Issues

This section contains information on issues that are important to PSAC members in BC and some questions you could ask your candidates. Use the menu on the left or click for ...

Aboriginal Rights: How will your party close the social and economic gap between Aboriginal Peoples and other people in Canada? What resources (financial and other) would your party be willing to commit to resolve this gap?

Anti Scab Legislation: Will your party introduce legislation to ban strike breakers that will cover workers in the federal sector?

Child Care: Does your party support legislation that would ensure a public, quality, universally inclusive, accessible and developmental child care program that is based on not-for-profit principles?

Child Poverty: Since the current level of the Child Tax Benefit is insufficient to significantly lower poverty levels of children, what will your party do to increase the level of child benefits going to low income families in Canada?

Ethics: What is your party’s position on who has ownership over the surplus in the federal public sector superannuation plans?

Medicare: What will your government do to ensure reasonable wait times while also ensuring accessible, accountable health for all who live in Canada?

Pay Equity: Will your party introduce new pay equity legislation without delay in the first session of the new Parliament, based on the recommendations of the Pay Equity Task Force,including full funding for a new Pay Equity Commission and a Pay Equity Tribunal?

Poverty: Will your party back the commitment for Canada to increase foreign aid to 0.7% of Gross National Income by 2015?

Same Sex Marriage: If same-sex marriage is once again put before the House of Commons, will you vote to make sure this Human Right will be protected?

Service Canada: Will your party commit to ensuring that federal public services provided at Service Canada locations are deliverered by federal public sector workers?

Whistleblowers: Does your party support amending the current “whistleblowing” law to strengthen the protection provided to whistleblowers that includes third-party recourse, protection in the collective agreement for unionized workers and recourse to the courts and the agency established to oversee whistleblowing?