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Lucas Graham

Affordability

Food costs

Green's promises

Introduce strict anti-gouging and anti-collusion laws

"Introduce strict anti-gouging and collusion laws to stop grocery corporations from gouging people on their grocery bills" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ensure the grocery retailer code of conduct is mandatory, enforceable, transparent, and benefits customers and farmers

"Ensure the existing Federal-Provincial-Territorial grocery retailer code of conduct is mandatory, enforceable, transparent, and benefits both customers and farmers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Give start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens with land gifts and organisational support

"Provide start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens through land gifts and organisational support to eliminate urban food deserts" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Poverty

Green's promises

Increase the minimum wage to $20/hour and index to inflation
Phase in a basic income, with an initial doubling of ODSP and OW rates and elimination of unfair clawbacks

"Phase in a Basic Income, with the first step being to at least double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW) rates and get rid of aggressive and unfair clawbacks, including clawbacks from the Canada Disability Benefit

  1. Eliminate any unnecessary red tape, reporting requirements, and other barriers typically faced by those needing financial support
  2. Remove ODSP from the purview of Employment Ontario
  3. Ensure shelter allowances reflect the shelter costs where people live"

Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Consult with people who have experienced poverty and existing social assistance when designing programmes and services to address poverty

"Include meaningful consultation with people who have lived experience with poverty and existing social assistance programs in the design of all programs and services aimed at client-centred approaches for reducing poverty" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Annually report disaggregated data on the proportion of the population experiencing chronic food insecurity
Ban payday lending, and work with credit unions to develop a ow-cost, small loan alternative

"Prohibit “payday” lending that takes advantage of those facing financial hardship and work with credit unions to develop a low-cost, small loan alter- native to help people get out of debt." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Public transit

Green's promise

Take responsibility for funding transit that used to be provincially-funded

"Upload costs to the province that had previously been unfairly downloaded onto municipalities like community housing, shelters, and transit funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Tax measures and rebates

Green's promise

Cut taxes for low- and middle-income earners under $65,000 and households making under $100,000

"Cut taxes for low and middle income earners under $65,000 and households making under $100,000, saving people up to $1,700 per year" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Utility costs

Green's promises

Redirect hydro rebate cheques from the wealthiest Ontarians to low- and middle-income earners

"Stop giving hydro rebate cheques to the wealthiest Ontarians and redirect that money to help low- and middle-income earners pay their bills" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Return natural gas cost protection by renewing the independence of the OEB
Provide a free heat pump for households with incomes under $100,000, and zero interest loans for households over $100,000

"Provide a free heat pump for house- holds with incomes under $100,000 and zero interest loans for households over $100,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Remove HST on heat pumps, heat pump hot water heating, solar panels, EV chargers, and energy retrofits
Provide a $10,000 grant and upfront zero-interest loan programmes for energy efficiency retrofits for households with incomes under $100,000
Provide zero-interest loans for energy efficiency retrofits for households with incomes over $100,000

Climate Change & the Environment

Animal protection

Green's promises

Make Animal Welfare Services more transparent

"Add more transparency to Ontario’s Animal Welfare Services" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Humanely relocate all remaining animals at Marineland to appropriate accommodations

"Ensure that the remaining animals at Marineland are humanely relocated to appropriate accommodations that meet the health and wellbeing of the animals" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ban dog train and trial areas

"Ban dog train and trial areas (often referred to as penned dog hunting)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Implement a licensing and registration system for dog breeders as part of the new puppy mill regulations

"Ensure the new Ontario puppy mill regulations include a licensing and registration system" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ban cosmetic surgery on companion animals

"End cosmetic surgery on companion animals including tail docking and ear cropping" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Allow non-profit corporations to own and operate veterinary clinics

"Allow non-profit corporations to own and operate veterinary clinics to support affordable care without profit-driven motives" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ban fur farming in Ontario

"Ban fur farming in Ontario to help decrease the health risks associated with them" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ban roadside zoos that exploit exotic animals

"Ban roadside zoos in Ontario that exploit exotic animals" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Climate adaptation

Green's promises

Prevent flooding by stopping the paving of wetlands, including by banning 400 series highways in the Greenbelt

"In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Implement a predictable multi-year fund for municipalities to build climate-resilient infrastructure
Provide $2B/year for capital spending for municipalities to build resilient infrastructure

"Provide $2B per year for capital spending for municipalities to build resilient infrastructure through a dedicated Climate Adaptation Fund" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a Safe Home Fund with zero-interest loans for home renovations to protect homes from climate-fueled unsafe weather events

Conservation and environmental protection

Green's promises

Reverse government attacks on Conservation Authorities, Environmental Assessments, and wetland and species protection

"Reverse the Ford government’s attack on Conservation Authorities, Environmental Assessments, wetland and species protection" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Adopt a province-wide net-gain wetland policy to increase protections for wetlands and reverse Ontario Wetland Evaluation System changes

"Adopt a provide-wide net-gain wet- land policy to increase protections for wetlands and reverse Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (OWES) changes; update and implement Ontario’s 2017 Wetland Strategy" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Protect 30% of Ontario's land and waters by 2030, and restore 30% of degraded ecosystems

"Work with the federal 2030 Nature Strategy to protect and restore biodiversity in Canada by protecting 30% of Ontario’s land and waters by 2030 and restoring 30% of all degraded ecosystems, in addition to the targets in the Ontario Biodiversity Strategy" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Restore and enhance the Endangered Species Act, including by removing exemptions

"Restore and enhance the integrity of the Endangered Species Act — including cancellation of the pay-to-slay fund, restoration of science-based decision making at COSSARO, and Ministerial oversight of assessments — and ensure its effective implementation by reversing recent changes that have increased exemptions and weakened protections" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Recognise and permanently protect Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas and support other Indigenous-led conservation and climate efforts

"Amend provincial legislation to recognise and permanently protect Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas and appropriately support other Indigenous-led conservation and climate efforts" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Support the Mushkegowuk National Marine Conservation Area proposal to protect the Hudson Bay Lowlands

"Support the Mushkegowuk National Marine Conservation Area (NMCA) proposal to protect the Hudson Bay Lowlands to conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change while supporting Indigenous self-determination" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Restore the independence and capacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission

"Restore the independence and ca- pacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission to enable decision-making consistent with the goals and objectives of those provincial plans" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Strengthen and uphold the Environmental Bill of Rights

Disasters

Green's promises

Prevent flooding by stopping the paving of wetlands, including by banning 400 series highways in the Greenbelt

"In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Adopt a province-wide net-gain wetland policy to increase protections for wetlands and reverse Ontario Wetland Evaluation System changes

"Adopt a provide-wide net-gain wet- land policy to increase protections for wetlands and reverse Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (OWES) changes; update and implement Ontario’s 2017 Wetland Strategy" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Electric vehicles

Green's promises

Provide a $7,500 clean vehicle rebate for new EVs under $75,000
Provide a $3,000 clean vehicle rebate on pre-owned EVs and new E-Bikes
Expand the EV charging network across the province
Set up a provincial zero-emission vehicle standard matching those in BC and Quebec to increase supplies of EVs

"Increase supply of EVs in Ontar- io by establishing a provincial Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) standard that matches those in BC and Quebec" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Amend the building code so all new homes and multi-residential buildings are EV charging ready

Green construction and retrofits

Green's promises

Provide a free heat pump for households with incomes under $100,000, and zero interest loans for households over $100,000

"Provide a free heat pump for house- holds with incomes under $100,000 and zero interest loans for households over $100,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Remove HST on heat pumps, heat pump hot water heating, solar panels, EV chargers, and energy retrofits
Provide a $10,000 grant and upfront zero-interest loan programmes for energy efficiency retrofits for households with incomes under $100,000
Provide zero-interest loans for energy efficiency retrofits for households with incomes over $100,000
Create a grant programme for co-op, non-profit, and public housing to retrofit buildings
Institute energy labelling of homes and multi-residential buildings
Retrofit 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045

"Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Support municipalities, schools, and institutions to create renewable energy projects through zero interest loans

Inter-city bus and rail

Green's promises

Expand all-day, two-way GO service to leave every 15 minutes during peak periods, and every 30 minutes off-peak, including weekend service

"Expand all-day, two-way GO service to leave every 15 minutes during peak periods and every 30 minutes off peak, including weekend service. Offer at least one express service each way during weekday peak periods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Offer at least one GO express service each way during weekday peak periods
Set up clean, affordable, accessible intercity bus service, with connections in small, rural communities, and dedicated bus lanes

"Establish a clean, affordable, accessible intercity electric bus service to connect communities across the province, ensuring connections in small, rural communities and dedicated bus lanes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Oil and gas

Green's promises

Make billionaire fossil fuel companies pay municipalities for the right to use land for their infrastructure

"Make billionaire fossil fuel companies pay municipalities for the right to use our land for their infrastructure" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Pass the No Free Ride for Fossil Fuels Act to charge fossil fuel companies for using public land" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

End taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel subsidies
Introduce a rising price on large industrial emissions

"Make big industrial polluters pay their fair share with a rising price on large industrial emissions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reverse the subsidy for Enbridge's gas hookups

"Reverse the Ford government’s subsidy for Enbridge’s gas hookups" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ontario's Greenbelt

Green's promises

Freeze urban boundaries and reverse recent boundary expansions
Prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist

"Reverse the Ford government’s changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prevent flooding by stopping the paving of wetlands, including by banning 400 series highways in the Greenbelt

"In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Restore the independence and capacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission

"Restore the independence and ca- pacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission to enable decision-making consistent with the goals and objectives of those provincial plans" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Pollution

Green's promises

Expand the federal list of banned single-use plastics to include water bottles, coffee cups, and other unnecessary packaging
Expand Deposit Return to non-alcoholic beverage containers

Power generation

Green's promises

Pay people to generate metered solar power and use home battery storage

"Pay people, not gas monopolies, for flexible power through energy conservation and efficiency, smart systems that shift demand and optimise energy use, net metering for local solar generation and home battery storage to meet peak demand" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Make it easier for people, farmers, and businesses to connect renewable energy to the grid

"Remove red tape to make it easier for people, farmers and businesses to connect renewable energy to the grid and to make virtual net metering possible" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ensure grid capacity and low cost grid connections for renewable energy generation
Invest in smart grid implementation and innovations

"Invest in smart grid implementation and innovations such as bi-directional EV charging, peak demand programs and storage" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Phase out fossil fuel gas plants by 2035

"Phase out expensive fossil gas plants by 2035" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Direct the Independent Electricity System Operator to have an open, competitive bid process for low-cost emission-free electricity sources

"Direct IESO to have an open, competitive bid process for the lowest cost emission-free sources of electricity generation" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

End the moratorium on off-shore wind energy
Ensure community and individual monetary benefit agreements for people who live near wind farms
Maintain existing nuclear generation at Bruce and Darlington

Public transit

Green's promise

Take responsibility for funding transit that used to be provincially-funded

"Upload costs to the province that had previously been unfairly downloaded onto municipalities like community housing, shelters, and transit funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Green's promises

Implement a Green Hydrogen and Ammonia strategy
Provide tax credits for investments to decarbonise businesses and industry
Create an industrial efficiency support programme to provide industry with connections with local clean tech and green energy companies

"Create an industrial efficiency support program that provides collaboration opportunities with local clean technology and green energy companies to allow emissions reductions for heavy emitting industries" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a fund to support green tech start-ups

Walkable, bikeable communities

Green's promises

Amend zoning rules to allow for small businesses such as corner stores and cafes to open within residential neighbourhoods
Create a predictable, annual infrastructure fund for safe walking, cycling, and mobility devices for municipalities
Stop the province from interfering with municipal transit plans like bike lanes
End mandatory minimum parking requirements for all new developments

Waste and recycling

Green's promises

Expand the federal list of banned single-use plastics to include water bottles, coffee cups, and other unnecessary packaging
Expand Deposit Return to non-alcoholic beverage containers
Ban food waste from landfills or incinerators and expand food waste collection to all municipalities across the province
Set required minimum use of recycled aggregates in infrastructure projects
Provide research and education funding to improve re-engineering and re-use of reclaimed concrete

"Set required minimum use of recycled aggregates in infrastructure projects as well as providing research and education funding to ensure that all reclaimed concrete material can be re-engineered and re-used as effectively as possible" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a community fund to support tool sharing libraries and repair programmes

"Create a community fund to support tool sharing libraries and repair programs to help people save money and reduce waste" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Introduce a Circular Economy Act to support reuse, repair, and recycling jobs and businesses

Water and watersheds

Green's promise

Expand the Greenbelt to include a Bluebelt of protected waterways

Education

Trades

Green's promises

Fund colleges appropriately so they can offer programmes for training in the trades
Provide a year of free college tuition and a year-long apprenticeship to 60,000 people to develop skills and experience in the green economy

"Give 60,000 people the skills and experience to work in the green economy through a year of free college tuition plus a year long apprenticeship when they graduate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Retrofit 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045

"Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Health & Healthcare

Diagnostic and procedure wait-times

Green's promises

Create a centralised intake and referral system to connect primary care providers with specialists

"Reduce the backlog in surgeries, imaging, and diagnostic tests through the creation of a centralised intake and referral system to connect primary care providers with specialists and create specialised care teams to reduce surgery wait times" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create specialised care teams to reduce surgery wait-times

Drugs and addiction

Green's promises

Address substance use through a health and human rights framework, not a criminal justice framework
Work with non-profits to build 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions, and other supports
Cover mental health and addiction care for all under OHIP
Provide dedicated, ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis
Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics

"Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reopen safe consumption and treatment sites closed by the previous government
Expand the number of safe consumption and treatment sites across the province, prioritising areas with high opioid deaths like the North
Integrate paid peer support workers with lived experience into the planning and organisation of all substance use programming
Create and expand permanent 24/7 mobile crisis response teams and rapid access addiction medicine clinics

"Invest in the creation and expansion of permanent 24/7 mobile crisis response teams where mental health care workers are deployed when people are experiencing a mental health or substance related crisis, as well as rapid access addiction medicine clinics" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase access to publicly-funded treatment beds

Emergency wait-times

Green's promises

Expand scope of practice for community healthcare providers like nurses, nurse practitioners, and paramedics
Create a new and integrated framework to deploy healthcare providers more effectively in rural areas and shift demand from emergency rooms

"Create a new and integrated framework to deploy healthcare providers more effectively in rural areas, and to help shift demand from emergency rooms" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a centralised and coordinated programme to fill-in physicians to provide relief and prevention of ER closures

"Create a centralised and coordinated program for fill-in physicians to provide relief and prevention of ER closures and for family practices that prioritises local solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Family doctors and primary care

Green's promises

Recruit 3,500 more doctors through more medical school positions and more residency opportunities for international medical graduates

"Recruit 3,500 more doctors in Ontario through more medical school positions and more residency opportunities for international medical graduates so that every person has a primary care provider within 3-4 years" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Move to electronic prescriptions to allow doctors more time caring for their patients

"Work with primary care providers to dramatically decrease administrative demands on doctors, and move to electronic prescriptions to allow them to spend more time caring for patients" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Expand and provide start-up funding for family health teams across the province, with a wider variety of care available

"Expand and provide start-up funding for family health teams across the province with a wider variety of care available (social workers, addictions care, physio, etc.)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase funding to expand access to publicly-funded and publicly-provided 24/7 non-urgent clinics

"Increase funding to expand access to publicly funded and publicly provided 24/7 non urgent clinics like community health clinics and nurse practitioner led clinics to reduce pressure on emergency rooms" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Stop charging doctors and removing patients from rosters if they visit a walk-in clinic
Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams

"Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Health administration and privatisation

Green's promise

Stop future privatisation and reverse current efforts at privatisation

"Stop future investor-driven privatisation and reverse Ford’s efforts to privatise our healthcare system" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Health staffing

Green's promises

Harmonise wages across the healthcare system, and ensure that they're equitable across settings/communities and internationally competitive

"Pay healthcare workers fairly by harmonising wages across the health- care system to ensure retention of experienced staff and good community health supports. Ensure wages are equitable and internationally competitive for Doctors, Registered Nurses (RNs), Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs), and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) across all healthcare settings" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Fix the staffing shortage by providing equal pay for nurses, doctors and PSWs across all communities and healthcare settings in Ontario to increase capacity in rural and re- mote communities, and compensate healthcare workers fairly for their travel to treat patients at home" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase nursing student enrolments by 10% per year for five years, and increase nurse practitioners by 2,500 by 2030

"Increase nursing student enrolments by 10% per year for the next 5 years. Increase nurse practitioners by 2,500 by 2030" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Address retention and recruitment issues to meet the need of at least 6,800 new PSWs by 2028

"Address retention and recruitment issues so that we can meet the need of at least 6,800 new PSWs by 2028" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase fast-tracked credential approvals for international healthcare workers, including nurses and doctors
Shift away from the reliance on agency nurses
Cap licensed agency fees and restrict agency nurses from working in a hospital of previous employment for six months

"Shift away from our reliance on agency nurses and decrease the financial burden on hospitals by capping licenced agencies fees and restricting agency nurses from working in the hospital of previous employment for six months" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Compensate healthcare workers fairly for their travel to treat patients at home

Hospitals

Green's promise

Increase funding for rural hospitals and cut the local cost share for funding new hospitals in half

"Increase provincial funding for rural hospitals and cut their local cost share for funding new hospitals in half" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Long-term care

Green's promises

Build 48,000 non-profit long-term care spaces by 2029

"Build 48,000 non-profit long-term care spaces by 2029 to meet growing demand." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Phase out for-profit care
Create more Indigenous-led, rural, and remote long-term care homes

"Create more Indigenous-led, rural and remote long-term care homes in their communities, and allocate a portion of the new beds to these homes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prioritise and enhance capital support for expanding not-for-profit long-term care

"Prioritise and enhance capital support for the expansion of not-for-profit long term care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a plan to build small, person-centred homes, like the butterfly model, and transition current institutional settings to the new model

"Create a plan to build small, person-centred homes, like the butterfly model, and to transition current institutional settings to the new model" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ensure homes offer culturally appropriate services and care
Add healthcare and social services supports into existing non-profit seniors housing buildings

"Instantly create thousands of additional seniors supportive housing units by adding healthcare and social services supports into existing non-profit seniors housing buildings" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Pay staff fairly, and ensure 4 hours/day of care

"Pay fairly to retain staff so that we can ensure 4 hours per day of care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Mental health

Green's promises

Cover mental health and addiction care for all under OHIP
Provide dedicated, ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis
Increase base funding for community mental health services
Bring wages for workers in community mental health up to par with other providers in the sector

"Ensure retention and recruitment of workers in the community mental health sector by bringing wages up to par with other providers in the sector" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics

"Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide virtual care options in rural and remote regions

"Improve access to care by providing virtual care options in rural and remote regions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Implement a wait-time reduction strategy for mental health services that sets targets, tracks wait-times, and makes the info public
Make immediate investments to reduce wait-times to 30 days or less for children and youth

"Immediately make the investments in frontline mental health to reduce wait times to 30 days or less for children and youth" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Invest in emergency mental health supports, including crisis centres and outreach workers
Have social workers in emergency rooms during peak hours

"Invest in emergency mental health supports including crisis centres and outreach workers, and have social workers in emergency rooms during peak hours to divert their needs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase investment in Youth Wellness Hubs province-wide as a one-stop shop for employment, health, addiction, education, & housing support

"Increase investment in Youth Wellness Hubs province-wide as a one-stop shop for employment, health, addiction, education, recreation and housing support" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide adequate mental health supports for first responders

"Ensure adequate mental health supports are available for first responders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prescription drugs and pharmacare

Green's promises

Work with the federal government on implementing universal pharmacare
Immediately publicly fund take-home cancer and rare disease medications

"As an immediate measure, publicly fund take-home cancer and rare disease medications" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Root causes of health

Green's promises

Increase upstream investments in social determinants of health, such as reducing social isolation, housing insecurity, and poverty

"Increase upstream investments in the social determinants of health, such as reducing social isolation, housing in- security, and poverty to prevent substantial, long-term healthcare costs and severe disease" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Support and promote healthy behaviours to prevent disease and reduce risk factors such as poor nutrition and smoking

"Support and promote healthy behaviours to prevent disease and reduce risk factors such as poor nutrition and smoking. These early investments will lead to better long-term health outcomes and reduce stress on the system" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prioritise clean air, clean water, and access to healthy local food in all communities

"Improve environmental determinants of health by prioritising clean air, clean water, and access to healthy local food in all communities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase core funding for community-based mental and physical health supports in racialised, newcomer, and other under-served communities

"Improve environmental determinants of health by prioritising clean air, clean water, and access to healthy lo- cal food in all communities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Mitigate the health risks to people from heat, wildfire smoke, flooding, and drought
Establish stricter monitoring and enforcement standards for air and water pollution in areas with multiple potential industrial health risks

"Establish stricter monitoring and enforcement standards for air and water pollution in areas where communities are exposed to potential health risks from multiple industries" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Seniors' health and wellbeing

Green's promises

Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams

"Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ensure a robust homecare and community care system, anchored within primary care

"Ensure a robust home care and community care system that is anchored within primary care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase funding for local libraries, community centres, and neighbourhood coalitions

"Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Support local communities to develop Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities with planning and project funding through a grant programme

"Support local communities to enable the development of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities with planning and project funding through an Age-Friendly Communities grant program" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Mandate that nurses and personal support workers are paid appropriately across workplaces and for their travel time between visits
Repeal laws prohibiting or preventing co-housing and co-living

"Repeal laws that would prohibit or create barriers to cohousing and coliving" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase funding for the community health sector

"Increase funding for our community health sector to address the staffing crisis and to ensure timely, safe and quality care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase supports for people who care for loved ones who are ill or elderly

Housing & Homelessness

Community services and libraries

Green's promises

Increase funding for local libraries, community centres, and neighbourhood coalitions

"Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools

"Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools, including but not limited to covering costs for free evening, weekend, March break, and summer permits for non-profit community organisations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Give start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens with land gifts and organisational support

"Provide start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens through land gifts and organisational support to eliminate urban food deserts" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Home construction and supply

Green's promises

Build 2 million homes in various forms within urban boundaries over the next 10 years

"Build 2 million homes in a variety of innovative forms within urban bound- aries over the next 10 years" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Allow single-family dwellings to be divided into multiple condominium units

"Allow single family dwellings to be divided into multiple condominium units to create more attainable home ownership opportunities within exist- ing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Require municipalities to permit developments that use pre-approved building designs

"Require municipalities to permit developments with the use of pre-approved building designs (starter home designs to allow for more affordable development)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Plan for a mix of unit sizes and housing types, based on demographic needs and immigration projections

"Identify and plan for a mix of unit sizes (e.g. one-bedroom, two-bed-room) and housing types (e.g. multi-unit houses, low-rise developments) needed and in what quantity, based on demographic and immigration projections" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Inventivise faster, lower-cost, more labour-efficient construction methods and sustainable materials

"Update building codes and land use planning laws, financial tools, tax powers, and funding programs to incentivise the use of faster, lower-cost, and labour-efficient construction methods and sustainable materials like mass timber, modular factory built homes, etc" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase financial and legal supports for small-scale builders of missing middle and mid-rise infill homes

"Increase financial and legal supports for small-scale builders of missing middle and mid-rise infill homes. Offer low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Remove development charges on homes, condos, and apartments built under 2,000 sq ft within urban boundaries, and reimburse municipalities

"Make homes affordable for home-buyers by removing development charges on homes, condos and apartment units built under 2,000 sq ft with-in urban boundaries. Implement an Affordable Community Fund to reimburse municipalities for lost revenue" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prezone for missing middle and mid-rise housing ranging from 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and major streets in large urban centres

"Update provincial planning laws to prezone for missing middle and mid- rise housing ranging from 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and major streets in large urban centres with populations over 100,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Allow fourplexes and four storeys as-of-right within existing urban boundaries, and allow sixplexes in cities with populations over 500,000

"Update the Planning Act, Provincial Planning Statement and other applicable laws and regulations to expand zoning permissions to allow for fourplexes and four storeys as-of-right within existing urban boundaries and sixplexes in cities with populations over 500,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Change planning laws to allow various building types along main streets, transit corridors, public lands, and residential neighbourhoods

"Change planning laws to ensure vari- ous building types can be built along main streets, transit stations and cor- ridors, public lands, surplus commer- cial lands, and residential neighbour- hoods to ensure there is a liveable mix of housing in all neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist

"Reverse the Ford government’s changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Set uniform provincial standards for urban design and remove onerous rules around floor space index, setbacks, and angular planes

"Set uniform provincial standards for urban design and remove onerous rules around floor space index, setbacks, and angular planes that are barriers to building missing middle and midrise housing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Require minimum housing densities at transit stations and along transit corridors when agreeing with municipalities to fund transit

"Require minimum housing densities at transit stations and along transit corridors as a requirement in transit funding agreements between the province and municipalities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Incentivise construction of housing on commercial properties, such as abandoned plazas and warehouses

"Incentivise and remove barriers to the construction of housing on commercial properties, such as abandoned plazas and warehouses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Run a "Yes, in My Backyard" initiative with municipalities to raise awareness of the benefits of building housing in extant neighbourhoods

"Work collaboratively with municipalities on a province-wide “Yes, in My Backyard” initiative to raise awareness of the benefits of building more housing within existing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Encourage municipalities to meaningfully engage with prospective residents, not only current residents, when consulting on new developments

"Encourage municipalities to meaningfully engage with prospective residents, not only current residents, when consulting on new developments to ensure all voices are heard during the planning process" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Explore innovative approaches to planning consultation, including engaging people in community locations like coffee shops or transit stops

"Explore innovative approaches to planning consultation that ensure processes are genuinely inclusive and meaningfully engage all citizens both in-person and online. For example, engaging people in community locations that they frequent such as coffee shops or transit stops, or providing childcare to ensure broader community participation" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Use taxes and incentives to encourage developers to build within existing neighbourhoods in towns and cities
End mandatory minimum parking requirements for all new developments

Home purchases and ownership

Green's promises

Offer zero-interest $25K loans for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence

"Increase housing supply and help new homeowners pay down their mortgage by offering zero-interest loans of $25K for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Remove the Land Transfer Tax for first-time home buyers

"End the Land Transfer Tax for first-time home buyers to make it more afford- able for people to purchase their first home" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Homeless services

Green's promises

Immediately support people living in encampments with their housing and support needs until permanent housing solutions are built
Resume the homelessness census

"Immediately support people living in encampments with their housing and support needs until permanent housing solutions are built and resume the homelessness census cancelled by the Ford government to ensure we create sustainable, long-term solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Use a Housing First model to ensure stable, permanent housing solutions are the first priority

"Utilise a Housing First model to ensure that stable, permanent housing solutions are the first priority when helping those in need" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Engage with people who have experienced homelessness when developing programmes

"Engage people who have lived experience with homelessness in program development." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create an inter-ministerial working group to coordinate government investments targeting homelessness

"Create an inter-ministerial working group to ensure government investments targeting homelessness are coordinated, appropriately funded and provide long-term solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Build a data system for housing indicators that captures underlying trends of people with unmet housing needs

"Build an adequate data system for housing indicators in Ontario that captures the underlying trends of people with unmet housing needs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Deploy temporary and permanent supportive modular housing on provincially-owned land as quickly as possible

"Deploy temporary and permanent supportive modular housing projects on provincially owned land as quickly as possible." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create tax credits and investment funds to help develop supportive modular housing technologies

"Create tax credits and investment funds to help advance these housing technologies" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Take responsibility for shelter costs

"Upload costs to the province that had previously been unfairly downloaded onto municipalities like community housing, shelters, and transit funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase annual funding for women's shelters and culturally-appropriate transitional and supportive housing for women and their families

"Increase annual funding for women’s shelters as well as safe and accessible transitional and supportive housing options for women and their families. Ensure transitional housing is culturally appropriate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Housing prices

Green's promises

Implement a 25%-or-more multiple property speculation tax on those who purchase more than two houses

"Implement a multiple property speculation tax on those who purchase more than two houses in Ontario. The tax will begin at 25% on the third home and increase with each additional property owned" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Work with municipalities to implement a province-wide vacant homes tax

"Work with municipalities to implement a province-wide vacant homes tax to make it harder to use vacant homes as a lucrative place to park cash and fix the loopholes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Implement a provincial anti-flipping tax on quick turnaround sales
Bring in a beneficial ownership registry to prevent nameless companies from trading properties

"Crack down on money laundering and implement a beneficial ownership registry to avoid the practice of nameless companies trading properties" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reduce multi-residential building property taxes to bring them in-line with rates for single-family homes

Public and affordable housing

Green's promises

Work with non-profits to build 250,000 new affordable non-profit and co-op homes
Work with non-profits to build 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions, and other supports
Work with Indigenous housing organisations to develop and fully-fund 22,000 for-Indigenous, by-Indigenous deeply affordable homes
Prioritise and speed up approval processes for projects led by or with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans for them

"Prioritise and speed up the development approval processes for projects led by or in partnership with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans via a new revolving fund" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Lease all public land suitable for housing to non-profits, co-ops, and community land trusts for permanently affordable housing at no cost
Remove HST on affordable housing units delivered by non-profits
Work with the federal government to create a capital repair programme to ensure affordable homes stay well-maintained

"Renew 305,000 community housing units and create a new capital repair program, in partnership with the federal government, to ensure homes stay well maintained" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on station surface parking lots

"Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on transit station surface parking lots" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reinstate the brownfield remediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previous industrial sites

"Reinstate the provincial brownfield re- mediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previously industrial sites" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Give non-profits support and capital to purchase market rental buildings, and introduce preemptive right-to-buy for non-profits

"Give non-profit housing providers the support and access to capital needed to purchase market rental buildings to maintain affordability in perpetuity and introduce pre-emptive right-to- buy for non-profits" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Rental housing

Green's promises

Restrict short-term rentals to principal residences and cities with low vacancy rates

"Restrict short-term rentals to principal residences and in cities with low vacancy rates so there is more supply available for local renters" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Offer zero-interest $25K loans for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence

"Increase housing supply and help new homeowners pay down their mortgage by offering zero-interest loans of $25K for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Support rental replacement bylaws to keep a continued supply of affordable rental stock

"Support rental replacement by-laws province wide to ensure the continued supply of affordable rental stock" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Reinstate rent control on all units

"Reinstate rent controls on all units to • regulate rental increases year-to-year and implement vacancy control to limit rent increases between tenancies" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Tie rent control to the unit to limit rent increases between tenancies
Extend financial support to 311,000 Ontario households via the portable housing benefit
Place a moratorium on above-guideline rent increases and create a task force to look into their overuse

"Place a moratorium on AGIs and create a Rental Task Force to look into the overuse of above-guideline rent increases" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Update and strengthen sections of the Residential Tenancies Act regarding state of repair for multi-unit buildings

"Update and strengthen sections of the Residential Tenancies Act that deal with the state of repair for multi-unit buildings to ensure tenants have homes that are safe and kept in a good state of repair" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a rental registry and strengthen rules and penalties for renovictions and bad faith evictions

"Pass the Keeping People Housed Act to introduce a rental registry and strengthen rules and penalties for renovictions and bad faith evictions." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Cut Landlord and Tenant Board wait-times down to one month and ensure fairness for both sides

"Reform the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) to cut wait times down from one year to one month, and en- sure the process is fair for both land- lords and renters. Strengthen the appointment process by making it more transparent." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Return to in-person LTB hearings unless otherwise requested by the renter
Improve legal supports and legal aid funding for rental disputes

"Improve legal supports, including access to duty counsel and free information on rights and LTB procedures. Increase legal aid funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trades

Green's promises

Fund colleges appropriately so they can offer programmes for training in the trades
Provide a year of free college tuition and a year-long apprenticeship to 60,000 people to develop skills and experience in the green economy

"Give 60,000 people the skills and experience to work in the green economy through a year of free college tuition plus a year long apprenticeship when they graduate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Retrofit 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045

"Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Jobs, Businesses, & Labour

Agriculture

Green's promises

Create an Ontario Foodbelt to permanently protect prime farmland from being lost to non-agricultural uses

"Create an Ontario Foodbelt to permanently protect prime farmland from being lost to non-agricultural uses, such as urban sprawl, highways, and gravel mining" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Invest in local food hubs

"Invest in local food hubs to support local farmers, supply chains and businesses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide tax incentives for local food and beverage manufacturers who purchase inputs grown in Ontario
Increase funding, remove the cap, and expand business risk management programmes
Freeze urban boundaries and reverse recent boundary expansions
Increase provincial investment in agricultural technology

"Increase provincial investment in AgTech to support innovation in the food and farming sector including research into low-carbon grain drying and greenhouse heating solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Support supply management

"Support supply management and defend Ontario food and farmers in trade negotiations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Develop local, sustainable food procurement guidelines for public institutions

"Prioritise Ontario-grown food by developing local, sustainable procurement guidelines for public institutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a programme to pay farmers for environmental goods and services

"Introduce a provincial program to pay farmers for environmental goods and services by working with organisations such as Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ensure the grocery retailer code of conduct is mandatory, enforceable, transparent, and benefits customers and farmers

"Ensure the existing Federal-Provincial-Territorial grocery retailer code of conduct is mandatory, enforceable, transparent, and benefits both customers and farmers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Eliminate property tax penalties for farmers with small-scale, value-added production facilities on farms
Promote training in specialty programmes focused on sustainable practices and soil health within agricultural schools and extension services

"Promote training in specialty programs that focus on sustainable practices and soil-health within agricultural schools and extension services" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a food processing infrastructure fund to support investments by Ontario-based companies in food processing facilities

Gig and contract workers

Green's promises

Expand the Employment Standards Act to include all workers and end exemptions and loopholes

"Protect gig workers by expanding the Employment Standards Act to include all workers, close loopholes and end exemptions to the law. This means ensuring at least minimum wage for all hours of work from app sign-in until sign-out" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ensure at least a minimum wage for all hours of work from app sign-in until sign-out
Classify gig workers as employees with full employment rights and full and equal access to benefits programmes like EI, CPP, and WSIB

"Classify gig workers as employees with full employment rights and full and equal access to benefits programs like EI, CPP, and WSIB" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Make gig work count towards Permanent Residency applications
Mandate that temp agency workers earn the same and have the same protections, and become full hired employees after 3 months

"Mandate that temp agency workers earn the same and have the same workplace protections as directly hired workers when they do the same work, and that temp workers must become full hired employees after three months." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Labour protections

Green's promises

Implement ten provincially-legislated paid sick days for all
Ban employers from requiring a sick note form a medical practitioner when an employee is ill
End the practice of "deeming"

"Immediately end the practice of deeming, whereby the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) unfairly cuts benefits for injured workers" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Make it easier to form unions by extending card-based certification to all sectors and implement an industry-wide bargaining model

"Make it easier to form unions by ex- tending card-based certification to all sectors and implement an industry-wide bargaining model" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Legislate equal pay for equal work

"Legislate equal pay for equal work and put an end to wage theft" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Poverty

Green's promises

Increase the minimum wage to $20/hour and index to inflation
Phase in a basic income, with an initial doubling of ODSP and OW rates and elimination of unfair clawbacks

"Phase in a Basic Income, with the first step being to at least double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW) rates and get rid of aggressive and unfair clawbacks, including clawbacks from the Canada Disability Benefit

  1. Eliminate any unnecessary red tape, reporting requirements, and other barriers typically faced by those needing financial support
  2. Remove ODSP from the purview of Employment Ontario
  3. Ensure shelter allowances reflect the shelter costs where people live"

Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Consult with people who have experienced poverty and existing social assistance when designing programmes and services to address poverty

"Include meaningful consultation with people who have lived experience with poverty and existing social assistance programs in the design of all programs and services aimed at client-centred approaches for reducing poverty" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Annually report disaggregated data on the proportion of the population experiencing chronic food insecurity
Ban payday lending, and work with credit unions to develop a ow-cost, small loan alternative

"Prohibit “payday” lending that takes advantage of those facing financial hardship and work with credit unions to develop a low-cost, small loan alter- native to help people get out of debt." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Restaurants and bars

Green's promise

Remove the beer can tax

Startups and small businesses

Green's promises

Increase the employer health tax exemption to $1.5M so small businesses can hire more workers
Create a fund to support green tech start-ups
Create a Commercial Renter's Bill of Rights and create standardised leases

"Implement a Commercial Renter’s Bill of Rights to protect small businesses from unexpected cost increases and ensure business stability and continuity" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create standardised leases to ensure fairness and transparency and ensure that priority is given to existing tenants when leases are up for renewal" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Amend zoning rules to allow for small businesses such as corner stores and cafes to open within residential neighbourhoods
Work with insurance providers to develop an affordable commercial insurance programme for small businesses
Review regulations to remove ones that disproportionately affect small businesses

"Undertake a review of regulations in order to weed out red tape and costs that disproportionately affect small businesses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Simplify employee ownership trusts and corporation-to-worker co-op conversions

"Support new buyers or employees to purchase existing small businesses upon the owner’s retirement by simplifying employee ownership trusts and corporation to worker co-op con- versions." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create a fund to assist aspiring entrepreneurs with business purchases

"Establish a NextGen Ownership Fund to assist aspiring entrepreneurs with business purchases" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trades

Green's promises

Fund colleges appropriately so they can offer programmes for training in the trades
Provide a year of free college tuition and a year-long apprenticeship to 60,000 people to develop skills and experience in the green economy

"Give 60,000 people the skills and experience to work in the green economy through a year of free college tuition plus a year long apprenticeship when they graduate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Retrofit 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045

"Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trump's Tariffs

Green's promises

Immediately create a tariff taskforce to work across party, jurisdictional, and sectoral lines to negotiate with the States

"Immediately create a ‘tariff taskforce’ that works across party, jurisdictional and sectoral lines to negotiate with the United States on trade" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Create an investment tax credit

"Create an investment tax credit to unlock business investments in Ontario" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Develop a Buy Ontario strategy, and implement public procurement rules to support Ontario businesses and farmers
Create a fund for businesses disproportionately impacted by tariffs

"Create a Protect Ontario Fund for businesses disproportionately impacted by tariffs and make the investments needed to build new supply chains" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Make investments to build new supply chains
Immediately move to aggressively diversify trade partners
Work with other provinces to remove inter-provincial trade barriers

Society & Government

Community services and libraries

Green's promises

Increase funding for local libraries, community centres, and neighbourhood coalitions

"Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools

"Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools, including but not limited to covering costs for free evening, weekend, March break, and summer permits for non-profit community organisations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Give start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens with land gifts and organisational support

"Provide start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens through land gifts and organisational support to eliminate urban food deserts" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Infrastructure

Green's promise

Provide $2B/year for capital spending for municipalities to build resilient infrastructure

"Provide $2B per year for capital spending for municipalities to build resilient infrastructure through a dedicated Climate Adaptation Fund" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Municipal government

Green's promises

Give municipalities autonomy to implement revenue tools to fund critical infrastructure needs and services
Reinstate upper-tier regional planning authority

"Reinstate upper-tier regional planning authority to ensure coordinated and sustainable planning to build the housing we need while protecting agricultural and natural heritage" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Increase collaboration and consultation between municipalities and the province
Assess the use of City Charters as a mechanism to empower major Ontario cities

"Assess the use of City Charters as a mechanism to empower major Ontario cities, such as Toronto, and prevent inappropriate interference in local democracy by the provincial government" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ontario's Greenbelt

Green's promises

Freeze urban boundaries and reverse recent boundary expansions
Prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist

"Reverse the Ford government’s changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Prevent flooding by stopping the paving of wetlands, including by banning 400 series highways in the Greenbelt

"In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Restore the independence and capacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission

"Restore the independence and ca- pacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission to enable decision-making consistent with the goals and objectives of those provincial plans" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Parks and greenspace

Green's promises

Support municipalities to create infill greenspaces in all neighbourhoods
Cancel the Ontario Place Spa redevelopment and parking lot and build a public park and waterfront project instead

Transportation & Transit

Congestion

Green's promise

Create dedicated truck lanes on Highway 407 to reduce congestion, and remove Highway 407 tolls for transport trucks

"Create dedicated truck lanes on High- way 407 to reduce congestion and the need for more highways; Remove Hwy 407 tolls for transport trucks" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Highways and roads

Green's promise

Prevent flooding by stopping the paving of wetlands, including by banning 400 series highways in the Greenbelt

"In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Inter-city bus and rail

Green's promises

Expand all-day, two-way GO service to leave every 15 minutes during peak periods, and every 30 minutes off-peak, including weekend service

"Expand all-day, two-way GO service to leave every 15 minutes during peak periods and every 30 minutes off peak, including weekend service. Offer at least one express service each way during weekday peak periods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Offer at least one GO express service each way during weekday peak periods
Set up clean, affordable, accessible intercity bus service, with connections in small, rural communities, and dedicated bus lanes

"Establish a clean, affordable, accessible intercity electric bus service to connect communities across the province, ensuring connections in small, rural communities and dedicated bus lanes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Public transit

Green's promise

Take responsibility for funding transit that used to be provincially-funded

"Upload costs to the province that had previously been unfairly downloaded onto municipalities like community housing, shelters, and transit funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Walkable, bikeable communities

Green's promises

Amend zoning rules to allow for small businesses such as corner stores and cafes to open within residential neighbourhoods
Create a predictable, annual infrastructure fund for safe walking, cycling, and mobility devices for municipalities
Stop the province from interfering with municipal transit plans like bike lanes
End mandatory minimum parking requirements for all new developments

Misc. topics

Internet access and rural broadband

Green's promises

Make broadband internet an essential service and roll out high-speed access across the province
Use regulations to level the playing field for small, local internet service providers
Ensure affordable high-speed internet access, particularly for low-income households and small businesses

"Enact policies to ensure affordable access to high-speed internet, particularly for low-income households and small businesses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Ontario Place and the Ontario Science Centre

Green's promise

Cancel the Ontario Place Spa redevelopment and parking lot and build a public park and waterfront project instead
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Biography

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Is a Trent grad in Entrepreneurship (minors: Data & IT). Founded Countdown Creative supporting non-profits. Proven leader & volunteer driving economic dignity and innovation.

I am a Trent University graduate specializing in Entrepreneurship, with minors in Data Analysis and Information Technology. At Trent, I served as President of the Trent Business Competitions Team and the Trent Youth Entrepreneurship Society, gaining valuable experience in collaboration, innovation, and leadership.

After graduation, I founded Countdown Creative, a marketing and web design agency supporting non-profits. Through my business, I’ve helped organizations amplify their impact, including pro bono projects for causes I care about.

Beyond my work, I’m an active volunteer and community leader. As a founding board member of Volunteer Peterborough, I helped develop a platform connecting volunteers with opportunities. As Communications Chair for the Basic Income Peterborough Network, I advocate for policies that reduce poverty and promote economic dignity.

Studying abroad in Dundee, Scotland, was a transformative experience, where I researched youth talent retention and entrepreneurship while immersing myself in a new culture.


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