Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says his party needs to analyze the budget thoroughly to see if it helps affordability and unemployment, citing no digital services tax as a key NDP concern.
“It’s alarming and it’s unacceptable,” Davies said in an interview. “These entities are anticipated to be used to fund massive amounts of money — which is not what they historically have been used for — but we expect them to have a lot of money flowing through them and the framework agreements that govern how they work have traditionally been made public.”
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies introduced new legislation to end unpaid work for flight attendants, emphasizing that every worker in Canada deserves fair compensation for their time and expertise.
NDP interim Leader Don Davies fired back at MacKinnon’s comments, saying it's up to the government to gather support for its budget. "The question of whether there is an election is entirely up to Mr. Carney. As a leader of a government with a minority in Parliament, it's up to him to craft a budget that can win the support of at least one opposition party. That's his job," Davies said.
At a news conference on Parliament Hill, interim NDP Leader Don Davies discusses his private member’s bill to end unpaid work by flight attendants. He is accompanied by Alexandre Boulerice, the NDP critic for labour, and Natasha Stea, the president of CUPE Local 4091.
“Trump has caused us to focus more on resource extraction, which I think actually goes in the opposite direction of where we want to be, which is transitioning from raw resource extraction to more secondary and tertiary value extraction, and higher innovation and technology sectors,” said Davies.
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies says his party wants to see the coming budget offer more investment in health care, affordable non-market housing and projects that create unionized jobs. "We communicated very clearly that we would not be able to support a budget that takes an austerity approach," Davies said.
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies and NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice comment on the Carney government’s decision to formally recognize the state of Palestine. They also call on the federal government to begin negotiations with all provinces who have yet to sign onto the national pharmacare program
"They're drawing the line on decisions made by elites that are ruining our country," said Don Davies, the interim leader of the federal NDP who took part in Saturday's protest in Ottawa.
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies tells Power & Politics that his party needs to ‘reconnect and rebuild’ its relationship with the working class.