It is clear that one of the top priorities with the upcoming federal budget has to be the creation of good jobs.
That was the clear message from our caucus in the House of Commons.
With the CIBC reporting that job quality is at its lowest level in 20 years, and that low-paying jobs are becoming the norm, the NDP’s opposition day motion calls on the Conservatives to make investing in good, middle class jobs the first priority of Budget 2015.
This report confirms what we have been saying for years. Canadians are working harder than ever and falling further behind.
We have put forward a practical plan to help create good-paying jobs by supporting manufacturing and small businesses, and putting in place a $15 an hour federal minimum wage.
The motion reads as follows:“That, in light of sustained high unemployment since the 2008 recession and the long term downward trend in job quality since 1989 under successive Liberal and Conservative governments, as documented by CIBC, the House call on the government to make the first priority of Budget 2015 investment in measures that stimulate the economy by creating and protecting sustainable, full-time, middle-class jobs in high-paying industries in all regions of Canada and abandoning its costly and unfair $2 billion income-splitting proposal.”
It is time for action to create the good paying jobs that Canadians deserve.
