Childcare
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- Invest $1.6B over 5 years to create 45000 licensed child care spaces (4)
- Provide $2.2B to introduce free preschool for children aged two and a half until eligible for kindergarten starting 2020(4)
- Provide First Nations with $40M over three years in new operating funding for new and existing child care programs on‐reserve (4)
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- Introduce the Ontario Childcare Tax Rebate for parents with children under the age of 15, that will pay up to 75% of a family’s childcare expenses, with lower income families receiving the most support (12)
- The Ontario Childcare Rebate will cover licensed care, independent care, babysitters, nannies and after-school programs (12)
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- Phase in free child care for those making under $40,000, $12/day for others (2)
- Increase wages for early childhood educators (2)
- Expand the number of child care spaces by 202,000, a 51% increase (2)
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- Increase funding for licensed child care spaces (1)
- Require all new elementary schools to include childcare spaces (1)
- Phase in funding to support free daycare for working parents with children under age 3 (1)
- Provide incentives to offset the capital costs for businesses to set up onsite daycare (1)
- Incease funding for daycares on First Nations land (1)
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Economy & Employment
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- Provide $547M over 5 years for repairs and retrofits to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of social housing (4)
- Provide $5.8M over 3 years to support a Habitat for Humanity build factory in Burlington (4)
- Invest $935M over 3 years for the Good Jobs and Growth Plan (4)
- Provide an additional $900M over 10 years to the Jobs and Prosperity Fund (4)
- Invest $500M over 10 years in the Province’s New Economy Fund (4)
- Invest $85M over 10 years in the Venture Technologies Fund (4)
- Invest $50M over 10 years in the Transformative Technology Partnerships Fund (4)
- Invest an additional $100M over 10 years in the Eastern Ontario and Southwestern Ontario Development Funds (4)
- Invest $100M over 10 years in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Fund (4)
- Provide $85M over 3 years to the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (4)
- Invest $500M over 3 years for the expansion of broadband connectivity to Northern and rural communities (4)
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- Run a deficit in the first year (8)
- Cut $6 billion from Ontario’s budget without laying off any public employees (8)
- Call an outside audit of government spending. The results of the audit will be publically available in its entirety (9)
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- Cancel the Jobs and Prosperity fund (31)
- Lower business taxes from 11.5% to 10.5% (31)
- Reduce the small business tax rate by 8.7% (31)
- Provide more resources to support Ontario’s Auditor General (9)
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- Create a stream within the Jobs and Prosperity Fund to promote manufacturing research and development (2)
- Form an advisory panel on the “innovation economy” (2)
- Spend $1 billion on the Ring of Fire, focusing on infrastructure (2)
- Invest $57 million from the Jobs and Prosperity Fund for job creation in the trades with a particular focus on women (2)
- Create a $50-million fund over the next five years out of the Jobs and Prosperity Fund to match TV and film industry investment in new studio space (2)
- Invest $100 million in natural gas expansion to rural Ontario (2)
- Spend $1 billion to bring broadband service to rural and northern Ontario (2)
- Implement a cluster strategy focused on bringing together all actors within a strategic regional industry (2)
- Make a fund within the Jobs and Prosperity Fund to create opportunities for mid-career education (2)
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- Increase the tax exemption level for the Employer Health Tax to $1 million to provide cash flow savings for local businesses and non-profits (1)
- Support the Pay Transparency to Close the Gender Pay Gap Act to hold employers accountable for gender pay gaps in their workplaces (1)
- Provide an option for employers to receive up-front subsidies when hiring Co-op students as an alternative to Co-Operative Education Tax Credits (1)
- Produce an electronic, single-entry access to the application and registration process for apprenticeship programs (1)
- Reduce the ratio of journey people to apprentices to one-to-one to open more jobs and training opportunities (1)
- Enact a Basic Income Guarantee pilot program with the intention of using its findings to produce a functional Basic Income Guarantee plan (1)
- Conduct a census of vulnerable jobs in transition to a low carbon economy and develop “a strategy” to aid employee transition to those jobs – including retraining, living wages, etc (1)
- Create dedicated funding opportunities for small businesses by reforming business development support programs (1)
- End the 3 month waiting period to make OHIP immediately available for migrant and temporary foreign workers (1)
- Require all company pension plans to be fully funded to meet obligations in the event of bankruptcy (1)
- Eliminate pension fund deficits within 5 years (1)
- Overhaul the workplace insurance regime (1)
- Incentivize the organizing of freelance workers to form associations to allow them to access group benefits (1)
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Education
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- Provide $2.2B to introduce free preschool for children aged two and a half until eligible for kindergarten (4)
- Provide $250M over 3 years to improve access to special education assessments and special education programs in schools (4)
- Provide $120M to increase support for students in Grades 7 and 8 (4)
- Invest an additional $21M over 3 years to expose students to arts education (4)
- Invest $49M over 3 years for student development programs (4)
- Provide $16B over 10 years in new and improved schools (4)
- Contribute $45.6m over 3 years to the Ontario Bridge Training Program for skilled immigrants (4)
- Provide $28M over 3 years to create a Digital Public Library (4)
- Increase the Public Library Operating Grant by $51M over 3 years (4)
- Provide $411 million to fund a high-school apprenticeship program (4)
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- Revise curricular documents in all core subject areas, and open the issue up to the Conservative party, parents, and voters (5)
- Scrap ‘Discovery math’ (6)
- Make math mandatory in teachers colleges (7)
- Overhaul the EQAO standardized testing (7)
- Restore the previous sex-education curriculum until a new one can be installed based on consultation with parents (7)
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- Provide an additional $38 million beyond the existing government funding for education of children with autism (31)
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- Hire more teachers and educational assistants (2)
- Impose a moratorium on school closings (2)
- Cap kindergarten classroom sizes at 26 students (2)
- Invest $16 billion to repair schools (2)
- End Kindergarten / Grade 1 split classrooms (2)
- End EQAO (standardized testing) (2)
- Change the rules around education development charges to fund new schools (2)
- Ensure Schools teach inclusive history (including minority groups, experiences) (2)
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- Establish an Ontario Youth Green Corps to provide summer job experience and help young people learn job skills (1)
- Increase funding for children’s mental health services (counsellors, psychologists, etc.) (1)
- Eliminate standardized testing (EQAO) (1)
- Ensure average class size of grades 4 to 8 does not exceed 22 students (1)
- Reduce Kindergarten class size through application of class size caps (1)
- Develop an evidence-based plan for ensuring a sufficient amount of physical activity in schools (1)
- Integrate the public and separate school boards and develop clear guidelines on the closing of local schools, freezing school closures until these are reached (1)
- Provide professional learning on equity, anti-racism, and Indigenous issues in schools while requiring school boards to collect race-based data to incorporate into race equity components of education programs (1)
- Fund nutrition programs to improve student health (1)
- Require all new elementary schools to include childcare spaces (1)
- Expand the Urban and Priority High Schools program (UPHS) to provide additional funding to high schools in urban low socioeconomic status communities (1)
- Make age-appropriate curriculum on Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary contributions to Canada a mandatory education requirement for K-12 grades (1)
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Environment & Parks
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- Provide $52M over 3 years towards sustaining the Great Lakes (4)
- Provide $15M over 3 years to preserve Ontario’s natural heritage (4)
- Spend $1.7B over three years to support energy-saving programs under the Green Ontario Fund (3)
- Invest $52M over three years for new technologies to deal with toxic chemicals, excessive algae and road salt; better manage sewer system overflow (3)
- Spend $15M over three years to protect forests, wetlands and lakes (3)
- Provide $547M over 5 years for repairs and retrofits to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of social housing (4)
- Invest more than $90M in 2017–18 in commuter cycling (3)
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- Repeal Ontario’s existing cap-and-trade system (19)
- Oppose the federal carbon tax plan (19)
- Repeal the Ontario Green Energy Act (19)
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- Scrap the carbon tax (31)
Decrease the price of gas by 10 cents/litre (31)
Set up an emissions-reduction fund (31)
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- Update the environmental bill of rights (2)
- Introduce a $50 million no-interest and on-bill home retrofit program to help people consume less power (payed with cap and trade revenue) (2)
- Clean up the mercury in the English–Wabigoon River system to get two first nations access to potable water (2)
- Form a Provincial Forest Strategy to protect the longterm sustainability of the forests (2)
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- Place an immediate and indefinite ban on fracking (1)
- Implement a carbon pricing mechanism to improve incentives for low carbon products (1)
- Implement incentives for businesses investing in low carbon equipment and green economic activity (1)
- Implement incentives for businesses that participate in training in job growth areas such as green building, renewable energy, sustainable transportation (1)
- Provide startup grants for Northern Ontario and First Nations communities to create renewable projects and build water purification systems (1)
- Redirect business support programs to target scaling up of cleantech companies, while eliminating support for proposals that would increase Ontario’s greenhouse gas pollution (1)
- Establish government procurement rules for purchasing low carbon products/services, supporting Ontario-made clean tech products to commercialize Ontario innovation (1)
- Conduct a census of vulnerable jobs and economic sectors in transition to low carbon economy to help worker transition (1)
- Implement border adjustment taxes (import fees on goods manufactured in non-carbon taxing countries) (1)
- Provide online entrepreneurial courses, business modelling workshops, and startup capital to young entrepreneurs to start green businesses (1)
- Pass the Organic Products Act to establish a standard definition for Organic, to allow producer’s use of the term to be backed by third party certification (1)
- Invest in stronger monitoring and enforcement of air quality (1)
- Oppose the reverse flow of Line 9 (http://www.enbridge.com/ECRAI.aspx) (1)
- Transition Ontario to a revenue-neutral carbon fee-and-dividend system by levying a fee on all goods and services that result in greenhouse gas pollution, and return all pollution tax revenue to citizens (1)
- Provide incentives for improving energy efficiency of existing buildings (1)
- Set a target date for phasing out internal combustion engines with the goal of Ontario meeting a carbon neutral target by 2050. Raise the average fuel eonomy emission standards to encourage more fuel efficient vehicles (1)
- Increase HST rebate allowance on new homes that are net zero carbon (1)
- Revise the Ontario Building Code to mandate that all new buildings meet net zero carbon standards (1)
- Establish a Green Mortgage program where mortgage default risk is protected by the province to provide incentives for mortgage providers to offer low-interest mortgages on energy efficient homes (1)
- Create a dedicated funding stream for green infrastructure (1)
- Provide new carbon-free educational grants for students (1)
- Support fleet electrification by providing funding for the public and private sector to purchase electric vehicles and install charging facilities (1)
- Provide a rebate program for private citizens purchase of electric vehicles, eliminate HST on zero emission vehicles, and provide free overnight vehicle charging for residential customers (1)
- Move towards installing electric vehicle charging stations at all public buildings and along 400 series highways (1)
- Support rapid electrification plans for all transit systems (1)
- Support public funding of research and development into clean technology innovation (1)
- Set and report on 5 year targets to reduce fossil fuel consumption with the goal of Ontario being carbon neutral by 2050 (1)
- Support public funding of research and development into clean technology innovation (1)
- Provide incentives for natural gas production from organic waste and other renewable sources (1)
- Establish low-carbon content requirements for natural gas distribution (1)
- Expand the Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program to reward landowners for planting trees (1)
- Reverse the government’s decision to close the Ontario Tree Seed Plant (1)
- Create incentives to reward landowners for increasing the organic content of their soil and support research to improve soil health (1)
- Implement stronger protections for wetlands, grasslands, and woodlots (1)
- Reward farmers for environmentally and community-conscious stewardship practices (1)
- Ensure that green infrastructure projects such as urban forests qualify for provincial infrastructure funding (1)
- Develop a central repository for climate data (1)
- Mandate permeable pavement on all new parking spaces to reduce flooding (1)
- Deny the electricity price increases intended to finance rebuilding the Darlington nuclear station, and place a moratorium on rebuilding any nuclear plant until an independent public review of costs and alternatives is conducted (1)
- Shut down the Pickering Nuclear Power Station when it’s operating license expires in August 2018 (1)
- Develop a Long-term Energy Plan for Ontario to be powered with 100% renewable energy (1)
- Establish a green revolving fund to use savings from energy conservation to invest in additional greenhouse gas reduction efforts (1)
- Establish public reporting requirements to ensure all publicly funded provincial institutions are accountable for the energy they use (1)
- Import green hydro power from neighbouring provinces (1)
- Provide incentives for homeowners, renters, and businessnesses convert to low carbon heating systems (1)
- Cancel programs that subsidize electricity rates for upper income consumers (1)
- Pursue the development of a smart grid to modernize Ontario’s electricity distribution system (1)
- Set aggressive greenhouse gas targets for provincial government operations and expand reduction programs to more public institutions (1)
- Require all new and resurfaced highways to have paved shoulders for safe cycling (1)
- Provide incentives for transit users, carpooling ride shares, and employers who provide opportunities for employees to work from home (1)
- Establish a sustainable goods movement strategy based on data collected from freight movement and employing low greenhouse gas fuels to replace diesel (1)
- Increase funding to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (1)
- Reform the Environmental Bill of Rights to include the right to a healthy environment for all Ontarians (1)
- Set aside a minimum of 17% of the land base in protected areas (1)
- Establish programs to monitor biodiversity, wetlands, and grasslands (1)
- Provide incentives for pollinator-friendly farming practices (1)
- Ban logging and resource extraction in provincial parks where ecological integrity is threatened (1)
- Phase out the single use bottled water industry in Ontario within 10 years (1)
- Require major municipalities to eliminate combined sewer overflows and sewage bypasses which discharge raw sewage into waterways during high volumes of flow (1)
- Establish standards to limit phosphorous emissions to water for sewer treatment plant effluent (1)
- Resolve the air pollution problems plaguing the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Sarnia (1)
- Make polluters pay for cleaning up contaminated groundwater (1)
- Provide incentives for farmers to use less fertilizer and better control farm field runoff (1)
- Require an assessment of air pollution sources and publish a registry of air toxins (1)
- Require full ingredient disclosure on product labelling and full disclosure of chemical use by dry cleaners (1)
- Cancel plans to bury nuclear waste near the Great lakes or major river systems and conduct an independent review of nuclear waste storage options (1)
- Reform the Endangered Species Act to remove exemptions that would protect companies from facing penalties for harming animals and their habitats (1)
- Enforce a complete ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides (1)
- Ban dolphins and whales in captivity (1)
- End the pit bull ban and replace it with a Responsible Pet Ownership law (1)
- Phase out battery farming (1)
- Ban the use of lost or abandoned pets in research (1)
- Establish Individual Producer Responsibility regulations so that companies are reponsible for the cost of disposing and recycling in the products and waste they produce (1)
- Reinstate the deposit and return system for all soft drink containers (1)
- Require organic source separation and ban organic waste from disposal, turning it into compost and natural gas (1)
- Impose a fee on any new landfill volume created (1)
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First Nations
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- Provide $5.5M in the 2017–18 school year for Nishnawbe Aski Nation students in urban centres (4)
- Provide Pikangikum First Nation with funding to hire 20 more mental health workers for children and youth at risk (4)
- Provide First Nations with $40M over three years in new operating funding for new and existing child care programs on‐reserve (4)
- Invest $290 million over six years in new child care capital infrastructure starting in 2019–20 on‐reserve creating 4,500 spaces (4)
- Continue to provide $104.5M annualy for First Nations to have better access to healthcare (4)
- Replace the Ontario Gas Card program with the presentation of a Certificate of Indian Status card (4)
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- Sign a cooperative, government-to-government accord with First Nations (2)
- Implement the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2)
- Replace the Far North Act (2)
- Implement revenue sharing for resource extraction (2)
- $209 million per year to the First Nations Health Action Plan starting 2019 (2)
- $28 million for repairs and upgrades at Friendship Centres, and an ongoing investment of $91 million over six years into 28 Friendship Centres (2)
- Continue to exempt First Nations communities from electricity delivery charges (2)
- Will transfer the province’s share of mining taxes to First Nations (2)
- Get First Nations access to clean drinking water (2)
- $30 million to First Nations policing (2)
- $41 million over four years for programming such as the Children Who Witness Violence Program (2)
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- Provide startup grants for Northern Ontario and First Nations communities to create renewable projects and build water purification systems (1)
- Resolve the air pollution problems plaguing the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Sarnia (1)
- Incease funding for daycares on First Nations land (1)
- Provide professional learning on equity, anti-racism, and Indigenous issues in schools and impletment an age-appropriate curriculum on Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary contributions to Canada a mandatory education requirement for K-12 grades (1)
- Support increases to Indigenous Student Bursary funding in post secondary institutions (1)
- Increase the number of Indigenous health care and education professionals and increase availability of health services for on-reserve and urban Indigenous populations (1)
- Make immediate investments in affordable urban Indigenous housing and develop an outcomes-based Indigenous Housing Strategy (1)
- Ensure inmates with mental illness are provided with appropriate healthcare, including services specific to First Nations (1)
- Establish a co-management stewardship model for Indigenous Peoples for the development of provincial resources, recongizing them as equals in land management (1)
- Reform child welfare programs to address over-representation of Indigenous and Black youth in child services (1)
- Establish cultural competency training on Indigenous issues for public facing professionals – in health care, education, childcare, and criminal justice professions – via skills-based training (1)
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Food & Agriculture
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- Increase the Risk Management Program (RMP) by $50 million annually (31)
- Expand sales of beer and wine into corner stores, grocery stores, and box stores (31)
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- Develop a Provincial Food and Water Strategy, to promote health through access to healthy food (2)
- Raise the cap on the Risk Management Program (2)
- In favour of supply management (2)
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- Invest in rural infrastructure to support rural job creation and incomes (1)
- Reward farmers for environmentally and community-conscious stewardship practices (1)
- Eliminate tax penalties and reduce zoning restrictions to facilitate local, on-farm food enterprises (locally-owned food businesses designed to create positive outcomes in their communities, via access to healthy food, support for local producers, or fair farm gate prices) (1)
- Make income stabilization programs more accessible (http://www.agricorp.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/AgriStability-Handbook-en.pdf) (1)
- Allow craft brewers to open craft beer/liquor stores and form distribution co-ops for more efficient/affordable distribution (1)
- Pass the Organic Products Act to establish a standard definition for Organic, to allow producer’s use of the term to be backed by third party certification(1)
- Establish an Ontario Food and Farming Policy Council to coordinate planning across ministries (1)
- Increase funding support for local food and beverage processors (1)
- Continuously update the provincial soil database to track farmland resources (1)
- Provide incentives for pollinator-friendly farming practices (1)
- Immediately freeze urban boundaries in the Greater Golden Horseshoe to protect water and farming (1)
- Provide incentives for farmers to use less fertilizer and better control farm field runoff (1)
- Enforce a complete ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides (1)
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Hydro
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- Introduce the Fair Hydro Plan to cut hydro bills by 25% with larger savings of 40-50% for rural communities (3)
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- Replace the CEO and Board of Directors of Hydro One (16)
(Please note: the political parties don’t actually have the power to fire them directly since Hydro One is privatized)
- Cut hydro bills by 12% on top of the 25% cut by the Liberal Party. This cut will be funded by returning the province’s annual $350-million dividend from its 49% share in Hydro One to ratepayers (17)
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- Cut hydro bills by 30% and make Hydro One public by buying back a controlling share (2)
- Cut rural electricity rates by about 15% (3)
- End time-of-use billing; set a flat rate of 10.3¢ per kWh (Currently, rates fluctuate between 6.5–13.2¢ per kWh based on the time of day) (3)
- Open negotiations with the federal government to remove HST on hydro bills (3)
- Reform the Tarion Warranty Corporation (2)
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- Would cancel the Liberal Fair Hydro program and instead purchase electricity from Quebec and Manitoba or rebuild (28)
- Oppose any efforts to increase the use of nuclear power and the rebuilding of the Darlington Nuclear station (28)
- Import green hydro power from neighbouring provinces (1)
- Cancel programs that subsidize electricity rates for upper income consumers (1)
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Housing & Services
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- Provide $547M over 5 years for repairs and retrofits to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of social housing (4)
- Invest $425M over 4 years to provide 2475 housing units to reduce homelessness (4)
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- Preserve rent control for existing tenants across Ontario (31)
- Scrap the 15% foreign-buyers tax on real estate (14)
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- Build 65,000 new affordable homes (2)
- Overhaul the Inclusionary Zoning regulations (2)
- Introduce a Housing Speculation Tax (2)
- Allow seniors to defer property taxes until they sell their home (2)
- Fund the province’s one-third share of repairing social housing (2)
- Reform the Tarion Warranty Corporation (2)
- Make rentals more affordable (2)
- Increase funding to the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund to $550 million (2)
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- Employ taxes on vacant properties to reduce speculation (1)
- Alter Ontario’s inclusionary zoning legislation to mandate that developers include at least 1 new unit of affordable housing per 5 new houses or condos (1)
- Remove requirements that municipal goverments pay a percentage of the cost of affordable housing (1)
- Provide incentives for development of affordable housing beyond the minimum requirement (1)
- Make immediate investments in affordable urban Indigenous housing and develop an outcomes-based Indigenous Housing Strategy (1)
- Create a provincial coordinated access point for all affordable housing options available to streamline the application for waitlist and placement (1)
- Develop dedicated supportive housing for people with mental health and addictions issues, physical disabilities, or acquired brain injuries, or those who are homeless/at risk of homelessness (1)
- Increase the number of secondary women’s shelters in Ontario, and expedite the portable housing benefit that will assist women fleeing violence (1)
- Increase HST rebate allowance on new homes that are net zero carbon (1)
- Revise the Ontario Building Code to mandate that all new buildings meet net zero carbon standards (1)
- Establish a Green Mortgage program where mortgage default risk is protected by the province to provide incentives for mortgage providers to offer low-interest mortgages on energy efficient homes (1)
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Health
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- Increase investments in healthcare by $5B over 3 years (4)
- Add 5000 long term care beds by 2022 (4)
- Hire 3,500 new nurses by the end of this year (4)
- Introduce a drug and dental program to cover 80 per cent of specific drugs and dental costs (4)
- Expand OHIP+ program to cover drug costs to seniors 65 and over (projected to cost $575M) (4)
- Provide $19B in capital grants over 10 years to hospitals to improve health care infrastructure (4)
- Invest $330M to support recruitment/retention of health care professionals (4)
- Provide $5M over 3 years to support concussion awareness and management (4)
- Provide an additional $2.1B to enhance mental health care (4)
- Provide $570M to improve community level mental health support over 4 years (4)
- Invest $175M over 4 years to increase student access to mental health services (4)
- Introduce a “wage grid” in 2020 (to be phased in over 2 years) to support early years education professionals (4)
- Provide $650M to increase home care over 3 years (4)
- Invest $23M to add up to 5500 Personal Support Workers to the health care workforce (4)
- Invest $38M over 3 years in education and training for Personal Support Workers (4)
- Invest $65M over 3 years to match Personal Support Workers Tax-Free Savings Account contributions (4)
- Invest $75M over 3 years to strengthen palliative and end of life care (4)
- Provide $100M over 3 years for the Province’s Dementia Strategy (4)
- Provide $300M over 3 years to provide registered nurses for long term care centres (4)
- Invest $6M over 3 years for expanded access to home calls for seniors (4)
- Provide $1.8B to expand services for people living with developmental disabilities (4)
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- Add 15,000 new long-term care beds in five years, and 30,000 new beds over the next 10 years (24)
- Spend $1.9 billion over the next decade on mental health and addiction supports and housing (25)
- Reduce the provincial taxes of doctors practicing in northern Ontario to 0% in order to incentivize more doctors to move up north (19)
- Require minors to obtain permission from their parents before having an abortion procedure (19)
- Pledges $98 million per year for low-income households to access dental care, using a similar threshold as the Ontario Drug Benefit (26)
- Opposes safe injection sites and will instead focus on drug rehabilitation (27)
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- Spend $3.8 billion over the next decade on mental health and addiction supports and housing. (31)
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- Increase hospital funding immediately by 5.3% with a $916 million investment, and ensure every hospital’s funding will be at or above inflation, and take into account population growth and aging populations (2)
- Implement a $475-million pharmacare plan covering 125 commonly prescribed drugs including some take-home cancer medication and drugs used for those transitioning genders (3)
- Invest $19 billion over 10 years for hospitals, adding 2,000 new hospital beds and 15,000 long-term care beds by 2023 (40,000 by 2028) (2)
- End caps on surgeries to shorten wait times (2)
- Set standards to ensure each resident is offered a minimum of four hours of hands-on care per day (cost estimate of $257 million a year) (2)
- Hold a public inquiry into long-term care (2)
- Update the Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights to give couples the right to stay together (2)
- Invest $30 million in community care and open 35 new Community Health Centres by 2025 (2)
- Expand full dental to contract, full and part-time workers, as well as low-income children and retired seniors living without a pension or dental insurance (2)
- Create 70 new public dental clinics and seven new mobile dental buses (2)
- End front-line health care staff layoffs (2)
- Ensure presumptive PTSD coverage for front-line health care workers (2)
- Add 360 midwives and not cut or close any women’s health centres (2)
- Eliminate wait times for palliative and end-of-life care (2)
- Increase homecare funding by 300 million (see page 24)(2)
Improve palliative care with $75 million over three years, plus $15 million in
- 2018-19 to increase access to hospices (2)
- Infest $209 million immediately in the First Nations Health Action Plan (2)
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- Make OHIP available to all Ontario residents and end the 3 month waiting period for migrant and temporary foreign workers (1)
- Implement a universal dental care program (1)
- Push for a federally funded Pharmacare program. In the absence of a federal program, extend a provincially funded Pharmacare program (1)
- Reduce hospital overcrowding by relying on home care, long term care, community care, etc (1)
- Develop a health care capacity plan based on care needs within the population (1)
- Create an integrated funding structure for health care to ensure care is provided by the most appropriate and cost-effective provider (1)
- Increase the number of nurse practitioners (1)
- Increase funding for Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) (http://www.lhins.on.ca/) (1)
- Provide Ontarians with electronic access to their personal health records (1)
- Produce clear, fair, and thorough guidelines for insurance claimants (1)
- Mandate training for primary health care practitioners on health care needs of trans and gender-diverse people (1)
- Expand the number of abortion clinics throughout Ontario (1)
- Increase funding and provide guidelines for proper care in residential homes for people with severe disabilities (1)
- Ensure all health care providers are working at their full scope of practice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_of_practice) (1)
- Provide equal pay for equal for across health care professions (1)
- Provide mental health and addictions training for all health care professionals (1)
- Increase funding for home and community care (1)
- Provide support for family members who care for an infirm relative full time (1)
- Develop and fund research into smart home technology that would permit monitoring and early response to negative health outcomes that occur with advanced age (1)
- Permit nurse practitioners to act as primary health care providers (1)
- Develop a Lyme Disease strategy for Ontario to coordinate with the existing Federal Framework on Lyme Disease Act and include Lyme Disease treatment as part of OHIP (1)
- Reinstate the Eat Right program to assist in making healthy nutritional choices (1)
- Increase funding for mental health and addiction programs and research, including from revenue derived from cannabis (1)
- Found Mental Health and Addictions Ontario – an organization to consolidate mental-health and addictions programs and drive future strategy (1)
- Declare the opioid crisis a state of emergency, directing more funds and effort towards combatting it (1)
- Give the Minister of Health the power to authorize the operation of both govermnment-sanctioned and community run supervised injection sites when a public health emergency is declared – this would include the opioid crisis (1)
- Increase recognition and accessibility of culturally diverse mental health and addictions services (1)
- Develop dedicated supportive housing for people with mental health and addictions issues, physical disabilities, or acquired brain injuries, or those who are homeless/at risk of homelessness (1)
- Extend health benefits to cover low income Ontarians outside of the social insurance system (1)
- Increase availability of mental health services in the education system (1)
- Increase the number of Indigenous health care and education professionals and increase availability of health services for on-reserve and urban Indigenous populations (1)
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Infrastructure & Transportation
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- Invest more than $90 million in 2017–18 to support commuter cycling (3)
- Set aside $79B for different public transit projects—up $24 billion from the 2017 budget (4)
- $11B (of the 79B) to set the groundwork for a high-speed rail line between Toronto to Windsor (4)
- $68B (of the 79B) would go to integrating municipal services to allow for broader regional infrastructure (4)
- Match a federal grant of nearly $5 billion, with a $4 billion contribution from the provincial infrastructure budgets for public transit projects across Ontario between now and 2028 (4)
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- Spend an additional $5 billion to construct a regional transportation system, which will include subways, relief limes and a two-way GO transit to Niagara Falls (20)
- Open the proposal of Hamilton’s $1-billion light rail transit line (LRT) to a public vote. If the project is rejected, the proposed money will be spent on other infrastructure projects (21)
- Cut the aviation fuel tax for Northern regions (23)
- Spend $45 million to refurbish and reinstate passenger rail service for northern Ontario (31)
- Invest up to $100 million in cellular and broadband expansion (31)
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- Invest $180 billion in infrastructure over 10 years (2)
- Make winter road maintenance and inspections par of the public sector (2)
Cover 50% of operating costs for municipal transit, $330 million in Toronto and
- over $800 million across the province (2)
- Provide two-way all-day GO rail service between Kitchener, Waterloo and Toronto, and year-round service between Niagara and Toronto (2)
- Implement a Northern Rail Strategy that restores Ontario Northlander’s passenger service and supports the Huron Central and Algoma Central Rail Lines (2)
- Build Toronto’s Downtown Relief Line (2)
- Build the Hamilton LRT (2)
- Pass a Vulnerable Road Users’ Law to protect people such as cyclists and pedestrians and build cycling infrastructure (2)
- Expand Community Benefits Agreements (2)
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- Require Community Benefits Agreements for major infrastructure projects to ensure that public investment yields social and economic benefits (1)
- Increase high speed internet access throughout the province (1)
- Prioritize local Ontario businesses in regards to discounted surplus electricity (1)
- Invest in rural infrastructure to support rural job creation and incomes (1)
- Set a target date for phasing out internal combustion engines with the goal of Ontario meeting a carbon neutral target by 2050. Raise the average fuel eonomy emission standards to encourage more fuel efficient vehicles (1)
- Support fleet electrification by providing funding for the public and private sector to purchase electric vehicles and install charging facilities (1)
- Move towards installing electric vehicle charging stations at all public buildings and along 400 series highways (1)
- Support rapid electrification plans for all transit systems (1)
- Establish a “single pay” user system for regional transit (1)
- Provide operational funding support for municipal transit services to reduce fare increases for users (1)
- Restore Ontario Northland Railroad service (1)
- Establish a Complete Streets Act to require streets across Ontario to be accessible for users of all ages and abilities (1)
- Require all new and resurfaced highways to have paved shoulders for safe cycling (1)
- Establish a sustainable goods movement strategy based on data collected from freight movement and employing low greenhouse gas fuels to replace diesel (1)
- Allow municipalities to implement road tolls (1)
- Implement revenue tools to fund the updated transportation systems, including congestion charges, gas taxes, and parking levies (1)
- Provide incentives for transit users, carpooling ride shares, and employers who provide opportunities for employees to work from home (1)
- Require major municipalities to eliminate combined sewer overflows and sewage bypasses which discharge raw sewage into waterways during high volumes of flow (1)
- Develop a provincial plan to reduce road salt use by 50% (1)
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Law & Justice
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- Invest up to $242M over 3 years in Ontario’s Strategy to end Gender Based Violence (4)
- Invest $64M over 3 years to enhance cybersecurity (4)
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- Restore $3 million in funding annually to anti-gun and anti-gang units in Ottawa and Toronto (31)
- Dedicate an additional $35 million to combatting organized crime and domestic abuse (31)
- Spend $30 million per year starting in year two to hire more corrections, parole, and probation officers (31)
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- Expand Mobile Crisis teams that pair police with mental health professionals with $5 million annually (2)
- Ban carding (2)
- Make the enforcement of laws against gender-based violence a priority (2)
- Promote police training on systemic racism (2)
- Repeal laws that allow the privatization of policing (2)
- Work to clear up the backlog in the courts (2)
- Invest $15 million to hire 300 more probation and parole officers to end understaffing (2)
- Increase funding for cold-case investigations (2)
- Declare Ontario to be a sanctuary province (2)
- $30 million to First Nations policing (2)
- Require the Employment Training Division to prioritize training for Indigenous people (2)
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- Oppose racial profiling, street checks, and carding by police and destroy the information previously collecting in carding stops (1)
- Support the increased use of restorative justice and other alternatives to criminal justice (1)
- Provide police with de-escalation training for crisis situations (1)
- Improve transparency and accountability of civilian police oversight bodies as suggested by the Tulloch Report (https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/about/pubs/police_oversight_review/) (1)
- Alter the existing jury pool selection by drawing potential jurors from the OHIP list, and increase jury duty compensation (1)
- Require cultural competency training for all levels of the criminal justice system specific to working with First Nations (1)
- Limit the maximum number of days that an inmate can be segregated to a total of 15 days, and ensure inmates with mental illness cannot be put in solitary confinement (1)
- Ensure inmates with mental illness are provided with appropriate healthcare, including services specific to First Nations (1)
- Amend the Coroners Act to require a mandatory inquest into all natural deaths that occur in custody (1)
- Amend the Corrections Act to include a framework governing searches based on recognition of Charter rights (1)
- Provide stable funding to implement and evaluate community sanctions to provide realistic alternatives to imprisonment for Indigenous offenders (1)
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Miscellaneous
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- Have opened up sales of alcohol to more than 350 grocery stores with plans for up to 450 (29)
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- Will allow sales of alcohol in grocery/corner stores to be regulated by be the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (29)
- Cancel all energy projects proposed under the Liberal government that are in the pre-construction phase, renegotiate existing energy contracts, and declare a moratorium on new energy contracts (18)
- Decrease the price of gas by 10 cents/litre (31)
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- Does not plan to expand alcohol sales beyond the current system (30)
- Achieve a 15% discount on auto insurance, and end neighbourhood based insurance price differences (2)
- Unfreeze library budgets, and invest $3 million per year for libraries to give out free passes to local museums and galleries (2)
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- Set up a social enterprise foundation to foster the development of triple bottom line businesses – businesses that prioritize ‘people, planet, profits’ – by providing grants and loans for post-secondary and workforce people to develop innovative ideas for socially impactful products and services (1)
- Implement a Well-being Measurements Act to identify and measure economic, social and environmental wellbeing in Ontario (1)
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Natural Resources
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- Develop the infrastructure to access the remote mining area in the James Bay lowlands in order to kickstart the Ring of Fire mining project (22)
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- Place an immediate and indefinite ban on fracking (1)
- Invest in renewable energy sources (1)
- Raise resource royalty rates and fees to cover the cost of resource management programs (1)
- Commit to finding solutions for sharing resource revenue with First Nations groups, and recognize First Nations as equals in land management. Establish a co-management stewardship model for Indigenous People for the development of provincial resources (1)
- Develop a provincial inventory of mining resources to track depletion of natural assets (1)
- Provide incentives for natural gas production from organic waste and other renewable sources (1)
- Establish low-carbon content requirements for natural gas distribution (1)
- Increase funding to the Ministry of Natural Resources (1)
- Raise levies and royalties for aggregates (https://www.ontario.ca/page/aggregate-resources), water, and mining (1)
- Ban logging and resource extraction in provincial parks where ecological integrity is threatened (1)
- Manage water as a public trust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine#Natural_resources) (1)
- Prioritize public drinking water as the top priority for making water use decisions in Ontario (1)
- Alter the Ontario Low Water Response Plan so that level 3 water restrictions are declared (requesting a 30% reduction in water consumption) when drought or low water emergencies occur (1)
- Phase out the single use bottled water industry in Ontario within 10 years (1)
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Politics and Democracy
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- Order an audit of government spending (31)
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- Introduce an MPP Code of Conduct (2)
- Start an electoral reform commission (2)
- Restore funding for the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (2)
- Eliminate costs for Freedom of Information requests (2)
- Reinstate in person voter registration (enumeration) (2)
- Create an Election Finances Commission to study possible changes to the Elections finance law (2)
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- Move to proportional representation in provincial elections (1)
- Implement transparent rules for fair leaders’ debates (1)
- Lower donation limits to $1000 per individual (1)
- Lower campaign spending limits for political parties to $0.68 per elector (1)
- Lower the provincial voting age to 16 (1)
- Hold general elections on the weekend and increase advanced voting availability (1)
- Enforce strict accessbility standards at voting places to ensure access by people with physical disabilities (1)
- Place a moratorium on online voting, both provincially and municipally, until regulations are developed to ensure election integrity (1)
- Increase the number of mobile polls at hospitals and residences for seniors and people with disabilities (1)
- Oppose backroom deals, no-bid contracts, and secret regulations (1)
- Oppose whipping the vote to prevent MPPs from facing consequences for not voting with party lines (1)
- Strengthen Whistleblower protections (1)
- Provide an online report card of MPPs voting records (1)
- Remove the party leader’s power to overturn candidates nominated by local riding associations (1)
- Extend the right to vote in municipal and provincial elections to permanent residents (1)
- Increase the number of regular public forums (1)
- Allow introduction of electronic petitions to Ontario Legislature (1)
- Enact legislatin to recall corrupt officials (1)
- Create a Citizens Institute to help train citizens to intervene in government processes (1)
- Cap executive salaries in the Ontario Public Service at double the Premier’s salary (1)
- Enforce a five year period before an MPP can register as a lobbyist (1)
- Prevent public agencies from using taxpayer dollars to purchase seats at paid events where Ministers or the Premier is speaking (1)
- Publish expenses of all public officials online (1)
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Post Secondary Education
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- Provide $132M over 3 years support post secondary institutions (4)
- Provide $12M to extend the Career Ready Fund to 2021 to support experiential learning (4)
- Invest $170M over 3 years in the Ontario Apprenticeship Strategy (4)
- Provide $63M over 3 years for the Ontario training bank (4)
- Provide $3B in capital grants over 10 years to post secondary instituions (4)
- Provide an additional $12M per year to the College Equipment and Renewal Fund (4)
- Provide $500M in 2020 to renew and modernize post secondary campuses (4)
- Offer OSAP grants for lower-income students to cover their tuition (4)
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- Future post-secondary funding decisions will be tied to the results of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) investigations. The HEQCO mandate will be expanded to include a complaints and investigations process to evaluate the violations of free speech (7)
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- Retroactively forgive all interest for people with provincial student loan debts (2)
- Every student who qualifies for OSAP will get a nonrepayable grant instead of a loan (2)
- A new faculty renewal strategy will convert contractors to full-time professors (2)
- Open the Franco–Ontarian university (2)
- Create 27,000 new work-integrated-learning opportunities like co-ops or paid internships for students (2)
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- Provide public subsidies to fund tuition for all Ontario residents, with the eventual goal of fully public tuition for public colleges, trade schools, and universities (excluding graduate and post-graduate studies) (1)
- Regulate tuition fees by indexing increases to Ontario’s Consumer Price Index (1)
- Freeze tuition for each cohort of students so that fees remain constant throughout the course of undergraduate programs (1)
- Provide interest-free student loans for students with financial needs (1)
- Increase funding to food security programs in postsecondary institutions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security) (1)
- Provide an option for employers to receive up-front subsidies when hiring Co-op students as an alternative to Co-Operative Education Tax Credits (1)
- Modernize the trades apprenticeship application process with an electronic, single-entry access to the application and registration process (1)
- Enhance funding for adult education and online digital learning tools (1)
- Support increases to Indigenous Student Bursary funding (1)
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Sociocultural & Wellfare
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- Invest $2.3B over 3 years to make improvements to social assistance system (4)
- Introduce a flat rate for recipients of social assistance who rent or own a home (4)
- Increase Personal Needs Allowance and Comfort Allowance for eleigible recipients of social assistance (4)
- Increase employment income that can be earned by social assistance recipients to $400/month from $200/month (4)
- Increase the amount that can be earned to $6000 annually without impacting social assistance benefits in 2019 (4)
- Expand the exemptions that are available to social assistance recipients to include Pension Plan Disability, Workplace Safety/Insurance Board or Employment Insurance in 2020 (4)
- Provide $547M over 5 years for repairs and retrofits to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of social housing (4)
- Provide $1.8B to expand services for people living with developmental disabilities (4)
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- Scrap the planned minimum wage hike from $14 to $15 next year (8)
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- Increase the minimum wage to $15 and index it to inflation (2)
- Require employers to offer at least three weeks paid vacation (2)
- Ban “pink taxes” (2)
- Review and consult every 2 years on safety in amateur sport focused on injury especially brain injury prevention (2)
Launch the Better Ontario Fund with $300-million over three years, “to make life better for people across Ontario” (2)
- People receiving Ontario Works will receive increases of 10%, 7% and 5%, while people receiving support from the Ontario Disability Support Program will see annual increases of 5% (2)
- Continue Ontario’s Basic Income pilot (2)
- Increase the minimum wage to $15 and index it to inflation (2)
- Implement the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2)
- Those with disabilities will not have to re-apply for supports when they turn 18 (2)
- Invest $67 million annually in agencies that provide services to adults with developmental disabilities (2)
- Launch an autism-support strategy, built in collaboration with parents, caregivers, experts and people with autism (2)
- Update and enforce the Pay Equity Act (2)
- Implement the recommendations of the Domestic Violence Death Review committee (2)
- Fund 10 days of paid leave for women escaping violence (2)
- Fund a four-year $20 million Ontario Anti-Racism Fund (2)
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- Support increasing the minimum wage to $15 in 2019 (1)
- Renew Ontario’s culture strategy every 5 years and make the strategy more inclusive of arts from marginalized groups (1)
- Provide a benefit rate at 100% of the Low Income Measure as a Basic Income Guarantee (1)
- Lower the tax back rate on the current basic income pilot to reduce penalties for increases in employment income (1)
- Increase Ontario Disability Support Payment and Ontario Works payments towards rates that match the low income measure (1)
- Increase asset limits to qualify for Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Payment to reflect inflation (1)
- Extend health benefits to cover low income Ontarians outside of the social insurance system (1)
- Support the Pay Transparency to Close the Gender Pay Gap Act to hold employers accountable for gender pay gaps in their workplaces (1)
- Increase personal income tax exemption for low income individuals (1)
- Increase existing Ontario Child Benefit to help families in poverty (1)
- Require all company pension plans to be fully funded to meet obligations in the event of bankruptcy (1)
- Provide professional learning on equity, anti-racism, and Indigenous issues in schools (1)
- Require school boards to collect race-based data to incorporate into race equity components of education programs (1)
- Mandate training for primary health care practitioners on health care needs of trans and gender-diverse people (1)
- Develop dedicated supportive housing for people with mental health and addictions issues, physical disabilities, or acquired brain injuries, or those who are homeless/at risk of homelessness (1)
- Increase the number of secondary women’s shelters in Ontario, and expedite the portable housing benefit that will assist women fleeing violence (1)
- Suppot the Anti-Racism Directorate (https://www.ontario.ca/page/better-way-forward-ontarios-3-year-anti-racism-strategic-plan) (1)
- Make age-appropriate curriculum on Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary contributions to Canada a mandatory education requirement for K-12 grades (1)
- Oppose racial profiling, street checks, and carding by police and destroy the information previously collecting in carding stops (1)
- Double the funding for immigrant settlement programs and economic bridging programs (1)
- Reform child welfare programs to address over-representation of Indigenous and Black youth in child services (1)
- Support First Nations repatriation efforts and protection of sacred sites and practices (1)
- Establish cultural competency training on Indigenous issues for public facing professionals – in health care, education, childcare, and criminal justice professions – via skills-based training (1)
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Taxes
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- Tax rates for approximately 8.6 million people would stay roughly the same, but 1.8 million would pay an average of $200 more while close to 700,000 would see an average tax cut of $130 (4)
- No change to corporate taxes (3)
- Impose a tax hike on cigarettes in 2019 of $4 a carton, following two years of increases (3)
- Will introduce a flat rate for recipients of social assistance who rent or own a home (3)
- Reducing the small business CIT rate from 4.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent (4)
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- Introduce a minimum wage tax credit so that minimum wage earners pay no provincial income tax (10)
- Create a 75% refundable tax credit for child care costs for children aged 0 to 15 (31)
- Scrap the carbon tax (31)
- Amend the Assessment Act to ensure that Ontario branches of the Royal Canadian Legion pay no tax (31)
- Reduce the small business tax rate by 8.7% (31)
- Cut corporate income tax from 11.5% to 10.5% (11)
- Cut the second tax bracket by 20% for those earning between $42,960 and $85,923 per year (13)
- Reduce the tax on gasoline by 10 cents per litre and diesel by 10.3 cents per litre (31)
- Cut the aviation fuel tax for northern Ontario (31)
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- Raise the tax rate on corporate profits to 13%, up from 11.5% (2)
- Introduce a Housing Speculation Tax targeting Canadian and foreign home buyers similar to the model enacted by B.C. NDP government (2)
- Raise income tax rates by one percentage point for those earning more than $220,000 and two percentage points on incomes greater than $300,000 (2)
- 25% of cap-and-trade revenues will go to support lower-income, rural, and northern households, and trade-exposed industries (2)
- Transfer the province’s share of mining taxes to First Nations (2)
- By 2021–22, small business exemptions will be available only to businesses with payrolls below $1.5 million (2)
- Make the Business Education Tax rate uniform across the province (2)
- Introduce a tax of 3% on cars sold for over $90,000 (2)
- Tax tobacco on value rather than volume to follow price increases (2)
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- Extend health benefits to cover low income Ontarians outside of the social insurance system (1)
- Increase personal income tax exemption for low income individuals (1)
- Increase existing Ontario Child Benefit to help families in poverty (1)
- Create investment tools for local innovators that are RRSP and TFSA eligible (1)
- Increase the tax exemption level for the Employer Health Tax to $1 million to provide cash flow relief for local businesses and non-profits to help support paying a living wage (1)
- Raise resource royalty rates and fees to cover the cost of resource management programs (1)
- Endorse changing the Fair Hydro Plan of Ontario to target electricity price relief to vulnerable members of the community rather than a flat reduction across the board (1)
- Provide an option for employers to receive up-front subsidies when hiring Co-op students as an alternative to Co-Operative Education Tax Credits (1)
- Implement border adjustment taxes (import fees on goods manufactured in non-carbon taxing countries) (1)
- Offer incentives for businesses involved in green economic activity (e.g. green retrofit) (1)
- Scrap the tax credit for landlords controlling empty storefronts (1)
- Regulate and license retail cannabis stores opened by local businesses, local farmers and indigenous entrepreneurial groups (1)
- Dedicate a portion of provincial cannabis revenue to municipalities and to programs and services for mental health and addictions (1)
- Eliminate tax penalties and reduce zoning restrictions to facilitate local, on-farm food enterprises (1)
- Increase funding support for local food and beverage processors (1)
- Make OHIP available to all Ontario residents and end the 3 month waiting period for migrant and temporary foreign workers (1)
- Require all company pension plans to be fully funded to meet obligations in the event of bankruptcy (1)
- Employ taxes on vacant properties to reduce speculation (1)
- Provide an accessibility tax incentive for small businesses to modify their facilities to accomodate people with disabilities (1)
- Restore the municipal tax exemption for First Nations purchases of reserve land (1)
- Extend the hydro delivery charge credit to all First Nations band buildings (1)
- Transition Ontario to a revenue-neutral carbon fee-and-dividend system by levying a fee on all goods and services that result in greenhouse gas pollution, and return all pollution tax revenue to citizens (1)
- Increase HST rebate allowance on new homes that are net zero carbon (1)
- Eliminate HST on zero emission vehicles (1)
- Expand the Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program to reward landowners for planting trees (1)
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