New Democratic Party
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Summary
Jobs
Promise 1: Champion manufacturing jobs and growth.
Promise 2: Restore federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Promise 3: Reintroduce Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act.
Promise 4: Repeal Bills C-377 and C-525.
Promise 5: Introduce legislation to ban the use of replacement workers during labour disputes.
Promise 6: Mandate an independent review of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to determine whether the program is meeting its goals and put an end to any and all abuses of the program. The changes will ensure that all Temporary Foreign Workers will have the ability to access a path to citizenship.
Promise 7: Reduce small business tax from 11 percent to 9 percent, starting with one full point by January 1st.
Promise 8: Invest in infrastructure and transit.
Promise 9: Create opportunities for 40,000 young Canadians through NGO and private partnerships.
Promise 10: Simplify access to government export services.
Promise 11: Strengthen the Investment Canada Act.
Promise 12: Extend the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance.
Promise 13: Work with provinces and territories to create iCanada, meant to help investors access financial incentives, government support programs and expertise needed to expand manufacturing opportunities in Canada.
Promise 14: Introduce an Innovation Tax Credit for companies investing in capital, equipment and property for research and development.
Promise 15: Restore tax credit for Labour Sponsored Venture Capital corporations.
Promise 16: Fix the Automotive Innovation Fund by making contributions to automakers tax free.
Promise 17: Double funds for the Automotive Supplier Innovation Program over the first course of a mandate.
Promise 18: Strengthen the mandate of Export Development Canada to recruit and retain investment in automotive plants and export-focused manufacturing in Canada.
Promise 19: Work with Canada’s automotive advisor to convene an automotive summit with provincial, municipal, business and labour leaders to develop a consensus on a National Automotive Strategy.
Promise 20: Renew funding for the University of Windsor’s Auto21 Network of Centres of Excellence.
Promise 21: Create a Aerospace Advanced Manufacturing Fund.
Promise 22: Build an aerospace supply chain by dedicating a portion of current Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative funding to provide funding for pan-Canadian aerospace supplier initiative.
Promise 23: Invest in the Canadian Space Agency’s Space Technology Development Program.
Promise 24: Commit $1 billion in federal support for the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontatrio.
Promise 25: Extend the Mining Exploration Tax Credit.
Promise 26: Invest in regional economic development agencies to provide targeted economic supports for regions going through difficult economic transitions.
Promise 27: Expand support for rural broadband across Canada.
Promise 28: Boost support for Destination Canada.
Promise 29: Introduce a Microbrewery Tax Credit.
Promise 30: Protect supply management, ensure business risk management programs adequately protect and stabilize farm family incomes, introduce a payment protection program for produce growers and support young farmers with enhanced skills training and mentorship.
Promise 31: Invest in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Promise 32: Introduce a Consumer Protection Act, which would:
Promise 33: Create 90,000 training and work transition opportunities.
Promise 34: Eliminate interest on federal student loans over seven years as well as work with Quebec and territorial governments to ensure that equivalent benefits are made available for students under those systems.
Promise 35: $250 million over four years to boost the Canada Student Grants program with an emphasis on low-income, indigenous and students living with disabilities.
Promise 36: Amend the Canada Labour Code to end the abuse of unpaid internships in federal jurisdictions.
Promise 37: Invest $85 million towards flexible start-up grants and direct capital support towards access and down payment programs.
Promise 38: Introduce An Act to Eliminate Poverty in Canada.
Promise 39: Increase government investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit by over 15 percent.
Promise 40: Create a National Council on Poverty Elimination.
Employment Insurance
Promise 41: Scrap EI changes forcing workers to accept any jobs at 70 percent of their previous salary.
Promise 42: Set a qualifying period of 360 hours ensuring EI is available for Canadians paying into it.
Promise 43: Provide a maximum of five extra weeks of benefits in regions where unemployment is high.
Promise 44: Calculate all EI benefits on the best 12 weeks fo pay.
Promise 45: Protect EI premiums.
Promise 46: Make eligibility rules fairer.
Housing
Promise 47: Introduce a green home energy program to help retrofit at least 50,000 homes and apartment buildings through an investment of $200 million over four years.
Promise 48: Bring in legislation to implement a National Housing Strategy which would include the restoration of federal government investments dedicated to social housing and co-ops, reinvest funding from expiring agreements back into operating agreements, repairs and construction of new units, as well as a boost for funding of homelessness initiatives. Legislation will also mandate that the redevelopment of federal land include affordable housing and housing cooperatives.
Promise 49: Mandate the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to provide grants and loans to construct at least 10,000 affordable and market rental units with any revenues to be to be reinvested back into rental housing supports.
Immigration
Promise 50: Remove cap on parent and grandparent sponsorships.
Promise 51: Increase resources to reduce backlogs in processing applications.
Promise 52: Put greater priority on family reunification, especially reuniting children with parents.
Promise 53: Restore the Interim Federal Health Care Program for refugees.
Promise 54: Reverse discriminatory changes to refugee determination.
Promise 55: Implement an appeal process as well as other changes to make the visitor visa system more transparent and accountable.
Promise 56: Create an ombudsperson for the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to investigate complaints and monitor human rights.
Promise 57: Work with communities, provinces and territories to introduce an action plan to foster immigration to Francophone minority communities across the country.
Promise 58: Resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in Canada by the end of 2015.
Promise 59: Welcome 9,000 Syrian refugees per year starting in 2016.
Promise 60: Create a Syrian Refugee Coordinator to expedite and coordinate government efforts and eliminate barriers to speedy resettlement.
Promise 61: Restore $30 million for the Foreign Credential Recognition Program.
Promise 62: Offer grants to professional bodies to develop harmonized standards for credential recognition with a single point of contact.
Promise 63: Hold more orientation sessions to reach potential immigrants seeking work.
Childcare
Promise 64: Create a million childcare spaces with fees capped at $15 a day over 8 years.
Promise 65: Add a dedicated five weeks of leave for a second parent, including leave for same-sex and adoptive parents.
Promise 66: Double leave times for parents of multiples.
Promise 67: Ensure that parents laid off after returning to work from parental or maternity leave will have access to regular EI benefits.
Promise 68: Boost the National Child Benefit Supplement by
$300 million annually.
Environment
Promise 69: Introduce cap-and-trade system incentivizing carbon pollution reduction.
Promise 70: Thomas Mulcair will lead the Canadian delegation to the COP21 climate conference in Paris with pollution reduction targets and a plan to bring in a home retrofit program.
Promise 71: Introduce Safe Drinking Water Act.
Promise 72: Invest in renewable energy.
Infrastructure
Promise 73: Better Transit Plan to invest $1.3 billion a year over 20 years to reduce commute times across Canada.
Promise 74: Additional $1.5 billion to municipalities annually by the end of a first mandate to improve roads and bridges.
Promise 75: Create 54,000 jobs in construction, manufacturing and transit operation Canada-wide.
Promise 76: Build 10,000 affordable housing units.
Promise 77: Keep the toll off of the Champlain Bridge.
Promise 78: Continue support for and expand the New Building Canada Fund to include recreation, cultural, tourist and ferry infrastructure projects.
Promise 79: Invest $100 million in renewable energy development in northern and remote communities.
Promise 80: Invest $150 million in communities through the Green Municipal Fund.
Promise 81: Provide support for improved passenger rail infrastructure and restore cut funds from regional rail services across Canada.
Promise 82: Invest $200 million in wastewater infrastructure in small communities.
Promise 83: Invest $400 million in flood mitigation measures and seismic upgrades for schools.
Promise 84: Strengthen disaster relief financial assistance arrangements with provinces.
Promise 85: Invest $9 million annually to develop emergency plans and provide equipment and training for first responders.
Promise 86: Create federal targets for electrification of federal transportation fleets.
Promise 87: Strengthen Canada’s green procurement policy to reduce long-term fuel and maintenance costs including the installation of 150 electric vehicle charging stations on federal properties across Canada.
Promise 88: Introduce Green Bonds, which will provide low-risk financing of up to $4.5 billion for clean energy development, climate resilient infrastructure, commercial and industrial energy retrofits and other sustainable development projects.
Promise 89: Direct Canada Post to develop a new plan to restore home delivery and to generate long-term sustainable revenues to maintain services
Violence Against Women
Promise 90: Call an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Promise 91: Create an action plan to end violence against women in Canada.
Promise 92: Restore the Shelter Enhancement Program and expand access to shelter and transition resources for women and girls.
Promise 93: Enact all outstanding recommendations of the Pay equity Task Force.
Promise 94: Enforce the Canada Health Act to ensure that provinces provide health services to women who need them, including reliable abortion services.
Promise 95: Enhance the mandate of Status of Women in Canada.
Promise 96: Mandate that half of all government appointments to the boards of Crown corporations and government agencies are women.
Promise 97: Require that publicly traded, federally regulated companies have a minimum of 40% women on their boards.
Promise 98: Adding gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and as a basis for hate crimes in the Criminal Code.
Promise 99: Suspending criminal records for individuals convicted of outdated and discriminatory offences which are no longer illegal.
Promise 100: Revising service records for those discharged from the Canadian Forces on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Promise 101: Fully implement Canada’s Action Plan on Women’s Peace and Security.
Foreign Policy
Promise 102: The NDP will ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Promise 103: Actively support negotiations to arrive at an international nuclear weapons convention.
Promise 104: Work with partners for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine.
Promise 105: Enable Canadian pharmaceutical companies to export generic versions of life-saving medicine for people suffering from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases in the developing world.
Promise 106: The NDP will set a timetable to meet an aid target of 0.7% of GNI with an increase of $500 million over the first mandate of an NDP government.
Promise 107: Provide a focused mandate to Canadian trade offices and government-supported development initiatives to work with small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada.
Promise 108: Enact legislation to ensure consistent and non-discriminatory provision of consular services to all Canadians abroad.
Northern Development
Promise 109: Ensure that the Northern Residents Tax Deduction keeps pace with their needs and the rate of inflation in the North.
Promise 110: Fix the Nutrition North food subsidy program by immediately including the 50 fly-in communities that are not currently eligible with an investment of $32 million.
Youth and Sports
Promise 111: Provide $28 million over four years to Sport Canada.
Promise 112: Provide national sports federations with grants to support their initiatives to address concussions in youth sports.
Supporting Indigenous Communities
Promise 113: Create a cabinet-level committee chaired by Prime Minister Tom Mulcair to ensure that all government decisions respect treaty rights, inherent rights and Canada’s international obligations.
Promise 114: Implement the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Promise 115: Take action on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations on a priority basis established in consultation with provinces, Indigenous communities and others, starting with a funding contribution of $8 million over four years to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Promise 116: Remove the 2% funding cap on social transfers to Indigenous communities.
Promise : Work with Indigenous communities to develop new education policies and laws based on the principle of Indigenous self-government.
Promise 117: Make a new investment in First Nations education of $1.8 billion over the next four years. The work would continue with annual increases over the long term based on an escalator so that the increase to First Nations education amounts to $4.8 billion over eight years.
Promise 118: Provide skills training by working with Indigenous partners to renew and improve the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy and ensure its long-term sustainability.
Promise 119: Improve critical infrastructure in Indigenous communities such as housing, schools, and clean water and sanitation facilities with $375 million of new investments over four years.
Promise 120: Address the needs of urban First Nations, Inuit and Métis people with special attention to the appropriate development and delivery of affordable housing, public health care, education and skills training, as well as the development of economic and employment opportunities.
Promise 121: Support initiatives to revitalize Indigenous languages by establishing, in consultation with Indigenous communities, a National Indigenous Languages Revitalization Fund and a National Indigenous Languages Institute with a total new investment of $68 million over four years.
Security
Promise 123: Work with provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities to provide stable, ongoing funding to put 2,500 new officers on the streets
Promise 124: Provide the Canada Border Services Agency with additional support.
Promise 125: Ensure that communities have the resources they need to invest in crime prevention and anti-gang programs – especially those designed for youth – by investing an additional $30 million.
Promise 126: Deal with backlog in the Canadian Police Information Centre database.
Promise 127: Immediately decriminalize possession of personal amounts of marijuana.
Promise 128: Adopt recommendations of the Correctional Investigator of Canada to ensure appropriate care, treatments and procedures are available in prison for offenders with mental illness.
Promise 129: Improve access to prison rehabilitation programs, which are proven to reduce the rate of re-offence.
Promise 130: Immediately launch a public inquiry into the Lac-Mégantic tragedy to improve transportation oversight.
Promise 131: Improve the number and quality of rail inspections and audits, while issuing strong penalties for safety violations.
Promise 132: Ensure that railways are adequately investing to improve the safety of rail infrastructure, while making key public investments in rail safety upgrades and passenger rail infrastructure across Canada.
Promise 133: Protect communities by phasing out unsafe rail cars carrying dangerous goods, providing better information to provinces, municipalities and first responders, and taking action where necessary to lower speeds and re-route dangerous goods.
Promise 134: Undo cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Promise 135: Ensure clear, accurate and verifiable labelling on the origin of food and food products, including those that have undergone genetic modification.
Promise 136: Work with industry and stakeholders to modernize animal welfare legislation and update the Health of Animals Regulations.
Promise 137: Repeal Bill C-51 within our first 100 days in office.
Promise 138: Restore the position of Inspector General for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Promise 139: Allow the Security Intelligence Review Committee to conduct joint investigations with Canada’s other independent national security review bodies, as recommended by the Maher Arar Commission.
Promise 140: Improve oversight of national security intelligence activities through the establishment of a special committee of Parliament.
Promise 141: End the ineffective combat mission in Iraq and Syria and redirect Canada’s resources to saving the lives of civilians displaced by the conflict.
Promise 142: Work with regional and international allies to cut off the flow of funds and weapons to extremist groups, including the Islamic State.
Promise 143: Prioritize de-radicalization efforts to protect Canada’s youth from ISIS recruitment by creating a National Coordinator who will work in cooperation with local communities.
Promise 144: Provide the Canadian Forces with the personnel, equipment and training they need.
Promise 145: Carry forward the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy to ensure Canada has the ships needed, and focus on industrial and regional benefits to support shipyards.
Promise 146: Improve the grievance process.
Promise 147: Provide psychologists in uniform as part of deployable mental health teams.
Promise 148: Reform the Universality of Service Principle.
Promise 149: Draft a new Defence White Paper by 2016 to articulate a clear strategic vision for the Canadian Armed Forces and Canada’s defence policy in the 21st Century.
Promise 150: Maintain Department of National Defence budget allocations.
Promise 151: Improve search and rescue systems to meet international standards with respect to response times, and ensure that capabilities are sufficient to meet the needs of the North.
Promise 152: Launch a comprehensive review, as part of the Defence White Paper, to determine how best to meet Canada’s needs in the replacement of its aging fleet of CF-18 Fighters, and ensure that any new program is subject to a competitive process.
Promise 153: Implement a fair and open process for military purchasing.
Promise 154: Increase transparency within the Department of National Defence through the creation of the Office of the Inspector General.
Promise 155: Implement the recommendations of former Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps to address sexual harassment and assault in the military, and continue the movement to reform and civilianize the military justice system.
Promise 156: Working with veterans to immediately review, update and improve the New Veterans Charter, including addressing the issue of lump-sum payments currently offered to seriously injured veterans.
Promise 157: Developing a “One Veteran, One Standard” policy that ensures all veterans are treated equally, regardless of when or where they served.
Promise 158: Providing $165 million to improve treatment for veterans with PTSD and mental health issues.
Promise 159: Enhancing long-term care for Canadian Veterans and expanding the Veterans Independence Program.
Promise 160: Establish a formal covenant for veterans’ care that recognizes the government’s moral, social, legal and fiduciary obligation to care for Canada’s veterans.
Promise 161: Eliminate the Veterans Review and Appeal Board.
Promise : Increase survivors’ pensions and ensure funding is in place to support dignified funerals for veterans through the Last Post Program.
Promise 162: Launch a public inquiry into the spraying of Agent Orange at CFB Gagetown.
Promise 163: Establish a Hero’s Benefit to recognize the contributions of firefighters, police officers and other public safety officers who die or are permanently disabled in the line of duty.
Environment and Democracy
Promise 164: Work with provinces and territories to develop a pan-Canadian cap-and-trade system that sets concrete emissions limits for Canada’s major polluters.
Promise 165: Reintroduce Jack Layton’s Climate Change Accountability Act to make certain that Canada meets its long-term target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Promise 166: Affirm government’s strong role in environmental protection and assessment.
Promise 168: Ensure and support public participation in decision-making.
Promise 169: Incorporate consideration of cumulative effects, regional assessments and greenhouse gas impacts for all major projects.
Promise 170: Ensure that the Crown’s duty to consult Indigenous peoples in the environmental assessment process is upheld.
Promise 171: Reverse changes made to the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
Promise 172: Restore habitat protection to the Fisheries Act.
Promise : Meet Canada’s G-20 commitment to cut subsidies to non-renewable energy and end the federal bias towards non-renewable energy production.
Promise 173: Take action to ensure Canadian taxpayers don’t pay the cost of dealing with toxins.
Promise 174: Consult with municipalities, provinces, the insurance industry, federal departments, Indigenous communities and other key stakeholders to develop a regionally targeted blueprint to deal with increasingly severe impacts of climate change (drought, floods, severe weather, health impacts, etc.) on communities and infrastructure.
Promise 175: Introduce a Safe Drinking Water Act to support provinces and municipalities in their efforts to keep the drinking water of all Canadians safe, particularly those living in Indigenous communities.
Promise 176: Introduce legislation banning the bulk export of water across international boundaries.
Promise 177: Apply a green lens to all new federal legislation to ensure it is consistent with the principles of a strengthened federal Sustainable Development Act.
Promise 178: Introduce an Environmental Bill of Rights giving all Canadians the right to a clean and healthy environment.
Promise 179: Complete all proposed national parks and national wildlife areas, starting with Qausuittuq.
Promise 180: Recommit Parks Canada to prioritize their legal obligation to maintain or restore ecological integrity as the first priority for park management.
Promise 181: Update Parks Canada’s national park system plan to focus on expanding parks where needed to protect their ecological integrity, creating new parks to improve representation of natural regions, and improving ecological connectivity between national parks and other protected areas.
Promise 182: Review Environment Canada’s protected areas system, and develop a clear vision and plan for protecting more nationally significant wildlife habitat.
Promise 183: Review and update the National Conservation Plan to articulate a clear path towards achieving Aichi 2020 targets.
Promise 184: Formally protect the following areas under consideration:
The Arts
Promise 185: Restore funding cut from the CBC/Radio-Canada.
Promise 186: Institute an independent appointment process for the CBC Board to ensure that it’s accountable to Canadians and delivering on its mandate as a core cultural institution, broadcasting Canada’s unique identities and linguistic realities.
Promise 187: Reinvest in cultural institutions like the Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board.
Promise 188: Support cultural industries in developing new international markets by providing embassies with appropriate cultural personnel and funding.
Promise 189: Implement income tax averaging for artists and cultural workers.
Promise 190: Restore the National Archival Development Program.
Promise 191: Ensure that celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary are non-partisan and inclusive, and support Montreal’s 375th Anniversary Celebration.
Promise 192: Ensure that arts and culture are a pillar of Canada’s 150th anniversary by creating a special fund to support the creation, diffusion and promotion of Canadian content on digital platforms.
Internet
Promise 193: Move to close the digital divide and expand rural broadband access across the country.
Promise 194: Look to support the development of the next generation of high-speed Internet to support our high tech sector.
Promise 195: Move to create a more open and transparent government by working with developers, academics and engaged citizens to use government data to solve problems and improve services.
Promise 196: Commit to net neutrality.
Transparency
Promise 197: Provide clear objectives and timelines for Canadian participation in military operations abroad and subjecting mission mandates to a vote in the House of Commons.
Promise 198: Release the aims and objectives of trade negotiations to Parliament and engage Canadian stakeholders in business and labour to improve Canadian access to strategic markets and create jobs.
Promise 199: Ensure that improvements to social and environmental standards, as well as improvements to workers’ quality of life in partner countries, are included in Canada’s trade strategy.
Promise 200: Issue a government-wide open data directive to make government data sets easy to find, accessible and usable for Canadians by default.
Promise 201: Restore and improve the Court Challenges Program.
Promise 202: Eliminate all fees, after the $5 filing fee, to expand Canadians’ access to information on their government and its activities.
Promise 203: Implement Bill C-475 (An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act).
Promise 204: Modernize the Access to Information Act by:
Promise 206: End the practice of bulk collection of data as part of cyber surveillance by Canadian agencies.
Promise 207: Reinstate the requirement for a warrant before ISPs release data, except in emergency situations.
Promise 208: Adopt a cooperative approach to Parliament.
Promise 209: Improve Question Period by mandating that the Speaker call on ministers to answer questions asked of them.
Promise 210: Empower the Speaker to break up omnibus bills.
Promise 211: Establish the Office of the Parliamentary Science Officer.
Promise 212: Make the Parliamentary Budget Officer an independent officer of Parliament.
Promise 213: Enshrine in law the Ministerial Code of Conduct, and changing the oath of office to include adherence to the Conflict of Interest Act and the principles of ethical government and accountability.
Promise 214: Close loopholes in the Conflict of Interest Act and empower the Commissioner to fully investigate and enforce the rules as well as issue real financial penalties when the rules are broken.
Promise 216: Set up a six-member board jointly selected by the government and the Official Opposition to review and approve all political appointments.
Promise 217: Give the Auditor General the added responsibility of reviewing proposed government advertisements.
Promise 218: Restore long-form census.
Promise 219: Ensure that experts are available to speak to the media and to publish their findings.
Promise 220: Commit to a new partnership with Canada’s civil servants.
Promise 221: Create a Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
Electoral Reform
Promise 222: Institute a system of mixed-member proportional representation.
Promise 223: Repeal Fair Elections Act.
Promise 224: Abolish the Senate.
Promise 225: Make sure Canadians who live abroad can participate in electoral process.
Provincial Relations
Promise 226: Improve the process for Supreme Court appointments by making it more transparent, non-partisan and respectful of the provinces.
Bilingualism
Promise 228: Provide senior officials with clear expectations with regard to the Official Languages Act.
Promise 229: Index the funding for the Official Languages Roadmap.
Promise 230: In Quebec, the NDP will protect workers’ right to work in French in federally regulated workplaces.
Seniors
Promise 231: Strengthen Canada Pension Plan.
Promise 232: Return eligibility for Old Age Security to 65.
Promise 233: Ensure existing retirees don’t have benefits reduced by employers.
Promise 234: Provide funding for Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Promise 235: Continue pension splitting for seniors and enhancements to the Registered Retirement Income fund.
Promise 236: Implement a National Strategy on Aging.
Promise 237: Expand eligibility for the Compassionate Care Benefit.
Promise 238: Amending federal bankruptcy legislation to move pensioners and those on long-term disability up the line of creditors when their employer declares bankruptcy or enters court protection.
Promise 239: Halt efforts to convert public sector defined benefit pension plans to target benefit plans.
Health Care
Promise 240: Increase Canada Health Transfer rates by 6 percent per year.
Promise 241: Deliver federal recruitment and training grants ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 helping to hire up to 7,000 doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
Promise 242: Open 200 community clinics across Canada.
Promise 243: Introduce a universal drug plan and lower prescription drug costs by 30 percent.
Promise 244: Expand homecare support to 41,000 seniors.
Promise 245: Introduce a Mental Health Innovation Fund for Children and Youth to reduce wait times and improve mental health care for young Canadians.
Promise 246: Launch a National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy to support research screening and diagnosis.
Promise 247: Create 5,000 new long-term care beds.
Promise 248: Provide targeted funding to improve urban Indigenous health outcomes.
Promise 249: Expand the National Diabetes Strategy.
Promise 250: Increase grants for community-based research and programming for local health care innovation.
Promise 251: Invest in programs designed to decrease tobacco use and implementing plain packaging of tobacco products.
Promise 252: Banning junk food and beverage advertising targeting children.
Canadians with Disabilities
Promise 253: Introduce a Canadians With Disabilities Act.
Promise 254: Implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Promise 255: Review income security programs for persons living with disabilities.
Budget
Promise 256: Increase Corporate Income Tax rate by two cents on the dollar, from 15 percent to 17 percent on January 1st.
Promise 257: Repeal income splitting policies.
Promise 258: Roll back the doubling of Tax Free Savings Account allowances.
Promise 259: Close loopholes allowing for lower tax rates on stock options in order to redirect $500 million to combat poverty and helping the working poor.
Promise 260: Eliminate partisan advertising by government.
Promise 261: Repeal the Act to amend the Income Tax Act (C-377).
Promise 262: Reinvest funds from the Investment Cooperation Program.
Promise 263: Issue fines for rail violations.
Promise 264: Ensure that Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (CCPC) cannot be used to engage in income splitting and close other related loopholes that allow some high income individuals to shelter income in CCPCs.
Promise 265: Increase resources for the CRA enforcement to reduce tax avoidance and tax evasion, both domestically and abroad.
Promise 267: End federal subsidization of fossil fuels.
Promise 268: Divert unspent P3 Canada Fund money to existing public infrastructure funds.
Promise 269: Introduce an Accountability Act that will target Senate expenses and conflict of interest laws.
Promise 270: Introduce a Charter of Budget Honesty.
Promise 271: Run balanced budgets.
Summary
Jobs
Promise 1: Champion manufacturing jobs and growth.
Promise 2: Restore federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Promise 3: Reintroduce Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act.
Promise 4: Repeal Bills C-377 and C-525.
Promise 5: Introduce legislation to ban the use of replacement workers during labour disputes.
Promise 6: Mandate an independent review of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to determine whether the program is meeting its goals and put an end to any and all abuses of the program. The changes will ensure that all Temporary Foreign Workers will have the ability to access a path to citizenship.
Promise 7: Reduce small business tax from 11 percent to 9 percent, starting with one full point by January 1st.
Promise 8: Invest in infrastructure and transit.
Promise 9: Create opportunities for 40,000 young Canadians through NGO and private partnerships.
Promise 10: Simplify access to government export services.
Promise 11: Strengthen the Investment Canada Act.
Promise 12: Extend the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance.
Promise 13: Work with provinces and territories to create iCanada, meant to help investors access financial incentives, government support programs and expertise needed to expand manufacturing opportunities in Canada.
Promise 14: Introduce an Innovation Tax Credit for companies investing in capital, equipment and property for research and development.
Promise 15: Restore tax credit for Labour Sponsored Venture Capital corporations.
Promise 16: Fix the Automotive Innovation Fund by making contributions to automakers tax free.
Promise 17: Double funds for the Automotive Supplier Innovation Program over the first course of a mandate.
Promise 18: Strengthen the mandate of Export Development Canada to recruit and retain investment in automotive plants and export-focused manufacturing in Canada.
Promise 19: Work with Canada’s automotive advisor to convene an automotive summit with provincial, municipal, business and labour leaders to develop a consensus on a National Automotive Strategy.
Promise 20: Renew funding for the University of Windsor’s Auto21 Network of Centres of Excellence.
Promise 21: Create a Aerospace Advanced Manufacturing Fund.
Promise 22: Build an aerospace supply chain by dedicating a portion of current Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative funding to provide funding for pan-Canadian aerospace supplier initiative.
Promise 23: Invest in the Canadian Space Agency’s Space Technology Development Program.
Promise 24: Commit $1 billion in federal support for the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontatrio.
Promise 25: Extend the Mining Exploration Tax Credit.
Promise 26: Invest in regional economic development agencies to provide targeted economic supports for regions going through difficult economic transitions.
Promise 27: Expand support for rural broadband across Canada.
Promise 28: Boost support for Destination Canada.
Promise 29: Introduce a Microbrewery Tax Credit.
Promise 30: Protect supply management, ensure business risk management programs adequately protect and stabilize farm family incomes, introduce a payment protection program for produce growers and support young farmers with enhanced skills training and mentorship.
Promise 31: Invest in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Promise 32: Introduce a Consumer Protection Act, which would:
- Cap ATM fees at 50 cents per withdrawal
- Ensure that all Canadians have access to no-frills credits cards with fair interest rates no more than 5 percent over prime
- Ensure that no bank or federally regulated company can enforce “pay-to-pay” bill payments
- Work with the provinces to take action against abusive payday lenders
- Lower fees for workers sending money to families abroad
- Direct the CRTC to crack down on excessive roaming charges
Promise 33: Create 90,000 training and work transition opportunities.
Promise 34: Eliminate interest on federal student loans over seven years as well as work with Quebec and territorial governments to ensure that equivalent benefits are made available for students under those systems.
Promise 35: $250 million over four years to boost the Canada Student Grants program with an emphasis on low-income, indigenous and students living with disabilities.
Promise 36: Amend the Canada Labour Code to end the abuse of unpaid internships in federal jurisdictions.
Promise 37: Invest $85 million towards flexible start-up grants and direct capital support towards access and down payment programs.
Promise 38: Introduce An Act to Eliminate Poverty in Canada.
Promise 39: Increase government investment in the Working Income Tax Benefit by over 15 percent.
Promise 40: Create a National Council on Poverty Elimination.
Employment Insurance
Promise 41: Scrap EI changes forcing workers to accept any jobs at 70 percent of their previous salary.
Promise 42: Set a qualifying period of 360 hours ensuring EI is available for Canadians paying into it.
Promise 43: Provide a maximum of five extra weeks of benefits in regions where unemployment is high.
Promise 44: Calculate all EI benefits on the best 12 weeks fo pay.
Promise 45: Protect EI premiums.
Promise 46: Make eligibility rules fairer.
Housing
Promise 47: Introduce a green home energy program to help retrofit at least 50,000 homes and apartment buildings through an investment of $200 million over four years.
Promise 48: Bring in legislation to implement a National Housing Strategy which would include the restoration of federal government investments dedicated to social housing and co-ops, reinvest funding from expiring agreements back into operating agreements, repairs and construction of new units, as well as a boost for funding of homelessness initiatives. Legislation will also mandate that the redevelopment of federal land include affordable housing and housing cooperatives.
Promise 49: Mandate the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to provide grants and loans to construct at least 10,000 affordable and market rental units with any revenues to be to be reinvested back into rental housing supports.
Immigration
Promise 50: Remove cap on parent and grandparent sponsorships.
Promise 51: Increase resources to reduce backlogs in processing applications.
Promise 52: Put greater priority on family reunification, especially reuniting children with parents.
Promise 53: Restore the Interim Federal Health Care Program for refugees.
Promise 54: Reverse discriminatory changes to refugee determination.
Promise 55: Implement an appeal process as well as other changes to make the visitor visa system more transparent and accountable.
Promise 56: Create an ombudsperson for the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to investigate complaints and monitor human rights.
Promise 57: Work with communities, provinces and territories to introduce an action plan to foster immigration to Francophone minority communities across the country.
Promise 58: Resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in Canada by the end of 2015.
Promise 59: Welcome 9,000 Syrian refugees per year starting in 2016.
Promise 60: Create a Syrian Refugee Coordinator to expedite and coordinate government efforts and eliminate barriers to speedy resettlement.
Promise 61: Restore $30 million for the Foreign Credential Recognition Program.
Promise 62: Offer grants to professional bodies to develop harmonized standards for credential recognition with a single point of contact.
Promise 63: Hold more orientation sessions to reach potential immigrants seeking work.
Childcare
Promise 64: Create a million childcare spaces with fees capped at $15 a day over 8 years.
Promise 65: Add a dedicated five weeks of leave for a second parent, including leave for same-sex and adoptive parents.
Promise 66: Double leave times for parents of multiples.
Promise 67: Ensure that parents laid off after returning to work from parental or maternity leave will have access to regular EI benefits.
Promise 68: Boost the National Child Benefit Supplement by
$300 million annually.
Environment
Promise 69: Introduce cap-and-trade system incentivizing carbon pollution reduction.
Promise 70: Thomas Mulcair will lead the Canadian delegation to the COP21 climate conference in Paris with pollution reduction targets and a plan to bring in a home retrofit program.
Promise 71: Introduce Safe Drinking Water Act.
Promise 72: Invest in renewable energy.
Infrastructure
Promise 73: Better Transit Plan to invest $1.3 billion a year over 20 years to reduce commute times across Canada.
Promise 74: Additional $1.5 billion to municipalities annually by the end of a first mandate to improve roads and bridges.
Promise 75: Create 54,000 jobs in construction, manufacturing and transit operation Canada-wide.
Promise 76: Build 10,000 affordable housing units.
Promise 77: Keep the toll off of the Champlain Bridge.
Promise 78: Continue support for and expand the New Building Canada Fund to include recreation, cultural, tourist and ferry infrastructure projects.
Promise 79: Invest $100 million in renewable energy development in northern and remote communities.
Promise 80: Invest $150 million in communities through the Green Municipal Fund.
Promise 81: Provide support for improved passenger rail infrastructure and restore cut funds from regional rail services across Canada.
Promise 82: Invest $200 million in wastewater infrastructure in small communities.
Promise 83: Invest $400 million in flood mitigation measures and seismic upgrades for schools.
Promise 84: Strengthen disaster relief financial assistance arrangements with provinces.
Promise 85: Invest $9 million annually to develop emergency plans and provide equipment and training for first responders.
Promise 86: Create federal targets for electrification of federal transportation fleets.
Promise 87: Strengthen Canada’s green procurement policy to reduce long-term fuel and maintenance costs including the installation of 150 electric vehicle charging stations on federal properties across Canada.
Promise 88: Introduce Green Bonds, which will provide low-risk financing of up to $4.5 billion for clean energy development, climate resilient infrastructure, commercial and industrial energy retrofits and other sustainable development projects.
Promise 89: Direct Canada Post to develop a new plan to restore home delivery and to generate long-term sustainable revenues to maintain services
Violence Against Women
Promise 90: Call an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.
Promise 91: Create an action plan to end violence against women in Canada.
Promise 92: Restore the Shelter Enhancement Program and expand access to shelter and transition resources for women and girls.
Promise 93: Enact all outstanding recommendations of the Pay equity Task Force.
Promise 94: Enforce the Canada Health Act to ensure that provinces provide health services to women who need them, including reliable abortion services.
Promise 95: Enhance the mandate of Status of Women in Canada.
Promise 96: Mandate that half of all government appointments to the boards of Crown corporations and government agencies are women.
Promise 97: Require that publicly traded, federally regulated companies have a minimum of 40% women on their boards.
Promise 98: Adding gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds for discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and as a basis for hate crimes in the Criminal Code.
Promise 99: Suspending criminal records for individuals convicted of outdated and discriminatory offences which are no longer illegal.
Promise 100: Revising service records for those discharged from the Canadian Forces on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Promise 101: Fully implement Canada’s Action Plan on Women’s Peace and Security.
Foreign Policy
Promise 102: The NDP will ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Promise 103: Actively support negotiations to arrive at an international nuclear weapons convention.
Promise 104: Work with partners for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine.
Promise 105: Enable Canadian pharmaceutical companies to export generic versions of life-saving medicine for people suffering from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases in the developing world.
Promise 106: The NDP will set a timetable to meet an aid target of 0.7% of GNI with an increase of $500 million over the first mandate of an NDP government.
Promise 107: Provide a focused mandate to Canadian trade offices and government-supported development initiatives to work with small and medium-sized enterprises in Canada.
Promise 108: Enact legislation to ensure consistent and non-discriminatory provision of consular services to all Canadians abroad.
Northern Development
Promise 109: Ensure that the Northern Residents Tax Deduction keeps pace with their needs and the rate of inflation in the North.
Promise 110: Fix the Nutrition North food subsidy program by immediately including the 50 fly-in communities that are not currently eligible with an investment of $32 million.
Youth and Sports
Promise 111: Provide $28 million over four years to Sport Canada.
Promise 112: Provide national sports federations with grants to support their initiatives to address concussions in youth sports.
Supporting Indigenous Communities
Promise 113: Create a cabinet-level committee chaired by Prime Minister Tom Mulcair to ensure that all government decisions respect treaty rights, inherent rights and Canada’s international obligations.
Promise 114: Implement the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Promise 115: Take action on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations on a priority basis established in consultation with provinces, Indigenous communities and others, starting with a funding contribution of $8 million over four years to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Promise 116: Remove the 2% funding cap on social transfers to Indigenous communities.
Promise : Work with Indigenous communities to develop new education policies and laws based on the principle of Indigenous self-government.
Promise 117: Make a new investment in First Nations education of $1.8 billion over the next four years. The work would continue with annual increases over the long term based on an escalator so that the increase to First Nations education amounts to $4.8 billion over eight years.
Promise 118: Provide skills training by working with Indigenous partners to renew and improve the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy and ensure its long-term sustainability.
Promise 119: Improve critical infrastructure in Indigenous communities such as housing, schools, and clean water and sanitation facilities with $375 million of new investments over four years.
Promise 120: Address the needs of urban First Nations, Inuit and Métis people with special attention to the appropriate development and delivery of affordable housing, public health care, education and skills training, as well as the development of economic and employment opportunities.
Promise 121: Support initiatives to revitalize Indigenous languages by establishing, in consultation with Indigenous communities, a National Indigenous Languages Revitalization Fund and a National Indigenous Languages Institute with a total new investment of $68 million over four years.
Security
Promise 123: Work with provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities to provide stable, ongoing funding to put 2,500 new officers on the streets
Promise 124: Provide the Canada Border Services Agency with additional support.
Promise 125: Ensure that communities have the resources they need to invest in crime prevention and anti-gang programs – especially those designed for youth – by investing an additional $30 million.
Promise 126: Deal with backlog in the Canadian Police Information Centre database.
Promise 127: Immediately decriminalize possession of personal amounts of marijuana.
Promise 128: Adopt recommendations of the Correctional Investigator of Canada to ensure appropriate care, treatments and procedures are available in prison for offenders with mental illness.
Promise 129: Improve access to prison rehabilitation programs, which are proven to reduce the rate of re-offence.
Promise 130: Immediately launch a public inquiry into the Lac-Mégantic tragedy to improve transportation oversight.
Promise 131: Improve the number and quality of rail inspections and audits, while issuing strong penalties for safety violations.
Promise 132: Ensure that railways are adequately investing to improve the safety of rail infrastructure, while making key public investments in rail safety upgrades and passenger rail infrastructure across Canada.
Promise 133: Protect communities by phasing out unsafe rail cars carrying dangerous goods, providing better information to provinces, municipalities and first responders, and taking action where necessary to lower speeds and re-route dangerous goods.
Promise 134: Undo cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
Promise 135: Ensure clear, accurate and verifiable labelling on the origin of food and food products, including those that have undergone genetic modification.
Promise 136: Work with industry and stakeholders to modernize animal welfare legislation and update the Health of Animals Regulations.
Promise 137: Repeal Bill C-51 within our first 100 days in office.
Promise 138: Restore the position of Inspector General for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Promise 139: Allow the Security Intelligence Review Committee to conduct joint investigations with Canada’s other independent national security review bodies, as recommended by the Maher Arar Commission.
Promise 140: Improve oversight of national security intelligence activities through the establishment of a special committee of Parliament.
Promise 141: End the ineffective combat mission in Iraq and Syria and redirect Canada’s resources to saving the lives of civilians displaced by the conflict.
Promise 142: Work with regional and international allies to cut off the flow of funds and weapons to extremist groups, including the Islamic State.
Promise 143: Prioritize de-radicalization efforts to protect Canada’s youth from ISIS recruitment by creating a National Coordinator who will work in cooperation with local communities.
Promise 144: Provide the Canadian Forces with the personnel, equipment and training they need.
Promise 145: Carry forward the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy to ensure Canada has the ships needed, and focus on industrial and regional benefits to support shipyards.
Promise 146: Improve the grievance process.
Promise 147: Provide psychologists in uniform as part of deployable mental health teams.
Promise 148: Reform the Universality of Service Principle.
Promise 149: Draft a new Defence White Paper by 2016 to articulate a clear strategic vision for the Canadian Armed Forces and Canada’s defence policy in the 21st Century.
Promise 150: Maintain Department of National Defence budget allocations.
Promise 151: Improve search and rescue systems to meet international standards with respect to response times, and ensure that capabilities are sufficient to meet the needs of the North.
Promise 152: Launch a comprehensive review, as part of the Defence White Paper, to determine how best to meet Canada’s needs in the replacement of its aging fleet of CF-18 Fighters, and ensure that any new program is subject to a competitive process.
Promise 153: Implement a fair and open process for military purchasing.
Promise 154: Increase transparency within the Department of National Defence through the creation of the Office of the Inspector General.
Promise 155: Implement the recommendations of former Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps to address sexual harassment and assault in the military, and continue the movement to reform and civilianize the military justice system.
Promise 156: Working with veterans to immediately review, update and improve the New Veterans Charter, including addressing the issue of lump-sum payments currently offered to seriously injured veterans.
Promise 157: Developing a “One Veteran, One Standard” policy that ensures all veterans are treated equally, regardless of when or where they served.
Promise 158: Providing $165 million to improve treatment for veterans with PTSD and mental health issues.
Promise 159: Enhancing long-term care for Canadian Veterans and expanding the Veterans Independence Program.
Promise 160: Establish a formal covenant for veterans’ care that recognizes the government’s moral, social, legal and fiduciary obligation to care for Canada’s veterans.
Promise 161: Eliminate the Veterans Review and Appeal Board.
Promise : Increase survivors’ pensions and ensure funding is in place to support dignified funerals for veterans through the Last Post Program.
Promise 162: Launch a public inquiry into the spraying of Agent Orange at CFB Gagetown.
Promise 163: Establish a Hero’s Benefit to recognize the contributions of firefighters, police officers and other public safety officers who die or are permanently disabled in the line of duty.
Environment and Democracy
Promise 164: Work with provinces and territories to develop a pan-Canadian cap-and-trade system that sets concrete emissions limits for Canada’s major polluters.
Promise 165: Reintroduce Jack Layton’s Climate Change Accountability Act to make certain that Canada meets its long-term target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Promise 166: Affirm government’s strong role in environmental protection and assessment.
Promise 168: Ensure and support public participation in decision-making.
Promise 169: Incorporate consideration of cumulative effects, regional assessments and greenhouse gas impacts for all major projects.
Promise 170: Ensure that the Crown’s duty to consult Indigenous peoples in the environmental assessment process is upheld.
Promise 171: Reverse changes made to the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
Promise 172: Restore habitat protection to the Fisheries Act.
Promise : Meet Canada’s G-20 commitment to cut subsidies to non-renewable energy and end the federal bias towards non-renewable energy production.
Promise 173: Take action to ensure Canadian taxpayers don’t pay the cost of dealing with toxins.
Promise 174: Consult with municipalities, provinces, the insurance industry, federal departments, Indigenous communities and other key stakeholders to develop a regionally targeted blueprint to deal with increasingly severe impacts of climate change (drought, floods, severe weather, health impacts, etc.) on communities and infrastructure.
Promise 175: Introduce a Safe Drinking Water Act to support provinces and municipalities in their efforts to keep the drinking water of all Canadians safe, particularly those living in Indigenous communities.
Promise 176: Introduce legislation banning the bulk export of water across international boundaries.
Promise 177: Apply a green lens to all new federal legislation to ensure it is consistent with the principles of a strengthened federal Sustainable Development Act.
Promise 178: Introduce an Environmental Bill of Rights giving all Canadians the right to a clean and healthy environment.
Promise 179: Complete all proposed national parks and national wildlife areas, starting with Qausuittuq.
Promise 180: Recommit Parks Canada to prioritize their legal obligation to maintain or restore ecological integrity as the first priority for park management.
Promise 181: Update Parks Canada’s national park system plan to focus on expanding parks where needed to protect their ecological integrity, creating new parks to improve representation of natural regions, and improving ecological connectivity between national parks and other protected areas.
Promise 182: Review Environment Canada’s protected areas system, and develop a clear vision and plan for protecting more nationally significant wildlife habitat.
Promise 183: Review and update the National Conservation Plan to articulate a clear path towards achieving Aichi 2020 targets.
Promise 184: Formally protect the following areas under consideration:
- Îles-de-la-Madeleine, St. Lawrence Estuary, American Bank of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec.
- St. Ann’s Bank in Nova Scotia.
- Shediac Valley in NewBrunswick.
- Race Rocks, Hecate Strait/Queen Charlotte Sound Glass Sponge Reefs, Scott Islands Marine National Wildlife Area, Southern Strait of Georgia National Marine Conservation Area in British Columbia.
- Laurentian Channel in Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Anguniaqvia Niqiqyuam (Darnley Bay) in the Northwest Territories.
- Tallurutiup Tariunga (Lancaster Sound) National Marine Conservation Area in Nunavut.
The Arts
Promise 185: Restore funding cut from the CBC/Radio-Canada.
Promise 186: Institute an independent appointment process for the CBC Board to ensure that it’s accountable to Canadians and delivering on its mandate as a core cultural institution, broadcasting Canada’s unique identities and linguistic realities.
Promise 187: Reinvest in cultural institutions like the Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board.
Promise 188: Support cultural industries in developing new international markets by providing embassies with appropriate cultural personnel and funding.
Promise 189: Implement income tax averaging for artists and cultural workers.
Promise 190: Restore the National Archival Development Program.
Promise 191: Ensure that celebrations for Canada’s 150th anniversary are non-partisan and inclusive, and support Montreal’s 375th Anniversary Celebration.
Promise 192: Ensure that arts and culture are a pillar of Canada’s 150th anniversary by creating a special fund to support the creation, diffusion and promotion of Canadian content on digital platforms.
Internet
Promise 193: Move to close the digital divide and expand rural broadband access across the country.
Promise 194: Look to support the development of the next generation of high-speed Internet to support our high tech sector.
Promise 195: Move to create a more open and transparent government by working with developers, academics and engaged citizens to use government data to solve problems and improve services.
Promise 196: Commit to net neutrality.
Transparency
Promise 197: Provide clear objectives and timelines for Canadian participation in military operations abroad and subjecting mission mandates to a vote in the House of Commons.
Promise 198: Release the aims and objectives of trade negotiations to Parliament and engage Canadian stakeholders in business and labour to improve Canadian access to strategic markets and create jobs.
Promise 199: Ensure that improvements to social and environmental standards, as well as improvements to workers’ quality of life in partner countries, are included in Canada’s trade strategy.
Promise 200: Issue a government-wide open data directive to make government data sets easy to find, accessible and usable for Canadians by default.
Promise 201: Restore and improve the Court Challenges Program.
Promise 202: Eliminate all fees, after the $5 filing fee, to expand Canadians’ access to information on their government and its activities.
Promise 203: Implement Bill C-475 (An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act).
Promise 204: Modernize the Access to Information Act by:
- Giving the Information Commissioner the power to order the release of information.
- Expand the coverage of the Act to cover the administration of Parliament, the Prime Minister’s Office, and Minister’s Offices, and start implementing the Commissioner’s recommendations to strengthen and modernize the Act.
- Subjecting the exclusion of cabinet confidences to review by the Information Commissioner.
- Obliging public officials to create the records necessary to document their actions and decisions.
- Providing a general public interest override for all exemptions, so that public interest comes before the secrecy of the government.
Promise 206: End the practice of bulk collection of data as part of cyber surveillance by Canadian agencies.
Promise 207: Reinstate the requirement for a warrant before ISPs release data, except in emergency situations.
Promise 208: Adopt a cooperative approach to Parliament.
Promise 209: Improve Question Period by mandating that the Speaker call on ministers to answer questions asked of them.
Promise 210: Empower the Speaker to break up omnibus bills.
Promise 211: Establish the Office of the Parliamentary Science Officer.
Promise 212: Make the Parliamentary Budget Officer an independent officer of Parliament.
Promise 213: Enshrine in law the Ministerial Code of Conduct, and changing the oath of office to include adherence to the Conflict of Interest Act and the principles of ethical government and accountability.
Promise 214: Close loopholes in the Conflict of Interest Act and empower the Commissioner to fully investigate and enforce the rules as well as issue real financial penalties when the rules are broken.
Promise 216: Set up a six-member board jointly selected by the government and the Official Opposition to review and approve all political appointments.
Promise 217: Give the Auditor General the added responsibility of reviewing proposed government advertisements.
Promise 218: Restore long-form census.
Promise 219: Ensure that experts are available to speak to the media and to publish their findings.
Promise 220: Commit to a new partnership with Canada’s civil servants.
Promise 221: Create a Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
Electoral Reform
Promise 222: Institute a system of mixed-member proportional representation.
Promise 223: Repeal Fair Elections Act.
Promise 224: Abolish the Senate.
Promise 225: Make sure Canadians who live abroad can participate in electoral process.
Provincial Relations
Promise 226: Improve the process for Supreme Court appointments by making it more transparent, non-partisan and respectful of the provinces.
- For Supreme Court appointments from Quebec, nominating from a list of candidates submitted by the provincial government.
Bilingualism
Promise 228: Provide senior officials with clear expectations with regard to the Official Languages Act.
Promise 229: Index the funding for the Official Languages Roadmap.
Promise 230: In Quebec, the NDP will protect workers’ right to work in French in federally regulated workplaces.
Seniors
Promise 231: Strengthen Canada Pension Plan.
Promise 232: Return eligibility for Old Age Security to 65.
Promise 233: Ensure existing retirees don’t have benefits reduced by employers.
Promise 234: Provide funding for Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Promise 235: Continue pension splitting for seniors and enhancements to the Registered Retirement Income fund.
Promise 236: Implement a National Strategy on Aging.
Promise 237: Expand eligibility for the Compassionate Care Benefit.
Promise 238: Amending federal bankruptcy legislation to move pensioners and those on long-term disability up the line of creditors when their employer declares bankruptcy or enters court protection.
Promise 239: Halt efforts to convert public sector defined benefit pension plans to target benefit plans.
Health Care
Promise 240: Increase Canada Health Transfer rates by 6 percent per year.
Promise 241: Deliver federal recruitment and training grants ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 helping to hire up to 7,000 doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
Promise 242: Open 200 community clinics across Canada.
Promise 243: Introduce a universal drug plan and lower prescription drug costs by 30 percent.
Promise 244: Expand homecare support to 41,000 seniors.
Promise 245: Introduce a Mental Health Innovation Fund for Children and Youth to reduce wait times and improve mental health care for young Canadians.
Promise 246: Launch a National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Strategy to support research screening and diagnosis.
Promise 247: Create 5,000 new long-term care beds.
Promise 248: Provide targeted funding to improve urban Indigenous health outcomes.
Promise 249: Expand the National Diabetes Strategy.
Promise 250: Increase grants for community-based research and programming for local health care innovation.
Promise 251: Invest in programs designed to decrease tobacco use and implementing plain packaging of tobacco products.
Promise 252: Banning junk food and beverage advertising targeting children.
Canadians with Disabilities
Promise 253: Introduce a Canadians With Disabilities Act.
Promise 254: Implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Promise 255: Review income security programs for persons living with disabilities.
Budget
Promise 256: Increase Corporate Income Tax rate by two cents on the dollar, from 15 percent to 17 percent on January 1st.
Promise 257: Repeal income splitting policies.
Promise 258: Roll back the doubling of Tax Free Savings Account allowances.
Promise 259: Close loopholes allowing for lower tax rates on stock options in order to redirect $500 million to combat poverty and helping the working poor.
Promise 260: Eliminate partisan advertising by government.
Promise 261: Repeal the Act to amend the Income Tax Act (C-377).
Promise 262: Reinvest funds from the Investment Cooperation Program.
Promise 263: Issue fines for rail violations.
Promise 264: Ensure that Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (CCPC) cannot be used to engage in income splitting and close other related loopholes that allow some high income individuals to shelter income in CCPCs.
Promise 265: Increase resources for the CRA enforcement to reduce tax avoidance and tax evasion, both domestically and abroad.
Promise 267: End federal subsidization of fossil fuels.
Promise 268: Divert unspent P3 Canada Fund money to existing public infrastructure funds.
Promise 269: Introduce an Accountability Act that will target Senate expenses and conflict of interest laws.
Promise 270: Introduce a Charter of Budget Honesty.
Promise 271: Run balanced budgets.