Claude's Posts

Government should stand up for Canada’s forestry communities, says NDP

OTTAWA – With the Minister of International Trade in New York today to announce the extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement, New Democrats here at home are denouncing the devastating impact of the deal. 

Two years after promising regulations, Canadians are still waiting  

OTTAWA – NDP Natural Resources critic Claude Gravelle (Nickel Belt) and Environment Critic Megan Leslie (Halifax) criticized Conservative inaction and irresponsibility regarding the development of unconventional sources of oil and gas.

“New Democrats will always carry on Jack Layton’s legacy” Nycole Turmel

OTTAWA – Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle is home today after a busy fall session of Parliament that as the NDP’s natural resources critic had him front and centre on national pipeline, asbestos and forestry stories.

 NDP Demands National Summit and Real Forestry Strategy

 OTTAWA -- Fresh Parliamentary evidence from Canada's leading forestry industry group confirms how pitifully inadequate federal government aid has been to struggling northern communities and how imperative a national forestry strategy is, Natural Resources critic Claude Gravelle (Nickel Belt) said today.