NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies introduced Bill C-284, legislation designed to close a loophole in the Canada Labour Code that employers have begun to exploit to undermine the ban on scabs. If passed, it would revise the Code to clarify that the prohibition on firms utilizing employees from outside the struck workplace during a strike or lockout includes managers.
NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies said Canada’s biggest housing issue isn’t supply, but rather affordability. And big corporate investors like real estate investment trusts or REITs are only making matters worse. “There’s not a shortage of the kinds of product that wealthy people or investors may want,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.
The NDP introduced legislation Monday that they said would close a “loophole” in the Canadian Labour Code that allows employers to use managers as replacement workers during strikes and lockouts. The bill comes after a months-long Rogers strike in Abbotsford, B.C., where managers from across the country were brought in to perform work normally done by striking technicians.
As Davies told The Tyee, “in an election, voters get the opportunity to express their democratic choice. When a parliamentarian crosses the floor to join a different party than they were elected with, they are unilaterally — at the very least — altering the will of their electorate.” He believes that it also creates a “corrosive effect on our democracy” and is “undeniably undemocratic.”
NDP MP Don Davies criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney's new AI strategy, saying it 'leaves Canadians dangerously exposed' and called for a 'humans-first AI strategy.' He said the strategy was rushed and done with limited consultation. 'Now they're mouthing the lines of tech billionaires,' Davies said.
Davies, the party's parliamentary leader, said his bill would require members of Parliament who wish to join another party to first obtain consent from their constituents through a byelection or sit as an Independent until the next general election.
NDP Parliamentary Leader Don Davies said Trudeau’s failed promise was "fundamentally dishonest” and akin to greenwashing. “They can be climate leaders, or they can be oil and gas cheerleaders, but they can't be both.”
"It's almost like the Liberals only allow the right to strike if the impact of that strike is low," NDP labour critic Don Davies said. "If the result of workers withdrawing their services is that it does have an economic impact, then that should be a signal to the market that their labour should be valued more."
NDP Parliamentary leader Don Davies introduced the motion [...] asking MPs to agree that “the government should ban surveillance pricing, where personal data is used by corporations to increase the prices consumers pay both in-store and online.” Multiple “no’s” were heard in the chamber.
Former interim NDP leader Don Davies will continue to act as the party’s parliamentary leader in the House of Commons while new leader Avi Lewis remains outside of Parliament.