ROSS REBAGLIATI, Okanagan-Coquihalla Liberal MP Candidate

For Immediate ReleaseDecember 31, 2009

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff made the following statement today regarding the deaths of four Canadian soldiers and Canadian journalist Michelle Lang in Afghanistan:

"It is with profound sad ...

For Immediate Release
November 29, 2009

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs are urging the Conservative government to play a more active role in encouraging the resumption of negotiations after 1,700 Canadian National Railway locomotive engineers walked off the job when mediated talks collapsed.

"Canadians need a fully functioning transp ...

"Stephen Harper's comments are beneath th ...

For Immediate Release
November 30, 2009

The Harper government has now admitted that it knew about concerns of torture to Afghans handed over by Canadian soldiers early in 2006, but didn't act to change the transfer agreement until media reports emerged a year later. Still, transfers weren't stopped until a fulltime monitor looked into the a ...

For Immediate ReleaseNovember 30, 2009

"What we're talking about here is not only hearsay, we're talking about basing much of his evidence on what the Taliban have been specifically instructed to lie about if captured." Defence Minister Peter MacKay, concerning Richard Colvin's testimony, Nov. 19, 2009.

The follow ...

For Immediate Release
November 30, 2009

OTTAWA - Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic, the Hon. Bob Rae, passed a unanimous Resolution in Parliament today to commemorate the victims of Europe's totalitarian regimes.

"Millions of Canadians of Eastern and Central European descent whose families have been directly affected b ...

For Immediate Release
November 30, 2009

On CBC Radio's "The House," top Conservative strategist Tom Flanagan said this about ten-percenters:

For Immediate Release
December 1, 2009

OTTAWA - Today, Anita Neville, the Liberal Critic for the Status of Women, joined her Opposition Critic colleagues to pay tribute to the fourteen women lost at École Polytechnique and to denounce the Harper government's lack of action to combat violence against women.

"This week is a ...

For Immediate Release
December 1, 2009

Harper Conservatives conceal job creation and stimulus spending data

OTTAWA - New documentation proves the Harper government has deliberately misled Canadians with its convenient claims that it does not track stimulus expenditure and jobs creation statistics, Liberal Infrastructure Critic Gerard Kennedy said today.

"Given the historic size of curre ...

For Immediate ReleaseDecember 1, 2009

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff made the following statement on World AIDS Day:

"Today is a time of remembrance and reflection - for those who have perished from this disease, and for those who live with it still. With some 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS ...