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A Time for Urgent Action: the 2024 report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty was tabled in Parliament
There are currently two class action lawsuits at early stages before the courts,
challenging the constitutionality of the Government of Canada’s employer-specific work
permits for temporary foreign workers under the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW)
Program at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and the International
Mobility Program (IMP) at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Q1 – What is the Government doing to prevent CBAMs from creating trade barriers for the Canadian agriculture sector? Q2 – What will be the impact of the EU CBAM on Canadia fertilizer exports to Europe? Q3 – How will the Government advocate for Canadian agriculture interests as other countries consider taking new approaches to sustainability? Q-4 – At the moment, is there any international negotiations related to agriculture sustainability rules?
Why did the Government make referrals under section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to end the rail disputes and remove workers’ right to strike? Will such referrals be made to resolve disputes in other sectors, like airlines and ports?
What is the Government of Canada doing to support apprenticeship and the skilled trades?
The temporary one-year measure that provided up to four more weeks of Employment Insurance (EI) regular benefits to eligible seasonal claimants in 13 targeted EI regions to mitigate the increased risk or duration of an income gap between work seasons due to low unemployment rates combined with shorter than usual work seasons, ended September 7, 2024.
ESDC funding allocated to Campaign Life Coalition, LifeCanada, Alliance for Life Ontario, Alberta Pro-Choice Coalition, Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, National Abortion Federation, Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics since January 1, 2006.