The lack of an affordable public child care program is the focus of NDP Education Critic Lorraine Michael’s questions in the House of Assembly this week. Michael (MHA, St. John’s East-Quidi Vidi) says half a century of royal commissions, task forces, and government white papers have recognized that closing the gender wage gap requires universal affordable child care.

NDP Leader and Education Critic Lorraine Michael is questioning how making cuts to Memorial University can be part of government’s plan to invest in the future of Newfoundland and Labrador and retain young, skilled people in the province.

Today the NDP Caucus urged government to work collaboratively in response to the tariffs the United States is imposing on Corner Brook Pulp and Paper.

Leader Lorraine Michael (MHA, St. John’s East-Quidi Vidi) says the most recent American ‘tariff-hit’ to Kruger’s mill in Corner Brook, while beyond our control, could seriously harm the province’s forestry industry.

Gerry Rogers, the NDP Critic for Tourism, Culture, Industry and Innovation, remains concerned with the government’s unrealistic and unworkable approach for cannabis sales.