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Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen has expressed concern following the release of a report Tuesday from Canada’s Auditor General on the state of health services for remote First Nations communities. The report, entitled Access to Health Services for Remote First Nations Communities, focused on the state of care and facilities for remote First Nations communities in Ontario and Manitoba. But Cullen noted that the Conservative government’s underlying disregard for the health of indigenous...

Plunging oil prices have put the nation’s books in disarray and the government is doing little to deal with the matter, says NDP MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley Nathan Cullen. “Revenue has dropped off and they are scrambling right now,” he said of the Conservative government. “They are not coming clean to Canadians.” Last week Cullen called on the government to provide a fiscal update in the wake of plummeting oil prices, which have an impact on the federal budget. It shouldn’t be too...

It seems Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP knows a lot of stuff, especially about parliament. So much so that was named the most knowledgeable parliamentarian of 2014 at an event hosted by Maclean’s magazine in Ottawa this week. “Honoured and unexpected” is how MP Nathan Cullen described the accolade. “I’m at a bit of a loss for words,” Cullen said. “There are such a lot of amazing MPs in the House; to be singled out in this way by my colleagues is truly an honour.” The Maclean’s...

Opposition Finance Critic Nathan Cullen will be in Prince George Friday to encourage area residents to pressure MPs Dick Harris and Bob Zimmer to get onside with British Columbians who want to ban oil supertankers from North Coast waters. “We’ve set ourselves a goal of 100 days to collect 100,000 signatures to convince 10 BC Conservative MPs to support this proposed legislation that would put a full and final stop to the Enbridge Northern Gateway project,” Cullen said. “Enbridge will...

It’s been moved and seconded. Now the challenge is to get the legislation passed. NDP MP Nathan Cullen tabled a private members bill in Ottawa Tuesday that, if successful, would ban supertankers from plying the north coast of the province, change how the National Energy Board looks at major projects, and put an irrevocable nail in the Northern Gateway coffin. “The government of Canada does seem to care what product is being shipped,” he said Tuesday after tabling the bill. “That doesn’t...

Northwest B.C. is “ground zero” for how we, as a nation, move forward, says federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair. With liquefied natural gas, mining, the Northern Gateway pipeline, and others converging on the West Coast west of Prince George, and the recent Tsilhqot’in Supreme Court ruling giving First Nations a greater say in what we do on the land, all eyes will be on B.C.’s Northwest. “This is the nexus for so many environmental, financial, economic, social and First Nations issues across the...

Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair had some harsh words regarding the Mount Polley tailings pond breach, blaming the Conservative government for not enforcing laws that are in place. “We’ve been saying for a long time that it’s not the case that we need new laws and regulations, but we need to enforce the ones that we have,” Mulcair said Monday. “The Conservatives have been going in the opposite direction. They’ve been scaling back existing protection and not enforcing the little bit that’s...

We waited six months for this? Six months after the Joint Review Panel issued its 209 conditions for the Northern Gateway project to proceed, the Conservative government waited until the absolute last second of its deadline to respond, saying “yes,” without adding anything to the debate that has gripped B.C. and now the nation. It’s quite incredulous that a government that has touted this project as in the “nation’s interest”, equating it to “nation building,” issues a short press release...

The first campaign promise of the 2015 federal election campaign has emerged. “If we form government in 2015, we’ll put aside this decision,” said NDP MP Nathan Cullen. “It’s fraught with peril, it has been done badly and has no social licence or support from the communities of B.C.” Cullen slammed the federal government for putting the onus on the company to consult more with First Nations. Northern Gateway project manager Janet Holder says Enbridge has signed 26 equity partnerships with...