CatherineFife
Waterloo
Here for Waterloo
- Official Opposition Critic for Finance and Treasury Board.
- Catherine has served three terms as MPP. First elected in 2012, she is an advocate for progressive investments that impact job creation & climate change.
- Catherine is a strong champion of housing solutions that work for everyone; inclusive, practical, and just.
- As WRDSB Chair, Catherine helped manage a budget of $645 million and advocated for schools as childcare hubs.
- Catherine is a fierce advocate for All–day, Two–way GO transit to Waterloo Region.
- Catherine was voted Waterloo Region's Best Politician four years in a row by The Community Edition and was twice named MPP of the Year by the Professional Engineers of Ontario.
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MPP Andrew: Arts and culture make us who we are – it’s time to fund them accordingly
QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Jill Andrew, ONDP Critic for Culture & Heritage, brought forward a motion to echoing the calls from Ontario’s cultural institutions for stable and predicable funding.
“We must properly fund the arts, culture, and heritage sector so that it can remain the social medicine that it is...
Stiles: Kinga Surma needs to resign
QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Ontario NDP, demanded the Premier remove Kinga Surma as Minister of Infrastructure.
“After wasting billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing a luxury spa on Toronto’s waterfront, and tipping the scales with an unfair procurement process, the Minister responsible...
Gélinas – Crisis in Paramedic Services Needs Action
QUEEN’S PARK – This morning in the Queen’s Park Media Studio, Paramedics from across Ontario and NDP Health critic France Gélinas called for a provincial task force to address shortages of ambulances and dangerous wait times communities across the province are experiencing.
“This afternoon I’ll be...
NDP MPP Gretzky reacts to the Auditor General of Ontario’s Report
QUEEN’S PARK – NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky (Windsor West) released the following statement on the Auditor General’s new bombshell report which outlines negligence from the Ford government on multiple files, including the opioid crisis in...
Ontario NDP Raises $825K in 60 Days, More Donors than Conservatives and Liberals Combined
TORONTO – In just the past 60 days, the Ontario NDP raised over $825,000 from 15,640 contributions, showcasing the growing trust Ontarians are placing in Marit Stiles and the NDP to replace Doug Ford’s Conservatives after six years of schemes and scandals.
The Ontario NDP’s strong grassroots support, with...
MPP Guy Bourgouin Introduces Private Member’s Bill to Improve Highway Safety
QUEEN'S PARK – MPP Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) is calling on the government to increase truck driver training requirements. Amidst ongoing reports of fraud and corruption in truck driver licensing centers across Ontario, MPP Bourgouin tabled his latest private member’s bill that would require all...
MPP Gates calls for an end to hospital parking fees as Niagara Health increases rates
QUEENS PARK – MPP Wayne Gates (Niagara Falls) continued to fight for the elimination of parking fees at hospitals for staff, visitors, and patients, as Niagara Health plans to increase parking rates.
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Stiles: It’s time for this government to face the consequences of their corruption
QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Ontario NDP, released the following statement on the Auditor General’s new bombshell report, which outlines gross financial mismanagement and negligence from the Ford government on multiple files:
“Preferential treatment, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars...
NDP: Eglinton Crosstown LRT announcement is too little, too late
QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Jill Andrew (Toronto-St. Paul’s) stood in the legislature to demand answers on the long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT.
“When governments hire private corporations to finance and control public infrastructure, taxpayers pay more and the projects tend to go off the rails,” said...
“Inaction is denialism,” Deputy Leader Mamakwa responds to the 220 additional ‘known’ deaths in Ontario’s Residential Schools identified by Coroner
QUEEN’S PARK – Deputy Leader of the ONDP and critic for Indigenous and Treaty Relations Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong), made the following statement in response to the news of the 220 additional deaths linked to Indian Residential Schools in Ontario that were identified by a Coroner's probe:
“Inaction is...
Stiles: Rural communities left behind as Ontario faces the worst year for ER closures
QUEEN’S PARK – Marit Stiles, Leader of the Ontario NDP, called out the government’s dismal health care record as CBC reports that Ontario is facing the worst year for emergency room and urgent care closures.
“No one deserves to go to their local hospital with a medical emergency only to find their ER...
New Democrats call for committee hearings on the ongoing crisis facing vulnerable children and youth
QUEEN’S PARK – MPP Monique Taylor, Ontario NDP Critic for Children, Community and Social Services, will introduce a motion to demand an emergency committee on the crisis facing Ontario’s most vulnerable children and youth.
“Decades of chronic underfunding have left generations of kids caught in a system...
