Katy Austin : New Democrats

 Conservatives have once again shown a callous disregard for the plight of working families.  On Monday, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley stated that her government has no interest in increasing Employment Insurance payments making it “lucrative” for jobless workers to sit around the house.  She might as well be calling them lazy welfare bums.
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says that the people on his new economic advisory council are all people he knows well.  The problem is that they are all chairs or CEOs from banks, big business or large corporations.  Who’s going to speak up for the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, families who are worried […]

Katy Austin speaks to the riding of Simcoe-Grey in 2007

Katy Austin standing up for the people fighting to stop Dump Site 41 from destroying nature’s supply of pristine water, and polluting the largest group of fresh water lakes.

There’s a sense of disgust and anger over the way the economic crisis is unfolding. Those who mismanaged the economy but milked it for all they could are being bailed out and those who trusted them to get it right are paying the bill. […]

By banning British MP George Galloway from Canada this week, immigration minister Jason Kenney is stifling freedom of speech.
Galloway is on a tour of North America speaking about the war in Afghanistan and the Middle East conflict, but the government has designated him as a terrorist sympathizer.  Galloway’s supporters […]