With debate on the budget taking place in Parliament last week Member of Parliament Niki Ashton says Canadians deserve better. 

Ashton says the budget did not deal with the housing crisis in the north, did not invest in the health and education needs in our province, did not go after tax havens that rob our social services of well needed funds and did not commit to a national day care program and investing in pay equity.  She adds instead we see half measures on childcare and on clean drinking water on First Nations. She says hiding under the veneer of progressive language is more of the same old policies we’ve seen from successive Liberal and Conservative governments.