Olivia Chow Pensions ForumOlivia Chow and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre’s Active Seniors Program present A plan to protect and expand your pension
Thursday, March 18, 2-4pm Miles Nadal JCC Refreshments will be provided. | ||
Jack Layton’s Speech on the New Democrats’ Anti-Prorogation MotionThe government, after promising Canadians a new day in Ottawa, has been less accountable to Parliament than any other in memory. It has ignored motions of Parliament, restricted access to information like never before, and even denied legal parliamentary orders from the House to share documents with members of Parliament that are important to the public interest. Enough is enough. | Olivia Chow fights for child care in ParliamentMs. Olivia Chow (Trinity—Spadina, NDP): Mr. Speaker, last night on YouTube, the Prime Minister was reminded that his failed Conservative child care policy is “an insult to any family that actually relies on it”. The government’s failure is so noticeable that international organizations such as the OECD and UNICEF rank Canada dead last in the provision of early learning and child care. When will the government stop insulting working parents with bogus talking points and actually create new child care services for families? | |
Recently on the Rick Mercer Report, Rick took a tour of Olivia Chow and Jack Layton’s green home to look at some of the environmentally friendly retrofits they have done.
Ms. Olivia Chow (Trinity—Spadina, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, memos show that references to gay rights were shamefully deleted from the citizenship guide at the behest of the immigration minister.
Half a million copies have been printed with gay history censored.
The minister will not take responsibility and instead leaving his staff to blame. That simply is not acceptable.
Will the minister do the right thing, admit his mistakes, stop laughing about this and immediately apologize to Canadians?
Olivia Chow and the New Democrat team are urging other party leaders to put partisan politics aside and make the welfare of Canadian women and children a priority in the next session of Parliament.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 14, 2010
MP Olivia Chow is dismayed that nearly three years to the day after she called for a national healthy food program for our children, there has been no action and kids are getting fatter.
“On January 17, 2007, I launched The Children’s Health and Nutrition Initiative with the support of the Toronto Board of Health, nutrition experts and well-known chefs to provide safe and healthy food to all Canadian children,” said Chow. “As of January 14, 2010, no action has been taken and Stats Can is telling us that the health of our children is in jeopardy.”
“Canada is one of the few developed countries without a nationally funded children’s nutrition program,” said Chow. “This is unacceptable in a country where Senators expense taxpayers for $19.5 million each year. A kid’s food program costs about the same to start.”
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The Initiative was launched to build a broad-based coalition of diverse stakeholders that are passionate about Canada becoming a world leader in making safe and healthy food available to all children and reshaping social, cultural, economic and environmental influences to optimally support child health. Founding supporters include Olivia Chow, MP (Trinity-Spadina), Breakfast for Learning, Foodshare and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
As a first step, the Initiative calls for a nutritious breakfast, snack or lunch to be available to any Canadian child under eighteen years of age in the form of nutritious food programs. This would be based on a fl exible made-in-Canada community development model building on the existing knowledge base of local organizations and parent groups.
