CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Group Members:_______________________________________________________

Issue Liberal NDP Conservative Green Bloc

Quebecois
Education We will make The Green
post- Party isnt like
secondary any other
education political party.
more Our mission is
affordable. to rescue
grassroots
For too many democracy from
Canadians, the political spin
rising costs have that makes
made post- voters recoil.
secondary Our goal is to
education make sure the
increasingly out planet and our
of reach. communities
survive and
It is harder and thrive.
harder for
middle class Elizabeth May is
families to save the Leader of the
for their kids Green Party of
education, while Canada and its
many lower- first elected
income families Member of
are not able to Parliament,
save at all. At representing
the same time, Saanich-Gulf
the federal Islands in
government southern
spends billions Vancouver
each year on Island. Elizabeth
non-refundable is an
tax credits that environmentalist
offer little direct , writer, activist
help for students and lawyer, who
when they need has a long
it. record as a
dedicated
We will provide advocate for
direct help to social justice,
students from for the
low- and environment, for
middle-income human rights,
families to help and for
them pay for pragmatic
their education economic
and ensure that solutions.
debt loads are
manageable. We
will increase the
maximum
Canada Student
Grant for low-
income students
to $3,000 per
year for full-
time students,
and to $1,800
per year for part-
time students.

In addition, to
help more
students from
middle class
families qualify
for Canada
Student Grants,
we will increase
the income
thresholds for
eligibility,
giving more
Canadian
students access
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.
This will
increase the
level of non-
repayable grant
assistance to
students by $750
million per year,
rising to $850
million per year
by 2019/20.

We will also
make our
student loan
system more
flexible. We will
ensure that no
graduate with
student loans
will be required
to make any
repayment until
they are earning
an income of at
least $25,000
per year.

This will be
done by
changing the
income
thresholds in the
Repayment
Assistance Plan
for recent
graduates. The
federal
government will
continue to pay
the interest on
student loans
until graduates
begin to earn
sufficient
incomes to take
 over their own
payments and
repay their own
loans.

Health Care Canada's health NDP Leader

care system is a Tom Mulcair
group of focused on
socialized health mental health
insurance plans services for
that provides young
coverage to all Canadians as he
Canadian announced
citizens. It is another
publicly funded component of
and his bold plan to
administered on improve public
a provincial or health care and
territorial basis, reverse the
within damage done by
guidelines set by years of Liberal
the federal and
government. Conservative
neglect.
Under the health
care system, Every child in
individual Canada should
citizens are have access to
provided high quality,
preventative effective mental
care and medical health treatment
treatments from when they need
primary care it and thats not
physicians as been the case
well as access to under Stephen
hospitals, dental Harpers lost
surgery and decade, said
additional Mulcair.
medical Evidence
services. With a shows that
few exceptions, addressing
 all citizens mental health in
qualify for children reduces
health coverage the incidence of
regardless of serious mental
medical history, health issues in
personal adulthood,
income, or which reduces
standard of costs and strain
living. on provincial
healthcare
systems.

Nearly 1.5
million
Canadians under
the age of 24
who are affected
by mental illness
do not receive
access to
appropriate
support,
treatment or
care.

Environment We will make NDP will protect

environmental the environment
assessments and grow the
credible again. economy

Resource-based House debates

projects can NDP bill to cut
create jobs and emissions and
spur investment, make polluters
but success pay
depends on
regaining public NDP Urban
trust. Affairs critic
Matthew
Canadians must Kellway
be able to trust (Beaches East
that government York) is urging
will engage in all MPs to
appropriate support his bill,
regulatory The Climate
oversight, Change
including Accountability
credible Act, which sets
environmental out real action to
assessments, and reduce
that it will emissions and
respect the combat climate
rights of those change.
most affected,
such as Im proud to
Indigenous continue Jack
communities. Laytons fight
While for a clean
governments environment and
grant permits for serious action on
resource climate change,
development, said Kellway.
only Successive
communities can Conservative
grant and Liberal
permission. inaction has hurt
our environment
We will and failed to
immediately take advantage
review Canadas of opportunities
environmental in the new
assessment energy
processes and economy.
introduce new,
fair processes Bill C-619
that will: proposes
national
restore robust emissions
oversight and reduction targets
thorough as part of the
environmental global effort to
assessments of reduce
areas under greenhouse gas
federal emissions and
jurisdiction, avoid the
while also catastrophic
working with effects of
provinces and climate change.
territories to It also includes
avoid accountability
duplication; mechanisms to
ensure that ensure these
decisions are targets are met.
based on
science, facts,
and evidence,
and serve the
publics interest;
provide ways for
Canadians to
express their
views and
opportunities for
experts to
meaningfully
participate; and
require project
advocates to
choose the best
technologies
available to
reduce
environmental
impacts.
We will
modernize the
National Energy
Board, ensuring
that its
composition
reflects regional
views and has
sufficient
expertise in
fields like
environmental
science,
community
development,
and Indigenous
traditional
knowledge.

We will end the

practice of
having federal
Ministers
 interfere in the
environmental
assessment
process.

Law and
Order

Family We will give Increasingly,

families more national and
money to help international
with the high studies
cost of raising document
their kids. significant stress
on Canadian
We will cancel children and
tax breaks and their parents.
benefits for the While it is true
wealthy that an
including the unacceptably
Universal Child large number of
Care Benefit Canadian
and introduce a families live in
new Canada poverty, many
Child Benefit to more are
give Canadian suffering from
families more time poverty.
money to raise Statistics
their kids. Canada tracks
time stress of
With the Canada Canadians and
Child Benefit, reports a steady
nine out of ten increase in
Canadian Canadians who
families will report not
receive more having enough
than under time in their
Stephen lives to
Harpers accomplish all
confusing required tasks.
collection of Longer
child benefit commutes rob
programs. For Canadians of
the typical time at home.
family of four, Longer working
that means an hours rob
additional community
$2,500 in help, members of time
tax-free, every for volunteer
year. activities. Poorly
planned transit
Family with 1 and the lack of
child Family convenient
with 2 children workplace child
Household care spaces rob
Income parents of time
Our Plan with their kids.
Harpers
Plan Our Plan There is a real
Harpers cost to society as
Plan citizens have
$15,000 less and less
$6,400 time to
$5,825 contribute to
$11,800 community and
$10,175 school activities.
$45,000 Not surprisingly,
$5,380 Statistics
$3,350 Canada also
$9,850 reports a steady
$5,900 decline in
$90,000 volunteer hours
$3,245 donated by
$2,125 Canadians. Lack
$5,875 of time to
$3,300 contribute to
$140,000 community also
$1,695 leads to feelings
$1,500 of loss and
 $3,125 alienation. On
$2,050 the other hand,
$200,000 time spent in
$0 effort to better
$1,425 our society leads
$0 to positive
$1,950 feelings of
Because the affiliation
Canada Child (belonging) and
Benefit is tax- of empowerment
free and tied to (knowing ones
income, it also actions make a
provides greater difference).
support to those Greens will
who need help address this
the most: single- multi-layered
parent families problem in
and low-income many policies:
families. Our fiscal, labour,
plan will lift and social
315,000 programs.
Canadian
children out of
poverty.

Stephen Harper
thinks that
government
should provide
child support
payments to
millionaires. We
will end that
unfair giveaway.