CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

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Education

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Bloc
Quebecois
We will
allow
We
will
start
ensuring that
Invest $250
provide direct
Canadians to
investing in
Qubec
million in
help to students additional
invest money
Canadas future
maintains its
from low- and
ability to
federal student tax-free until its by abolishing
middle-income
time
to
pay
that
tuition
fees
for
provide
grants over
families to help four years,
first tuition bill. students without
Quebeckers
them pay for
Because we
adequate
with a social
with an
their education
realize
how
financial
means,
safety net
emphasis on
and ensure that
important this is, including
through
helping
debt loads are
our
removing
the
enhanced
students who
manageable. We need it most,
Conservative
inadequate 2%
equalization,
will increase the creating as
Government has annual cap on
increased postmaximum
contributed
increased funding secondary
many as
Canada Student 50,000 new
significantly to
for post
education
Grant for lowCanadian
secondary
transfers and an
grants;
income students Immediately
families RESPs, education for all
end to fiscal
to $3,000 per
through
First
Nations
and
imbalance.
begin phasing
year for fullout interest on matching grants. Inuit students.
time students,
Through
federal student These
and to $1,800
enhancements
consultation and
loans,
per year for part- eliminating it
could mean as
collaboration
time students. In completely by
much as $2,200 with provincial
addition, to help Year 7 and
more per student governments and
more students
or roughly a half universities and
saving the
from middle
years tuition
colleges, by 2020
average
class families
costs
in
we will abolish
student $4,000;
qualify for
additional
tuition fees for
and
Canada Student
government
post-secondary
Work
with
the
Grants, we will
support.
education and
provinces and
increase the
skills training for
territories
to
income
Canadians,
make postthresholds for
guaranteeing that
secondary
eligibility,
income is never a
education more
giving more
barrier for
affordable,
Canadian
qualified
accessible,
and
students access
students.
inclusive.
to even larger
grants. This
investment will
be funded by
cancelling the

poorly targeted
education and
textbook tax
credits. The
tuition tax credit
will be
maintained.

Health Care

As an
immediate
commitment, we
will invest $3
billion, over the
next four years,
to deliver more
and better home
care services for
all Canadians.
This includes
more access to
high quality inhome
caregivers,
financial
supports for
family care, and,
when necessary,
palliative care.
To help families
care for their
loved ones at
home, we will
make the
Employment
Insurance
Compassionate
Care Benefit
more flexible
and easier to
access, so that it

A re-elected
Conservative
Government will
build on this
record by
funding further
research into
how palliative
care is best
provided to
Canadians. This
research, carried
out in
conjunction with
the Canadian
Hospice
Palliative Care
Association, will
focus on
veterans,
through the
Canadian
Institute for
Military and
Veteran Health
Research at
Queens
University, and
First Nations,
through the
Improving Endof-Life Care in

The NDP will

ask profitable
corporations to
pay their fair
share, and
invest that
money in
childcare,
pharmacare
and health
care.

We will
implement a
National
Pharmacare Plan
that, through the
advantage of bulk
buying, will
actually save
Canadians $11
billion each year.
It will especially
benefit senior
citizens, who
spend the most
on prescription
medication, and it
will allow
physicians and
doctors to better
track if patients
are at risk of
dangerous overmedication. We
will be far more
rigorous in
assessing new
drug applications.
We will apply the
gold standard for
pharmaceutical
review to ensure
we reject drugs

The party says

it would use a
new formula
that would tie
funding
increases to
economic and
population
growth,
promising the
transfers would
never fall below
three per cent a
year.
Duceppe called
on the next
federal
government to
consider costs
related to the
country's aging
population
when it
proposes a new
health deal.
He said Quebec
would need an

Environment

provides help
for more than
just end-of-life
care

First Nations
Communities
project at
Lakehead
University.

We will instead
partner with
provincial and
territorial
leaders to
develop real
climate change
solutions,
consistent with
our international
obligations to
protect the
planet, all while
growing our
economy.
Together, we
will attend the
Paris climate
conference, and
within 90 days
formally meet to
establish a
panCanadian
framework for
combatting
climate change

The solution to
the climate
change
challenge must
come from
innovation, not
deprivation
through
technology and
Canadian
ingenuity, not by
closing down
our vital natural
resources
industries or
imposing jobkilling carbon
taxes.

lead the
Canadian
delegation to
the COP21
climate
conference in
Paris with firm
targets to cut
pollution, and
bring in a
home retrofit
program to
lower your
household
heating costs.

shown to hurt
more people than
they heal. At the
same time, our
Pharmacare Plan
will provide
much needed
coverage to the
millions of
Canadians who
are forced to pay
out-of-pocket for
prescription
medication every
year.
Our plan is to
move to the
virtual
elimination of
fossil fuel use in
Canada by midcentury. Our
short-term target
is 40 percent
below 2005
levels by 2025,
while we are
calling for 80
percent
reductions below
1990 levels by
2050.

extra $7.3
billion over 10
years to cover
those agingrelated costs.

proposing
measures to
reduce Qubecs
dependence on
oil: tax
incentives to
help families
convert their
home heating
system and
undertake
energy
efficiency
retrofits in their
homes;
measures to
promote electric
cars; support
for the
development of
biofuels from
agricultural,
household and
forestry waste;
renewable
energy
development
assistance;
support for
companies that
switch to more

Law and
Order

repeal changes
made by Bill C42 that allow
restricted and
prohibited
weapons to be
freely
transported
without a
permit, and we
will put
decisionmaking about
weapons
restrictions back
in the hands of
police, not
politicians;
provide $100
million each
year to the
provinces and
territories to
support guns
and gangs
police task
forces to take
illegal guns off
our streets and
reduce gang
violence;
modify the
membership of
the Canadian
Firearms
Advisory
Committee to
include
knowledgeable
law
enforcement
officers, public
health

Canadians can
count on us to
keep the
budget balanced
and taxes low in
the next four
years. Were so
committed to
these goals

call an inquiry
into missing and
murdered
Indigenous
women, repeal
Bill C-51 and
introduce a new
Accountability
Act

energy-efficient
patterns of
production
tackling
Table a bill that
crime,
would force
delivering justice, federally
reducing
regulated
recidivism,
companies to
protecting
conform to
Canadas borders, Bill101,
and combating
Quebec's
terrorism. Revise language law.
laws to
increase penalties
for domestic
violence and
ensure protection
for the victims
and survivors of
domestic
violence and
much more

advocates,
representatives
from womens
groups, and
members of the
legal
community;
require
enhanced
background
checks for
anyone seeking
to purchase a
handgun or
other restricted
firearm;
require
purchasers of
firearms to
show a license
when they buy
a gun, and
require all
sellers of
firearms to
confirm that the
license is valid
before
completing the
sale;
require firearms
vendors to keep
records of all
firearms
inventory and
sales to assist
police in
investigating
firearms
trafficking and
other gun
crimes;

Family

allow parents
to receive
benefits in
smaller blocks
of time over a
period of up to
18 months; and
make it possible
for parents to
take a longer
leave up to 18
months when
combined with
maternity
benefits at a
lower benefit
level. We will
work with the
provinces and
territories to
amend their
labour codes, to
reflect these new
federal benefits.
This more
flexible plan
will benefit
more Canadians,
representing an
investment of
$125 million per
year in the
economic
security of
Canadian
families.

The Home
Buyers Plan
allows aspiring
homeowners to
make tax-free
withdrawals
from their
Registered
Retirement
Savings Plans to
finance the
purchase or new
construction of
their first home.
In 2009, our
Conservative
Government
increased the
allowable
withdrawal from
$20,000 to
$25,000 the
first increase
since the
program was
established a
generation
earlier. This has
become an
important
method of
financing for
firsttime
homeowners,
benefiting
almost 200,000
Canadians a
year.

Helping
working moms
and dads with
one million
quality childcare
spaces at no
more than $15 a
day. Giving
parents an extra
five weeks of
parental leave.
Cracking down
on excessive
ATM fees and
ensuring
Canadians can
access a
lowinterest
credit card.
Speeding up
family
reunification,
specifically the
reunion of
children with
their parents.
Fast-tracking
foreign
credential
recognition for
immigrants.
Increasing
student grants
and eliminating
interest on
student loans.
Creating 40,000
jobs, co-op
placements and
internships for
youth.
Reinstating the
federal
minimum wage

We will work
with the
provinces,
territories and
Indigenous
communities to
establish
accessible,
convenient,
enriched and
affordable child
care spaces for
any Canadian
family that seeks
it. We will
support women
to re-enter the
workforce
whenever they
choose after
having children.

tax incentives
to help families
convert their
home heating
system and
undertake
energy
efficiency
retrofits in their
homes

and raising it to
$15 an hour.
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https://www.ndp.ca/news/college-university-to-be-more-affordable-under-ndp
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