Patty Hajdu

Patty Hajdu supports the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, saying it will provide immediate and ongoing relief to low- and modest-income Canadians, help 'take the sting out of inflation,' ease grocery cost pressures, and form part of a layered strategy including school food programs.

Patty Hajdu supports expanding supports for workers facing layoffs by launching Workforce Alliances and a $102.7M Worker Retention Grant to top up income for employees in Work-Sharing, enabling up to 70% of pay while they receive EI and training.

Hajdu says the initial probe found no evidence that airline compensation broadly falls below the federal minimum wage, but pay records were insufficient to fully verify claims; she called for more detailed data, flagged part-time/entry-level pay for closer examination, and found one underpayment.

Voting Yea means supporting increased federal spending/transfers to provide targeted cost-of-living relief through larger and advance GSTC payments, accepting the fiscal cost to deliver near-term support.

Hajdu supports federal spending to extend subsidized child care, calling affordable, high-quality child care an "economic tool" that saves families thousands and enables more parents to participate in the workforce; she announced Ottawa will provide an additional $1.17 billion to Alberta to extend the program.

Support government spending package for 2026

Hajdu supports the federal budget’s focus on rural northern Ontario, calling it a 'focused response' to local needs and endorsing the $2-billion critical minerals sovereign fund to invest in projects, provide loan guarantees and help the mining sector sustain itself and grow.

Patty Hajdu says misclassification is exploitation that strips workers of rights, disproportionately harms vulnerable newcomers, and creates an uneven playing field for honest companies; she emphasizes protecting workers and addressing misclassification.

Patty Hajdu supports a temporary personal support worker (PSW) tax credit as a workforce/job-support measure, stating the credit is backed by $1.5 billion over five years and endorsing targeted investment to support and retain PSW jobs.

As labour minister, Patty Hajdu ordered an end to an Air Canada strike using the Canada Labour Code’s Section 107, indicating she supported invoking statutory back-to-work powers to suspend strikes and impose arbitration rather than allowing continued strike action.

Hajdu supports preserving and sustaining jobs in northern Ontario by directing federal support to keep the Kapuskasing paper mill operating. As Minister she announced conditional repayable loans to Kap Paper and said she was committed to supporting the success of northern Ontario communities.

Hajdu urged both Canada Post and the union to promptly resume bargaining, called on Canada Post to table a new offer and the union to seriously consider it, and said she would not rule out federal intervention to end the strike if necessary.

Patty Hajdu supports providing federal financial relief — a $400-million loan to Algoma Steel under the large enterprise tariff-relief scheme — to help workers and businesses prosper amid tariffs and global uncertainty and to protect jobs.

Patty Hajdu ordered Air Canada flight attendants back to work under Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code and launched a federal investigation into unpaid work in the airline industry, announcing consultations and roundtables with employees and employers to address compensation concerns.

Patty Hajdu supports a formal investigation into unpaid work in the airline industry, has intervened in the Air Canada dispute, and says the government may introduce legislation to close labour‑code gaps while protecting collective bargaining rights and ensuring fair pay.

Patty Hajdu says tariffs from the United States and other countries are harming Canada's economy and workers; she supports targeted investments in domestic industries and worker supports (including EI extensions) to mitigate impacts and accelerate market development for northern Ontario's forest bio-economy.

As federal jobs minister, Patty Hajdu invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to send Air Canada employees back to work less than twelve hours after a walkout, indicating she supports using Section 107 to end labour disputes and compel returns-to-work.

Patty Hajdu announced the federal government would launch a probe into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector, signaling she supports investigating claims that flight attendants are not paid for ground duties and enforcing labour standards during the Air Canada work stoppage.

Patty Hajdu intervened by asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to step in and put Canada Post's latest contract offer to a vote, indicating she supported federal intervention to advance resolution rather than prolong bargaining between the union and Canada Post.

Voting Yea means supporting legal protection for Canada's supply management import controls — preventing increases in tariff rate quotas or reductions in over‑quota tariffs for dairy, poultry and eggs to preserve domestic producer protection.

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending choices and departmental allocations set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B), allowing those priorities to be funded.

Support government spending package for 2024

Support authority for Schedule 2 multi-year charging and ordering provisions

Support regional economic development funding for Atlantic Canada under the Act

Support appropriations to maintain tax administration and compliance capacity

Support funding for federal employment and benefit programs administered by ESDC

Voting Yea means endorsing the government's specified allocation of supplementary funds and the spending priorities identified in the schedule.

Support clarifying appropriation and funding mechanics for the Commission

Support transitional arrangements to transfer staff and functions smoothly

Support allowing governments to fund regulator expenses for requested work

Support establishing a revenues regime to capture value from submerged land licences

Support expanding worker safety protections to offshore renewable energy workers

Support government spending package for 2023

Voting Yea supports allocating federal funds to implement a statutory framework for a fair net-zero transition including administrative bodies and programmatic supports.

Voting Yea endorses explicit inclusion of unions and collective representation in transition planning and advisory structures.

Voting Yea favors government-led, planned efforts to promote job creation tied to the low-carbon transition.

Voting Yea supports legislated attention to protecting workers from adverse impacts of decarbonization and providing transition assistance.

Support government spending package for 2025

Voting Yea means supporting legislative tariff and customs changes necessary to implement the FTA and facilitate preferential trade between Canada and Ukraine.

Voting Yea means supporting the appropriation and payment of Canada's share of institutional and administrative costs arising from implementing the FTA.

Voting Yea means supporting a temporary tax incentive to encourage construction of purpose-built rental housing by enhancing the GST rebate, with the aim of increasing rental supply and improving housing affordability.

Voting Yea means supporting a package of fiscal and regulatory actions intended to reduce household costs by stimulating rental supply and curbing anti-competitive/excessive pricing in essential markets.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger competition enforcement tools to prevent excessive and unfair selling prices, intended to protect consumers and address affordability pressures in essential markets (e.g., groceries).

Support funding to ensure CRA can administer and enforce income tax laws.

Support funding for regional economic development and job-creation programs in Atlantic Canada.

Support appropriations enabling delivery of employment supports and benefits.

Voting Yea means supporting the parliamentary approval of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the government to spend the specified $20.48B on the listed federal programs and obligations for 2023–24.

Voting Yea means supporting targeted supplementary spending to support federal housing measures administered through CMHC, enabling reimbursements and program expenditures identified in the Supplementary Estimates.

Voting Yea means supporting the federal prioritization of ongoing public spending to create and sustain a Canada-wide early learning and child care system and the use of federal funds to achieve accessibility, affordability and quality targets.

Voting Yea means supporting federal policy that prioritizes improving labor conditions, recruitment and retention in the early childhood education workforce as part of child care reform.

Support government spending package for 2023

Supports central oversight by Treasury Board for official-languages policy and compliance

Supports public reporting and employee information on language compliance

Supports statutory language protections for employees and consumers in federally regulated private businesses

Supports establishing complaint and referral mechanisms for workplace language rights

Supports statutory protections for workers who exercise language rights and measures to foster French

Voting Nay means opposing the creation of a targeted tax deduction on grounds that it reduces federal revenue, creates a tax preference for a specific occupational group, may add administrative complexity or be open to misuse, and that employer responsibility or other tax provisions should address the issue.

Voting Nay means opposing using the tax code as a mechanism for worker protection in this instance, arguing that employer responsibility, collective bargaining, or direct labour standards would be the appropriate mechanisms, and that this approach may unevenly benefit specific worker groups.

Voting Yea means supporting measures to protect firefighters as workers — improved prevention, recognition of occupational cancers, standards review, screening and support for worker health.

Voting Yea means supporting the accompanying tax-law changes needed to integrate the Canada disability benefit into the federal tax and transfer framework.

Voting Yea means supporting the creation of a new federal spending program to reduce poverty among working-age persons with disabilities and backing federal prioritization of income supports and related administrative arrangements.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger public mechanisms to resolve commercial disputes between platforms and news organizations to ensure fair outcomes and protect domestic news markets.

Voting Yea means supporting a law that creates a formal bargaining framework to rebalance bargaining power between large digital platforms and news organizations, seeks to secure payment/terms for news content and to sustain Canadian journalism.

Support enhanced reporting to reduce tax avoidance via trusts

Support imposing a temporary surcharge on very large financial groups to recoup excess profits

Support targeted tax credit to boost critical mineral exploration in Canada

Support treating short-term housing dispositions as business income to limit quick speculative gains

Support new tax-advantaged vehicle to help first-time homebuyers save

Support enabling government capitalization and governance for Canada Growth Fund

Support eliminating interest accrual for students and apprentices to reduce borrower burdens

Voting Yea means supporting the government's allocation of additional funds to cover departmental and program expenses set out in the Supplementary Estimates (B) for 2022–23.

Voting Yea means supporting federal action to create jobs and training opportunities tied to green-economy projects in the Prairies.

Voting Yea means supporting stronger legal protection for pension plan beneficiaries and retirees by prioritizing payment of unfunded pension liabilities and requiring transparency on plan solvency; it favors shifting some financial risks back onto employers/insolvency estates and increasing oversight of pension funding.

Voting Yea means approving the enabling tax-law changes needed to implement the benefits and their administration under existing federal tax/excise frameworks.

Voting Yea means supporting direct, targeted federal assistance to reduce household rental cost pressures as a response to rising cost of living.

Voting Yea means supporting a targeted cash-transfer-style response to ease immediate cost-of-living pressures for vulnerable households.

Voting Yea means supporting measures that align artists' labour protections and bargaining frameworks with the updated broadcasting/streaming environment, potentially strengthening creators' negotiating position and access to remuneration.

Support government spending package for 2022

Support providing the agency with the appropriated operating funds and authority to make recoverable CPP/EI expenditures for 2022–23

Voting Yea means supporting formal authorization of the supplementary appropriations and enabling the federal government to legally spend the listed amounts for 2022–23 as set out in the Supplementary Estimates (A).

Support expanding tax relief for northern residents by increasing optional travel expense claims

Support compensating farming businesses in backstop jurisdictions for fuel charge impacts via a refundable credit

Support providing direct financial support to businesses for ventilation upgrades via a refundable tax credit

Support capping the recovery period for CEBA loan amounts, providing certainty for borrowers and administrators

Support clarifying and limiting EI benefit durations for certain seasonal workers to adjust program parameters

Voting Yea means endorsing the specific spending priorities and allocations to the named departments and Crown corporations, allowing these programs and payments to proceed.

Support continued federal wage subsidy to help employers retain employees through May 7, 2022.

Support granting the government limited regulatory flexibility to extend supports until July 2, 2022.

Support independent audit and parliamentary reporting to improve program accountability and effectiveness.

Support aligning budget implementation law with newly enacted labour protections and expenditures.

Support adding statutory leave to protect workers unable to work for COVID-related health reasons.

Support creation of a federal lockdown-specific income support for affected workers.