The Canadian Press
Former Green party leader Elizabeth May speaks ahead of the party s leadership announcement in Ottawa on Oct. 3, 2020.
OTTAWA The Green Party is accusing mainstream parties of freezing it out of chances to question Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Parliament.
The Greens’ parliamentary leader, Elizabeth May, raised the alarm this week on what she described as an undemocratic practice that leaves the 1.1 million Green Party voters in the country with less of a voice in the House of Commons.
The Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and NDP have conspired to “block” the Greens from holding Trudeau’s feet to the fire by preventing her party from asking questions on Wednesdays the day the prime minister responds to questions from all MPs she told HuffPost Canada Friday.
TORONTO The federal government is refusing to waive repayments for ineligible CERB recipients who applied for the emergency benefit despite an internal mix-up at the CRA that led to weeks of misinformation. Employment Minister Carla Qualtroughâs office said Tuesday that the government decided in December that forgiveness for those who didnât qualify âwasnât on the table.â âWe haven t changed our mind on that,â the ministerâs office said in a statement to CTVNews.ca. But the statement also kept the door open for the possibility of that stance possibly changing. âWe have always said that we will look at our options and make a decision once we have all the necessary information.â
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Jan 6, 2021 5:46pm
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday about a wide range of issues that did not include ending Britain’s frozen-pension policy, which is affecting Britons living in Canada.
About 150,000 U.K. state pensioners live in Canada, but are are not entitled to the same annual inflation-based pension increases as those living in the U.K.
Late last month, the U.K.’s All-Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions released the results of an inquiry into the frozen pensions of British citizens living abroad, and recommended the British government end the “frozen pension policy.”