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Jobs & the Economy

Manufacturing jobs platforms

Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Manufacturing jobs.

Conservative

  • Review the tax system to improve Canada's competitiveness, including in the manufacturing sector.
  • Reduce the regulatory burden by 25%.
  • Diversify Canada's trade toward emerging markets and reduce dependence on the US by signing free trade agreements with Mercosur, ASEAN, & the UK.

NDP

  • Develop a national industrial strategy to build an advanced low-carbon manufacturing economy.
  • Grow the domestic market for Canadian manufactured goods.
  • Provide strategic support for steel and aluminum industries.

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A New Democrat government will bring together all levels of government, together with business and labour leaders, to develop a national industrial strategy to build an advanced low carbon manufacturing economy in Canada that will provide good middle-class jobs to Canadian workers. We will also take measures to grow the domestic market for Canadian manufactured goods, and provide strategic supports to our long-neglected steel and aluminum industries to attract and retain jobs and investments in communities across the country.

When the Liberal government signed a new trade deal with the United States that contained damaging steel and aluminum tariffs, New Democrats fought alongside labour and the industry get the tariffs permanently removed – and won. But there is still much work to be done to protect Canadian jobs against the risk that the U.S. could impose new tariffs. For New Democrats, no tariffs against our steel or aluminum will ever be acceptable. That’s why we will adopt measures to stabilize the Canadian steel market, and protect the sector from predatory practices of foreign producers who are shut out of other markets.

Liberal and Conservative governments have failed to use Canadian government infrastructure procurement to support Canada’s manufacturing economy, and have often negotiated trade deals that put domestic procurement policies at risk. New Democrats will require the use of Canadian-made steel and aluminum for infrastructure projects across the country.

From A New Deal for People, retrieved 2019-09-22.

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We don't have any Bloc policies on Manufacturing jobs.
We don't have any Green policies on Manufacturing jobs.
We don't have any PPC policies on Manufacturing jobs.

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