The inflation crisis isn’t going away, and it is being driven by corporate greed.
While Canadians stretch every dollar, cross items off their grocery list and downsize, corporations are raking in record profits. Loblaws alone is making one million dollars in extra windfall profit every single day. The greedflation could not be more clear.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s inner circle is the ultra-rich and big CEOs, and it shows. The Liberals have done nothing but look to the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates — driving mortgage payments up even more. They voted against making big corporations pay their fair share. Pierre Poilievre won’t help. The Conservatives are calling for lower wages and smaller pensions for you, and more money for CEOs.
Gord Johns and the NDP are pushing for a windfall tax on corporate profits – a tax which has been successfully introduced in many European countries— because big corporations should not be allowed to gouge Canadians without consequences.
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Across the country, people are suffering because they don’t have access to the mental health services they need. Thirty-five percent of Canadians report moderate to severe mental health concerns but less than one third can access services. The provinces and territories have time and time again asked the Liberal government to step up on health care funding, but they haven’t acted.
More than a year ago the Liberals promised $4.5 billion to improve mental health care services, yet there has been no sign of this needed funding – even after the pandemic created more stress among Canadians. People are having to wait months to see a mental health professional, if they can at all. With no other options, Canadians experiencing mental health crises are forced to rely on our already overcrowded emergency rooms for help.
Our emergency rooms cannot be the solution for the Liberals underfunding mental health care. After decades of underfunding by Liberal and Conservative governments, mental health services are out of reach for everyday Canadians. While the Liberals keep delaying real action families are being forced to watch their loved ones’ health deteriorate. Parents are worried about their children. It’s devastating and doesn’t need to be this way – but Justin Trudeau isn't acting with the urgency that is needed.
It’s time to treat the mental health crisis with the urgency it requires.
Gord Johns and the NDP are calling on the Liberals to address the wait times to access mental health services, deliver the funding the frontline organizations have been pleading for, and get everyday people the help they need.
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Addressing plastic pollution in our aquatic environments cannot wait. After Gord Johns’ motion (M 151) for a national strategy to combat ocean pollution passed unanimously in 2018, the Liberal government promised to ban single use plastics by the end of 2021.
Now, however, the government is dragging its feet on the full implementation of the strategy. The original target date of 2021 for a ban of single-use plastics has now been deferred until the end of 2023 and is limited to only six products, which accounts for less than 1 percent of plastics. Some of the most commonly found garbage on our beaches and in our oceans, like coffee cups, cigarette butts, and produce bags will not be included in the ban.
Gord Johns and the NDP are calling on the government to expand the range of single-use plastics included in the ban, and to accelerate its implementation.
We must do more to protect our coastlines and waterways.
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Everyone deserves the right to a safe and affordable place to call home. For too many Canadians, a home they can afford is increasingly out of reach due to skyrocketing rents, renovictions and ballooning home prices.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have long received special tax treatment from the federal government, and the seven largest apartment-owning REITs have saved a combined total of $1.5 billion in tax exemptions in the last decade. The top 20 corporate landlords own 20% of apartments in Canada, and are growing their ownership share faster than new apartments are being built.
Canadians should not have to compete against deep-pocketed investors just to get a home,
We call on the government to
- prohibit the acquisition of affordable homes by REITs and other corporate landlords who are driving up costs through renovictions to make big profits
- to amend how predatory housing investment funds are taxed
- and to block the monopolization of affordable rental units so that every Canadians can have access to a place to call home.
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The NDP tabled Private Member’s Bill C-213, An Act to Enact the Canada Pharmacare Act, in February, 2022. Bill C-213 was groundbreaking new federal legislation, modelled off the Canada Health Act, to establish a universal, single-payer, comprehensive and public pharmacare plan that would have delivered better healthcare and improved the health and lives of millions of Canadians. Unfortunately, most Liberal and Conservative MPs voted against this Bill.
The NDP is fighting for universal pharmacare but, we need your help to keep up the pressure.
Canada is falling behind, being the only high-income country that has a universal healthcare system, but does not include universal coverage of prescription drugs. The lack of coverage results in 1 in 5 Canadians being unable to afford the medication their doctors prescribe.
In a recent survey conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, nearly 9 in 10 Canadians support a national pharmacare plan like Bill C-213. It is clear, Canada’s healthcare system is falling behind.
We need a Canada Pharmacare Act so people can pay for their medication with their health card instead of their credit card.
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In the last two elections, our outdated voting system allowed a party to win 100% of the power with just 39% of the vote. As a result, millions of votes effectively didn’t count and too many Canadian voices aren’t heard in Ottawa.
The solution is simple – if a party gets 39% of the vote, they should get 39% of the seats in our Parliament. A proportional representation system would make sure every vote is counted equally, no matter who you vote for.
Canadians deserve a fair voting system where every vote counts.
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There is a genocide in Canada against Indigenous women. The government created a national task force to review and re-investigate unresolved files of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ but has delayed acting on the task force’s 231 Calls for Justice.
The Calls for Justice arise from international and domestic human and Indigenous rights laws, including the Charter and the Constitution. As such, Canada has a legal obligation to fully implement these Calls for Justice and to ensure Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people live in safety and dignity.
To date the government has not implemented any of the 231 recommendations, and there was no money allocated in the 2022 budget to address this ongoing genocide.
The Calls for Justice must be implemented without delay.
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Canada’s veterans put their lives on the line so that we have a fair and free society. We are indebted to them and we owe them the benefits that every Canadian deserves.
The Liberals have a responsibility to protect and fight for those who have served our country. But after seven years of not fixing these problems and outsourcing rehab services to companies that only care about making money – it’s clear that the Liberals don’t want to step up to help veterans or support workers.
The people who have proudly served this country need to be properly supported, and the most important first step is a successful transition from military to civilian life. We must deliver good quality rehabilitation services for veterans. For many veterans such services are critical for their mental and physical health. Staffing shortages and backlogs have meant our veterans have had to wait months, even years, for this help.
Gord Johns and the NDP are pressing for accessible, timely rehabilitation services that deliver good quality rehabilitation services and prioritize the needs of our veterans over profit.
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Canada is among the top 3 biggest emitters of carbon dioxide per capita in the world, along with the United States and Australia.
The Liberals have accustomed us to half measures, yet the federal government can lead by example by becoming a pioneer in energy efficiency, clean technology and renewable energy.
Ottawa's neglect has gone on long enough. It's necessary to:
- End all infrastructure projects aimed at the production of fossil fuels, such as the Trans Mountain pipeline;
- Put an end to subsidies to oil companies and reinvest the sums in renewable energies;
- Create hundreds of thousands of renewable energy jobs and transition through workforce training;
- Appoint a climate emergency committee within the Council of Ministers;
- Create a Climate Bank to finance local green energy initiatives. For example, geothermal projects in alleys, solar panels on roofs, etc.;
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Oceans play a massive role in maintaining our climate and ecosystem - nearly 50 percent of the Earth is international seabed. For coastline and Indigenous communities, Canada's oceans are fundamental to our lives and economy. Yet, our government is doing nothing to fight against deep-sea mining in international waters that would threaten Canada's oceans.
The International Seabed Authority is tasked with protecting the seabed, but Canada has been missing in action. The Liberals only sent a delegate to the International Seabed Authority this year after missing six opportunities in six years – this is beyond appalling. The decisions being made now impact Canada’s future.
The international seabed is the last untouched area on earth – and the Liberals are leaving the door open for it to be mined by rich companies. While Canadian mining companies are seeking to pillage this global commons, other nations are raising the alarm.
Seabed mining completely disrupts delicate ocean ecosystems – and the consequences are devastating. Deep-sea mining creates plumes of metal particles, which travel across our oceans – polluting vast areas and ecosystems. But the Liberals would rather protect potential profits over our oceans.
By staying quiet during the ongoing United Nations Ocean Treaty discussions, the Liberal government and Minister Murray are doing nothing while pretending to be environmental leaders. New Democrats know that real climate leadership is about prioritizing our oceans instead of hypothetical profits for rich mining companies. Time is running out to protect our oceans.
Gord Johns and the NDP are calling for a moratorium on deep seabed mining in the international seabed until sufficient research has been conducted on how it is impacting our ocean.
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Every person should have access to a livable basic income.
A guaranteed livable income would help eradicate poverty, improve income equality, health conditions and educational outcomes.
It would benefit individuals, families and communities and protect those who are made most vulnerable in society, while facilitating the transition to an economy that responds to the climate crisis and other current major challenges.
It’s time for a national framework to implement a guaranteed livable income program throughout Canada for any person over the age of 17, starting with seniors and people with disabilities.
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World-class health care should be waiting for you when you need it, not just when you can afford it. We can best deliver that by rebuilding and growing our public system — not allowing Conservative premiers to decimate it with American-style for-profit health corporations. Protecting public universal Canadian health care should be a condition that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau puts on provinces to receive funding — but instead, Trudeau is turning his back so Conservatives and their friends can profit off pain and illness.
In Ontario, Premier Doug Ford’s decision to give part of our health care system to for-profit corporations will mean a deeper hospital staffing crisis, longer waits, and inevitable fees for patients.
With privatization, ER and surgery wait times will grow because the private clinics poach nurses and doctors. The urgent care crisis will get worse.
We have seen the kind of care people get when profits are the priority — just look at the brutal, deadly and disgusting conditions in for-profit long-term care homes during the pandemic.
Trudeau is ready to let the provinces funnel federal health care dollars into the pockets of for-profit corporate investors. The NDP is not. We must rebuild our public healthcare system.
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Decades of cuts to federal health care transfers by Liberal and Conservative governments, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have undermined our health care system’s ability to provide healthcare services to Canadians. Currently one in five Canadians does not have a family doctor.
The NDP has a plan:
- Increased federal financial support through the Canada Health Transfer
- Measures that address staffing shortages such as accelerating foreign credential recognition and incentives to attract more physicians into family care
- Increasing medical and nursing school seats.
- Investments in preventative care
- Expanding non-profit long-term care beds
We need political will, cooperation, and accountability from all actors. And we need national leadership to protect our Universal Public Health Care system.
The Prime Minister must urgently sit down with the premiers and territorial leaders to negotiate stable, sufficient, and long-term federal health care funding to support health care workers and save Canadians' lives.
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Petition E-3979 (Taxation)
Volunteer firefighters account for 83% of Canada's total firefighting essential first responders. In addition, approximately 8,000 essential search and rescue volunteers respond to thousands of incidents every year.
Currently, the tax code of Canada allows for volunteer firefighters and search and rescue firefighters to claim a $3,000 tax credit if 200 volunteer services were completed in a calendar year. This works out to a mere $450 per year, which we allow these essential volunteers to keep of their own income from their regular jobs, $2,25 an hour. if they volunteer more than 200 hours, which many do, this tax credit becomes even less.
These essential volunteers not only put their lives on the line and give their time, training and efforts to Canadians, but they also allow cities and municipalities to keep property taxes lower than if paid services were required. Increasing this tax credit would allow these essential volunteers to keep more of their hard-earned money likely to be spent in the communities in which they live; and it would also help retain these volunteers in a time when volunteerism is decreasing.
The undersigned citizens and residents of Canada call upon the Government of Canada to increase the exemption from $3,000 to $10,000 for line 31220 and 31240 to help essential volunteer firefighters and volunteer search and rescue people across the country.
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