Fall 2009 accomplishments

January 05, 2010

Over the past few months, our Government has continued to deliver the real results that Canadian families have come to expect.  Recently, our government delivered the Fourth Report to Canadians which outlined how Canada’s Economic Action Plan is continuing to take Canada through the global economic crisis.  Here are just a few of our accomplishments for Canadian families over the past few months:

We’re taking action for Canadian workers and their families by:

• Delivering our Economic Action Plan which has resulted in 12,000 projects across the country, and 8,000 projects having already begun.
• Committing 97 percent of our Economic Action Plan.
• Offering self-employed Canadians additional security through voluntary access to special benefits in the Employment Insurance system including maternity, parental, sickness and compassion care benefits.
• Providing long-tenured workers who lost their jobs with additional Employment Insurance support by increasing the benefits they are eligible for by up to 5 and 20 weeks.

We’re delivering safer streets for law-abiding Canadian families as described in our last newsletter.  See also my website: www.leerichardson.ca

We’re protecting consumers and helping to keep our families safe and healthy by:

• Introducing tough new legislation on consumer product safety, important legislation that has been gutted and delayed by an unelected Liberal Senate.
• Defending Canadian families against unfair financial practices by introducing a new Code of Conduct for the Canadian Credit and Debit Card industry.
• Taking action to protect the safety of Canada’s food supply by implementing the recommendations of an Independent Investigator, providing for improved coordination between the federal government and the provinces when a crisis arises.