John's Posts

Closure of Citizenship and Immigration office in Thunder Bay causing confusion and frustration

THUNDER BAY – John Rafferty, MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River, is calling on the Government to review and ultimately reverse their decision to close the Citizenship and Immigration Office in his community. The office, which closed in June, served not only Thunder Bay but many communities throughout Northern Ontario. 

This week presents another opportunity to share some of the hard work of the New Democrat caucus research team who are always busy discovering new and interesting things about our federal government and our party.  

Did you know that since Confederation, 4,202 Canadians have been elected to the House of Commons? Of those members of Parliament, some remained in the House for a rather short period of time, while others were there for several decades.

This week Canada received some more bad news on the economic front with a significant number of job losses in July.  

It may be quiet in Ottawa, but our crack New Democrat researchers have been hard at work.  While they are uncovering some information about key government programs, they have also put together some interesting facts about the outcome of the last federal election and the current parliament. 

In any Democracy the power of the elected government is superior to that of the military which is always politically neutral. The glue that holds the system together is trust; between those two institutions and between those institutions and the people.   A report this week, for a moment shook my trust, so let me explain what I found and why in the end my trust remains unshaken.