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Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to Indigenous Services Canada's monitoring of access to clean drinking water on reserve, broken down by province: (a) how many First Nations reserves do not have a community-based drinking water quality monitor; and (b) what percentage do not have a back-up or alterna
January 29th, 2024House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns With regard to the utilization of the Canadian small business tax rate by oil and gas companies: (a) how many oil and gas companies, broken down by their primary line of business, such as upstream exploration and production, midstream transportation and storage, downstream refini
January 29th, 2024House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the surveillance infrastructure for tuberculosis (TB): (a) since 2015, broken down by province, what was the incidence of TB in Canada generally, and for First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada; (b) what date will the government publish the next Tuberculosis in Ca
January 29th, 2024House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Questions on the Order Paper With regard to the effective tax rate paid by high-income individuals and businesses: (a) from 2015 to 2023, what was the effective tax rate paid by those making above (i) 1 million, (ii) 2 million, (ii) 5 million, CAD; (b) what was the average effective tax rate paid by the top
January 29th, 2024House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Taxation Mr. Speaker, big tech companies, like Amazon, Twitter and Uber, make billions of dollars a year and do not pay what they owe to Canadians. The Liberals said they would put a plan in place for a digital services tax by the end of this year, but they are delaying it. Canadians do n
December 14th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Canada Labour Code Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her clear message today that we need anti-scab legislation and for her reminder of how critical this legislation is for workers' rights and for fairness for workers and all of us. It is a historic moment, as we are seeing the NDP once again
December 14th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Indigenous Services Madam Chair, I will start off by saying that it is well known that the member has a real penchant for deflecting, talking about his time in the Manitoba legislature and pulling up stories from the past. If we were to talk about the diversion projects at the time, I would certainl
December 11th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Indigenous Services Madam Chair, first off, I am proud of the gains that we have made through our agreement. Obviously, today is a very big day with the announcement of the dental care program. We have made previous announcements and are certainly hoping for a lot more. For us, it has been very impo
December 11th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Indigenous Services Madam Chair, I am tremendously honoured to follow my colleague from Nunavut. Tonight, we have an obligation to speak out against the reduction in spending, the cuts, in Indigenous Services Canada, given the dire needs of indigenous communities. We in the NDP are clear. A reducti
December 11th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Indigenous Affairs Mr. Speaker, this past summer was the worst wildfire season in Canada's history. Indigenous communities are on the front lines of the climate crisis and are disproportionately paying the price, yet Liberals are investing less than a third of all emergency preparedness money in pr
December 6th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Foreign Affairs Mr. Speaker, with the guns silenced, the bombs and missiles grounded, it was a ceasefire by any other name. For a few days, there was some sense of peace in Israel and Palestine, but now the killing has begun again in Gaza. Once again, innocent civilians, children and women are d
December 6th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Canada Revenue Agency Madam Speaker, something is rotten in the CRA. Following a phone call from Deloitte to a senior official at CRA, it gave a company $63 million in tax rebates that are being referred to as “illegitimate”. The CRA was auditing the company in question, yet it took less than 24 hours
December 1st, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Business of Supply Madam Speaker, we have certainly indicated that the NDP would support this motion, which recognizes that farmers in Canada need support these days, and indirectly recognizes that Canadians also need help. Can my colleague speak to how this motion might help farmers in western Ca
November 28th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Canada Labour Code Madam Speaker, that is a critical point. We know that the legislation is historic in many ways. It has been fought for over the course of many years, but it is also legislation that is very current, recognizing that many workers in particular sectors, and I am thinking of telecom
November 27th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP
Canada Labour Code Madam Speaker, I do not know the details of that situation, but we know that the NDP has introduced this type of bill in the past and has supported anti-scab bills introduced by other parties, including the Bloc Québécois. Our priority was to ensure that this was part of our work
November 27th, 2023House debate
Niki AshtonNDP