On June 3, BILL C-9 – The Budget Implementation Act – was debated. Alex Atamanenko and other New Democrats argued for the need to extract non-budget items of business for full debate and scrutiny. Read Alex debating here BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE: There are several issues within the Budget Bill C-9- The Budget Implementation Act [...]
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Background and Debate on Budget Implementation Act
Friday, June 4th, 2010Immigration
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010New immigrants to Canada face a number of challenges in their lives. While they are adjusting to a new country, a new community and a new culture with new habits, they may also be struggling to find how they can best apply their skills to the Canadian job market. Immigrants with professional credentials from their [...]
Employment Insurance
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Despite federal Finance minister Jim Flaherty hailing what he calls signs of Canada’s emergence from the global recession, the national unemployment rate stands at 8.2% at the time of this writing. While BC premier Gordon Campbell basks in the glory of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, a provincial government website states that “unemployment is expected to [...]
Corporate Tax Cut Myths
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Do they really help create jobs? In 2000, then Liberal Finance Minister Paul Martin cut corporate income tax rates by a quarter, from 28 percent to 21 percent, phased in over five years. The Harper Government has continued those cuts from 21 per cent in 2007 to 18 percent today, and is ignoring NDP advice [...]
Retraining Unemployed workers: letter to Minister Finley
Thursday, December 10th, 2009I write to you on an urgent matter affecting not only my constituents, but those across the province of British Columbia. The BC Government has made an abrupt decision to cap all tuition funding for EI recipients in job retraining programs
American Subsidies Unfair
Thursday, June 18th, 2009More action still needed to address struggling Pulp and Paper industry OTTAWA – New Democrat Forestry Critic John Rafferty (Thunder Bay – Rainy River) said today that the Conservative government’s $1 billion forestry assistance plan is coming too late to reverse the industry’s 55,000 job losses and will not offset the damage done to the [...]
BC MP SLAMS ECONOMIC UPDATE
Friday, November 28th, 2008Conservatives Offer No Hope – The Answer is “NO” Ottawa, ON – Alex Atamanenko, MP – BC Southern Interior – calls the Conservative Government’s Economic Update an exercise in partisan politics. According to Atamanenko, there is nothing in the update that remotely resembles a stimulus package. “As world leaders take immediate action to help stimulate [...]