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How your data determines what you pay!
What if the price you pay at the store is different than the person standing next to you?
Corporations can use personal data such as location, device type, browsing history, purchase behavior, login status, and loyalty cards/programs to profile consumers and determine what different people are charged for the same goods and services.
How can we stop this from happening in Canada?
Join MP Jenny Kwan, Patrick Johnson - President of UFCW 1518, Jim Stanford - Economist and Director of Centre for Future Work, Avi Lewis - NDP Leader and Benjamin Fung - Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity and other experts, for a public forum and community conversation about what surveillance pricing means for consumers and workers, how technology and personal data are changing the way prices are set, and what everyday people can do to fight back.
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A Parliamentary Secretary should not have to choose between doing their job and following their conscience. Sean Casey supported my private member’s bill, Bill C-233, which sought to close a loophole in Canada’s arms export regime that allows Canadian-made weapons to reach countries through the United States despite Canada’s own export controls. The bill was defeated in the House, with 22 MPs voting in favour and 295 against.
Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs after supporting the bill.
If MPs cannot vote according to their conscience on a private member’s bill without risking their government position, what does a “free vote” actually mean?
I want to thank Sean Casey and the other MPs who supported Bill C-233 for standing up for the principle that Canada’s arms export controls must mean what they say—and that Parliament must be able to hold government policy to account.
The government can disagree with my bill. It can vote against it. But MPs should not have to fear losing their parliamentary responsibilities simply for voting according to their conscience.
*Click image or link to read the news story - https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7359007
Privatizing ports and airports
“The Liberals claim they are not selling off Canada’s assets, but the doublespeak is deafening.”
— Jenny Kwan, NDP MP for Vancouver East
Several senior citizens were arrested for trespassing on Parliament Hill while attempting to deliver photos and stories about climate change to MPs.
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Jenny Kwan Statement on Discontinuation of Refugee Family Reunification Policy
This decision by Immigration Minister Lena Diab is deeply troubling because the government has provided no credible explanation for suddenly ending a policy that allowed refugees to reunite with family members who were not initially declared on their applications. If there were no issues identified with the policy, why was it abruptly changed? Refugees should not be punished for circumstances beyond their control, particularly when they have already endured displacement, conflict and separation from their loved ones.
It is also frankly absurd for the government to tell these families to simply apply through the humanitarian and compassionate process. The Minister knows very well that H&C applications can involve extraordinarily long processing times, meaning this is not a genuine solution for families facing prolonged separation. With H&C admissions targeted at just 1,100 people in 2026 and 1,000 in 2027, the prospect of families being reunited expeditiously is effectively negligible. Telling families in these circumstances to get in line for a severely backlogged H&C process is not family reunification—it is asking people who have already waited years to wait indefinitely. The government needs to reverse this decision and provide a fair, timely pathway for refugee families to be reunited. Minister Diab needs to explain why she has chosen to close a pathway to family reunification that was specifically designed to address gaps in the system. Canada should be making family reunification processes more administratively efficient, not marginalizing refugees even further.