Term: First Year in Government
Supervisor: New Democratic Opposition, on behalf of Canadians
Fair Elections
Canadians are encouraged by the work of the Special Committee on Electoral Reform and remain hopeful that Canada will adopt a proportional voting system.
Promising work so far, but don’t forget the 2019 due date! Extensions are NOT permitted.
Climate Change
The Liberal government adopted Stephen Harper’s completely inadequate emissions reduction targets has no feasible way to meet their commitments in the Paris Agreement on climate.
Sometimes copies work of former students. *See Health Care*
Health Care
Liberals are going ahead with Conservative cuts to health transfers that will take $1.1 billion out of health care in the next year and $36 billion long term.
Sometimes copies work of former students. *See Climate Change*
Human Rights
Instead of working across party lines, the Liberals voted down an NDP motion calling for oversight of arms exports to protect civilians from human rights abuses.
More cooperation with others is required.
First Nations Education
First Nations education was a big election promise for the Liberals, but now they’ve cut their funding commitment by $801 million and are even fighting fair treatment for First Nations children in court.
Unacceptable.
Environmental Assessment
After promising to fix it, Trudeau’s government continues to use Harper’s broken environmental assessment process to approve controversial projects like Pacific Northwest LNG and the Site C dam in BC.
Needs to be redone completely!
Teacher’s Note:
Justin Trudeau is very talkative and likes to make big promises, but his actions don’t always match his words.
We’re optimistic about some of the progress he’s made, but the Prime Minister really needs to do a better job taking constructive criticism from his NDP classmates.
And while we don’t want to stifle his creativity or self-expression, Mr. Trudeau does spend a bit too much time taking selfies during school hours.
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NDP Critic for Canadian Heritage Peter Julian issued the following statement:
"It has come to our attention that a consultant for a federally funded anti-racism project has a disturbing track record of spewing hate speech online against Jewish and francophone communities. This is completely unacceptable. We call on the Minister of Heritage to take drastic action and terminate his contract.
NDP Heritage Critic Peter Julian issued the following statement:
“Today’s announcement by Hockey Canada is another attempt to delay the important and urgent work to deal with the toxic culture in this organization. While a former Supreme Court Justice is a credible appointment to conduct the review into Hockey Canada, this won’t be the first time the organization undergoes this process.
NDP critic for Canadian Heritage, Peter Julian, made the following statement:
“Canadians are horrified by the incidents of sexual assault and by what they’re hearing from Hockey Canada. They are left with many questions about how this toxic culture is allowed to persist in our sports organizations and what the government is actually doing to ensure this doesn’t happen again.