Affordability
Food costs
Green's promises
"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 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
"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
"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
- Eliminate any unnecessary red tape, reporting requirements, and other barriers typically faced by those needing financial support
- Remove ODSP from the purview of Employment Ontario
- Ensure shelter allowances reflect the shelter costs where people live"
— Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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
"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, saving people up to $1,700 per year" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Utility costs
Green's promises
"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
"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
Climate Change & the Environment
Animal protection
Green's promises
"Add more transparency to Ontario’s Animal Welfare Services" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 (often referred to as penned dog hunting)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Ensure the new Ontario puppy mill regulations include a licensing and registration system" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 to support affordable care without profit-driven motives" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 in Ontario that exploit exotic animals" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Climate adaptation
Green's promises
"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
"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
Conservation and environmental protection
Green's promises
"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 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
"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 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
"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 (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 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
Disasters
Green's promises
"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 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
"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
Green construction and retrofits
Green's promises
"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
"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
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. Offer at least one express service each way during weekday peak periods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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
"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 Ford government’s subsidy for Enbridge’s gas hookups" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Ontario's Greenbelt
Green's promises
"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
"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 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
Power generation
Green's promises
"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
"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
"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 expensive fossil gas plants by 2035" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
Public transit
Green's promise
"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
"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
Walkable, bikeable communities
Green's promises
Waste and recycling
Green's promises
"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 programs to help people save money and reduce waste" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Water and watersheds
Green's promise
Education
Trades
Green's promises
"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
"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
"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
Drugs and addiction
Green's promises
"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
"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
Emergency wait-times
Green's promises
"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 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 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
"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 (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 like community health clinics and nurse practitioner led clinics to reduce pressure on emergency rooms" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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
"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 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 so that we can meet the need of at least 6,800 new PSWs by 2028" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
Hospitals
Green's promise
"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 to meet growing demand." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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 to transition current institutional settings to the new model" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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
"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 to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Improve access to care by providing virtual care options in rural and remote regions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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, 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, recreation and housing support" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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 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. 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
"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
"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
"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 to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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 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
"Repeal laws that would prohibit or create barriers to cohousing and coliving" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
Housing & Homelessness
Community services and libraries
Green's promises
"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, 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
"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 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 to create more attainable home ownership opportunities within exist- ing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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
"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. Offer low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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
"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 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
"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 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 as a requirement in transit funding agreements between the province and municipalities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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 to ensure all voices are heard during the planning process" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
Home purchases and ownership
Green's promises
"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
"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 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
"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 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 ensure government investments targeting homelessness are coordinated, appropriately funded and provide long-term solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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 advance these housing technologies" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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 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 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
"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
Public and affordable housing
Green's promises
"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
"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 transit station surface parking lots" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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-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 in cities with low vacancy rates so there is more supply available for local renters" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 by-laws province wide to ensure the continued supply of affordable rental stock" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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, such as urban sprawl, highways, and gravel mining" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Invest in local food hubs to support local farmers, supply chains and businesses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 and defend Ontario food and farmers in trade negotiations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"Prioritise Ontario-grown food by developing local, sustainable procurement guidelines for public institutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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 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
"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
Gig and contract workers
Green's promises
"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
"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
"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
"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 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 and put an end to wage theft" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Poverty
Green's promises
"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
- Eliminate any unnecessary red tape, reporting requirements, and other barriers typically faced by those needing financial support
- Remove ODSP from the purview of Employment Ontario
- Ensure shelter allowances reflect the shelter costs where people live"
— Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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
Startups and small businesses
Green's promises
"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
"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
"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
"Establish a NextGen Ownership Fund to assist aspiring entrepreneurs with business purchases" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Trades
Green's promises
"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
"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’ 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 to unlock business investments in Ontario" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
Society & Government
Community services and libraries
Green's promises
"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, 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
"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 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
"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
"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
"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
"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 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
Transportation & Transit
Congestion
Green's promise
"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
"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. Offer at least one express service each way during weekday peak periods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
"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
"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
Misc. topics
Internet access and rural broadband
Green's promises
"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
Biography
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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