Malcolm's Posts

OTTAWA – Today, M.P. for Welland, Malcolm Allen stood up in the House of Commons on behalf of ex-employees of Vertis Communications in Stevensville, Ontario.

“When 100 people lost their job at Vertis Communications in Stevensville, they didn’t think they would be left fighting to get $2.7 million in severance packages and termination pay for which they deserve and this company owes them.

Unfortunately, this is the position they find themselves in after U.S. based Vertis filed for bankruptcy in the United States – not Canada – and closed its doors in – Canada.

October 29, 2012

Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, the annual Kacey Lynn Halloween dance was held in my riding. The story of the Kacey Lynn fund is one of great inspiration.

Kacey Lynn was a 5-year-old girl who battled cancer for four and a half years. The financial hardship this illness placed on her family brought the attention of the community to the need for a program to help with families in similar situations.

October 26, 2012

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring awareness to a very important issue.

October is Brain Tumour Awareness Month. Every day, 27 Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour. It is estimated that 55,000 Canadians are surviving with this illness. Alarmingly, the number of diagnoses is increasing but the reasoning is unknown.

September 26, 2012

Mr. Speaker,

We’ve has seen this before, when the Minster fails to put the concerns of the consumer first the industry suffers.

Concerns are growing over the ever expanding beef recall.

The XL Foods Lakeside plant has been decertified from exporting
meat to the US and is cutting shifts.

Yet all we get from this Minister are contradictory and unclear statements.

Their regulation changes and funding cuts are undermining faith in the system and may have caused the delays in this recall.

May 18, 2012

Malcolm Allen, Welland, ON

Mr. Speaker, the government is stepping up its attack on Canadian workers. Today, Conservatives are targeting seasonal and contract workers with the new EI changes.