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Liberal Party of Canada

Affordability & Childcare

Canada Workers Benefit

Expand the Canada Workers Benefit to support ~1M additional Canadians in low-wage jobs; Automatically enrol qualified Canadians in the CWB; Ensure secondary earners can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing for CWB.

Continue to expand the Canada Workers Benefit to support about 1 million additional Canadians in low-wage jobs, helping them return to work and increasing benefits for Canada’s most vulnerable, who will be eligible for up to $1,400 a year.

Ensure that Canadians who qualify are automatically enrolled, and that the benefit is delivered on a quarterly basis.

Continue to ensure that secondary earners—mostly women—can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing the Canada Workers Benefit, so that families can receive up to $2,400.

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Childcare

Reduce fees for childcare by 50% next year; Finalise agreements with more provinces & territories to provide $10-a-day childcare within 5 years or less; Create 250K new childcare spaces; Hire 40K more early childhood educators; Work with Quebec to build on its childcare system; Work with Indigenous partners on childcare for Indigenous children; Enact federal childcare legislation.

Reduce fees for child care by 50% in the next year.

Deliver $10 a day child care within five years or less.

Build 250,000 new high-quality child care spaces.

Hire 40,000 more early childhood educators.

Finalize agreements with all remaining provinces and territories.

Work with the province of Quebec to build on its world-class, affordable child care system, improve working conditions for educators, and create more spaces for families.

Work with Indigenous partners to ensure Indigenous children have access to culturally appropriate, affordable, high-quality early learning and child care.

Enact federal child care legislation to strengthen and protect a Canada-wide child care system.

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Employment Insurance

Introduce a new EI benefit for self-employed Canadians, delivered through the tax system, providing unemployment assistance comparable to EI & lasting for up to 26 weeks; Create an EI Career Insurance Benefit for people who are laid off when a business they've worked for 5 years closes.

Introduce a new EI benefit for self-employed Canadians, delivered through the tax system, that would provide unemployment assistance comparable to EI and lasting for as much as 26 weeks. This could provide support of nearly $15,500 when it is needed most.

Self-employed Canadians seeking to access this benefit would only be responsible to contribute the portion they would normally pay if they were a salaried employee. Further details regarding this benefit will be developed over the coming year with the launch of this new benefit happening in January 2023.

Strengthen rights for workers employed by digital platforms so that they are entitled to job protections under the Canada Labour Code and establish new provisions in the Income Tax Act to ensure this work counts toward EI and CPP while also making these platforms pay associated contributions as any employer would.

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Establish an EI Career Insurance Benefit. This benefit will be available to people who have worked continuously for the same employer for five or more years and are laid off when the business closes. The Career Insurance Benefit will kick in after regular EI ends, providing an additional 20% of insured earnings in the first year following the layoff, and an extra 10% in the second year. This will give workers up to an almost $16,900 over two years, providing significant help at a difficult time.

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Food & Nutrition

Work with provincial, territorial, municipal, & Indigenous partners, & stakeholders, to develop a National School Food Policy, working towards a national school nutritious meal programme with a $1B investment over 5 years; Restrict commercial marketing of food & beverages to children; Establish new front-of-package labelling to promote healthy food choices.

Work with our provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous partners, and stakeholders to develop a National School Food Policy and work towards a national school nutritious meal program with a $1 billion dollar investment over five years. Introduce new restrictions on the commercial marketing of food and beverages to children and establish new front-of-package labelling to promote healthy food choices.

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Living in the North

Reform the Nutrition North Canada program to make the program more transparent & responsive to Inuit needs.

People with Disabilities

Reintroduce a Disability Benefit Act to create a direct monthly payment for low income Canadians with disabilities ages 18-64; Develop an employment strategy for Canadians with disabilities, including an investment in the Ready, Willing and Able inclusive hiring programme; Create a new stream of the Youth Employment & Skills Strategy Program to support 5K opportunities/year.

Re-introduce a Disability Benefit Act which will create a direct monthly payment, the Canada Disability Benefit, for low-income Canadians with disabilities ages 18-64.

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Develop and implement an employment strategy for Canadians with disabilities. This strategy will be focused on supports for workers and employers and creating inclusive and welcoming workplaces. It will also include an investment in the Ready, Willing and Able inclusive hiring program to support individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Create a new stream of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program (YESS) to support 5000 opportunities a year for young people. This would help young Canadians with disabilities gain the skills, experience, and abilities they need to make a successful transition into the labour market and build successful careers.

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Climate Change & the Environment

Animal Protection

Introduce legislation to end cosmetic testing on animals as soon as 2023, & phase out toxicity testing on animals by 2035; Work with partners to curb illegal wildlife trade & end ivory trade; Introduce legislation to protect animals in captivity; Ban the live export of horses for slaughter; Work with our partners to help women & children fleeing violence to stay with their companion animals.

Introduce legislation to end cosmetic testing on animals as soon as 2023 and phase out toxicity testing on animals by 2035.

Work with partners to curb illegal wildlife trade and end elephant and rhinoceros ivory trade in Canada.

Introduce legislation to protect animals in captivity.

Ban the live export of horses for slaughter.

Work with our partners to help women and children fleeing violence stay united with their companion animals.

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Batteries

Build an end-to-end, sustainable battery supply chain; Launch a Canada-US Battery Alliance for stakeholders in both countries to identify shared priorities & environmental requirements that lead to an integrated, world-scale battery supply chain.

Build an end-to-end, sustainable battery supply chain.

Work to attract near-term multi-billion anchor investments in key areas like minerals processing and cell manufacturing.

Double the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit for materials on the Canadian list of critical minerals which are essential to the manufacturing of vital clean technologies, such as batteries.

Establish Canada as a global leader in battery recycling and reuse, to improve the environmental impact and build a competitive advantage.

Launch a Canada-U.S. Battery Alliance for stakeholders in both countries to identify shared priorities and create environmental requirements that lead to an integrated, world-scale battery supply chain

Work with stakeholders to identify new strategic priorities, including future battery types, ways to optimize batteries for cold weather performance and long-duration storage, and applications in heavy- duty transportation.

Address gaps in training and upskilling to ensure that all Canadians workers can take advantage of battery industry opportunities.

Use all tools, including the Investment Canada Act, to ensure the protection and development of our critical minerals from both an economic and national security perspective.

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Carbon Capture & Storage

Continue planting 2 billion trees; Restore & enhance more wetlands, grasslands, & peatlands to capture & store carbon.

Carbon Pricing

Continue to increase the federal carbon price by $15/tonne each year, reaching $170/tonne by 2030; Work with key trading partners, like the US & EU, to apply Border Carbon Adjustments on imports from countries with less action on climate change.

Continue to put a rising price on pollution, while putting more money back into the pockets of Canadians.

Keep protecting Canadian jobs and competitiveness through smart carbon pricing design.

Move forward, in collaboration with key trading partners, like the United States and European Union, on applying Border Carbon Adjustments to imports from countries that aren’t doing their part to reduce carbon pollution and fight climate change. This includes considering applying Border Carbon Adjustments on imports of steel, cement, aluminum, and other emissions-intensive industries, similar to the European Union’s approach.

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Coal

Ban thermal coal exports from & through Canada no later than 2030.

Conservation

Establish 10 new national parks in the next 5 years & work w/ Indigenous communities on co-management agreements; Work w/ partners to conserve 25% of lands & waters by 2025 & 30% by 2030; Work to halt nature loss by 2030 w/ a full recovery by 2050; Work w/ Indigenous peoples to support new Indigenous Guardians programs; Build new urban national parks; Establish a $50M BC Old Growth Nature Fund.

Establishing 10 new national parks and 10 new national marine conservation areas (NMCAs) in the next 5 years—doubling the size of the existing national parks and NMCA system in Canada.

Working with Indigenous communities on co- management agreements of these national parks and NMCAs.

Continuing to work with partners to ensure Canada meets its goals to conserve 25% of our lands and waters by 2025 and 30% of each by 2030.

Working to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 in Canada and achieving a full recovery for nature by 2050. This includes championing this goal internationally to ensure that the world protects the intact nature required to reverse the biodiversity collapse and protect our climate.

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Work with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis partners to support new Indigenous Guardians programs and establish new Indigenous Guardians Networks.

Support Indigenous communities to build capacity to establish more IPCAs.

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Establish at least one new national urban park in every province and territory, with a target of establishing 15 national urban parks by 2030.

Invest an additional $200 million in the Natural Infrastructure Fund to continue funding community-led public green space projects in collaboration with municipalities, Indigenous communities, and non- profit organizations.

Continue building and connecting the TransCanada Trail, and creating new opportunities for Canadians to access it, by increasing annual funding to $13 million, growing the trail network by 10% helping create 10,000 jobs over the next five years.

Build a national trails tourism strategy and increase youth employment opportunities in partnership with Destination Canada to enhance local economic development opportunities.

Every Canadian should have access to nature and green space in their community. Simply put, it’s part of who we are.

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Reaching a nature agreement with the province of British Columbia to protect more of the province’s old growth forests and expand protected areas.

Establishing a $50 million B.C. Old Growth Nature Fund and working with partners to attract additional funding to further support the protection of important old growth forests.

Ensuring First Nations, local communities, and workers are partners in shaping the path forward on nature protection.

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Effects of Climate Change

Support retrofits & upgrades to protect against extreme weather; Develop flood maps for higher-risk areas in the next 3 years; Create a low-cost national flood insurance programme; Finalise the National Adaption Strategy by 2022; Expand eligibility for CMHC deep home retrofits; Create a Climate Adaption Home Rating Program; Create a nation-wide flood ready information portal.

Support retrofits and upgrades to protect against extreme weather.

Complete our work with provinces and territories to develop flood maps for higher-risk areas in the next three years.

Create a nation-wide flood ready portal so that Canadians have the information they need to make decisions on where and how to build their homes and communities, and how they can protect their homes and communities from flood risk.

Take action to protect homeowners who are at high risk of flooding and don’t have adequate insurance protection, by creating a low-cost national flood insurance program.

Develop strategies, in partnership with the insurance industry and private sector to lower insurance premiums by identifying cost-effective ways to better protect communities and homes from climate impacts and save people money.

Expand the office of the National Security and Intelligence Advisor to keep Canadians safe as climate change increasingly impacts our domestic and global contexts.

Create a Climate Adaptation Home Rating Program that will be developed as a companion to the EnerGuide home energy audits.

Expand the eligibility requirements of the CMHC deep home retrofit program and Canada Greener Home Grants to include more climate resilience measures.

Finalize Canada’s first-ever National Adaptation Strategy by the end of 2022, which will set clear targets and indicators to measure progress on—and strengthen the business case for—adaptation.

Finalize and applying a climate lens to ensure climate adaptation and mitigation considerations are integrated throughout federal government decision-making.

Work with provinces, territories, and farmers—including Indigenous and young farmers—to update business risk management agriculture programs to fully integrate climate risk management, environmental practices, and climate readiness.

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Emissions Reductions Targets

Implement the recently passed Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act; Achieve a 40-45% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels; Achieve net-zero emissions as soon as possible and no later than 2050; Set 5-year targets, & 2025 & 2030 milestones for emissions reductions from the oil & gas sector; Require oil & gas companies to reduce methane emissions by 75% below 2012 levels by 2030.

Deliver on all policy and fiscal measures outlined in our Strengthened Climate Plan from December 2020, implement the recently passed Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act, and advance new measures to achieve an ambitious 40-45% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

Work with all Canadians and the Net Zero Advisory Body to identify ways to further accelerate climate action that will put us on trajectory to achieve net-zero emissions as soon as possible and no later than 2050.

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Make sure the oil and gas sector reduces emissions at a pace and scale needed to achieve net-zero by 2050, with 5-year targets to stay on track to achieving this shared goal. And driving down pollution starts with ensuring that pollution from the oil and gas sector doesn’t go up from current levels.

Set 2025 and 2030 milestones based on the advice of the Net-Zero Advisory Body to ensure reduction levels are ambitious and achievable and that the oil and gas sector makes a meaningful contribution to meeting the nation’s 2030 climate goals.

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Require oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75% below 2012 levels by 2030 and work to reduce methane emissions across the broader economy.

Seek similar commitments from other major economies at the upcoming G20 and COP26.

Make the National Research Council a global centre for excellence on methane detection and elimination, to address the global issues of under-reporting of methane emissions.

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Introduce a new Buy Clean Strategy to support and prioritize the use of made-in-Canada low-carbon products in public and private infrastructure projects.

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Energy Efficient Buildings

Provide grants of up to $5K for home retrofits & interest-free loans up to $40K for deep retrofits to improve a home's energy efficiency; Launch a National Net-zero Emissions Building Strategy to get to net-zero emissions from buildings by 2050; Invest $250M to help low-income Canadians get off home-heating oil; Require EnerGuide labelling of homes at time-of-sale.

Continue to help Canadians improve the energy efficiency of their homes and reduce their energy bills, providing grants of up to $5,000 for home retrofits and interest-free loans of up to $40,000 for deep retrofits.

Launch a National Net-zero Emissions Building Strategy, which will chart a path to net-zero emissions from buildings by 2050 with ambitious milestones along the way.

Accelerate the development of the national net-zero emissions model building code for 2025 adoption.

Accelerate the transition from fossil fuel-based heating systems to electrification through incentives and standards, including investing $250 million to help low-income Canadians get off home-heating oil.

Require EnerGuide labeling of homes at the time of sale.

Create a Low-Carbon Building Materials Innovation Hub to work directly with entrepreneurs, municipalities, provinces and territories, and Indigenous governments to ensure Canadian innovations are best positioned to succeed.

Enhance investments in the Forest Industry Transformation program, working with partners to create jobs in the forest-based economy and bring forward new innovations in sustainable, low-carbon building materials.

Launch a community-led net-zero homes initiative that supports projects that pursue multiple concurrent retrofits in a community or neighbourhood, to reduce overall costs. This initiative will be modeled on the Dutch “Energiesprong” program.

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Energy Grid

Create a Pan-Canadian Grid Council to promote infrastructure investments, smart grids, grid integration, & electricity sector innovation.

Create a Pan-Canadian Grid Council to promote infrastructure investments, smart grids, grid integration, and electricity sector innovation with the goal of making Canada the most reliable, cost-effective, and carbon-free electricity producer in the world.

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Energy Sources

Introduce a Clean Electricity Standard, with the goal of a 100% net-zero emitting electricity system by 2035; Introduce investment tax credits for renewable energy & battery storage solutions.

Introduce a Clean Electricity Standard that will set Canada on a path to cut more emissions by 2030 and to achieve a 100% net-zero emitting electricity system by 2035.

Develop additional investment tax credits for a range of renewable energy and battery storage solutions, to accelerate the deployment of clean energy.

Create a Pan-Canadian Grid Council to promote infrastructure investments, smart grids, grid integration, and electricity sector innovation with the goal of making Canada the most reliable, cost-effective, and carbon-free electricity producer in the world.

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Environmental Rights

Pass a strengthened Canadian Environmental Protection Act; Recognise the right to a healthy environment in federal law; Implement mandatory labelling of chemicals in consumer products; Increase testing of imported products for compliance with Canadian standards; Examine & develop a strategy to address the link between race, socio-economic status, & exposure to environmental risk.

Pass a strengthened Canadian Environmental Protection Act to protect everyone, including people most vulnerable to harm from toxic substances and those living in communities where exposure is high.

Recognize the “right to a healthy environment” for the first time in federal law.

By Spring 2022, move forward with mandatory labelling of chemicals in consumer products, including cosmetics, cleaning products, and flame retardants in upholstery, that may have impacts on our health or environment.

Increase testing of imported products for compliance with Canadian standards to ensure that they are safe for Canadian consumers and that Canadian producers are not at a disadvantage.

Table legislation to require the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to examine the link between race, socio-economic status, and exposure to environmental risk, and develop a strategy to address environmental justice.

Identify and prioritize the clean-up of contaminated sites in areas where Indigenous, racialized, and low-income Canadians live.

Implement a comprehensive action plan to protect Canadians, including firefighters', from exposure to toxic flame retardants found in household products.

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Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Eliminate fossil fuel subsidies by 2023, instead of a previous commitment of 2025; Develop a plan to phase-out public financing of the fossil fuel sector, including from crown corporations.

Accelerate our G20 commitment to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies from 2025 to 2023.

Develop a plan to phase-out public financing of the fossil fuel sector, including from Crown corporations, consistent with our commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Freshwater

Establish a Canada Water Agency in 2022, working with partners to protect freshwater resources, incl. by developing & updating river basin & large watershed agreements; Modernise the Canada Water Act; Implement a Freshwater Action Plan with $1B over 10 years; Invest $37.5M in the Experimental Lakes Area; Offer municipalities means to manage & regulate boating on their lakes & rivers.

Establish and fully fund a Canada Water Agency in 2022, working with partners to safeguard our freshwater resources for generations to come, including by supporting provinces, territories, and Indigenous partners, in developing and updating river basin and large watershed agreements.

Modernize the 50-year-old Canada Water Act to reflect our new freshwater reality, including addressing climate change, Indigenous water rights.

Implement a strengthened Freshwater Action Plan, including an historic investment of $1 billion over 10 years. This plan will provide essential funding to protect and restore large lakes and river systems, starting with the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River System, Lake Simcoe, the Lake Winnipeg Basin, the Fraser River Basin, and the Mackenzie River Basin.

Invest $37.5 million in the Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario, the world’s only large-scale centre for freshwater science and which the Harper government tried to close. This new funding will also support international freshwater science and research by encouraging international cooperation efforts, including that with the African Great Lakes.

Offer willing municipalities means to manage and regulate boating on their lakes and rivers so that they promote free access, while ensuring the safety of boaters and the protection of the environment.

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Green Innovation

Develop an investment tax credit of up to 30% for a range of clean tech, including low-carbon & net-zero tech, with input from external experts; Provide incentives for domestic procurement of clean tech; Triple funding for clean tech on farms; Partner with post-secondary institutions & Indigenous organisations to accelerate the creation & growth of Indigenous clean tech businesses.

Develop an investment tax credit of up to 30% for a range of clean technologies including low carbon and net-zero technologies with input from external experts on what technologies should be covered.

Build on existing advisory services for emerging clean technology firms to guide them, from formation to export, on the opportunities and challenges before them.

Provide support and incentives for domestic procurement of Canadian clean technology. By partnering with other levels of government and existing large companies, we can help emerging Canadian clean technology firms secure customers here in Canada.

Triple funding for cleantech on farms, including for renewable energy, precision agriculture, and energy efficiency.

Partner with post-secondary institutions and Indigenous organizations to accelerate the creation and growth of Indigenous clean technology businesses.

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Industrial Carbon Emissions

Advance green industrial strategies; Continue investing funds from the Net Zero Accelerator in strategic opportunities.

Low-Carbon Manufacturing

Advance green industrial strategies & continue investing funds from the Net Zero Accelerator in strategic opportunities.

Advance green industrial strategies and continue investing funds from the Net Zero Accelerator in strategic opportunities and make sure that Canada claims more than our fair share of growing clean growth opportunities.

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Pesticides

Strengthen the Pest Control Products Act; Invest in further government & independent science, including water & soil monitoring & on the cumulative effects of multiple pesticides on health & the environment; Ensure the impacts on wildlife are fully considered; Support food producers who choose alternative pest management approaches that reduce the need for chemical pesticides.

Strengthen the Pest Control Products Act to better protect our health, wildlife, and the environment.

Align with world-leading approaches to transparency when reassessing pesticides already on the market and increase opportunities for independent scientists to have input into the decision-making process.

Invest in further government and independent science, including on water and soil monitoring and on the cumulative effects of multiple pesticides on health and the environment.

Ensure that the impacts of pesticides on wildlife are fully considered, and support food producers who choose alternative pest management approaches that reduce the need for chemical pesticides.

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Shipping & Marine Protection

Establish 10 new marine conservation areas in the next 5 years; Renew & expand the Coastal Restoration fund; Modernise the Oceans Act to explicitly consider climate change impacts on marine ecosystems & species; Expand the Ghost Gear Program to clean up oceans & coasts; Invest $50M in community shoreline cleanup; Create a national working group on climate-resilient ocean conservation planning.

Establishing 10 new national parks and 10 new national marine conservation areas (NMCAs) in the next 5 years—doubling the size of the existing national parks and NMCA system in Canada.

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Renew and expand the Coastal Restoration fund so that we can restore aquatic habitats.

Make new investments in areas like tidal wetlands, seagrass meadows, and riparian habitats that have a high potential to absorb and store carbon.

Modernize the Oceans Act to explicitly consider climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and species in regional ocean management with measurable progress indicators tied to management objectives.

Expand the Ghost Gear Program to continue to clean up our oceans and coasts from lost and abandoned fishing gear and oceans plastics that endanger sea life, impact fish stocks, and pollute the ocean.

Invest $50 million over the next 5 years to support community shoreline and oceans plastic cleanup.

Create a national, interdisciplinary working group around climate-resilient ocean conservation planning.

Expand climate vulnerability work to better inform marine conservation planning and management.

Continue to protect key marine species, including the Southern Resident Killer Whale, the North Atlantic Right Whale, and the St. Lawrence Estuary Beluga.

Advance the historic $647 million Pacific Salmon Strategy launched in June and make new investments to conserve and restore Wild Atlantic Salmon.

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Sustainable Finance

Move toward mandatory climate-related financial disclosures; Require climate-related financial disclosures & development of net-zero plans for federally-regulated institutions; Issue green bonds annually, worth at least $5B; Develop a climate data strategy; Work with financial experts through the Sustainable Action Council to develop a net-zero capital allocation strategy.

Deliver on the commitment that we made with G7 Finance Ministers earlier this year to move toward mandatory climate-related financial disclosures that provide consistent and decision-useful information for market participants and that are based on the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework, in cooperation with provinces and territories.

Require climate-related financial disclosures and the development of net-zero plans for federally regulated institutions, which includes financial institutions, pension funds, and government agencies.

Issue green bonds, annually, worth a minimum of $5 billion.

Develop a climate data strategy to ensure that the private sector and communities have access to decision-useful climate information and to inform infrastructure investments.

Work with financial experts through the Sustainable Finance Action Council to develop a net-zero capital allocation strategy to move capital into the types of investments needed to accelerate Canada’s transition to a prosperous net-zero future.

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Waste

Require that plastic packaging contain 50% recycled content by 2030; Work w/ provinces & territories on recycling targets for plastic bottles; Prohibit using the ♲ symbol on a product unless 80% of recycling facilities accept it; Require producers to report the amount, type, & end-of-life management of plastics; Implement right-to-repair & encourage with a tax credit; Create a No-Waste Food Fund.

Require that all plastic packaging in Canada contain at least 50% recycled content by 2030.

Accelerate the implementation of our zero plastic waste action plan, in partnership with provinces and territories, and ensure Canada’s actions are consistent with other leading jurisdictions.

Continue to work with provinces and territories to ensure that it’s producers, not taxpayers, who are responsible for the cost of managing their plastic waste.

Work with provinces and territories to implement and enforce an ambitious recycling target for plastic beverage bottles.

Strengthen federal procurement practices to prioritize reusable and recyclable products and support our goal of zero plastic waste.

Introduce labelling rules that prohibit the use of the chasing-arrows symbol unless 80% of Canada’s recycling facilities accept and have reliable end markets for these products.

Support provincial and territorial producer responsibility efforts by establishing a federal public registry and require producers to annually report the amount, type, and end-of-life management for plastics in the Canadian economy.

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Create a new $100 million infrastructure and innovation fund over the next 5 years that will scale-up and commercialize made-in-Canada technologies and solutions for the reuse and recycling of plastics.

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Accelerate the global shift to a circular economy as host of this year’s World Circular Economy Forum.

Build on the Ocean Plastics Charter by working with leading countries on the development of a new global agreement on plastics.

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Implement a “right to repair” to extend the life of home appliances, particularly electronics, by requiring manufacturers to supply repair manuals and spare parts and facilitate their replication after the part is no longer produced.

Introduce a new 15% tax credit to cover the cost of home appliance repairs performed by technicians (up to $500).

Introduce a bill that includes provisions to better inform citizens of the environmental impacts of consumer products.

Require businesses to inform Canadians of the environmental impacts of consumer products.

Amend the Copyright Act to ensure that its provisions cannot prevent the repair of digital devices and systems, even when nothing is being copied or distributed.

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Create a new No-Waste Food Fund to help build a circular food economy in Canada where no food is wasted, from farm to table. The fund will help all players along the food supply chain to commercialize and adopt ways to eliminate, reduce, or repurpose food waste. We will continue to partner with, and support, community-based food security organizations to make sure all Canadians have access to healthy food.

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Wildfires

Train 1,000 new community-based firefighters; Work with provinces & territories to provide firefighters with needed equipment, including Canadian-made planes; Support & expand Indigenous-led fire crews & build capacity to better incorporate Indigenous traditional knowledge strategies in fire management.

Train 1,000 new community-based firefighters to ensure we are ready for future fire seasons.

Work with provinces and territories to provide firefighters with the equipment they need to fight fires and stay safe, like Canadian-made planes to increase provincial aerial firefighting capacity.

Support and expand Indigenous-led fire crews and build capacity to better incorporate Indigenous traditional knowledge strategies in fire management

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Worker Transition

Establish a $2B Futures Fund for Alberta, Saskatchewan, & Newfoundland & Labrador, design in collaboration with local workers, unions, educational institutions, environmental groups, investors, & Indigenous peoples; Support local & regional economic diversification; Move forward with Just Transition legislation; Launch a Clean Jobs Training Centre to help workers upgrade or gain new skills.

Establish a $2 billion Futures Fund for Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador that will be designed in collaboration with local workers, unions, educational institutions, environmental groups, investors, and Indigenous peoples who know their communities best. We will support local and regional economic diversification and specific place-based strategies.

Move forward with Just Transition Legislation, guided by the feedback we receive from workers, unions, Indigenous peoples, communities, and provinces and territories.

Create more opportunities for women, LGBTQ2 and other underrepresented people in the energy sector.

Because when we include everyone, we get the best.

Launch a Clean Jobs Training Centre to help industrial, skill and trade workers across sectors to upgrade or gain new skills to be on the leading edge of zero carbon industry.

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Education

Apprenticeship

Double the Union Training & Innovation program to $50M/year; Target participation in the Union Training & Innovation program from women, Indigenous people, newcomers, persons with disabilities, & Black & racialised Canadians; Establish a new Apprenticeship Service to connect 55K first-year apprentices in Red Seal trades with opportunities at small & medium-sized employers.

Double the Union Training and Innovation program to $50 million a year to support more apprenticeship training opportunities and additional partnerships in the Red Seal trades across Canada, and target more participation from women, Indigenous people, newcomers, persons with disabilities, and Black and racialized Canadians.

Move forward on our plan to establish a new Apprenticeship Service which will connect 55,000 first-year apprentices in Red Seal trades with opportunities at small and medium-sized employers.

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Job Training

Require businesses supported through the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program to include wrap-around supports for training for women & vulnerable groups.

Make it easier for women and vulnerable groups to access training by requiring businesses supported through the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program to include wrap-around supports. This could include transportation to and from the training program, computers, food, referral to counselling, housing, and legal support, support in finding child care, and mentoring or coaching.

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Post-Secondary Tuition

Permanently eliminate federal interest on Canada Student Loans & Canada Apprentice Loans; Increase the repayment assistance threshold to $50K for Canada Student Loan borrowers who are single.

Permanently eliminate the federal interest on Canada Student Loans and Canada Apprentice Loans to support young Canadians who choose to invest in post-secondary education. This will benefit over 1 million student loan borrowers and save an average borrower more than $3,000 over the lifetime of their loan.

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Increase the repayment assistance threshold to $50,000 for Canada Student Loan borrowers who are single. This means that new grads, working hard early in their careers, won’t have to begin repaying their loans until they earn at least $50,000 annually.

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Public School Educators

Increase the refundable Eligible Educator School Supply Tax Credit from 15% to 25%; Expand eligibility criteria on the Educator School Supply Tax Credit to include tech devices & and all teaching supplies purchased to perform employment duties.

Increase the refundable tax credit to 25% (from 15%).

Expand eligibility criteria to include tech devices and ensure that teaching supplies purchased to perform employment duties are eligible, no matter where that may be.

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Health & Healthcare

Access to Abortion

Require that everyone, regardless of location, has access to sexual & reproductive health services under the Canada Health Act, with penalties for non-compliant provinces; Create a portal for sexual & reproductive health info, w/ a section countering abortion misinfo; Provide $10M to youth-led grassroots organisations; Remove charity status for anti-abortion orgs that provide dishonest counseling.

Establish regulations under the Canada Health Act governing accessibility for sexual and reproductive health services so there is no question, that no matter where someone lives, that they have access to publicly available sexual and reproductive health services. Failure on the part of a province to meet this standard would result in an automatic penalty applied against federal health transfers.

Provide up to $10 million to Health Canada to develop an easily accessible portal that provides accurate, judgement-free, and evidence-based information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, which will include a section that counters misinformation about abortion.

Provide up to $10 million over 3 years to youth-led grassroots organizations that respond to the unique sexual and reproductive health needs of young people.

No longer provide charity status to anti-abortion organizations (for example, Crisis Pregnancy Centres) that provide dishonest counseling to women about their rights and about the options available to them at all stages of the pregnancy.

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Air Quality & Ventilation

Provide a $100M top-up to the Safe Return to Class Fund for ventilation improvements; Provide $10M for First Nations to improve air quality in on-reserve schools; Provide $100M to the Canada Healthy Communities Initiatives, with $70M for increasing air quality & indoor ventilation; Provide a tax credit for small businesses who invest in better ventilation.

Provide a $100 million top-up to the Safe Return to Class Fund for ventilation improvement projects across Canada, as well as $10 million for First Nations to improve indoor air quality in on-reserve schools.

Provide $100 million to the Canada Healthy Communities Initiative with $70 million of this funding directed to a new pillar focused on increasing air quality and indoor ventilation.

Introduce a tax credit for small businesses to make it easier for them to invest in better ventilation.

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COVID Vaccination

Require all travellers on inter-provincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, & other federally-regulated vessels be vaccinated; Ensure vaccination of the federal public service; Launch a $1B Proof of Vaccination Fund to support provinces & territories to implement proof-of-vaccine credentials; Allow organisations to require proof of vaccination for employees & customers; Procure boosters.

Require that travellers on interprovincial trains, commercial flights, cruise ships, and other federally regulated vessels be vaccinated.

Ensure vaccination across the federal public service. As the country’s largest employer, this will protect the health and safety of the federal public servants and their communities, across Canada.

We will also keep working with employers in Crown corporations and federally regulated workplaces to ensure vaccination is prioritized for workers in these sectors.

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Launch a $1 billion COVID-19 Proof of Vaccination Fund to support provinces and territories who implement a requirement for proof of vaccine credentials in their jurisdiction for non-essential businesses and public spaces.

Table legislation to ensure that every business and organization that decides to require a proof of vaccination from employees and customers can do so without fear of a legal challenge.

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Procure enough vaccines to ensure all Canadians have access to free COVID-19 booster shots and second-generation vaccines as needed.

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Future Pandemics

Invest $100 million in studying the long-term health impacts of COVID-19, including the effects of long-COVID on different groups.

Invest $100 million to study the long-term health impacts of COVID-19, including the effects of “long-COVID” on different groups, including vulnerable populations and children.

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Health Funding

Invest an additional $6 billion to help eliminate health system wait-lists; Provide $3.2 billion for provinces & territories to hire 7,500 family doctors, nurses, & nurse practitioners.

Healthcare Access

Provide $400 million over 4 years to support virtual care; Expand Canada Student Loans debt forgiveness to more healthcare professionals & increase the amount forgiven by 50%; Offer healthcare professionals a 1-time income tax deduction up to $15k over their first 3 years of practice; Increase federal powers to deduct funding from provinces who add extra billings for publicly insured services.

Expand the number of family doctors and primary health teams in rural communities, by increasing by 50% (from $40,000 up to $60,000 over 5 years), the maximum debt relief that family doctors, residents in family medicine, nurse practitioners, or nurses are eligible for the under Canada Student Loans forgiveness program.

Expand the list of professionals eligible for forgiveness to include dentists, pharmacists, dental hygienists, midwives, social workers, psychologists, teachers, and early childhood educators so that rural communities have greater access to the full suite of health and social service providers they need.

Offer health care professionals, who are just starting out in their careers, a one-time income tax deduction of up to $15,000 over their first 3 years of practice to help with the costs of setting up a practice.

Undertake a review to ensure that communities that are indeed rural are fully eligible under the program.

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Strengthen federal powers under the Canada Health Act and the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act to deduct health transfers from provinces who enable extra billing for publicly insured services, in order to protect the integrity of our universal public health care system.

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Expand the number of family doctors and primary health teams in rural communities.

Work to give rural communities greater access to a full suite of health and social services professionals, including dentists, pharmacists, dental hygienists, midwives, social workers, psychologists, teachers, and early childhood educators.

Help health care professionals set up new practices.

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Menstrual Products

Provide free tampons & pads in federally-regulated workplaces; Create a $25M Menstrual Equity Fund for women's shelters, not-for-profits, charities, community-based organisations, & youth-led organisations to make menstrual products available to vulnerable women.

Housing & Homelessness

Homelessness

Appoint a Federal Housing Advocate within 100 days of a new mandate, to ensure federal government commitments are fulfilled; Invest in Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy.

Appoint a new Federal Housing Advocate within the first 100-days of a new mandate to ensure the federal government's work toward eliminating chronic homelessness, as well as other housing commitments, are fulfilled.

Move forward with our plan to invest in Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy to support communities across the country.

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Housing Supply

Build an additional 250,000 over the next 4 years; Invest $4B in a new Housing Accelerator Fund, which will provide application-based funding for municipalities; Invest in e-permitting technology; Permanently increase funding to the National Housing Co-investment fund by $2.7B over 4 years, for more affordable housing; Commit $600M to support converting empty office & retail space into housing.

Our plan will build or revitalize an additional 250,000 homes over 4 years. On top of the 285,000 homes currently being built each year, this will mean nearly 1.4 million homes will be built, preserved, or revitalized by 2025-26 under a re-elected Liberal government.

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Invest $4 billion in a new Housing Accelerator Fund which will grow the annual housing supply in the country’s largest cities every year, creating a target of 100,000 new middle class homes by 2024-25. This application-based fund will offer support to municipalities that: grow housing supply faster than their historical average; increase densification; speed-up approval times; tackle NIMBYism and establish inclusionary zoning bylaws; and encourage public transit-oriented development. This fund will support a wide range of eligible municipal investments, including red tape reduction efforts, and reward cities and communities that build more homes, faster.

Help speed up the time it takes to build more homes by investing in e-permitting technology and help communities streamline the planning process.

Work with municipalities to identify vacant or underused property that should be converted to housing on the principle of use it or lose it.

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Permanently increase funding to the National Housing Co-investment fund by a total of $2.7 billion over 4 years, more than double its current allocation.

These extra funds will be dedicated to helping affordable housing providers acquire land and buildings to build and preserve more units, extending the model of co-operative housing to new communities, accelerating critical repairs so that housing supply remains affordable and is not lost, and developing projects for vulnerable groups, such as women, youth, and persons with disabilities.

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Double our existing Budget 2021 commitment to $600 million to support the conversion of empty office and retail space into market-based housing. We’ll convert space in the federal portfolio, and commercial buildings.

Work with municipalities to create a fast-track system for permits to allow faster conversion of existing buildings, helping maintain the vibrancy of urban communities.

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Money Laundering

Establish a Canada Financial Crimes Agency to investigate & combat major financial crime; Increase regulatory power to respond to housing price fluctuations & ensure a more stable housing market.

Establish the Canada Financial Crimes Agency as Canada’s first ever, national law enforcement agency solely dedicated to investigating and combatting all forms of major financial crime.

Increase the power of federal regulators to respond to housing price fluctuations and ensure a more stable Canadian housing market.

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Establish Canada’s first ever, nation-wide agency whose sole purpose is to investigate these highly complex crimes and enforce federal law in this area. Coupled with an investment of $200 million over the next four years, and new federal powers, this agency will bring together, under one roof, existing law enforcement resources of the RCMP, the intelligence capabilities of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), and expertise of the Canada Revenue Agency.

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Mortgages

Allow people using the First Time Home Buyer Incentive to choose between a shared-equity approach & a loan that is repayable at time of sale; Reduced the price charged by CMHC on mortgage insurance by 25%; Increase the insured mortgage cut-off from $1M to $1.25M, & index it to inflation.

Allow you to choose between the current shared-equity approach or a loan that is repayable only at the time of sale.

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Reduce the price charged by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation on mortgage insurance by 25%. For a typical homebuyer, this will save $6,100.

Increase the insured mortgage cut-off from $1 million to $1.25 million, and index this to inflation, to better reflect today's home prices.

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Renter & Home-Buyer Protections

Create a national Home Buyers' Bill of Rights; Convene federal & provincial regulators to develop a national action plan to increase consumer protection & transparency in real estate transactions; Deter unfair rent increases; Require landlords to disclose on their tax filing the rent they receive pre- and post-renovation, & implement a proportional surtax if the increase in rent is excessive.

Create a national Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights so that the process of buying a home is fair, open, and transparent.

Convene federal and provincial regulators to develop a national action plan to increase consumer protection and transparency in real estate transactions.

The Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights will:

• Ban blind bidding, which prevents bidders from knowing the bids of other prospective buyers, and ultimately drives up home prices.

• Establish a legal right to a home inspection to make sure that buyers have the peace of mind that their investment is sound.

• Ensure total transparency on the history of recent house sale prices on title searches.

• Require real-estate agents to disclose when they are involved in both sides of a potential sale to all participants in a transaction.

• Move forward with a publicly accessible beneficial ownership registry.

• Ensure banks and lenders offer mortgage deferrals for up to 6 months in the event of job loss or other major life event.

• Require mortgage lenders act in your best interest so that you are fully informed of the full range of choices at your disposal, including the First Time Home Buyer Incentive.

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Stop “renovictions” by deterring unfair rent increases that fall outside of a normal change in rent.

Require landlords to disclose, on their tax filing, the rent they receive pre- and post-renovation, and implement a proportional surtax if the increase in rent is excessive.

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Human Rights & Equality

Conversion Therapy

Within 100 days, reintroduce legislation to ban conversion therapy; Extend the ban to include people over 18 years of age.

Re-introduce legislation within the first 100 days in office, to eliminate the practice of conversion therapy for everyone, and extend coverage of the ban to include people over 18 years of age.

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Employment Discrimination

Adapt & apply the Canada Business Corporations Act diversity requirements to federally-regulated financial institutions; Require Crown corporations to implement gender & diversity reporting, beginning next year.

Adapt and apply the Canada Business Corporations Act diversity requirements to federally regulated financial institutions, applying an intersectional lens to ensure diversity among senior ranks of the financial sector.

Move forward with our commitment to require Crown corporations to implement gender and diversity reporting, beginning next year.

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Gender Equity

Adapt & apply the Canada Business Corporations Act diversity requirements to federally-regulated financial institutions; Require Crown corporations to implement gender & diversity reporting, beginning next year.

Adapt and apply the Canada Business Corporations Act diversity requirements to federally regulated financial institutions, applying an intersectional lens to ensure diversity among senior ranks of the financial sector.

Move forward with our commitment to require Crown corporations to implement gender and diversity reporting, beginning next year.

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Hate Crimes & Hate Speech

Present a National Action Plan on Combating Hate by 2022 as part of a renewed Anti-Racism Strategy; Establish a National Support Fund for Survivors of Hope-Motivated Crimes to help with uninsured costs for survivors.

Present a National Action Plan on Combating Hate by 2022 as part of a renewed Anti-Racism Strategy. It will include recommendations from the Antisemitism and Islamophobia summits and specific action on combatting hate crimes in Canada, including possible amendments to the Criminal Code, training and tools for public safety agencies, and investments to support digital literacy and prevent radicalization to violence.

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Establish a National Support Fund for Survivors of Hate-Motivated Crimes to help survivors with any uninsured costs that they have had to bear such as, mental health care, physiotherapy, medical equipment, and paramedical services.

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Indigenous & Black Incarceration

Develop a Black Canadians Justice Strategy to address anti-Black racism and discrimination in the criminal justice system.

LGBTQ2 Rights & Opportunities

Complete the Federal LGBTQ2 Action Plan within 100 days; Provide $40M over 4 years for capacity funding to Canadian LGBTQ2 service organisations.

Complete the Federal Action Plan within the first 100 days in office.

Provide $40 million over 4 years starting in 2021- 2022 for capacity funding to Canadian LGBTQ2 service organizations.

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Racism & Discrimination

Increase funding to both the Anti-Racism Strategy & the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat; Increase funding to multicultural community programmes.

Strengthen and boost funding to both the Anti-Racism Strategy and the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat.

Build on the progress made over the last 6 years and increase funding to multicultural community programs. These programs play an important role in supporting community organizations across the country as they fight racism.

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Immigration & Refugees

Credential Recognition

Work with provinces, territories, & regulatory bodies to improve foreign credential recognition.

Family Reunification

Reduce processing times to under 12 months; Introduce electronic applications for family reunification.

Immigration Process

Make the citizenship application process free for permanent residents who have fulfilled the requirements needed to obtain it; Implement a program to issue visas to spouses & children abroad while they wait for processing of their permanent residency application.

Reduce processing times that have been impacted by COVID-19 to under 12 months.

Introduce electronic applications for family reunification.

Implement a program to issue visas to spouses and children abroad while they wait for the processing of their permanent residency application, so that families can be together sooner.

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Refugees

Work with employers & communities to welcome 2K skilled refugees to fill labour shortages in sectors like healthcare.

Build on the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot and work with employers and communities across Canada to welcome 2,000 skilled refugees to fill labour shortages in in-demand sectors such as health care.

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Temporary Foreign Workers

Reform economic immigration programmes to expand pathways to Permanent Residence for temporary foreign workers & former international students through the Express Entry points system; Create a Trusted Employer system with a streamlined application process for Canadian companies hiring temporary foreign workers to fill labour shortages that can't be filled by Canadian workers.

Visas

Implement a program to issue visas to spouses & children abroad while they wait for processing of their permanent residency application.

Implement a program to issue visas to spouses and children abroad while they wait for the processing of their permanent residency application, so that families can be together sooner.

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Indigenous Relations & Reconciliation

Drinking Water

Make any investments necessary to eliminate all remaining advisories; Make sure resources & training are in place to prevent future advisories; Move forward on agreement in principle to resolve national class action litigation; Maintain commitment to invest $6B to ensure sustainable access to clean water for First Nations.

Make any investments necessary to eliminate all remaining advisories.

Make sure that resources and training are in place to prevent future ones.

Continue to move forward on our agreement in principle to resolve national class action litigation related to safe drinking water in First Nations communities.

Maintain our commitment to invest $6 billion to ensure sustainable access to clean water for First Nations.

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Indigenous Broadband

Require that those who have purchased rights to build broadband actually do so.

Require those that have purchased the rights to build broadband actually do so. With this use it or lose it approach, Canada’s large national carriers will be required to accelerate the roll-out of wireless and high-speed internet in rural and northern Canada by progressively meeting broadband access milestones between now and 2025. If these milestones are not met, we will mandate the resale of spectrum rights and reallocate that capacity to smaller, regional providers.

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Indigenous Businesses

Expand the Aboriginal Entrepreneurship Program to enable businesses to access a new, zero-interest loan when a 10% advance is not possible; Create a navigator position to help Indigenous entrepreneurs find programs that apply to their situation; Work with all government departments to analyse &, as appropriate, adjust eligibility criteria to ensure programs are inclusive.

Expand the Aboriginal Entrepreneurship Program to enable businesses to access a new, zero-interest loan when a 10% advance is not possible.

Create a navigator position to help Indigenous entrepreneurs find programs that apply to their situation.

Work with all government departments to analyze and, as appropriate, adjust eligibility criteria to ensure that programs are as inclusive as possible.

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Indigenous Children

Ensure First Nations youth who reach the age of majority receive the supports they need for up to 2 additional years; Implement orders of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal; Work with Indigenous partners to ensure compensation for those harmed by the First Nations Child & Family Services program; Fully fund Jordan's Principle & Inuit Child First Initiative; Fund needs of Métis children.

Continue to fully implement the Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Children, Youth and Families and continue to support communities looking to lift up jurisdiction over child and family services.

Continue to reform child and family services in Indigenous communities.

Continue to work with Indigenous communities to help children and families stay together.

Permanently ensure that First Nations youth who reach the age of majority receive the supports they need for up to two additional years and implement the orders of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

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Continue to work with Indigenous partners to ensure fair and equitable compensation for those harmed by the First Nations Child and Family Services program.

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Move forward on building an Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care system that meets the needs of Indigenous families, wherever they live.

Ensure more Indigenous families have access to high-quality programming.

Create 3,300 new spaces.

Invest in Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern communities.

Continue to support before and after school care for First Nations children on reserve.

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Continue to fully fund Jordan’s Principle.

Continue to fully fund Inuit Child First Initiative.

Continue to work with the Métis Nation to fund the unique needs of Métis children.

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Indigenous Health

Fully implement Joyce's Principle & ensure it guides work in co-developing distinctions-based Indigenous Health legislation to foster health systems free from racism & discrimination.

Fully implement Joyce’s Principle and ensure it guides our work in co-developing distinctions-based Indigenous Health legislation to foster health systems free from racism and discrimination where Indigenous peoples are respected and safe.

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Indigenous Housing

Invest $2B more in Indigenous housing w/ over half available by next summer; Work w/ Indigenous partners to develop an Urban, Rural, & Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy, with dedicated investments; Work w/ Indigenous partners to create a National Indigenous Housing Centre w/ Indigenous people overseeing federal Indigenous housing programmes; Make additional investments in Indigenous housing.

Work with Indigenous partners to co-develop an Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy and support this strategy with dedicated investments.

Work with Indigenous partners to create a National Indigenous Housing Centre with Indigenous people overseeing federal Indigenous housing programs once fully realized.

Make additional investments in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation housing, as we continue to work towards meeting our 2030 commitment on closing the gaps for Indigenous Infrastructure.

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Invest a further $2 billion in Indigenous housing for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation, with over half of the funding available by the upcoming summer construction period.

Co-develop a new Indigenous Urban, Rural, and Northern Housing Strategy with Indigenous partners and organizations that will be a stand-alone companion to the National Housing Strategy, supported by a $300 million initial investment.

Co-develop and fund Canada’s first-ever National Indigenous Housing Centre, through which Indigenous people will fully oversee federal Indigenous housing programs once fully realized.

Continue to support the establishment of Indigenous-led institutions in housing and infrastructure, such as the First Nations Infrastructure Institute, that assists First Nations with their infrastructure needs.

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Mental Health

Commit an additional $1.4B for a distinctions-based mental health & wellness strategy, for a total investment of $2B over 5 years.

Commit an additional $1.4 billion for a distinctions- based mental health and wellness strategy with First Nations, Inuit, and the Métis Nation, expanding on our recent commitment of $597.6 million, for a total investment of $2 billion over five years.

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Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

Accelerate implementation of the Federal Pathway to Address Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People with Indigenous partners; Create a standing Federal-Provincial-Territorial table on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, & 2SLGBTQQIA+ People to facilitate & coordinate this work.

Accelerate the implementation of the Federal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People with Indigenous partners.

Accelerate our work with all partners in our collective and shared priorities in the 2021 National Action Plan.

Create a standing Federal-Provincial-Territorial table on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People to facilitate and coordinate this work.

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Reconciliation

Provide funding towards the construction of a permanent home for the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation; Provide sustained financial support for the Centre for core operations.

Provide funding towards the construction of a permanent home for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

Provide sustained financial support for the Centre for core operations in fulfilling the mandate issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission with dedicated support for the work on Missing Children and Unmarked Graves.

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We will also continue to accelerate implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.

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Residential Schools

Build a national monument in Ottawa to honour residential school survivors & victims; Work with Indigenous partners to appoint a Special Interlocutor to work with governments & Indigenous communities to develop a legal & regulatory framework for justice regarding unmarked graves & make recommendations; Provide support for communities doing burial searches at former Day Schools & Indian Hospitals.

Continue work to build a national monument in Ottawa to honour residential school survivors and all the children who were taken from their families and communities.

Move forward on work with Indigenous partners to appoint a Special Interlocutor who will work with Indigenous communities, provincial and territorial governments, to develop the necessary legal and regulatory framework to advance justice regarding unmarked graves and make recommendations relating to federal laws, regulations, policies, and practices surrounding unmarked and undocumented graves and burial sites at residential schools.

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Provide the necessary supports for communities who wish to continue to undertake the work of burial searches at the former sites of these institutions.

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Self-Determination

Support Indigenous-led processes to rebuild & reconstitute nations, advance self-determination, & implement treaties, & land claim & self-government agreements with oversight mechanisms to hold the federal government accountable; Support First Nations-led processes to transition away from the Indian Act; Support & fund the revitalisation of Indigenous laws, legal systems, & traditions.

Continue to support Indigenous-led processes for rebuilding and reconstituting nations, advancing self- determination and work in partnership on implementation of treaties, land claim and self-government agreements with appropriate oversight mechanisms to hold the federal government accountable.

Continue to support First Nations-led processes to transition away from the Indian Act.

Accelerate resolution of outstanding land claims.

Continue to advance the priorities of Indigenous communities to reclaim full jurisdiction in the areas that matter to them such as child and family services, education, health care, policing, tax, and the administration of justice.

Further support and fund the revitalization of Indigenous laws, legal systems, and traditions.

Host a First Ministers Meeting on First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation priorities.

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Infrastructure

Internet Infrastructure

Require that those who have purchased rights to build broadband actually do so.

Require those that have purchased the rights to build broadband actually do so. With this use it or lose it approach, Canada’s large national carriers will be required to accelerate the roll-out of wireless and high-speed internet in rural and northern Canada by progressively meeting broadband access milestones between now and 2025. If these milestones are not met, we will mandate the resale of spectrum rights and reallocate that capacity to smaller, regional providers.

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Trans-Canada Trail

Increase annual funding for the Trans-Canada Trail to $13 million.

Continue building and connecting the TransCanada Trail, and creating new opportunities for Canadians to access it, by increasing annual funding to $13 million, growing the trail network by 10% helping create 10,000 jobs over the next five years.

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International Relations

Afghanistan

Provide humanitarian assistance; Work with allies to protect democratic & human rights; Facilitate safe passage & resettlement of Afghan citizens; Increase the number of eligible refugees from 20K to 40K.

Continue to help support Afghan citizens through humanitarian assistance and to work with our allies to protect democratic and human rights, including for women, girls, and minorities. We will continue to facilitate the safe passage and resettlement of Afghan citizens and will increase the number of eligible refugees from 20,000 to 40,000. Many of these individuals will be women, children and minorities fleeing the Taliban, or individuals who supported Canada and our allies over the past two decades. As with the Syrians who have resettled in Canada over the past five years, these individuals will enrich our communities and make invaluable contributions to Canadian society.

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Canadian Culture

Mandate BCD & EDC to support the growth of creative industries in new markets; Launch a new cultural diplomacy strategy with an annual budget of $20M.

Help Canadian cultural industries succeed abroad by issuing a mandate to BDC and EDC to support the growth of creative industries in new markets.

Launch a new cultural diplomacy strategy with an annual budget of $20 million per year to leverage the work done by our artists and cultural industries to support Canada’s diplomatic goals.

Forge an international coalition to work on a new UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Content Online.

Celebrate Canada’s unique francophone cultures through the promotion of the French language across our diplomatic missions and in our work to transform the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

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China

Expand the coalition of states supporting Canada's initiative to condemn & eradicate the practice of arbitrary detention; Advance an action plan to coordinate collective international responses to specific incidents of arbitrary detention.

Expand the broad coalition of more than 65 states that have supported Canada’s initiative to condemn and eradicate the practice of arbitrary detention and advance an action plan to coordinate collective international responses to specific incidents of arbitrary detention.

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Corruption

Help establish an International Anti-Corruption Court.

Help establish an International Anti-Corruption Court, to prevent corrupt officials and authoritarian governments from raiding the resources of their citizens and impeding development.

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Global Health

Donate at least 200M vaccine doses to vulnerable populations worldwide through COVAX by the end of 2022, & provide additional funding for testing & production.

Donate at least 200 million vaccine doses to vulnerable populations around the world through COVAX by the end of 2022 and provide additional funding to support enhanced testing and production capacity in developing countries.

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Human Rights

Eradicate forced labour from Canadian supply chains; Make democracy & human rights a core strategic priority; Establish a Canadian Centre for Peace, Order & Good Government; Enable embassy staff to support feminists, LGBTQ2 activists, & human rights defenders by quadrupling annual investment in the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives; Provide new funding for the Women's Voice & Leadership Program.

Make Canada’s commitment to democracy and human rights a core strategic priority, including expanding fast and flexible support for fragile and emerging democracies, increasing Canada’s diplomatic presence in regions of strategic importance, and working more closely with democratic partners to promote open, transparent, and inclusive governance around the world.

Establish a Canadian Centre for Peace, Order and Good Government to expand the availability of Canadian expertise and assistance to those seeking to build peace, advance justice, promote human rights, inclusion, and democracy, and deliver good governance.

Establish Canada as a safe haven for those facing persecution by leading the world in providing safe resettlement to those fleeing political or security crises, especially human rights defenders, journalists, feminists, LGBTQ2 activists, members of religious or ethnic minorities at risk, and other persecuted groups who remain under threat. We will expand the new immigration stream for human rights defenders and work with civil society groups to ensure safe passage and resettlement of people under threat, including from Afghanistan.

Continue to help support Afghan citizens through humanitarian assistance and to work with our allies to protect democratic and human rights, including for women, girls, and minorities. We will continue to facilitate the safe passage and resettlement of Afghan citizens and will increase the number of eligible refugees from 20,000 to 40,000. Many of these individuals will be women, children and minorities fleeing the Taliban, or individuals who supported Canada and our allies over the past two decades. As with the Syrians who have resettled in Canada over the past five years, these individuals will enrich our communities and make invaluable contributions to Canadian society.

Expand the broad coalition of more than 65 states that have supported Canada’s initiative to condemn and eradicate the practice of arbitrary detention and advance an action plan to coordinate collective international responses to specific incidents of arbitrary detention.

Enable staff at Canada’s embassies around the world to support the work of feminists, LGBTQ2 activists, and human rights defenders by quadrupling our annual investment in the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.

Defend the right to free expression and oppose the mistreatment or arbitrary detention of journalists, building on the Media Freedom Coalition that we established with the UK.

Support women leaders and feminist groups who are leading efforts to promote peace and protect the rights of women and vulnerable groups, including new funding through the Women’s Voice and Leadership program.

Help establish an International Anti-Corruption Court, to prevent corrupt officials and authoritarian governments from raiding the resources of their citizens and impeding development.

Continue to engage with our international allies and partners and convene a multilateral meeting to raise additional humanitarian funds and build consensus on how to support and establish an enduring democracy in Lebanon.

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Introduce legislation to eradicate forced labour from Canadian supply chains and ensure Canadian businesses that operate abroad are not contributing to human rights abuses.

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International Development

Increase international development assistance every year towards 2030 to realise the UN's Sustainable Development Goals; Provide new funding for girls' & refugees' education; Double funding to grassroots women's rights organisations; Provide greater assistance to people living with disabilities in developing countries.

Increase Canada’s international development assistance every year towards 2030 to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Donate at least 200 million vaccine doses to vulnerable populations around the world through COVAX by the end of 2022 and provide additional funding to support enhanced testing and production capacity in developing countries.

Continue to build on Canada’s historic support for education so the world’s most marginalized children have access to the inclusive, equitable and quality education they need and deserve, including new funding for girls’ and refugees’ education.

Double our funding to grassroots women’s rights organizations and continue to make significant investments in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services as well as the global care economy.

Provide greater assistance to people living with disabilities in developing countries.

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Iran

Work with international partners to hold Iran accountable for shooting down PS752, & continue to provide support to the families & loved ones of the victims; Advance Canada's Safer Skies Initiative.

Continue to work with international partners to hold Iran accountable for the illegal shootdown of PS752 and continue to provide support to the families and loved ones of the victims as they fight for justice and reparations. We will also continue to advance Canada’s Safer Skies Initiative, to prevent such tragic events in the future.

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La Francaphonie

Celebrate Canada’s unique francophone cultures through the promotion of the French language across Canada's diplomatic missions & in transforming the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

Celebrate Canada’s unique francophone cultures through the promotion of the French language across our diplomatic missions and in our work to transform the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

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Lebanon

Convene a multilateral meeting with international allies to raise additional humanitarian funds & build consensus on how to support & establish enduring democracy in Lebanon.

Continue to engage with our international allies and partners and convene a multilateral meeting to raise additional humanitarian funds and build consensus on how to support and establish an enduring democracy in Lebanon.

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Ukraine

Extend Canada's support to Ukraine against Russian aggression through Operation Unifier.

Remain a leading contributor to NATO operations, including by extending Operation Reassurance in Eastern Europe and maintaining Canada’s regular participation in NATO’s aerial and maritime patrol operations. We will also extend Canada’s support to Ukraine and opposition to Russian aggression, through Operation Unifier.

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Jobs & the Economy

Agriculture

Develop an Agricultural Labour Strategy with employers & unions to address persistent labour shortages; Increase support to farmers to develop & adopt agricultural management practices to reduce emissions, store carbon in healthy soil, & enhance resiliency.

Increase support to farmers to develop and adopt agricultural management practices to reduce emissions, store carbon in healthy soil, and enhance resiliency. Cover cropping, rotational grazing and nitrogen management are all part of a green farming plan for Canada.

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Arts & Culture

Match ticket sales for cultural venues to compensate for COVID restrictions; Provide emergency relief to out-of-work artists, craftsmen, creators, & authors who are primarily self-employed or independent contractors; Update the Copyright Act, including allowing resale rights for artists; Hold a summit within 100 days on plans to restart the industry; Invest $43M/year for authors & publishers.

Launch a new Arts and Culture Recovery Program that will match ticket sales for performing arts, live theatres, and other cultural venues to compensate for reduced capacity.

Extend COVID-related insurance coverage for media production stoppages to support 150,000 Canadian jobs.

Implement a COVID-19 transitional support program to provide emergency relief to out-of-work artists, craftsmen, creators, and authors who are primarily self-employed or independent contractors.

Ensure the realities of artists and cultural workers are considered in upcoming reforms to the Employment Insurance (EI) system.

Protect Canadian artists, creators, and copyright holders by making changes to the Copyright Act, including amending the Act to allow resale rights for artists.

Hold a summit, within the first 100 days, on plans to restart the industry.

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Mandate BCD & EDC to support the growth of creative industries in new markets; Launch a new cultural diplomacy strategy with an annual budget of $20M.

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Develop a new $50 million Changing Narratives Fund to empower diverse communities, including BIPOC journalists and creatives, with the tools to tell their own stories and promote diverse voices in arts and culture and across media.

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Invest $43 million per year to support Canadian authors and books publishers by increasing, by 50%, funding for through the Canada Book Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Public Lending Right Program.

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Charities and Non-Profits

Allow non-profits and charitable enterprises to borrow from the Canada Small Business Financing Program.

Construction Work

Introduce a Labour Mobility Tax Credit allowing workers in building & construction trades to deduct up to $4K in eligible travel & temporary relocation expenses, with a credit up to $600/year.

Introduce a new Labour Mobility Tax Credit to allow workers in the building and construction trades to deduct up to $4,000 in eligible travel and temporary relocation expenses giving them a tax credit of up to $600 a year.

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Entrepreneurship

Update the definition of entrepreneur used across government to include a diversity of entrepreneurs & includes small & medium-size businesses that operate in the care economy, retail, & service sectors; Create a community stream to the Ecosystem Fund to support smaller community-level organisations in providing mentorship at the local level to diverse women.

Update the definition of entrepreneur used across government to make sure it includes a diversity of entrepreneurs and includes small and medium-size businesses that operate in the care economy, retail, and service sectors.

Building on the Budget 2021 investment of $146.9 million to the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy, create a community stream to the Ecosystem Fund to support smaller community-level organizations in providing mentorship at the local level to diverse women.

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Film & Television

Require foreign web giants to contribute to the creation & promotion of Canadian stories & music; Make funding platform-agnostic & open to traditionally underrepresented storytellers; Permanently increase funding to Telefilm Canada by $50M; Double contribution to the Canada Media Fund; Increase funding for French audiovisual content to 40%; Provide $13M/year to the Indigenous Screen Office.

Within the first 100 days, reintroduce legislation to reform the Broadcasting Act to ensure foreign web giants contribute to the creation and promotion of Canadian stories and music.

Modernize the institutions (Telefilm, National Film Board, Canada Media Fund) and funding tools that support Canada’s audio-visual sector, including video games, in order to make funding platform-agnostic and open to more traditionally underrepresented storytellers, while favouring Canadian productions over foreign ones and ensuring that Canadians are better equipped to own and benefit from the content that they produce.

Support Canadian feature films by permanently increasing funding to Telefilm Canada by $50 million.

Support Canadian television productions by doubling the government contribution, over three years, to the Canada Media Fund.

Increase the proportion of funding for French audiovisual content at Telefilm and the Canada Media Fund from 33% to 40% to support a better presence of French-language productions.

Ensure better and stable funding for the music sector by increasing the annual contribution to the Canada Music Fund to $50 million by 2024-2025.

Provide the Indigenous Screen Office with $13 million per year, permanently, so more Indigenous stories can be told and seen.

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Hospitality and Tourism

Give tourism businesses temporary wage and rent support of up to 75% of their expenses, through the winter.

Provide Canada’s hard-hit tourism industry with temporary wage and rent support of up to 75% of their expenses to help them get through the winter.

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Innovation

Invest in the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy & the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Implement a National Quantum Strategy for quantum research; Invest in the National Research Council's Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre; Establish a Canada Advanced Research Projects Agency as a public-private bridge for research.

Move forward with our plan to invest in the Pan- Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, supporting artificial intelligence innovations and research in Canada; investing in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research to attract and retain top academic talent; providing dedicated computing capacity for researchers at the national artificial intelligence institutes; and advancing the development and adoption of AI standards.

Move forward with a National Quantum Strategy that will amplify Canada’s significant strength in quantum research, and grow our quantum-ready technologies, companies, and talent.

Move forward with our plan to invest in the National Research Council’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre and reinforce Canada’s leadership in photonics research, testing, and prototyping done by academics and other innovative businesses.

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Establish a Canada Advanced Research Projects Agency (CARPA) as a public-private bridge for research that helps develop and maintain Canadian- led technology and capabilities in high-impact areas. Modelled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA) in the United States, which has helped pioneer the development of several iconic technologies, including GPS mapping, the agency would be established with an initial endowment of $2 billion.

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International Trade

Create a federal hub to help Canadian businesses & entrepreneurs take full advantage of opportunities from trade agreements; Launch an Asia-Pacific strategy to deepen partnerships; Develop a strategy for economic cooperation across Africa; Establish a digital policy task force; Expand Canada's Responsible Business Conduct strategy.

Establish a new federal hub to help Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs take full advantage of the opportunities created by CUSMA, CETA, CPTPP, and other trade agreements.

Launch a new comprehensive Asia-Pacific strategy to deepen diplomatic, economic, and defence partnerships in the region, including by negotiating new bilateral trade agreements, expanding FIPAs, and building stronger economic linkages.

Reinforce economic cooperation in our hemisphere, including by continuing trade negotiations with the Pacific Alliance and pursuing bilateral trade agreements with key partners.

Develop a strategy for economic cooperation across Africa, including support for the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, facilitation of increased infrastructure investment, and expanding partnerships in research and innovation.

Establish a digital policy task force, comprised of industry experts, academia, and government, to integrate efforts across government and provide additional resources in order to position Canada as a leader in the digital economy and shape global governance of emerging technologies, including with respect to data and privacy rights, taxation, online violent extremism, the ethical use of new technologies, and the future of work. This will build on our work to implement Canada’s first Digital Charter and reform our laws to protect the personal information of individuals.

Introduce legislation to eradicate forced labour from Canadian supply chains and ensure Canadian businesses that operate abroad are not contributing to human rights abuses.

Enhance and expand Canada’s Responsible Business Conduct strategy and ensure Canadian companies and crown corporations are upholding the highest environmental and social standards of corporate governance.

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Investment

Allow privately-owned, Canadian-controlled businesses to expense up to $1.5M of growth-enhancing investments, including software, patents, & machinery.

Keep moving forward with our plan to boost business investment by allowing privately owned, Canadian-controlled businesses to immediately expense up to $1.5 million of growth-enhancing investments, including in areas like software, patents, and machinery.

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News Media & Journalism

Require digital platforms that generate revenue from publishing news content to share a portion of their revenues with Canadian news outlets, modelled after Australia's similar legislation; Support production of news for underserved communities with $50M over 5 years through the Local Journalism Initiative.

Introduce legislation, within 100 days, that would require digital platforms that generate revenues from the publication of news content to share a portion of their revenues with Canadian news outlets. This legislation would be based on the Australian model and level the playing field between global platforms and Canadian news outlets. The bill will also allow news publishers to work together to prepare for collective negotiation.

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Support the production of news in underserved communities with $50 million over five years through the Local Journalism Initiative.

Develop a new $50 million Changing Narratives Fund to empower diverse communities, including BIPOC journalists and creatives, with the tools to tell their own stories and promote diverse voices in arts and culture and across media.

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Part-Time, Contract, & Gig Workers

Introduce a new EI benefit for self-employed Canadians, delivered through the tax system, providing unemployment assistance comparable to EI & lasting for up to 26 weeks.

Introduce a new EI benefit for self-employed Canadians, delivered through the tax system, that would provide unemployment assistance comparable to EI and lasting for as much as 26 weeks. This could provide support of nearly $15,500 when it is needed most.

Self-employed Canadians seeking to access this benefit would only be responsible to contribute the portion they would normally pay if they were a salaried employee. Further details regarding this benefit will be developed over the coming year with the launch of this new benefit happening in January 2023.

Strengthen rights for workers employed by digital platforms so that they are entitled to job protections under the Canada Labour Code and establish new provisions in the Income Tax Act to ensure this work counts toward EI and CPP while also making these platforms pay associated contributions as any employer would.

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Scientific Research & Exp. Dev

Reform the Scientific Research & Experimental Development Program; Add 1K Canada Research Chairs to attract top talent at Canadian universities & support graduate research, focusing on improving gender & racial equity among Canadian faculty, promoting interdisciplinary research, & life sciences & biomedical research; Provide $75M/year fund for colleges & universities to commercialise research.

Reform the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Program to reduce red tape and the need for consultants, better align eligible expenses to today’s innovation and R&D and make the program more generous for those companies who take the biggest risks, promoting productivity, new inventions, and the creation of good jobs.

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Add 1,000 Canada Research Chairs to help attract and retain top talent at Canadian universities and support graduate research, with a focus on improving gender and racial equity among Canadian faculty, promoting inter-disciplinary research, and reinforcing Canada’s world leading capabilities in life sciences and bio-medical research.

Establish a $75 million a year fund for colleges and universities to help commercialize leading research, including identifying and securing patent rights for research done within their institutions and connecting researchers with people and businesses to help put these innovations into action and grow our economy.

Drawing on Canada’s contribution to mRNA science and vaccines, introduce a new $100 million a year fund to pursue moonshot research into high-impact illnesses where a vaccine may be possible.

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Strengthen equity targets for federally funded scientific research delivered through the granting councils to include a specific target for the representation of Black Canadians.

Provide funding of $30 million over 5 years to help promising graduate students, support the mentorship and development of younger researchers, and increase opportunities for Black Canadians in Canadian post-secondary institutions.

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Sick Leave

Introduce amendments to the Canada Labour Code to provide 10 days of paid sick leave for all federally regulated workers, within 100 days; Convene the provinces & territories to develop a national action plan to legislate sick leave.

Small Businesses

Extend the Canada Recovery Hiring Program to 31 Mar, 2022; Help small & medium businesses adopt new tech; Increase the Small Business Financing Program maximum loan to $500K, extend coverage to 15 years for equipment & leasehold improvements, & expand eligibility to non-profits.

Extend the Canada Recovery Hiring Program to March 31, 2022, so businesses can hire more workers and Canadians can get back on the job.

Provide Canada’s hard-hit tourism industry with temporary wage and rent support of up to 75% of their expenses to help them get through the winter.

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We will move forward with our plan to implement the Canada Digital Adoption Program which will:

• Give microgrants of up to $2,400 to smaller Main Street businesses so they can afford the costs of new technology.

• Create training and work opportunities for as many as 28,000 young people so they can assist small and medium-sized businesses in adopting new technology.

• Offer zero-interest loans to small and medium-sized businesses so they can finance larger technology adoption projects.

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We will move forward with our plan to unleash investments by improving the Canada Small Business Financing Program. This will increase annual financing by an estimated $560 million, supporting approximately 2,900 additional small businesses.

A re-elected Liberal government will:

• Increase the maximum loan amount from $350,000 to $500,000 and extend loan coverage from 10 to 15 years for equipment and leasehold improvements.

• Expand borrower eligibility to include non-profit and charitable social enterprises.

• Introduce a new line of credit.

• Expand loan class eligibility to include lending against intellectual property as well as start-up assets and expenses.

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Keep moving forward with our plan to boost business investment by allowing privately owned, Canadian-controlled businesses to immediately expense up to $1.5 million of growth-enhancing investments, including in areas like software, patents, and machinery.

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Supply Management

Work with supply-managed sectors to determine compensation for the new NAFTA within the first year of a new mandate.

Tax Evasion

Significantly increase the CRA's resources to combat aggressive tax planning & avoidance; Modernise the general anti-avoidance regime; Work with international partners to implement a global minimum tax.

Significantly increase the resources of the Canada Revenue Agency to combat aggressive tax planning and tax avoidance that allows the wealthiest to avoid paying the taxes they owe. This will increase CRA’s resources by up to $1 billion per year in order to close Canada’s tax gap.

Modernize the general anti-avoidance rule regime in order to focus on economic substance and restrict the ability of federally regulated entities, including financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies, to use tiered structures as a form of corporate tax planning that flows Canadian-derived profit through entities in low-tax jurisdictions in order to reduce taxes back in Canada.

Work with our international partners to implement a global minimum tax so that the biggest companies in the world are not able to escape the taxes they owe here in Canada.

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Taxation

Raise corporate income taxes on banks & insurance companies who earn more than $1B/year, & introduce a temporary Canada Recovery Dividend for those companies to pay; Require anyone who qualifies for the top tax bracket to pay at least 15% per year, regardless of deductions & credits; Tax luxury cars, boats, & planes; Eliminate flow-through shares for oil, gas, & coal projects; Tax vaping products.

Raise corporate income taxes on the largest, most profitable banks and insurance companies who earn more than $1 billion per year and introduce a temporary Canada Recovery Dividend that these companies would pay in recognition of the fact they have recovered faster and stronger than many other industries.

Create a minimum tax rule so that everyone who earns enough to qualify for the top bracket pays at least 15 % each year (the tax rate paid by people earning less than $49,000), removing their ability to artificially pay no tax through excessive use of deductions and credits.

Implement a tax on luxury cars, boats, and planes as outlined in Budget 2021.

Significantly increase the resources of the Canada Revenue Agency to combat aggressive tax planning and tax avoidance that allows the wealthiest to avoid paying the taxes they owe. This will increase CRA’s resources by up to $1 billion per year in order to close Canada’s tax gap.

Modernize the general anti-avoidance rule regime in order to focus on economic substance and restrict the ability of federally regulated entities, including financial institutions such as banks and insurance companies, to use tiered structures as a form of corporate tax planning that flows Canadian-derived profit through entities in low-tax jurisdictions in order to reduce taxes back in Canada.

Work with our international partners to implement a global minimum tax so that the biggest companies in the world are not able to escape the taxes they owe here in Canada.

Eliminate flow through shares for oil, gas, and coal projects to help promote clean growth and Canada’s transition to a net-zero economy.

Implement a national anti-flipping tax and move forward with Canada’s first ever national tax on non-resident, non-Canadians on vacant land and residential property.

Move forward with a national tax on vaping products and require tobacco manufacturers to pay for the cost of federal public health investments in tobacco control.

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Unions & Worker Control

Introduce legislation to prohibit the use of replacement workers when a union employer in a federally-regulated industry locks out its employees; Work with federally-regulated employers & labour groups to develop a policy on the right of employees to disconnect at the end of the workday.

Create a fairer collective bargaining process by introducing legislation to prohibit the use of replacement workers, “scabs,” when a union employer in a federally regulated industry has locked out employees.

Work with federally regulated employers and labour groups to co-develop a new policy for the right to disconnect so that workers can disconnect at the end of a workday without worrying about job security and restore healthy work-life balance.

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Working from Home

Extend the Home Expense deduction for an additional 2 years, through the 2022 tax year, & increase the deductible amount to $500.

Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction

Addiction & the Opioid Crisis

Introduce a comprehensive strategy; Invest $25M for public education to reduce stigma; Invest $500M to support provinces & territories in providing evidence-based treatment; Support provinces & territories to create standards for substance use treatment programmes; Repeal relevant mandatory minimum penalties & require police & Crown to consider diverting people out of the criminal justice system.

Introduce a comprehensive strategy to address problematic substance use to end the opioids crisis.

Invest $25 million for public education to reduce the stigma associated with problematic substance use.

Invest $500 million to support the provinces and territories in providing access to a full-range of evidence-based treatment, recognizing that successful treatment is not determined by long-term abstinence.

Support provinces and territories in creating standards for substance use treatment programs so that Canadians can access quality and evidence- based support when they need it most.

Support the many lower-risk and first-time offenders by reforming the Criminal Code to repeal relevant mandatory minimum penalties and requiring police and Crown prosecutors to consider diverting individuals out of the criminal justice system.

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Mental Health Courts

Work with provinces & territories to expand access to mental health courts; Expand access to culturally appropriate, trauma-informed mental health services for Indigenous peoples that access treatment through mental health courts.

Work with provinces and territories to help all Canadians have greater access to mental health courts and provide people suffering from mental health illnesses with a path to recovery.

Expand access to culturally appropriate, trauma-informed mental health services for Indigenous peoples that access treatment through mental health courts.

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Mental Health Services

Create a new federal money transfer to provinces & territories to assist in expanding high-quality, accessible, & free mental health services, with standards for timeliness, universality, & cultural competence; Invest $4.5B over 5 years in the new transfer; Fund a national, 3-digit mental health crisis & suicide prevention hot-line.

Establish a new federal transfer to provinces and territories—the Canada Mental Health Transfer—to assist jurisdictions to expand the delivery of high- quality, accessible, and free mental health services. Building on the principles of universality and accessibility in the Canada Health Act, this transfer will help establish standards in each province and territory, so that Canadians are able to expect services that are timely, universal, and culturally competent. This will help each jurisdiction focus on and solve critical backlogs in service and provide help to those who need it, according to the unique needs in each region.

Commit to permanent, ongoing funding for mental health services under the Canada Mental Health Transfer, with an initial investment of $4.5 billion over 5 years. Including the existing bilateral agreement on mental health services signed in 2017, this would bring federal support for mental health services to $2.5 billion per year by 2025-26. This is in addition to further investments we will make to support First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities with better access to trauma and mental health services.

Undertake a comprehensive review of access to the Disability Tax Credit, CPP-Disability and other federal benefits and programs to ensure they are available to people experiencing mental health challenges.

Include mental health as a specific element of occupational health and safety under the Canada Labour Code and require federally regulated employers to take preventative steps to address workplace stress and injury.

Fully fund a national, three-digit mental health crisis and suicide prevention hotline.

Work with partners to ensure timely access to perinatal mental health services.

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Miscarriages & Stillbirth

Provide up to 5 new paid leave days for federally regulated employees who experience a miscarriage or stillbirth.

Youth Mental Health

Introduce a new fund for student well-being to improve wait times & increase access to mental healthcare at colleges & universities, with $500M invested over four years, and 10% dedicated annually to Indigenous-governed & operated post-secondary institutions.

Introduce a new fund for student well-being to improve wait times and increase access to mental health care at colleges and universities. The fund will support the hiring of up to 1200 new mental health care counsellors, including those who can support the needs of BIPOC students, at post secondary institutions across Canada. We will invest $500 million over four years and dedicate 10% annually to support Indigenous-governed and operated post-secondary institutions.

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Natural Resources & Extraction

Forestry

Increase investments in the Forest Industry Transformation program.

Enhance investments in the Forest Industry Transformation program, working with partners to create jobs in the forest-based economy and bring forward new innovations in sustainable, low-carbon building materials.

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Mining

Double the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit for materials on the Canadian list of critical materials which are essential to the manufacturing of clean tech.

Double the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit for materials on the Canadian list of critical minerals which are essential to the manufacturing of vital clean technologies, such as batteries.

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Public Safety & Policing

Access to the Justice System

Make criminal procedure reforms to adopt virtual means such as virtual remote court proceedings & expanded use of the telewarrant process; Further support technological modernisation of federal courtrooms & tribunals; Support provinces & territories in digitising & modernising their court systems.

Re-introduce An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Identification of Criminals Act and to make related amendments to other Acts (COVID-19 response and other measures) to make criminal procedure reforms that adopt virtual means such as the use of virtual remote proceedings and expanded use of the telewarrant process.

Further support technological modernization of federal courtrooms and tribunals.

Support provinces and territories in the digitization and modernization of their court systems and facilitate partnerships to develop specialized technological and digital services for court operations that are safe, secure, and lead to greater and fairer access to justice.

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Domestic Violence

Work with provinces & territories to enact Clare's Law.

Gender-Based Violence

Develop a 10-year National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, beginning negotiations with provinces & territories within a year; Work with community-based anti-violence experts to track progress; Work with provinces & territories to support the development of specialised sexual violence courts.

Continue to move forward on the development of a 10-year National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence and begin negotiations with the provinces and territories within a year.

Accelerate the establishment of the Secretariat announced in Budget 2021 and put in place an accountability framework to ensure anyone facing gender-based violence has reliable and timely access to services, no matter where they live.

Work with community-based anti-violence experts to track progress of the National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence.

Work with provinces and territories to enact Clare’s Law so that domestic partners who fear for their safety can request from police information about their partner’s violent history, whether that includes sexual assault, domestic violence, convictions, arrests, or restraining orders.

Work with provinces and territories to support the development of specialized sexual violence courts.

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Gun Violence

Require owners of assault weapons to either sell the firearm to the government for destruction, or have it rendered permanently inoperable at government expense; Set a maximum of 5 rounds for long gun magazines; Set aside a minimum of $1B to support provinces or territories who implement a ban on handguns; Ban selling or transferring magazines that hold more than a legal number of bullets.

Toughen our laws on banned assault weapons by making it mandatory for owners to either sell the firearm back to the government for destruction and fair compensation or have it rendered fully and permanently inoperable at government expense.

Crack down on high-capacity magazines and require that long gun magazines capable of holding more than 5 rounds be permanently altered so that they can never hold more than 5 rounds

Ban the sale or transfer of magazines that could hold more than a legal number of bullets, regardless of how they were intended to be used by the manufacturer.

Set aside a minimum of $1 billion to support provinces or territories who implement a ban on handguns across their jurisdiction, to keep our cities and communities safe.

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Harmful Online Content

Introduce legislation within 100 days to combat serious forms of harmful online content, such as hate speech, terrorist content, content inciting violence, child sexual abuse material, & the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, making social media platforms accountable for the content they host.

Introduce legislation within its first 100 days to combat serious forms of harmful online content, specifically hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, child sexual abuse material and the non-consensual distribution of intimate images.

This would make sure that social media platforms and other online services are held accountable for the content that they host. Our legislation will recognize the importance of freedom of expression for all Canadians and will take a balanced and targeted approach to tackle extreme and harmful speech.

Strengthen the Canada Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to more effectively combat online hate.

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Police Accountability & Reform

Give the RCMP's Management Advisory Board full oversight over the RCMP; Set clear timelines for RCMP compliance with the Civilian Review & Complaints Commission recommendations; Support an external review of the RCMP's sanctions & disciplinary regime; Make the Independent Centre for Harassment Resolution fully external to the RCMP; Work with governments to connect RCMP with social support workers.

Enhance the current Management Advisory Board to be in line with other Canadian police services to have full oversight over the RCMP.

Bring forward clear timelines for compliance with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission recommendations.

Support an external review of the RCMP’s sanctions and disciplinary regime to review the adequacy of existing sanctions and whether sanctions are being properly applied.

Prohibit RCMP against using neck restraints and prohibit the use of tear gas or rubber bullets for crowd control.

Make the new Independent Centre for Harassment

Resolution fully external to the RCMP to ensure there can be no conflicts of interest while reviewing complaints.

Commit to a full external review of current deescalation training to ensure this training results in the safest possible outcomes for both officers and Canadians.

Work with the provinces, territories, and municipalities that contract RCMP services to make the service better connected to community social support workers.

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Police Violence

Prohibit RCMP from using neck restraints & prohibit the use of tear gas or rubber bullets for crowd control; Commit to a full external review of deescalation training.

Enhance the current Management Advisory Board to be in line with other Canadian police services to have full oversight over the RCMP.

Bring forward clear timelines for compliance with the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission recommendations.

Support an external review of the RCMP’s sanctions and disciplinary regime to review the adequacy of existing sanctions and whether sanctions are being properly applied.

Prohibit RCMP against using neck restraints and prohibit the use of tear gas or rubber bullets for crowd control.

Make the new Independent Centre for Harassment Resolution fully external to the RCMP to ensure there can be no conflicts of interest while reviewing complaints.

Commit to a full external review of current deescalation training to ensure this training results in the safest possible outcomes for both officers and Canadians.

Work with the provinces, territories, and municipalities that contract RCMP services to make the service better connected to community social support workers.

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Québec

Official Languages

Introduce Bill C-32 within 100 days; Support Francophone immigration outside Quebec; Help to build, renovate, & develop educational & community spaces that serve official language minority communities; Increase funding for post-secondary institutions in official language minority communities to $80M/year; Create a strategy to support entrepreneurs in official language minority communities.

Fully implement the legislative and administrative measures outlined in the reform document. Work with official language communities, both French and English, to introduce, within the first 100 days, the proposed An Act for the Substantive Equality of French and English and the Strengthening of the Official Languages Act.

Counter the lost demographic weight of francophones in Canada through an ambitious national strategy to support Francophone immigration outside of Quebec.

Support the maintenance and vitality of official language minority communities by helping build, renovate, and develop educational and community spaces that serve official language minority communities.

Permanently increase funding for post-secondary institutions in official language minority communities to $80 million per year. This new commitment of $240 million over 4 years could be used to strengthen the Université de l’Ontario français, Campus Saint-Jean at the University of Alberta, and post-secondary institutions in Northern Ontario and New Brunswick and counter cuts made by Conservative governments.

Continue to contribute to the funding of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Quebec and across the country

Protect the institutions of Quebec's English- speaking community and support the creation of new organizations in support of this community through initiatives such as the Leadership Institute.

Continue to offer federal services in both official languages in every province.

Continue to support the French-language knowledge of immigrants in Quebec.

Create a strategy to support entrepreneurs in official language minority communities to ensure their vitality through the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs).

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Invest $120 million to ensure that federal funding is sustainable and directed towards improving access to French immersion and French second-language programs across the country.

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Quebec Bridge

Buy back the Quebec Bridge.

Seniors & Senior Care

Aging in Place

Introduce a 15% tax credit for up to $50,000 in renovation & construction costs for adding a second unit to a home for an immediate or extended family member; Expand the Canada Caregiver Credit into a refundable, tax-free benefit; Double the Home Accessibility Tax Credit; Create an expert panel to provide recommendations on an Aging at Home Benefit.

Introduce a new Multigenerational Home Renovation tax credit to help families add a secondary unit to their home for an immediate or extended family member. Families will be able to claim a 15% tax credit for up to $50,000 in renovation and construction costs, saving up to $7,500.

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Expand the Canada Caregiver Credit into a refundable, tax-free benefit. This will help 200,000 more Canadians qualify, and increase support for 448,000 people.

Make the Canada Caregiver Credit refundable, allowing caregivers to receive up to $1,250 per year.

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Double the Home Accessibility Tax Credit, to $20,000, putting up to $1,500 back in the of Canadians who need it.

Establish an expert panel to provide recommendations for establishing an Aging at Home Benefit.

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Canada Pension Plan (CPP)

Work with provinces & territories to increase the Canada Pension Plan & Quebec Pension Plan survivor's benefit by 25%.

Health & Security

Introduce a 1-800 help line for seniors as a single-point-of-access to a wide range of government services & benefits.

Long-Term Care

Invest $9B over 5 years to improve long-term care; Develop a Safe Long-Term Care Act; Work with the provinces & territories to raise wages for personal support workers, with a guaranteed minimum wage of at least $25/hr; Work with the provinces & territories to train up to 50K new personal support workers.

To build a better future for seniors and ensure tragedies like this never happen again, we need to make sure the conditions of work reflect the care standards our seniors deserve. That’s why we will work with provinces and territories, respecting their jurisdiction, to support seniors with an investment of $9 billion over 5 years to support safer conditions for seniors and improved wages and working conditions for personal support workers.

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Improve the quality and availability of long-term care homes and beds.

Implement strict infection prevention and control measures, including through more provincial and territorial facility inspections for long-term care homes.

Develop a Safe Long-Term Care Act collaboratively to ensure that seniors are guaranteed the care they deserve, no matter where they live.

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Raise wages for personal support workers, including a guaranteed minimum wage of at least $25 per hour.

Train up to 50,000 new personal support workers.

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Old Age Security & the Guaranteed Income Supplement

Increase Old Age Security by 10% next year for seniors 75 & over; Increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $500 for single seniors & $750 for couples, starting at age 65.

Staying in the Workforce

Introduce a Career Extension Tax Credit for people 65 & older.

Introduce a Career Extension Tax Credit to help seniors who want to stay in the workforce, stay in the workforce. The tax credit will let people 65 and over, who earn a working income, reduce their taxes. Seniors who earn a minimum of $5,000 at their jobs will be able to eliminate tax payable on a portion of their income and receive a tax credit of up to $1,650.

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Transit & Transportation

Intercity Transportation

Commit to developing high-frequency rail; Move forward with the rail project in the Toronto/Quebec City corridor, with stops in Trois-Rivieres & Peterborough, using electrified technology; Explore opportunities to extend rail toward London & Windsor.

Committing to make High Frequency Rail a reality. We will move forward with the project in the Toronto to Quebec City corridor, with stops in Trois-Rivieres and Peterborough, among others, using electrified technology. We will launch a procurement process by the end of 2021 and also explore other opportunities to extend the rail toward London and Windsor.

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Zero-Emission Vehicles

Invest an extra $1.5B in iZEV rebates & expand eligibility to more vehicle types, including used vehicles; Invest an extra $700M to add 50K new EV chargers & hydrogen stations, & $100M for existing buildings to install chargers; Require at least 50% of new light vehicles sold be zero-emissions by 2030; Electrify all government light vehicles by 2030; Provide $200M to retrofit large in-use trucks.

Invest an additional $1.5 billion in the iZev rebate program and broaden eligibility to a wider range of vehicle types, including used vehicles, to help over 500,000 Canadians get into a zero emissions vehicle.

Invest an additional $700 million to add 50,000 new electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen stations to Canada’s network.

Work with industry, labour, and other stakeholders to develop a regulated sales requirement that at least 50% of all new light duty vehicle sales be zero emissions vehicles in 2030.

Provide $100 million to make sure existing buildings can install charging stations, removing a barrier to adopting a clean car.

Double down to attract investments and jobs in manufacturing zero emissions vehicles in Canada through the $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator

Accelerate our Greening Government commitments to electrify the entire federal fleet of light duty vehicles by 2030, up from our existing target of 80% by 2030.

Require 100% of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sales to be zero emission by 2040, where feasible.

Invest $200 million to retrofit large trucks currently on the road to cut pollution now.

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Misc. topics

Adoption

Provide adoptive parents an additional 15 weeks of leave.

Move forward on providing adoptive parents an additional 15-weeks of leave to make sure they get the same level of support to care for their children as other parents.

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Broadcasting & Streaming

Require foreign web giants to contribute to the creation & promotion of Canadian stories & music.

CBC & Radio-Canada

Update CBC/Radio-Canada's mandate to distinguish its programming from private broadcasters'; Increase production of national, regional, & local news; Strengthen Radio Canada International; Ensure presence of Indigenous voices; Provide $400M over 4 years to CBC/Radio-Canada to reduce reliance on private advertising.

Update CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to ensure that it is meeting the needs and expectation of today’s Canadian audiences, with a unique programming that distinguishes it from private broadcasters.

Reaffirm the role of the public broadcaster in protecting and promoting the French language and Francophone cultures in Quebec and across the country.

Increase production of national, regional, and local news.

Strengthen Radio Canada International, our voice for peace, democracy, and universal human values on the world stage.

Ensure that Indigenous voices and cultures are present on our screens and radios.

Bring Canada’s TV and film productions to the world stage.

Provide $400 million over 4 years to CBC/Radio-

Canada so that it is less reliant on private advertising with a goal of eliminating advertising during news and other public affairs shows.

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Financial Advice & Institutions

Require financial institutions offer flexible repayment options by default for people facing life events that cause financial stress; Establish an independent ombudsperson for consumer complaints involving banks, with the power to impose binding arbitration; Allow the Financial Consumer Agency to review prices; Introduce open banking; Modernise payments technology.

Require financial institutions offer flexible repayment options by default if you fall on hard times or face a life event that causes financial stress. This will include a mandatory option for a 6-month deferral of mortgage payments in qualifying circumstances.

Establish a single, independent ombudsperson for handling consumer complaints involving banks, with the power to impose binding arbitration.

Crack down on predatory lenders by lowering the criminal rate of interest.

Enhance the powers of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada to review the prices charged by banks and impose changes if they are excessive.

Move forward with a made-in-Canada model of open banking that will launch no later than the beginning of 2023. This system will ensure that you, not your bank, control your data.

Modernize Canada’s payments technology to deliver faster and lower cost options so that you can securely and conveniently manage money, pay bills, and transfer funds to loved ones around the world.

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IVF & Surrogacy

Make IVF an eligible health expenditure; Expand the Medical Expense Tax Credit to include costs reimbursed for a surrogate's IVF expenses.

Ensure the cost of in vitro fertilization (IVF) becomes an eligible health expenditure under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act.

Expand the Medical Expense Tax Credit to include costs that have been reimbursed to a surrogate mother for her IVF expenses.

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Public Service

Create the Diversity Fellowship in the Public Service to mentor & sponsor diverse groups in the public service; Offer language programmes to racialised employees; Establish a mental health fund for Black public servants.

Create the Diversity Fellowship in the Public Service to mentor and sponsor diverse groups in the public service and implement an action plan to increase representation in hiring and appointments, and leadership development within the Public Service.

Create a fellowship for 1000 students and new graduates and offer French Language Training to 3rd and 4th year students to help bridge current gaps including language barriers.

Increase diversity by offering language programs to racialized employees and expanding the public service recruitment program to international students and permanent residents.

Help community organizations foster students to enter the public service.

Establish a mental health fund for Black public servants, and support career advancement, training, sponsorship, and educational opportunities for Black workers.

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Right-to-Repair

Require manufacturers to supply repair manuals & spare parts & facilitate their replication after the part is no longer produced; Introduce a 15% tax credit for appliance repairs done by technicians, up to $500; Amend the Copyright Act.

Implement a “right to repair” to extend the life of home appliances, particularly electronics, by requiring manufacturers to supply repair manuals and spare parts and facilitate their replication after the part is no longer produced.

Introduce a new 15% tax credit to cover the cost of home appliance repairs performed by technicians (up to $500).

Introduce a bill that includes provisions to better inform citizens of the environmental impacts of consumer products.

Require businesses to inform Canadians of the environmental impacts of consumer products.

Amend the Copyright Act to ensure that its provisions cannot prevent the repair of digital devices and systems, even when nothing is being copied or distributed.

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Sexual Harassment & Assault in the Military

Implement the recommendations of the Independent External Comprehensive Review led by Justice Arbour, including instituting external oversight & independence over the processes of reporting, investigating, & adjudicating complaints, outside the chain of command; Modernise the military justice system; Expand resources for survivors; Co-design & fully fund a peer-to-peer support program.

Implement the recommendations of the Independent External Comprehensive Review led by Justice Arbour to address sexual harassment and misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces, including instituting external oversight and independence over the processes of reporting, investigating, and adjudicating complaints, outside of the chain of command.

Modernize the military justice system and ensure survivors are treated with respect and have the full range of options and services available in the civilian system, including implementing recommendations from the Third Independent Review of the National Defence Act led by Justice Fish.

Expand resources available to survivors through the Sexual Misconduct Response Centre and make these services available to all members of the defence team, including DND employees, veterans, and members of military families.

Expand health services available to women in the CAF, ensuring comprehensive access to sexual and reproductive health resources, child care, and mental health resources. We will increase investments to address the clinical, occupational and deployment health needs of CAF women in cooperation with the newly established National Institute of Women’s Health.

Co-design and fully fund a permanent peer-to-peer support program for CAF members who have experienced military sexual trauma and make it accessible to all members of the defence team.

Work to root out all sources of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, LGBTQ2 prejudice, gender bias, and white supremacy in the Canadian Armed Forces and implement the recommendations of the Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism, Discrimination to ensure that all members of the defence team work in a safe and respectful workplace.

Undertake ambitious efforts to improve the diversity of the CAF, including women, LGBTQ2, Indigenous, Black, and racialized Canadians and persons with disabilities.

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Veterans

Launch a pilot program to provide rent supplements & wrap-around supports to homeless veterans; Work to reduce wait times for veterans, incl. hiring more case workers & adjudicators, enhancing disability benefit processing, & adopting digital solutions; Launch a National Veteran Employment Strategy, incl. improved qualification recognition; Support Commemorate Canada.

Move forward on our plan to launch a pilot program next year that will provide rent supplements and wrap-around supports to homeless Veterans, so that they can get the housing and services they need.

Introduce a Veterans stream to the Rapid Housing Initiative which will see new affordable housing become available for Veterans.

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Continue our work to reduce wait times and ensure Veterans and their families receive decisions on their applications in a timely manner.

Invest the necessary resources to accomplish this, such as hiring more case workers and adjudicators, continuing to enhance disability benefit processing, and by enhancing innovative digital solutions.

Ensure the benefit system and Veterans Affairs services are responsive and meet the needs of underrepresented Veterans including women, LGBTQ2, racializes, and Indigenous Veterans.

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Launch Canada’s first National Veteran Employment Strategy, with a goal of ensuring that every Veteran can find meaningful work after releasing from the Canadian Armed Forces. A part of this strategy will include improving qualification recognition so that certifications earned while in service can be used in civilian life.

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Support Commemorate Canada and ensure this program recognizes modern Veterans as well as women, Indigenous, racialized, and LGBT2Q Veterans from all conflicts.

Ensure that we recognize the valuable contributions of Canadian Armed Forces Veterans who have served our country in domestic operations such as wildfires, ice storms, and floods.

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Liberal candidate for Brossard—Saint-Lambert

Nathalie Rochefort

Liberal candidate for Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel

René-Paul Coly

Liberal candidate for Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles

Jean Duplain

Liberal candidate for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord

Brenda Shanahan

Liberal candidate for Châteauguay—Lacolle

Marie-Claude Bibeau

Liberal candidate for Compton—Stanstead

Anju Dhillon

Liberal candidate for Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle

Mustapha Berri

Liberal candidate for Drummond

Diane Lebouthillier

Liberal candidate for Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Steven MacKinnon

Liberal candidate for Gatineau

Soraya Martinez Ferrada

Liberal candidate for Hochelaga

Pablo Rodriguez

Liberal candidate for Honoré-Mercier

Greg Fergus

Liberal candidate for Hull—Aylmer

Michel Bourgeois

Liberal candidate for Joliette

Stéphane Bégin

Liberal candidate for Jonquière

Jonas Fadeu

Liberal candidate for La Pointe-de-l'Île

Caroline Desrochers

Liberal candidate for La Prairie

David Lametti

Liberal candidate for LaSalle—Émard—Verdun

Marjolaine Étienne

Liberal candidate for Lac-Saint-Jean

Francis Scarpaleggia

Liberal candidate for Lac-Saint-Louis

Antoine Menassa

Liberal candidate for Laurentides—Labelle

Steven Guilbeault

Liberal candidate for Laurier—Sainte-Marie

Fayçal El-Khoury

Liberal candidate for Laval—Les Îles

Sherry Romanado

Liberal candidate for Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne

Florence Gagnon

Liberal candidate for Longueuil—Saint-Hubert

Joël Lightbound

Liberal candidate for Louis-Hébert

Nathanielle Morin

Liberal candidate for Louis-Saint-Laurent

Ghislain Daigle

Liberal candidate for Lévis—Lotbinière

Thomas Gagné

Liberal candidate for Manicouagan

Yves Robillard

Liberal candidate for Marc-Aurèle-Fortin

François Loza

Liberal candidate for Mirabel

Marie-Ève Pelchat

Liberal candidate for Montarville

Javeria Qureshi

Liberal candidate for Montcalm

François Lapointe

Liberal candidate for Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup

Anthony Housefather

Liberal candidate for Mount Royal

Adam Lukofsky

Liberal candidate for Mégantic—L'Érable

Marc Garneau

Liberal candidate for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount

Rachel Bendayan

Liberal candidate for Outremont

Justin Trudeau

Liberal candidate for Papineau

Louis-Gabriel Girard

Liberal candidate for Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères

Sameer Zuberi

Liberal candidate for Pierrefonds—Dollard

Sophie Chatel

Liberal candidate for Pontiac

Sani Diallo

Liberal candidate for Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier

Jean-Yves Duclos

Liberal candidate for Québec

Yvelie Kernizan

Liberal candidate for Repentigny

Alexandre Desmarais

Liberal candidate for Richmond—Arthabaska

Léonie Lajoie

Liberal candidate for Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques

Linda Lapointe

Liberal candidate for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles

Theodora Bajkin

Liberal candidate for Rivière-du-Nord

Nancy Drolet

Liberal candidate for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie

Caroline-Joan Boucher

Liberal candidate for Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot

Jean Rioux

Liberal candidate for Saint-Jean

Emmanuella Lambropoulos

Liberal candidate for Saint-Laurent

Patricia Lattanzio

Liberal candidate for Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel

François-Philippe Champagne

Liberal candidate for Saint-Maurice—Champlain

Linda Gallant

Liberal candidate for Salaberry—Suroît

Pierre Breton

Liberal candidate for Shefford

Élisabeth Brière

Liberal candidate for Sherbrooke

Eric Forget

Liberal candidate for Terrebonne

Ramez Ayoub

Liberal candidate for Thérèse-De Blainville

Martin Francoeur

Liberal candidate for Trois-Rivières

Peter Schiefke

Liberal candidate for Vaudreuil—Soulanges

Marc Miller

Liberal candidate for Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs

Annie Koutrakis

Liberal candidate for Vimy

Saskatchewan

Larry Ingram

Liberal candidate for Battlefords—Lloydminster

Harrison Andruschak

Liberal candidate for Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek

Mackenzie Hird

Liberal candidate for Cypress Hills—Grasslands

Buckley Belanger

Liberal candidate for Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River

Katelyn Zimmer

Liberal candidate for Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan

Estelle Hjertaas

Liberal candidate for Prince Albert

Susan Cameron

Liberal candidate for Regina—Lewvan

Cecilia Melanson

Liberal candidate for Regina—Qu'Appelle

Sean McEachern

Liberal candidate for Regina—Wascana

Ruben Rajakumar

Liberal candidate for Saskatoon West

Rokhan Sarwar

Liberal candidate for Saskatoon—Grasswood

Dawn Dumont Walker

Liberal candidate for Saskatoon—University

Javin Ames-Sinclair

Liberal candidate for Souris—Moose Mountain

Jordan Ames-Sinclair

Liberal candidate for Yorkton—Melville

Yukon

Brendan Hanley

Liberal candidate for Yukon