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Horwath responds to Ford’s continued refusal to act to stop third wave devastation
QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath issued the following statement:
“On Friday, Doug Ford set people up to be ravaged by the third wave. Today, he didn’t give them anything to save them. We cannot take any more of the delays, half-measures and disastrous decisions that cost...
NDP MPPs call for Brampton’s fair share of vaccines as COVID-19 positivity skyrockets
BRAMPTON — With the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive in Brampton exploding again, Brampton’s NDP MPPs Gurratan Singh (Brampton East), Sara Singh (Brampton Centre) and Kevin Yarde (Brampton North) are calling on the Ford government to rush more vaccines to their community. They issued the...
Doug Ford’s terrible record on paid sick days for workers
QUEEN’S PARK - Doug Ford has never supported paid sick days. He even went out of his way to speak against the federal program while not bringing in provincial paid sick days, and spent the spring attacking any notion of provincial paid sick days. On June 5 2020, Ford opposed the push for a federal paid sick leave...
Horwath plans to put paid sick days to a vote, Ford government tries to prevent vote
Ford government threatening procedural blockades to try to block paid sick days motion
For months Doug Ford and his PC MPPs have been refusing the paid sick days plan called for by countless experts and workers alongside Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP. But with indications growing that the government...
NDP MPP Joel Harden, disability rights advocates call on Ford to remove disability discrimination from triage protocol
QUEENS PARK — MPP Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre), the NDP’s critic for Accessibility and Persons with Disabilities, called on the Ford government to withdraw disability discrimination from Ontario’s clinical triage protocol and immediately hold a public consultation on how care will be triaged if ICUs become too...
Doug Ford always opposed any kind of paid sick time
QUEEN’S PARK — Premier Doug Ford was always opposed any program that offers any help to workers to stay home when they are sick.
One of Doug Ford’s first actions as premier was to take away Ontario’s two measly paid sick days. When a limited federal program was introduced to provide small supports to...
NDP MPP Gates urges Ford government to get emergency funds flowing to small businesses in Niagara immediately
NIAGARA FALLS – NDP MPP Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) has written an open letter to Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Vic Fedeli, urging him to take immediate action to provide access to funds from the Ontario Small Business Support Grant program for small businesses in Niagara who are still...
NDP MPPs demand answers from Ford on Northern Ontario School of Medicine
QUEEN’S PARK - Northerners deserve answers from Doug Ford on why his government wants to separate the Northern School of Medicine (NOSM) from Laurentian and Lakehead universities without consulting the community or the universities, said Northern MPPs Jamie West (Sudbury), France Gélinas (Nickel Belt), Guy...
NDP’s Cillis condemns Donna Skelly’s campaign against paid sick days
FLAMBOROUGH – Allison Cillis, NDP candidate for Flamborough-Glanbrook, has responded after PC MPP Donna Skelly passed the buck on paid sick days Tuesday in the Ontario legislature.
Skelly, who has voted against paid sick days legislation proposed by the NDP, stood in the legislature to continue to pretend...
Horwath statement on workplace closures in Peel and Toronto
QUEEN’S PARK — Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement on Peel and Toronto’s move to use their Section 22 powers to close down workplaces in outbreak:
“I want to praise Dr. Eileen de Villa and Dr. Lawrence Loh for having the courage to take...
NDP MPP Fife calls on Ford government to support local small businesses
WATERLOO – Small businesses in Waterloo are struggling to survive while the Ford government delays urgently needed financial support, said Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife in the following open letter Tuesday, calling on the province to release the promised funds through the Ontario Small Business Support Grant...
Save workers to save Ontario: Horwath calls for non-essential business to close, support for local companies and workers
QUEEN’S PARK — Experts have been clear that much of the spread of COVID-19 is happening in workplaces. Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the Doug Ford government must stop workplace spread by temporarily closing workplaces that aren’t truly essential, supporting impacted businesses and workers,...
