Version française ci-dessous NAFTA by any other name could be the acceptable solution When the US and Mexico announced a trade agreement signed without Canadian involvement in late August many observers were wondering if it marked the end of the North American Trade Agreement. Adding fuel to [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Canadians shouldn’t have to struggle to pay for prescription drugs and a national Pharmacare program is the best answer, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Hughes delivered a petition calling for Pharmacare in parliament and provided some solid [Read more]
When political news breaks on a Friday afternoon, it usually isn’t for good-news stories. More often this is when a government will make embarrassing admissions in an attempt to bury stories as people are focused on the weekend ahead. Of course, there can always be exceptions, and that was [Read more]
The Parliamentary Budget Office released a report that explains the cost to eliminating the federal deficit in Canada, but it is not likely to please many Canadians, especially younger ones. According to the PBO the federal debt will be eliminated over the next 35 years, but the outlook isn’t so [Read more]
The government is crowing about a balanced budget but what they aren’t bragging about is how their efforts offer little hope to improve stagnant job numbers or some dismal economic indicators that show their balancing job for what it is – a temporary illusion. What you will hear a lot [Read more]
Canadian’s Rights and Freedoms The Government of Canada seems determined to have Bill C-51 passed as quickly as possible, despite critics concerns that there will be no oversight and that it will have a chilling effect on the thought process, free speech and the ability to protest. Canadians [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Despite many societal advances we still have work to do if we want to live in a country where race is something that truly doesn’t matter, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. In an attempt to encourage people to challenge the stubborn phenomenon Hughes [Read more]
When the government cries broke when faced with common sense decisions like supporting passenger services on the ACR (while stakeholders find a permanent solution to a government-created crisis) that claim should be viewed through the lens of their huge and growing advertising budget. Spending [Read more]
ELLIOT LAKE, ON – People struggling just to keep up need to know their government has their back, and that just isn’t happening according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, MP Carol Hughes. Hughes was commenting on NDP Leader Tom Mulcair’s Affordability Tour which stopped in Sault Ste. Marie [Read more]
We hear a lot about the disappearing middle class these days and we should be hearing as much, or perhaps even more, about the plight of seniors mired in poverty. Whether it is because of pensions that underperform or vanish altogether, more seniors are requiring assistance from the [Read more]
The Auditor General gave the Conservative government a $3.1 billion dollar black eye this week when he revealed that amount of money is missing in action from Canada’s anti-terrorism efforts. Stephen Harper says this is just ‘an issue of lack of clarity,’ but for a party that rode into Ottawa [Read more]
HUGHES SUPPORTS TAX INCENTIVES FOR NEW GRADUATES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES Image from www.books4exchange.com. OTTAWA – Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes stood in the House of Commons yesterday to indicate her support for a bill that would provide tax incentives to new college and [Read more]
