Beaches-East York MP Matthew Kellway releases White Paper on Urban Affairs
After two-and-half years of consulting Canadians from all backgrounds and walks of life, Beaches-East York MP Matthew Kellway has launched his long-awaited White Paper on Urban Affairs.
After two-and-half years of consulting Canadians from all backgrounds and walks of life, Beaches-East York MP Matthew Kellway has launched his long-awaited White Paper on Urban Affairs.
The MP, along with the New Democratic Party’s Housing and Infrastructure Critic Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet, introduced the NDP’s 20-page agenda for Canadian cities Thursday, Nov. 6 on Parliament Hill.
"The majority of us lead lives that are urban, from downtowns to suburbs to places in between. We have a national interest in ensuring the success of our cities," Kellway said during a Nov. 6 press conference, adding the NDP is prepared to do its part to build the infrastructure necessary to ensure Canada’s cities are prosperous, fair and sustainable places to live.
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The NDP’s Urban Agenda is the result of extensive and ongoing consultations with Canadians, 80 per cent of whom live in urban centres.
The paper, which is built on a vision pioneered by the late federal NDP leader Jack Layton to put Canada’s cities at the centre of the political map in Ottawa, aims to set out a vision of Canadian cities with modern, innovative economies, with the tools for prosperity and mitigating global warming more equally shared.
Some of the topics in the agenda include the emergence of global urbanism, the implications of connectivity, governance infrastructure including national policies adapted to local needs, knowledge infrastructure like affordable and accessible post-secondary education, built infrastructure including a national transit strategy and social infrastructure notably a national housing strategy and affordable, quality childcare.
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