CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Group Members: Dev Parikh

Issue Liberal NDP Conservative Green Bloc

Quebecois
Education
The Liberal The NDP will invest The Conservative The Green The Bloc
Party will help 250 million dollars in Party will Party will Quebecois
students from federal grants establish the establish a Party will
low and towards students. following grant. Youth push the
middle class They will eliminate The Canada Community federal
families afford interest on federal Education and governmen
their loans. Work with the Savings Grant Environment t to restore
education. provinces and provides Service education
The grant territories to make matching federal Corps, which transfers to
each student post-secondary funding on would provide the levels
can receive is education more contributions federal seen
also being affordable, made to RESPs minimum before the
increased. accessible, and to help families wage cuts in the
inclusive. save for their employment mid-
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Health Care
The Liberal NDP government Under the The Green The Bloc
Party will will establish a $100 Conservative Party will Quebecois
invest 3 billion million Mental governments establish a Party will
dollars over 4 Health Innovation 2011 health-care federal spend at
years to Fund for Children deal, increases to Crown least 250
deliver better and Youth aimed at health transfers corporation to million
health care wait-time reduction will be tied to bulk buy dollars over
for and improved care. economic growth prescription the span of
Canadians. after 2016-17. In medication to 5 years for
This includes The Mental Health terms of universal drive down a tax credit
caregivers, Innovation Fund prescription drug the cost to for
palliative includes: coverage, Mr. provinces, caregivers.
care, and 1. A special Harper has said build on the
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and youth The national
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care. intend to study increase
2. $10 million the Supreme investment in
per year for Courts ruling on preventative
research and physician- health care.
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Source:
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news/mulcair-to-
improve-mental-
health-care-young-
canadians

Environment
The Liberal The NDP promises The Conservative The Green The Bloc
Party will it will invest $100- Party has Party will Quebecois
spend 20 million in renewable championed strengthen Party
billion dollars energy development Enbridges $7.9- CEPA with supports a
over 10 years in northern and billion Northern specific and federal
for a greener remote Gateway plan strong GHG
infrastructure communities. and regulations to emissions
and issue TransCanadas reduce limit that
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Law and
Order The Liberal The NDP believes The Conservative The Green The Bloc
Party believes they should Party believes Party Quebecois
youth maintain a youth that the youth believes that Party
offenders criminal justice should be treated youth should believes
should not be system that is as adults in the be treated that youth
punished as different from the criminal system. differently criminals
adults, the adult system. They They also believe from adults in should be
gun registry also believe that the the gun registry is a criminal punished
should be gun registry needs wasteful and justice different
improved to to be fixed and should be system. They from adults.
serve police decriminalizing scrapped. The also believe They also
and gun marijuana party also that the gun believe that
owners better, possession with the believes that registry the gun
and small goal of removing its possession of should be registry
amounts of production. marijuana should kept, and should not
marijuana for be a criminal marijuana be
personal use Source: offense. should be scrapped,
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Family
The Liberal The NDP promises The Conservative The Green The Bloc
Party would to budget $2.6- Party promises to Party will Quebecois
create a billion for the expand EI modify the continue to
Canada Child expanded Universal maternity and Income Tax support
Benefit Child Care Benefit parental benefits Act to enable $184-
program program, adding for new parents, income million per
splitting it 595 million dollars increase the splitting. year going
from the toward their vision Child Care The party will to a federal
Universal of $15 a day Expense establish a child-care
Child Care universal child care Deduction by national tax credit.
Benefit with 1 million child- $1,000 and affordable Gradual
program care spaces, and maintain the housing investment
which would 500 million dollars Universal Child program, by the
provide for low-income Care Benefit. building federal
families with families to be 20,000 new governmen
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4. and Working ews/politics/electi units a year. invested in
Income Tax Benefit. ons/party- The party will social
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