Toronto – February 11, 2014 – At a time when young Canadians are struggling to find good paying jobs, more seniors are living in poverty, and while high unemployment persists, especially for First Nations, Harper’s Conservatives introduced a budget more concerned with the continued gutting of services in order to squeeze enough money out of the system to introduce a new round of tax cuts to bolster their re-election campaign in 2015.
Ottawa – February 7, 2014 – As this is being written, the Harper conservatives have just passed a ‘Time Allocation Motion’ limiting debate on their new Bill C-23, Fair Elections Act. The 242-page bill had only just been introduced and already debate is being restricted.
Toronto – January 18, 2014 – Statistics Canada has released December job numbers for Ontario and the picture isn’t pretty with the province shedding 39,000 jobs, most of them full time and the unemployment rate rising to 7.9%.
Ottawa – November 23, 2013 – After 3 years of lobbying and campaigning by UFCW Canada and the Canadian labour movement, provincial and territorial governments are coming to the conclusion that expanding the CPP is the most efficient, effective and affordable plan to ensuring Canadians retirement security.
Ottawa – October 31, 2013 – No doubt Conservative Boss Harper is looking forward to flying off to Calgary and escaping the frying pan he finds himself in on Parliament Hill, as every day we increasingly find out more information about the PM and his involvement in the Duffy, Wallin, Brazeau Senate scandal.
Toronto – October 18, 2013 – Faced with growing scandals, Conservative authoritarian Harper recently prorogued Parliament for the fourth time in seven years; this time, to avoid further public scrutiny and to use the break to reset the channel and set the agenda for the 2015 election.
Copyright © 2024 UFCW Canada. All Rights Reserved
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Canada's private sector union