The long-awaited federal election has been called. As we face a cost-of-living crisis and unprecedented threats to our jobs and our sovereignty from Donald Trump, this might be the most important election of our lifetime.
As working people and union members, we need to stay united and do everything we can to elect worker-friendly candidates into office.
Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives would be a disaster for public services, workers’ rights, and everything that makes us proud to live in Canada – his record proves it. The Liberals alone can’t be trusted without a strong NDP pushing them in the right direction.
The NDP is the only party who has consistently fought for workers’ rights and public services, delivering transformative new policies like pharmacare, dental care, child care, federal anti-scab legislation - and so much more. Imagine how much more we could do with even more NDP MPs fighting for us in Parliament.
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In this election, we need to work together to elect a government that will put working people first, and fight for a just recovery and better care for all.
We know there’s only one party with a plan to do it, and that’s the NDP.
Stop Carney’s Cuts: Protect health care, jobs and public services
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Carney government must tackle the housing crisis: five priorities
Voters in the recent federal election raised housing as a major concern across the country. Unfortunately, the new Liberal government seems intent on following an old and failed playbook on the housing crisis that prioritizes private sector profit over ensuring everyone has a safe and affordable home.
Your voice matters
Today is the last day of the 2025 federal election. Millions of Canadians around the country are casting their ballots to elect their next members of Parliament. At a time when our sovereignty, identity, and values are under attack from both foreign powers, and within our own borders, the need to elect representatives that will fight for us has never been clearer.
Mobilizing for the Canada we need
The federal election is here, and CUPE members across the country are organizing to elect labour champions to fight for our rights in Ottawa.
Vote NDP to protect what matters most
Monday is election day. This will be one of the most consequential elections of our lifetimes. Canadians will elect a new Parliament to steer us through the turbulence and threat of another Donald Trump presidency. In this moment, we must protect our country, and what makes us proudest to live in Canada: the things that lift us all up in times of need, like public health care.
The things you love about Canada: Championed by the NDP
Everything that makes us proud to be Canadian is because NDP MPs fought for us. Now more than ever, we need a strong NDP fighting for us.
Celebrating progress on the $10-a-day plan
The NDP, the labour movement and child care advocates have fought for decades for a universal, affordable, high-quality national early learning and child care system.
Election 2025: Health Care
A strong public health care system benefits Canadians and our economy. It is fundamentally intertwined with our country’s history and our future. Serious commitments are needed to stop health care privatization and invest in public health care to reduce wait times, increase staffing levels, and expand public health care services. Canadians overwhelmingly support public, universal health care and oppose a U.S.-style system of privatized health care.
Election 2025: Canada needs a workers’ plan for housing.
Decades of Liberal and Conservative failure on housing policy have left workers with a housing crisis. Workers can’t find affordable housing near their work, and communities don’t have affordable housing for the workers they need.
Tariffs Fact Sheet
Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office on January 20th, 2025, he has made a series of threats to introduce across the board tariffs on goods and services imported from Canada and Mexico, as well as tariffs on specific products such as steel and aluminum, and threatened additional tariffs for any trade retaliation from Canada and Mexico.
This election might be the most important of our lives.
Canada’s facing a cost-of-living crisis, attacks on workers’ rights, and even threats to our national sovereignty.
Tired of being told to vote “strategically”?
You’re not alone. Every election, workers are pressured to choose between red and blue — even when it’s the orange team fighting for what we actually believe in.
Will Mark Carney continue the Liberals’ pro-privatization agenda?
Before leaving office, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set in motion several privatization projects, hoping his successor will carry them forward. Here’s some of what Justin Trudeau is hoping Mark Carney and the Liberals will see through if they are re-elected later this month.
Federal election rules guide for locals and divisions
The rules for how unions can participate in an election are different depending on whether the election is federal, provincial or municipal. At the federal level, regulations are set up in the Canada Elections Act and they encompass advertising, contributions, partisan activities, and election surveys.
Pierre Poilievre: in it for banks, billionaires, and big polluters – not for you
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Pierre Poilievre will take a wrecking ball to your pension
Throughout his time in office, Pierre Poilievre has never shied away from an opportunity to weaken pensions and retirement security for his fellow Canadians. Any time Conservatives come to power, they take a wrecking ball to our pensions, and it takes years to fix their mistakes.
Emergency townhall: Tariffs, federal elections, and the future of Canada
CUPE is holding an emergency live and interactive telephone town hall with CUPE executive members across Canada on April 7th at 7 p.m. ET to discuss Trump’s tariffs on Canada, the current federal election and other important issues.
We want to hear from you
As workers, we deserve a government that will prioritize us. CUPE members have an opportunity now to set the table for the upcoming election and make sure that aspiring politicians vying for our vote aren’t just paying lip service to our needs.
Canada needs new, progressive leadership
Earlier today, Justin Trudeau announced today that he will step down as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeau has also prorogued Parliament until March 24 while the Liberal Party carries out a new leadership selection process.
The Confidence Deal is dead - but our fight continues
The Supply and Confidence Agreement signed in 2022 by the federal Liberals and the NDP delivered the greatest expansion of the social safety net in a generation, along with significant improvements to the Canada Labour Code.