The Harper government’s budget and the fallout from it will be felt for quite some time as job losses become reality. That new reality will be highlighted by the decreasing ability of our public servants to do the work we count on and will show up in ways people don’t consider when everything [Read more]
The brouhaha that flowed from the Auditor General’s report on April 3rd can be called appropriate when one considers the history of this issue. The out-of-whack estimates for the costing of these fighter jets and the concentrated effort on the part of the, then minority, Conservative government [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The Conservative budget has left the provinces in the lurch and put the heat on front line health care workers according to Carol Hughes. Hughes, the MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, was on her feet in Question Period grilling the government on broken promises by dumping [Read more]
No one can replace the late Jack Layton. But on March 24, New Democrats will be electing a successor to follow in his footsteps. I don’t believe we will just be selecting a new leader. We will likely be selecting the next Prime Minister of Canada. We must choose a leader who is a uniter, [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Elections Canada will now have the teeth it needs to conduct the kind of investigation needed for the electoral fraud allegations that have seized parliament, says Carol Hughes. Charges of misconduct are centered on the riding of Guelph, where Liberal supporters received fraudulent [Read more]
The phone rings, you answer to the sound of a ship’s horn and (if you’re like most people) you hang up just as the recording gets to, “This is your captain calling…..”. You have been robocalled. Just as counterfeit money shouldn’t focus on paper, election fraud and voter suppression [Read more]
Stephen Harper’s promises in the 2008 election included commitments about bitumen (heavy oil) from Canada’s tar sands: That we would not export the raw material to be upgraded and refined elsewhere (existing US contracts aside) and; that we would not trade the resource to countries with lesser [Read more]
Future of health care weakened by Prime Minister’s inaction ALGOMA-MANITOULIN-KAPUSKASING , ON – One of the items central to Canadian identity is Medicare. Publicly funded health care system is a great leveller in our society, especially when compared with the largely private system in [Read more]
ALGOMA-MANITOULIN-KAPUSKASING, ON – A year ago, I was part of a group listening to the kind of speech that you get to hear at office Christmas parties across Canada. It focused on a job well done – with respect to our efforts in the past year, the challenges that were sure to come in the [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Wednesday’s tragic helicopter crash near Clear Lake which took the life of three Northern Ontario residents will echo throughout the communities of Kapuskasing and North Bay for a long time. Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes is joining with her provincial counterpart, [Read more]
TIME TO ACT IN ORDER TO SAVE RAIL OPTIONS FOR NORTHERN-EASTERN ONTARIO OTTAWA, ON – A critical stretch of rail between Mattawa and Pembroke must be preserved if North-eastern Ontario will once again be connected by rail to the eastern seaboard and cities like Montreal and Ottawa the House of [Read more]
HUGHES FOCUSES ON SMALL OPERATORS AND FOOD SECURITY DURING WHEAT BOARD DEBATE OTTAWA, ON – Local food networks need to be fostered and agriculture policy needs to be balanced if the government is serious about food security, according to Carol Hughes. The Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, MP [Read more]
Health Canada warnings on cell phones need to be clearer and widely heard In the summer of 2010 I wrote about a group of parents in Collingwood who were fighting to have wifi taken out of their children’s school. I heard their story while sitting as a member of a parliamentary committee [Read more]
It was good news when the House of Commons unanimously passed a New Democrat motion this past week that took aim at another economic downturn. The document contained a number of measures intended to help Canada weather its second bout of recession in the last half-decade. It focused on job [Read more]
As jobless rate climbs and inflation soars, the government is worried about unreported crime. Gas prices are up 23% from August of last year. I know that most people will be concerned about that. It is a large part of what is driving inflation in this country and reverses the trend that saw rates [Read more]
