QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, the Leader of the Official Opposition NDP, issued the following statement on the announcement of a new deal for Toronto to support the city’s essential public services, transit, and housing:
QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPPs issued the following response to a Feed Ontario report that tracked a 38 per cent increase in food bank usage since last year – the single largest increase they’ve ever recorded:
This week, Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP announced their plan to make heat pumps free and help homeowners with energy retrofits to save money and the environment.
QUEEN’S PARK - Joined by parents, public health experts, child care workers, Ontario School Safety, and the chair of the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Sub-Committee on Air Quality, NDP Education critic Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West—Nepean), and MPPs Teresa Armstrong (London—Fanshawe), and Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park) announced their bill on air quality in schools and child care facilities, the Improving Air Quality for Our Children Act.
QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles joined MPPs Chris Glover (Spadina—Fort York), Jennifer French (Oshawa), and Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park) to raise concerns about the rushed and secretive deal that the Ford government handed over to Therme for Ontario Place.
QUEEN’S PARK – Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre), Official Opposition NDP Critic for Transit, called for accountability from new Transportation Minister Sarkaria, beginning with firing Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster after today’s announcement that the Eglinton Crosstown LRT continues to be plagued with problems and is still without an opening date.
QUEEN’S PARK – Ontario NDP MPPs Sandy Shaw (Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas), NDP critic for Environment, Conservation, and Parks; Peter Tabuns (Toronto—Danforth), NDP critic for Energy and Climate Action, and Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park), NDP critic for GTA Issues, have written a letter to Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, David Piccini, demanding increased transparency for the Mimico Creek and Humber River clean-up effort.
QUEEN'S PARK – Official Opposition NDP Health critic France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) and MPP Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park) are pointing out that even with the Ford Conservatives’ announcement of “increased” provincial funding for public health today, the government is still investing less in public health than before the pandemic. The delayed action comes after municipalities faced overwhelming backlogs during the pandemic, prompting an outcry from Public Health Units(PHUs).
NDP urges Ford to work with feds to deliver promised $97 million for Toronto refugee shelters
TORONTO - Ontario NDP MPP Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park), Critic for GTA Issues, issued a statement urging the federal government to fulfill its promise of providing funding of $97 million to support refugee shelters in Toronto:
Parkdale—High Park New Democrats are pleased to see the Ontario Commission for the federal boundary redistribution agree with hundreds of community members—that Parkdale needs to stay in the name of the riding.
QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario NDP and MPP Jill Andrew (Toronto-St. Paul's), Critic for Women’s Social & Economic Opportunity, Culture, and Heritage, mark this week as the third Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) in Ontario. The week was established through Andrew’s Bill 61, which passed unanimously on December 8, 2020, to formally recognize February 1-7 of each year as a time to raise awareness and take action to support people and families with eating disorders in the province.
QUEEN’S PARK – NDP Health critic France Gélinas (Nickel Belt) and MPP Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale—High Park) have brought forward a bill to make Ontario’s top doctor an independent officer of the legislature.