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The NDP fights for the rights of those living in Attawapiskat

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December 12, 2011
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Dear Friends,

I know many of you have been deeply moved and are still very concerned about the situation in Attawapiskat. To find out more about what the NDP is doing, check out this video:

http://www.ndp.ca/video/all/V6UXsLwzTRs

Sincerely,

Libby

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Help me support East Van schools!

Libby Davies's picture
November 22, 2011
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Dear Friends,

You may have read about Carrie Gelson, a teacher at Admiral Seymour Elementary School, in East Van, who started a great campaign to help her young students with basic essentials.

The call for assistance has had a big impact and many people have reached out to help.

Seymour is just one of many inner city schools whose students and their families, experience hardship over the year.

If you'd like to help out with any donation of new winter clothing or non-perishable food items, please drop it off at my community office: 2412 Main Street (at Broadway) before Friday December 9th (between Tuesday and Friday 10 - 4pm). For more information, please phone 604-775-5800.

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Libby's Remembrance Day Statement

November 9, 2011
Updates from Libby

Dear Friends,

On the upcoming Day of Remembrance on November 11th, we remember the profound sacrifice of the brave men and women in the armed forces who have fought, and died, so that we could live in peace and in freedom.

We are forever grateful for their efforts, courage and ultimate sacrifice. They have reminded us of our common humanity, a universal wish for a true and lasting peace - and an end to armed conflict. With every incalculable loss, we are reminded of this goal. We are forever indebted to them.

We shall always remember the fallen, the survivors, and their loved ones – indeed, all victims of war. And we will honour them by striving for justice, dignity and respect for all. This is our commitment, and it will be embedded in our hearts and in our minds.

Lest we forget.

Yours Sincerely,

Libby

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K’naan presses MPs to help world’s poor as generic-drug vote looms

March 8, 2011
The Globe and Mail
K’naan presses MPs to help world’s poor as generic-drug vote loomsOTTAWA - K’naan, the Juno Award-winning musician whose song Wavin’ Flag was Coca Cola’s anthem for the 2010 World Cup, will be on Parliament Hill on Wednesday to urge MPs to pass Bill C-393. He will be joined by Stephen Lewis, the former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, and James Orbinski, the founder of Dignitas International, a medical humanitarian organization...Bill C-393 was introduced by now-retired MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis but was essentially orphaned when she left federal politics to take a run at the Winnipeg mayor’s job. All bills need sponsors as they move through the various stages of debate and, if the Conservatives – who oppose the legislation – had refused to let it change hands, it eventually would have died. NDP House Leader Libby Davies persuaded the other parties earlier this year to allow her NDP colleague Paul Dewar to be recognized as the bill’s new sponsor, a move that kept it alive.
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AIDS drug bill clears major hurdle

February 3, 2011
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AIDS drug bill clears major hurdleOTTAWA - A bill that would enable generic drug companies to manufacture cheap AIDS drugs for developing countries cleared a major procedural hurdle in the House of Commons Feb 2 when unanimous consent was gained for the sponsorship to be transferred to NDP MP Paul Dewar. “There was a lot of work that went behind the scenes,” Masse says. “Libby Davies worked extremely well to try to gain compromise and to open the doors, and she felt that was brought forth and there was agreement on that".
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Rare co-operation breathes life into generic-drug bill

February 2, 2011
Globe and Mail
Rare co-operation breathes life into generic-drug billOTTAWA - NDP House Leader Libby Davies persuaded the other parties to allow her NDP colleague Paul Dewar to be recognized as the bill’s new sponsor. Mr. Dewar has a slot near the top of Parliament’s order of precedence for private members’ bills, which means Bill C-393 could go to a final vote as early as March. “We saw proof today that Parliamentarians really can get things done together,” NDP industry critics Brian Masse, who has been fighting for the bill since Ms. Wasylycia-Leis’s departure, said in a press release.
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Libby speaks out against seniors' poverty

November 26, 2010 Question Period

House of Commons
HANSARD
November 26, 2010

Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP) :
Mr. Speaker, it is good to hear the CEO of the TD Bank, Ed Clark, say what the NDP has been saying for years: that Canada's tax system is unfair. “The shape of the economic recovery will not leave Canadians equally well off”, he said.

Since the banks are the big beneficiaries of the Conservative's tax cuts, Mr. Clark sure knows what he is talking about.

Is it not time that the Conservatives took the advice of their friends at the TD Bank and tackled this unfair tax system that is leaving too many people worse off?

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