Nationalize telecommunications and internet service providers for better and more affordable service.

Establish a universal system of quality public childcare now, with Canada-wide standards, that’s free to users. Raise the wages of childcare workers, and make Early Childhood Education qualifications mandatory.

Make Employment Insurance non-contributory and expand it to include all workers including part-time workers and first-time job seekers – for the full duration of unemployment, at 90% of previous earnings (or the average wage).

Set price controls ono food staples. Expand Canada’s supply management system (threatened by free trade agreements), to raise farm incomes, and protect food safety and security.

Abolish the regressive HST, GST and provincial sales taxes.

Introduce a Guaranteed Annual Livable Income to replace subsistence-level provincial welfare programs, securing health and dignity for those unable to work.

Develop a publicly owned transportation system with the goal of delivering affordable and environmentally sustainable transportation of people and goods to remote and northern communities. Set price controls on food staples for Northern and Indigenous communities.

Raise the minimum wage to $23/hour across Canada, and legislate a minimum four weeks statutory paid vacations and 14 employer-paid sick days annually.

Introduce a Guaranteed Annual Livable Income to raise living standards and combat poverty among persons with disabilities. Strengthen and enforce pay and employment equity programs. Guarantee people with disabilities equal access to social, medical and educational facilities and services. Expand Medicare to include pharmacare, long-term care, vision and dental care, and mental health care.

Oppose carbon pricing that would impose enormous costs on working people, rather than the profit-driven corporations responsible for over 70% of GHG emissions.

Enact a comprehensive policy to reduce Canada’s carbon footprint, including public ownership and control of natural and energy resources to completely divest from fossil fuels.

Reduce emissions to zero by 2050, and at least half that this decade.

Invest heavily to create jobs through renewable energy and conservation programs, and phase out coal-fired plants and terminate reliance on nuclear energy. Rebuild publicly-owned provincial electrical utility systems that include production, distribution, transmission and a bulk electricity system market, to ensure affordable, safe and reliable power supply for industrial and residential use.

Replace cap-and-trade and carbon tax schemes with strict legal limits for pollution and hard caps on emissions, especially from industrial sources, to reduce emissions to zero by 2050. Impose strong penalties for corporations which break the law, including jail time for corporate executives.

Cancel the Energy Saguenay LNG project in Quebec, and the Coastal Gaslink, Trans Mountain Expansion, Line 9 and Line 5 pipeline projects based on expansion of tar sands extraction, and halt all fracking operations.

Ban water exports from the Great Lakes. Enact legislation to protect bio-diversity. Impose heavy fines and jail terms against in-ocean factory fish farming, and deep-sea draggers.

Impose strict laws against pollution and improper waste disposal and prosecute CEOs of polluting corporations.

Significantly increase funding and access to training and apprenticeship programs. Tools for the trade should be provided free to apprentices.

Make universal quality public and post-secondary education free to all, including international students, and including textbook and lab costs, with stipends to cover students’ living expenses. Eliminate all student debt.

Guarantee accessible and publicly funded abortion and reproductive rights services in every province and territory.

End Canada’s vaccine hoarding now, and make the COVID vaccine universally available through the United Nations’ COVAX program. Override patent rights so countries can buy or produce the vaccines in their own labs at cost. Nationalize the pharmaceutical industry, and manufacture vaccines, PPE, and medical equipment in Canada.

Stop the attack on universal Medicare, by restoring funding, expanding services, and reversing privatization. Reverse P-3 agreements and require provinces to adequately fund public hospitals and healthcare services to meet community needs. Expand public health and reverse service cuts.

Expand Medicare to include pharmacare.

Enact a federal housing policy that recognizes housing is a fundamental human right, and make housing a public utility. Use federal powers to end the housing crisis and homelessness now. Build emergency shelters and transition housing.

Ensure that no-one pays more than 20% of their income on shelter using rent controls and rent roll-backs.

Build one million units of affordable social housing. Establish federal-provincial-municipal land banks to assemble land for affordable social housing, schools, hospitals, parks and public works, and to prevent developers and builders from gobbling up valuable public land to inflate housing prices and rents, for profit.

Ban evictions, mortgage foreclosures and utility cutoffs due to unemployment, strike or lockout.

Make ‘conversion’ therapy illegal.

Defend and expand on-line privacy rights.

Close the wage gap – legislate pay and employment equity for women and non-binary people. Protect women’s right to EI maternity coverage; expand parental benefits to 52 weeks. End all forms of violence against women and 2S/LGBTIQ people, and provide adequate funding for crisis centres and transition houses.

Enforce hate speech laws and prosecute white supremacist and neo-fascist organizations as criminal organizations. Enforce hate speech laws on campuses and wherever racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, misogynist, homophobic and transphobic speakers and groups are testing the law.

Ban all discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression; this includes medical discrimination.

Replace Harper’s “Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act” with a decriminalization framework to protect the human and legal rights of sex workers, as proposed by the Supreme Court ruling in the Canada v. Bedford case.

Recognize international educational credentials

Provide a clear and accessible path to permanent residency and citizenship for all foreign and migrant workers, and undocumented workers, in Canada.

No one is illegal. Stop deportations of immigrants and refugees, and reverse cuts to legal aid. Repeal the ‘Safe Third Country’ agreement and stop criminalizing refugees forced to enter Canada illegally and in dangerous conditions. Make Canada a safe haven for refugees fleeing state-sponsored homo-, trans-, and bi-phobia.

Scrap the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and the “Live-in Caregiver” Program, and provide a clear and accessible path to permanent residency and citizenship for all foreign and migrant workers, and undocumented workers, in Canada.

Provide clean drinking water to reserves and end boil water advisories immediately.

Take emergency action to improve living conditions, employment, health, education, and housing of Indigenous peoples, and immediately end the racist and discriminatory cap on educational and health funding for treaty First Nations children.

Implement the Calls to Action set out by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission and by the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Guarantee Indigenous rights to full, free, prior and informed consent over all development, including resource extraction and pipelines on or affecting their land or livelihoods. Act now for just settlement of land claims, including natural resource-sharing agreements, without extinguishment of inherent Indigenous title.

Compensate survivors. Implement the Calls to Action of the TRC. End the seizure and removal of Indigenous children and youth into state care.

Recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples to national self-determination, up to and including the right to secession. Recognize and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Draft and adopt a democratic constitution with no vestiges of colonialism, based on a voluntary partnership of the Indigenous peoples, Québec, the Acadian people, and English-speaking Canada.

Support Indigenous nations and land defenders in their rights over their territories, and oppose the criminalization of blockades and other forms of protest.

Rebuild Canada’s public infrastructure with public funds from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

Restore local democracy and autonomy and adequately fund municipal governments and services. Give constitutional status and wealth taxing powers to municipalities. Return 50% of gas and licencing taxes to cities. Rebuild crumbling municipal and provincial infrastructure. Re-establish low-interest loans to cities and towns, and facilitate municipal land-banking.

End the new Cold War against China. Free Meng Wanzhou.

Oppose sanctions and US war preparations against Iran.

Oppose Israeli apartheid – support a just peace in the Middle East based on Israel’s withdrawal from all territories occupied since 1967, the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and the formation of an independent, viable Palestinian state. Enact boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel. Enforce laws against military recruiting of youth in Canada by the Israeli Defence Force.

Guarantee the rights of Francophones across Canada, to education and services in their national language.

Ban all discrimination based on religion. Repeal Quebec’s ‘secularism law’, which targets and discriminates against Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, and other minorities based on their religion and dress.

Cancel the sale of armoured military vehicles to Saudi Arabia. Stop the Saudi genocide in Yemen.

Adopt an independent Canadian foreign policy of peace and disarmament, cut military spending by 75%, and withdraw from NATO and NORAD. End all military exports from Canada. End Canada’s involvement in US regime change in Venezuela. Withdraw from the Lima Group, lift sanctions and restore diplomatic relations. End the US blockade of Cuba, and restore services at the Canadian Embassy in Havana.

Provide agricultural workers with the same labour rights as industrial workers. Curb the power of agro-industrial monopolies; set price controls to reduce the cost of farm inputs and shift to environmentally sustainable methods of food production. Restore the Canadian Wheat Board.

Nationalize Air Canada.

End corporate bailouts, including CEWS (Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy) and LEEFF (Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility).

Create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs in construction and manufacturing through large-scale investment in infrastructure and housing.

Adopt a trade policy of multi-lateral and mutually beneficial trade with all countries. Get out of USMCA (NAFTA 2.0) and other pro-corporate ‘trade’ pacts, which allow for the free flow of capital while driving down wages, cutting jobs, and stripping Canada of good jobs in value-added manufacturing and secondary industry. Withdraw from CPTPP, CETA, TILMA and other investment pacts.

Ban ‘two-tier wages’ for new hires and unpaid internships.

Expand value added manufacturing and secondary industry in Canada and adopt trade policies that are multi-lateral and mutually beneficial. Introduce plant closure legislation with teeth (including public takeover) to protect jobs. Develop and implement a full employment strategy based on massive public investments to increase value-added jobs in sustainable manufacturing and secondary industry.

Restore funding for the CBC and invest in the National Film Board (NFB-ONF), Telefilm Canada, CBC/Radio-Canada, Conseil des arts du Canada / Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Museum Association / Association des musées canadiens, and other publicly owned institutions. Support the non-profit Aboriginal People’s Television Network which is unique in North America.

Expand parental benefits to 52 weeks.

Include part-time, home-based and contract workers under federal and provincial labour laws.

Substantially increase pensions, and reduce the pension age to 60.

Nationalize and fund scientific and technological research institutions.

Legislate 14 employer-paid sick days annually.

Break up corporate monopolies to make room for small business.

Nationalize the basic steel industry.

Expand Canada’s supply management system (threatened by free trade agreements), to raise farm incomes, and protect food safety and security.

Tax avoidance is tax evasion: Make offshore tax havens illegal. Close tax loopholes and shelters; collect unpaid and deferred corporate taxes and jail corporate tax evaders.

Tax the greedy, not the needy! Enact progressive tax reform based on ability to pay, and put the load on those most able to pay: the corporations and the wealthy. Double the corporate tax rate, restore the capital tax, and impose taxes on 100% of capital gains. Eliminate taxes on incomes under $40,000/yr.Enact wealth and inheritance taxes on the wealthy.

Enshrine a Labour Bill of Rights in the Constitution, guaranteeing workers the right to strike, picket, and organize; to free collective bargaining, and to take collective political action. Ban strike-breaking and scabbing. Strengthen labour standards; block anti-labour “right-to-work” laws.

Reduce drug overdose deaths with harm reduction and ‘safe supply’ policies.

Make mental health coverage universal and free.

Implement free universal mental health care.

Impose heavy fines and jail terms against clear-cutting. Enact legislation to protect bio-diversity.

Cancel LNG immediately.

Cancel the Energy Saguenay LNG project in Quebec, and the Coastal Gaslink, Trans Mountain Expansion, Line 9 and Line 5 pipeline projects based on expansion of tar sands extraction.

Ban the sale and possession of hand guns and military assault weapons.

Abolish CSIS, the RCMP, and the CSE. Strengthen parliamentary oversight of provincial police forces and put municipal police under strict civilian control. Disband the RCMP, CSIS and the CSEC. Prosecute police for unlawful use of force and murder. Ban tasers. Ban racial profiling and carding. Cut police budgets to fund social programs. Ban private funding of police forces and police “foundations.”

End private, for profit long-term care, and expand Medicare to include long-term care.

Protect and expand the universal public pension system. Substantially increase Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits and reduce the pension age to 60 with full pension benefits including access to the Guaranteed Income Supplement.

Massively expand urban mass transit, eliminating fares. Create a publicly owned bus service, fueled by renewable energy, to replace and expand the service previously provided by for-profit operators, with expanded inter-urban rail service to meet the needs of remote communities. Build mass rapid transit vehicles and systems, to reduce use of private cars and to reduce carbon emissions.

Keep jobs, plants and machinery, and retool existing industries to produce urban and inter-urban rapid transit vehicles and a Canadian-made electric car that’s affordable and environmentally sustainable.

Restore funding for the CBC and invest in the National Film Board (NFB-ONF), Telefilm Canada, CBC/Radio-Canada, Conseil des arts du Canada / Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Museum Association / Association des musées canadiens, and other publicly owned institutions.

Introduce postal banking and restore universal home delivery at Canada Post.

Nationalize the banks and insurance companies. Introduce postal banking.