“It is completely unacceptable that the Liberal government is withholding the funding they promised for the Violence Prevention Strategy they announced in fall 2020. I am particularly concerned that not a single dollar of the $420 million portion controlled by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has been released. This means that not a single new transitional home or shelter has been built since funding was allocated.
People are fed up with the lack of urgency in addressing what the Prime Minister has recognized as an ongoing genocide of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. This delay is costing lives. We should not have to beg for our safety and human rights to be taken seriously.
The Liberal government must lay out a clear plan for how these funds will be spent in a timely way. Survivors, families and communities have waited for justice for far too long.
We need immediate action, not more excuses.”
MANITOBA—On Monday, MPs Leah Gazan (Winnipeg Centre) and Niki Ashton (Churchill—Keewatinook Aski) demanded that the federal government take action to end child poverty, citing rising rates in the recently released Manitoba Child and Family Poverty Report Card. Gazan and Ashton are calling on the government to implement a national school lunch program and a framework for a guaranteed, livable basic income (GLBI).
WINNIPEG – Winnipeg Centre MP Leah Gazan, the NDP’s critic for Women and Gender Equality, is reiterating Jagmeet Singh’s call on the Trudeau Liberals to cover contraception costs as part of the party’s push for a universal pharmacare framework.
“Contraceptives are an essential part of reproductive health for women and gender diverse people,” said Gazan.