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Stop KSI Lisims and LNG Canada Phase 2
Step 1: Sign the Petition
American owned LNG with ties to Trump and Epstein are not in our national interest and will not create long term jobs or economically benefit Canadians. Ksi Lisims and LNG Canada Phase 2 will pollute our water and air with fracked methane gas, which has severe health impacts. BCHydro subsidies of these fossil fuel projects using our taxpayer dollars will increase costs for individual households around $188 per year (link).
TELL YOUR MP WHY THEY SHOULD SAY "NO" TO FOSSIL FOOL PONIs AND "YES" TO GREEN PONIs!
PONI = Project of National Interest.
Funding decisions for PONIs by Federal Ministers of Parliament will continue through 2026.
Your MP will be in their riding for the summer -- now is a great time to book a meeting with them! The first step is to email your MP and ask for a meeting. A group of constituents has more power to win a meeting than one individual. The next step is for you and your neighbours to build power with an in person petition to your MP in your local riding!
Sign the online petition to get started: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-public-funds-for-lng/
Stand Up For Migrant Workers Rights
Overtime pay, minimum wage, paid sick days, breaks... these are only some of the things denied to some workers in B.C.
The Employment Standards Act covers the rights of all B.C. workers, but certain exclusions in certain sections of the Act prevent workers like care workers, farm workers, construction workers, gig workers, and more from accessing these basic rights.
These exclusions unfairly target migrant workers, who are a significant population working in these sectors. We rely on these workers for essential services and they deserve basic rights NOW.
Sign Worker Solidarity Network’s petition to demand basic rights for all, to put an end to policies that grant migrant workers fewer rights and hypermarginalized tiers of workers that our government allows employers to exploit.
Basic Income Now
Canada already provides income security for low-income seniors through Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and also supplements low-income families with children through the Canada Child Benefit (CCB).
We now need a livable Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) for low-income working-age Canadians to ensure everyone has an income sufficient to meet their basic needs, including food security and live with dignity, regardless of their work status.
Five years ago, the PEI legislature developed an all-party agreement to support and work with the federal government to develop and implement a basic income guarantee for PEI.
There is significant potential in the PEI’s proposed a 5-7-year demonstration project, which could advance and inform the development of a national Guaranteed Livable income benefit that is cost shared and administered in collaboration with provincial, territorial, and First Nation governments.
Contact the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition to join our Parliamentary petition calling on the government to advance the PEI basic income demonstration project
Put Food Banks Out Of Business
The Put Food Banks Out Of Business campaign is a group of food bank and food policy leaders urging all candidates and political parties to include a guaranteed liveable basic income in their party platform in the upcoming federal election.
Governments have been failing Canadians and food banks have been doing our best to pick up the slack. But we shouldn’t be here. The food security of people in Canada should not rest on the shoulders of private charities and individual donors.
A guaranteed liveable basic income is the single most impactful policy for alleviating food insecurity. People are food insecure because they don’t have enough money. Hunger is a result of poverty.