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NDP Statement on the Auditor General’s Report on Pandemic Preparedness, Surveillance, and Border Control Measures

NDP Health Critic, Don Davies, issued the following statement:

“Today’s report from the Auditor General of Canada is a scathing indictment of the federal government’s emergency preparedness and pandemic response.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is specifically mandated to be our country’s lead organization for planning and coordinating a national response to infectious diseases that pose a risk to public health. This report reveals they failed in this critical responsibility, detailing a litany of errors, omissions and mismanagement.

CTV Power Play - March 23

Canadians don’t care about Conservative dog-whistles to anti-lockdown protestors or Liberal election posturing.

They care about getting vaccines in arms so that life can get back to normal. The NDP has proposed a plan to set up federally funded vaccination sites to make this happen.

Here’s Don's take on CTV Power Play.

Conservatives demand national plan to end COVID-19 restrictions

NDP MPs used part of today's debate to push for paid sick leave for workers. Vancouver MP Don Davies attempted to amend the motion to add language calling for 10 paid sick days for all federal workers. Conservatives rejected that amendment.

Ottawa plans to help U.S. drug giant expand Winnipeg vaccine-production plant

NDP MP Don Davies said his party “strongly supports” building up domestic manufacturing capacity but the party believes the federal government should be investing in public facilities rather than private companies.

Feds’ proposed sentencing reforms ‘a step in the wrong direction,’ says Tory justice critic

In an interview last December, Davies said the opioid crisis is driven by a toxic street supply provided by organized crime, and that “the foundational answer to the problem is to decriminalize and regulate access to drugs across the country.”

Liberals, Bloc Quebecois join forces to pass revised assisted dying bill

NDP MP Don Davies said he personally supports medical assistance in dying "but I also know a flawed bill when I see one."

He noted that disability rights groups have condemned the bill, arguing that it devalues the lives of people with disabilities who may be pressured -- either directly or indirectly through societal attitudes and a lack of support services -- into ending their lives prematurely.

MPs pass motion requiring Liberal government to let them see COVID vaccine contracts

Following the vote, NDP MP Don Davies said on Twitter that the motion is “great for transparency, accountability and democracy.”

Cabinet filibuster after calls for disclosure of $4.6B of vaccine contracts

“I think there’s a reason the government doesn’t want to release these contracts and it’s fighting so darn hard to not do so,” said New Democrat MP Don Davies.

“My suspicion is if we were to see these contracts, we would see they contain provisions that are much shakier. I think we’re going to see provisions that say these companies will provide doses of vaccine to Canadians ‘subject to production,’ ‘subject to availability,’ subject to all sorts of things.”

Supply delay offers opportunity to get mass vaccination campaign right, experts say

NDP health critic Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, B.C.) said he does not have confidence in Mr. Trudeau’s statements that all Canadians will be vaccinated by September.

“Given that they have failed to meet any of the targets that they’ve stated so far, and, frankly, the fact that they’ve misled Canadians and actually been wrong so many times, that can’t give anybody confidence,” he said.

“There’s a serious credibility problem,” he added.