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Vandan Patel

Affordability

Fuel and transportation costs

Liberal's promise

Review provincial auto insurance practices and premiums

"Undertake a comprehensive review of provincial auto insurance practices and premiums, which have become the most expensive in Canada, in order to bring costs down for consumers, improve accident care and better protect owners from auto theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Poverty

Liberal's promise

Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program benefits and index it to inflation

"Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index it to inflation so that Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Tax measures and rebates

Liberal's promises

Reduce taxes on taxable income between $51,446 and $75,000 by 22%

"Introduce the More For You Tax Cut, delivering $1,150 in permanent financial relief for Ontario families. This includes permanently cutting taxes for Ontario workers on taxable income between $51,446 and $75,000 by 22%, from the current 9.15% to 7.15%; as well as eliminating sales tax (HST) on home heating and hydro bills." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Index the Low-Income Workers Tax Credit

"Reduce and/or eliminate personal income tax for low-income workers by indexing the Low-Income Workers Tax Credit." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Uitility costs

Liberal's promise

Remove the HST from home heating and hydro bills

Climate Change & the Environment

Green construction and retrofits

Liberal's promise

Create a permanent tax credit worth 20% of the installation cost of energy-saving technologies for homes, such as heat pumps

Education

K-12 funding

Liberal's promise

Fund schools at $1,500 per student, and tie funding commitments to inflation

"Close the funding gap of $1,500 per student in the K-12 sector and ensure future commitments are tied to inflation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

K-12 staffing

Liberal's promises

Expand funding, eligibility, and flexibility for the Safe Schools Grant programme

"Allow schools to address their unique staffing and infrastructure needs by expanding funding, eligibility and flexibility for the Safe Schools Grant program." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Set lower student-to-teacher and education-worker ratios

"Allow every elementary, middle or high school student to have support and supervision in the classroom by establishing a lower student-to- teacher and education-worker ratio." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Hire more mental health professionals, educational assistance, Early Childhood Educators, social workers, and child and youth workers

"Hire more mental health professionals, educational assistants, Early Childhood Educators (ECEs), social workers, child and youth workers and other staff, lowering the ratio of students to education workers in the Core Education Funding." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Commit to mutual respect and collaboration with students, parents, teachers, unions, and admins

"Commit to mutual respect and collaboration between the Ministry of Education, students, parents, teachers, unions and administrators starting with a commitment to not blindside educators with Friday afternoon announcements." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reintroduce a one-year teaching degree to address the teacher shortage

School construction and upgrades

Liberal's promises

Double annual capital funding for schools to clear the school repair backlog and install heating, AC, and air filtration systems

"Clear the school repair backlog and install heating, air conditioning and air filtration systems in every classroom by doubling annual capital funding for schools." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Build 90 new schools over the next four years

"Build 90 new schools over the next four years and ensure that no school needs to use portables." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

School nutrition

Liberal's promise

Quadruple funding for school food programmes

"Feed every elementary and secondary school kid a free and healthy lunch every school day by quadrupling funding for school food programs." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trades

Liberal's promise

Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

"Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Health & Healthcare

Drugs and addiction

Liberal's promises

Provide wraparound support for addiction recovery, including supportive housing units

"Provide wraparound support to help people recover from addictions, including rapidly building supportive housing units." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Expand treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation

"Act decisively and collaboratively with those on the frontline to bring deaths caused by opioid use down to zero in four years through expanded treatment, recovery and rehabilitation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Family doctors and primary care

Liberal's promises

Attract, recruit, and retain 3,100 family doctors by 2029

"Give every person in Ontario access to a family doctor by attracting, recruiting, retaining and integrating 3,100 family doctors by 2029." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Double the number of medical school spots and residency positions by creating two new schools and expanding capacity at existing ones

"Create two new medical schools and expand capacity in existing medical schools, doubling the number of medical school spots and residency positions." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Deliver team-based care with evening and weekend appointments, integrated home care for seniors, and mental health services for youth

"Deliver team-based care with evening and weekend appointments, integrated home care for seniors, and accessible mental health services for children, youth and teenagers." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Speed up the integration of internationally-trained doctors over the next four years

"Accelerate the process to integrate at least 1,200 qualified and experienced internationally trained doctors over the next four years through Practice Ready Ontario." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Introduce centralised referral systems with patient portals
Implement interoperable electronic medical records

"Eliminate fax machines, enhance virtual care, introduce centralized referral systems with patient portals and implement interoperable electronic medical records to let doctors and other healthcare professionals focus on patients instead of paperwork." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide incentives for doctors to work in rural and northern communities

"Incentivize family doctors to serve in rural and northern communities and mentor the next generation to prevent future shortages." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Bring nurse practitioners into the public system and ban private-pay nurse practitioner clinics

Francophone health

Liberal's promise

Develop a Francophone Healthcare Strategy to ensure Francophones can access care in their first language

"Develop a Francophone Healthcare Strategy to ensure Franco-Ontarians are able to access care in their first language." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Health administration and privatisation

Liberal's promise

Investigate and audit the previous government's administration and funding of healthcare

"Investigate Ford’s privatization plans, including a full review of Health Minister Sylvia Jones’ mandate letters and audit how Ontario is using the more than $20 billion in federal health transfers it receives every year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Health staffing

Liberal's promises

Pay nurses, PSWs, and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage

"Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide nurses, PSWs, and other supportive healthcare workers with additional training and professional development opportunities

"Help hospitals hire and retain the staff they need by paying nurses, PSWs and other supportive healthcare workers a living wage and providing them with additional training and professional development opportunities to stay in the public system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Get rid of wage discrepancies between hospitals, in-home care, and long-term care

"Eliminate wage discrepancy across the system, regardless of whether you work for a hospital, in-home care or in long-term care." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Regulate temporary nursing agencies

"Crackdown on Ford’s for-profit healthcare by regulating temporary nursing agencies." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Offer a $150,000 bonus to nurses and doctors who return to the province from practising medicine in the States

"Offer a $150,000 bonus to patriotic nurses and doctors who are currently practicing in the U.S. but want to come home and support our publicly-funded healthcare system." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Bring nurse practitioners into the public system and ban private-pay nurse practitioner clinics

Long-term care

Liberal's promises

Repeal Bill 7, which charged hospitals if they did not place discharged patients into long-term care homes

"Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Set a four-hour-per-day minimum standard of care for long-term care residents

"Repeal the coercive Bill 7 and ensure LTCs are held accountable for mismanagement, non-compliance, and neglect of direct care under a four-hour minimum standard per resident, per day." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Mental health

Liberal's promise

Provide universal mental healthcare under OHIP

"Introduce universal mental healthcare under OHIP by expanding the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, covering conditions like anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, hiring more social workers, and defining standards and coverage so that all people in Ontario have a basic form of coverage they can count on." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Seniors' health and wellbeing

Liberal's promises

Increase home care funding by 25%, and guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams

"Guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams, boosting annual home care funding by 25%." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a Seniors' Home Care Tax Credit worth up to 25% of up to $10,000 in yearly medical expenses

"Help seniors age at home gracefully by creating a Seniors’ Home Care Tax Credit, saving up to 25% of up to $10,000 in medical expenses a year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Housing & Homelessness

Home construction and supply

Liberal's promises

Remove the Ontario Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers, seniors downsizing, and non-profit homebuilders
Remove development charges on new housing

"Scrapping Development Charges on new housing, cutting costs by as much as $170,000 on each new family-sized home." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a fund to help municipalities cover infrastructure costs

"Introducing the Better Communities Fund to help municipalities cover infrastructure costs." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Update building codes and subjective design rules

"Modernize building codes and subjective design rules (ex. setback, step back, angular plane), establish a provincial catalogue of pre-approved housing designs, create more housing near transit and arterial roads following best practices adopted by other jurisdictions like British Columbia and speed up the conversion of underutilized offices and commercial spaces to homes." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a catalogue of pre-approved housing designs
Build more housing near transit and arterial roads

"Modernize building codes and subjective design rules (ex. setback, step back, angular plane), establish a provincial catalogue of pre-approved housing designs, create more housing near transit and arterial roads following best practices adopted by other jurisdictions like British Columbia and speed up the conversion of underutilized offices and commercial spaces to homes." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Home purchases and ownership

Liberal's promise

Remove the Ontario Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers, seniors downsizing, and non-profit homebuilders

Rental housing

Liberal's promises

Remove extra taxes on building rental housing like Community Benefits Charges

"Getting more co-op and rental apartments built by removing punitive and discriminatory extra taxes like Community Benefits Charges." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Phase in rent control

"Introducing fair, phased-in rent control." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Resolve new landlord-tenant disputes in under two months

"Resolving new landlord-tenant disputes in under two months and clearing the 53,000-case backlog at the Landlord-Tenant Board urgently." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a provincial rent bank to provide short-term, interest-free loans for tenants facing financial emergencies

"Establishing the Rental Emergency Support for Tenants (REST) Fund, a provincial rent bank to provide short-term, interest-free loans for tenants facing financial emergencies to prevent evictions and homelessness." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trades

Liberal's promise

Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

"Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Jobs, Businesses, & Labour

Inter-provincial business and trade

Liberal's promise

Adopt a policy of mutual recognition of skills and regulated professions with other provinces

"Work with other provinces to eliminate nonsensical interprovincial trade barriers by adopting a policy of mutual recognition of skills and regulated professions and building a truly Team Canada approach to growth and diversification." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Labour protections

Liberal's promise

Negotiate to end the use of notwithstanding clauses that infringe on workers' rights

"Negotiate in good faith and eliminate the practice of using the notwithstanding clause to trample on workers’ rights." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Poverty

Liberal's promise

Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program benefits and index it to inflation

"Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index it to inflation so that Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Startups and small businesses

Liberal's promises

Create a strategy to make Ontario competitive at attracting talent, starting a business, fixed cost affordability, and consumer protection

"Launch an Ontario Growth Strategy to ensure Ontario becomes a competitive place to attract talent, set up and grow a business, afford fixed costs such as clean energy and rent, and have best-in-class consumer protections." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reduce small business taxes by 50%

"Make it easier for small businesses to compete with big box stores by slashing small business taxes by 50%, delivering up to $18,000 of tax relief to the roughly 450,000 businesses that employ almost three million people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trades

Liberal's promise

Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

"Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trump's Tariffs

Liberal's promises

Create a new fund to backstop Ontario businesses with lower-than-market interest rates

"Backstop Ontario businesses with a new Fight Tariffs Fund that gives them access to lower-than-market interest rates (government rates)." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Exclude American companies like Elon Musk's Starlink from government procurement

"Ensure Ontario taxpayer dollars support local businesses and jobs by excluding American companies like Elon Musk’s Starlink from procurement." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Youth unemployment

Liberal's promise

Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

"Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Society & Government

Government favouritism and conflicts of interest

Liberal's promise

Investigate the previous government's deals

""Lead an across-government effort to spend taxpayers’ money wisely and invest the savings back into economic stimulus and health care.

Investigate all of Doug Ford’s giveaways, handouts, and sweetheart deals for his rich friends, including the:

$1.9 billion spent on speeding up the sale of booze by multinational corporations, big grocers, and foreign retail giants

$100 million deal with Elon Musk (noted Donald Trump insider) and Starlink Snap closure of the Ontario Science Centre on land primed for development

$2 billion sell-off of Ontario Place to a foreign-owned spa

Sweetheart deal to open ServiceOntario outlets in private American-owned stores $8 billion Greenbelt giveaway to his friends and donors, an issue that is currently being investigated by the RCMP

Dozens of crony patronage appointments at public institutions like the LCBO, Ontario Power Generation, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee and more

MZO’s Doug Ford gave to his rich buddies"

Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Infrastructure

Liberal's promise

Prioritise infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, roads, and public transit

Transportation & Transit

Fuel and transportation costs

Liberal's promise

Review provincial auto insurance practices and premiums

"Undertake a comprehensive review of provincial auto insurance practices and premiums, which have become the most expensive in Canada, in order to bring costs down for consumers, improve accident care and better protect owners from auto theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

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