CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Group Members: Justin Trudeau, Thomas Mulcair, Stephen Harper, and Mario
Beaulieu
Issue

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Bloc
Quebecois

A new Early
Childhood
Learning and
Care Fund
worth $1 billion

Increase
spending on
post-secondary
education, with
a designated
$800 million
trans to the
provinces and
territories to
lower tuition
fees

$8 million a
year for new
immigrants to
pay for
education and
skills training.

$150 million a
year to retrofit
municipal,
municipal,
university,
school and
hospital
facilities

Demand more
federal
transfers for
post-secondary
education
(college and
university) and
social three
years for
Quebec

Introduce a
Family Care
Plan worth $1
billion to
support those
caring for sick
or elderly
relatives

Increase the
number of
doctors and
nurses
investing $165
million to train
and recruit
1,200 doctors
and 6,000
nurses over
next 10 years

New family
doctors and
nurses who
work in rural
communities
will be relieved
from a portion
of their
Canada
Student Loans

Introduce
programs that
aim to help
and support
the elderly
population

Education

Health Care

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Environment

Law and
Order

A $13,500
Green
Revolution Tax
Credit for the
environmentall
y friendly and
energy-efficien
t revitalization
of homes

Eliminate
$2billion in
government
subsidies for oil
sands and
redirect monies
toward clean
energy

Extend the
eco-Energy
Retrofit Homes
programs by
1year.

Improve the
long-gun
registry Ensure
Canadian
prisons
become
entirely drug
free

Increase the
number of
police officers
on the streets
by an additional
of2,500

Put an end to
long-gun
registry

Implement
atoxic tax
worth
$488million in
next three
years

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Ensure that the

federal
government
enforces the
Kyoto Protocol
In a fair and
just way,
without having
Quebec pay for
Albertas oil
industry

N/A

Family
We will give
families more
money to help
the with the
high cost of
raising their
kids

We will take the

first step
towards our
goal of
universal,
affordable
childcare by
immediately
flowing funding
for over
60,000childcare
space sat no
more than$15 a
day. We will
restore the age
of retirement to
65, and
introduce a new
Consumer
Protection Act
to cap ATM
fees and
ensure
Canadians
have access to
a low-interest
credit card.

Parents in
federally
regulated
sectors will get
job protection
to take care for
a baby up to
18 months of
age. All
parents will be
given the
option to
receive EI
benefits at the
full rate for35
weeks, or a
lower rate for a
maximum of
61 weeks

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