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March 2019 Edition Volume XXXVII No. 3 March 2019 Montreal, QC www.filipinostar.org Pre-election Budget postpones Ottawa, ON: March 19, 2019 — address the needs of people in Canada nWhileeCitizeens fordPubliceJustidce (CPJ) policy changes: CstrugPgling Junder crippling costs. notes that Budget 2019 contains many CPJ is pleased to see a important policy pitches, delayed recognition that housing affordability spending timelines mean that many needs to be addressed, with further pressing issues will not receive needed programs directed to first-time action. homeowners and new rental With its emphasis on gender construction funding (additional $10 equality, deepening efforts towards billion over nine years). However, the reconciliation, and notable shifts rollout of the spending for the National towards a cleaner economy, the budget Housing Strategy has been too slow to sends positive signals about the address the current housing crisis. priorities the Government of Canada And while the federal wants to emphasize. But with little more government has acknowledged climate than half a year left in the current change as a global crisis that requires mandate, this pre-election document immediate, far-reaching action, under reads as mostly a series of hopeful the exhilarating heading of “fulfilling platitudes towards a future that may Canada’s G20 commitment [to phase- never come. out fossil fuel subsidies],” there is no It is disappointing, that the fulfilment to be found. National Poverty Reduction Strategy BUDGET 2019: As deficit grows, feds spend on job retraining, home Climate change requires a incentives (City News) does not have a more central place in move away from coal-fired electricity piecemeal approach to addressing national pharmacare program. the budget. CPJ would have liked to generation, but Budget 2019 only poverty in Canada. However, the creation of a have seen more investment directly to allocated $35 million over five years for The budget does include Canadian Drug Agency must reflect a programs that would strengthen the important first steps to develop a level of urgency to meaningfully strategy, rather than a continued See Page 4 Pre-election budget Democrats push for Mueller report to Congress by next w(Marceh e25k, 2,01R9) eWApSHuINGbTOlN icrepaortn. s resist (Reuters) - A fight brewed between Six committee chairs in the Democrats and Republicans over the Democratic-led House of public release of Special Counsel Representatives called on U.S. Robert Mueller’s report on Russian Attorney General William Barr, in a meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, letter seen by Reuters, to release the while President Donald Trump kept up full Mueller report to Congress by April attacks on his critics on Monday. 2. Earlier this month, the House voted As the Senate Judiciary 420-0 in favor of making the report Committee’s Republican chairman public, with no Republican opposition. called for an investigation into the Barr on Sunday released a four-page origins of the probe of any Trump summary of conclusions of the campaign links with Russians, the investigation that detailed Russian Senate leader blocked a second interference but cleared the Republican U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he returns to the White House after U.S. attempt by Democrats to pass a Attorney General William Barr reported to congressional leaders on the measure aimed at pushing the Justice See Page 4 Democrats push submission of the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in Washington, U.S., Department into full disclosure of the March 24, 2019. 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