CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Group Members:_______________________________________________________
Issue

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Education

We will provide
direct help to
students from
low-and
middle-income
families to help
them pay for
their education
and ensure
that debt loads
are
manageable.
We will
increase the
maximum
Canada
Student Grant
for low-income
students to
$3,000 per
year for
full-time
students,and
to $1,800 per
year for
part-time
students.

Invest
$250million in
additional
federal student
grant so over
four years,
with an
emphasis on
helping
students who
need it
most,creating
as many as
50,000 new
grants; begin
phasing out
interest on
student loans
to eliminate it
in year 7
working with
schools to
make them
more
accessible,affor
dable, and
inclusive

Building on a
strong record of
supporting
Canadian
families who are
saving for a
childs
education,
are-elected
Harper
Conservative
government will
enhance
Registered
Education
Savings Plans
(RESPs) by
doubling the
federal grant for
low- and
middle-income
families.RESPs
also make it
possible to
receive extra
money through
government
incentives the
Canada
Learning
Bond[1] and the
Canada
Education
Savings Grants.

Boost
participation
in cooperative
education
programs and
apprenticeship
s..Harmonize
government
programs such
as the
Millennium
Scholarship
Fund to
provide a
single
need-based
grant program
to reduce
student
debt.Increase
investments in
postsecondary
education and
ensure that
public funding
plays a major
role in
research and
development
initiatives.Incr
ease the
availability of
full-time
employment
positions and
quality of life
by
implementing
a gradual
reduction in

Bloc
Quebecois

Health Care

We will restart
that important
conversation
and provide
the
collaborative
federal
leadership that
has been
missing during
the Harper
decade.We will
negotiate a
new Health
Accord with
provinces and
territories,inclu
ding a longterm
agreement on
funding. As an
immediate
commitment,
we will invest
$3billion, over
the next four
years, to
deliver more
and better
home care
services for all
Canadians.

Lowering drug
costs through a
universal
coverage
plan.Supportin
g people as
they age by
expanding
home care to
41,000 more
seniors and
providing
funding for
5,000 more
nursing home
beds.Creating
a youth mental
health
innovation
fund to reduce
wait times and
improve access
to
care.Tripling
the paid leave
available for
Canadians who
are too ill to
work.

the standard
work week to
thirty-five
work hours per
week.
New family
Expanding
doctors and
public health
nurses in rural insurance to
areas will be
cover
relieved from a prescription
portion of their medication is
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not only about
student loans
creating a
investments
healthier and
inmental
fairer Canada
health,through it also makes
the Mental
economic
Health
sense. By
Commission of creating a bulk
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medicine
electronic
buying
medical
agency,Canadi
records
ans would
through
save billions
Canada Health annually.Establ
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had a positive
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impact.Investm corporation to
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research
prescription
declined
medication to
overall with a
drive down the
few notable
cost to
investments
provinces
into important
Establish a
targeted
national
initiatives.
seniors
strategy, and
increase
investment in
preventative
health care

Environment
To make sure
even more
Canadian
families get to
enjoy our
countrys
natural beauty,
well make
admission to
National Parks
free in 2017,
the150th
anniversary of
Confederation.
Finally, well
protect our
wildlife and our
water by
increasing the
amount of
protected
marine and
coastal areas
to 5 per cent
by 2017 and
10 percent by
2020.

Law and
Order

repeal
changes made
by Bill C-42
that allow
restricted and
prohibited
weapons to be
freely
transported

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

A re-elected
Conservative
government will
extend its
successful
partnership with
the Pacific
Salmon
Foundation, by
investing
$15million to
restore and
conserve key
British
Columbia
estuaries, and to
preserve the
lower Harrison
Rivers salmon
ecosystem.

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

end long gun

registry

without a
permit,and we
will put
decision-makin
g about
weapons
restrictions
back in the
hands of
police, not
politicians;prov
ide $100million
each year to
the provinces
and territories
to support
guns and
gangs police
task forces to
take illegal
guns off our
streets and
reduce gang
violence;modif
y the
membership of
the Canadian
Firearms
Advisory
Committee to
include
knowledgeable
law
enforcement
officers, public
health
advocates
,representative
s from
womens
groups, and
members of
the legal
community

Accountability
Act that will
crackdown on
Senate
expenses and
bolster Conflict
of Interest
laws.

Family
We will cancel
tax breaks and
benefits for the
wealthy
including the
Universal
ChildCare
Benefit and
introduce a
new
Canada Child
Benefit
to give
Canadian
families more
money to raise
their kids.With
the Canada
Child Benefit,
nine out of ten
Canadian
families will
receive more
than under
Stephen
Harpers
confusing
collection of
child benefit
programs.For
the typical
family of four,
that means an
additional
$2,500 in help,
tax-free,every
year.

We will take
the first step
towards our
goal of
universal,
affordable
childcare by
immediately
flowing funding
for over
60,000childcar
e spaces at no
more than $15
a day. We will
restore the age
of retirement to
65, and
introduce a
new Consumer
Protection Act
to cap ATM
fees and
ensure
Canadians
have access to
a low-interest
credit card.

An RESP is a
special
individualized
savings plan that
helps families
save for a
childs
post-secondary
education.RESP
s are most often
established by
parents, but can
also be
established by
grandparents or
another family
member.RESPs
allow a childs
savings to grow
tax free.There
are no annual
limits,and the
lifetime limit is
$50,000.Contrib
utions are paid
from after-tax
income.