowledge the crisis in the province’s wildfire program. “This is devastating. People are being forced to flee their homes and entire communities are in crisis. People are scared, displaced, and breathing smoke, and the ...

Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP is calling on the Premier to repeal Bill 5 after the government rammed through the legislation without consent, consultation, or debate: “This is a shameful day for our province,” said Marit Stiles. “Doug Ford and his government have silenced communities, shut down debate, and pulled out all the stops to force through ...

June 3, 2025 Marit Stiles, Leader of the Official Opposition NDP, called on the Premier to take the warnings from experts, industry, and First Nations seriously and scrap Bill 5. Earlier this week, the government shut down debate on the legislation, which attempts to put Doug Ford and his insiders above the law by exempting any project from provincial and ...

May 30th, 2025 Ontario NDP Deputy Leader and Shadow Minister for Indigenous and Treaty Relations Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) is urging the Ontario government to expedite support for the Deer Lake and Webequie evacuees, wildland firefighters and all communities impacted by the ongoing wildfires in far northern Ontario. Earlier today, Deer Lake First Nation’s Chief and Council declared an official State ...

MPP France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) released the following statement in response to the ongoing supply issues facing home care providers and their patients. “Home care patients should be able to count on the basic necessities of care – yet for over three months they have faced delayed, incomplete, and poor-quality supply shipments. This government has failed to deliver the fundamental ...

On Thursday, the NDP called for the abolishment of closed work permits that have allowed employers to trap, abuse, underpay, and exploit migrant workers in Canada. NDP critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Jenny Kwan made the announcement on Thursday alongside NDP critic for Labour Matthew Green, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), and the United Food and Commercial Workers union ...

Ontario NDP MPP Jill Andrew (Toronto – St. Paul’s) tabled a motion calling on the province to eliminate hospital parking fees for health care workers, patients, and their families. “Nobody deserves to be stuck with thousands of dollars worth of bills for visiting a sick loved one,” said Andrew. “When you’re getting chemo, managing chronic health conditions, and just trying ...

Lise Vaugeois, MPP for Thunder Bay–Superior North, has released the following statement today in response to an upcoming CBC marketplace investigation into the fraudulent licensing of untrained commercial vehicle drivers in Ontario. “Our northern communities, where we have witnessed so many severe trucking accidents and highway closures, have been sounding the alarm about road safety for years,” said Vaugeois. “This ...

MPP Teresa Armstrong, NDP critic for Child Care, released the following statement in response to funding cuts to affordable child care: “Families across Ontario deserve access to affordable and reliable childcare. Instead, we’re seeing wait lists explode across the province as affordable childcare becomes harder to find. Today, instead of adding funding for affordable childcare spaces, Ford is choosing to ...

On Thursday, Canada’s NDP leader Jagmeet Singh laid out a plan to ban renovictions to make rent more affordable across the country. Singh’s NDP is proposing federal incentives to force municipalities to legislate a renoviction ban. Hamilton is the first city in Ontario to adopt such a ban and London may soon be the second. Singh was in London Thursday ...

Ce jeudi, le chef du NPD du Canada, Jagmeet Singh, a dévoilé un plan ambitieux visant à interdire les rénovictions pour rendre les loyers plus abordables à travers le pays. Le plan de M. Singh propose des incitations fédérales pour obliger les municipalités à légiférer contre les rénovictions. Hamilton a été la première ville en Ontario à adopter cette interdiction, et ...

Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles responded to Infrastructure Ontario posting a “Request for Proposal” for an interim Science Centre: “No one is buying Ford’s excuses for permanently closing our Science Centre; we all know it’s about sweetening the deal for his luxury spa at Ontario Place. Now we see the government planning to build an interim Science Centre for a ...

Wildfires are raging in Ontario, and the province is short-staffed by 25%, but Doug Ford and his government are backing away from an earlier commitment to reclassify Wildland Firefighters to Firefighters. “It’s peak wildfire season and the province doesn’t have enough forest firefighters to send to each burning location. That means we are choosing which fires to put out and ...