Wai Kiat Tang - Communist Party candidate for Scarborough-Rouge Park
Trade Unionist | Community Activist | Working People First
Wai Kiat Tang
Communist candidate for Scarborough—Rouge Park
Affordability
Childcare
Communist's promises
Ensure $10-a-day childcare is implemented and accessible
Move towards a provincial system of universally accessible and quality public childcare, free of charge.
Raise wages for childcare workers and require ECE certification.
Introduce 24-hour/7-days-a-week childcare, for parents who work shift schedules or who have personal/family emergencies.
Food costs
Communist's promise
Enact price controls on food.
Fuel and transportation costs
Communist's promises
Price controls on gas.
Eliminate transit fares.
Post-secondary costs and loans
Communist's promises
Eliminate tuition fees for post-secondary education
Cancel student debt
Provide a living stipend to all post-secondary students.
Poverty
Communist's promise
Enact a full employment program.
Public transit
Communist's promise
Full provincial funding to massively expand transit.
Tax measures and rebates
Communist's promises
Eliminate the sales tax as well as income tax on incomes under $40,000 a year.
Double the corporate tax rate to 23%.
Climate Change & the Environment
Public transit
Communist's promise
Full provincial funding to massively expand transit.
Education
Childcare
Communist's promises
Ensure $10-a-day childcare is implemented and accessible
Move towards a provincial system of universally accessible and quality public childcare, free of charge.
Raise wages for childcare workers and require ECE certification.
Introduce 24-hour/7-days-a-week childcare, for parents who work shift schedules or who have personal/family emergencies.
Indigenous learning
Communist's promises
Expand Indigenous language learning, including at the PSE level
Provide equitable standards for quality education for Indigenous students living on or off reserves.
K-12 funding
Communist's promises
End public funding for Catholic schools and enact a single, secular public school system in Ontario.
Deliver a new, needs-based funding formula to provide adequate and guaranteed funding, from provincial general revenues, to public schools.
LGBTQ+ students
Communist's promise
Support gay-straight alliances in Ontario schools, enforce trans rights, and restore legal funding for court challenges.
Post-secondary costs and loans
Communist's promises
Eliminate tuition fees for post-secondary education
Cancel student debt
Provide a living stipend to all post-secondary students.
Post-secondary funding
Communist's promise
Increase funding to public post-secondary education and end corporate funding and privatization.
School construction and upgrades
Communist's promises
Immediately fund the $16.8 billion backlog in maintenance for Ontario schools.
Provide stable capital funding to pay for ongoing maintenance and upgrades.
School curriculum
Communist's promises
Expand Indigenous and French-language education, including at the PSE level.
Eliminate explicit anti-communist propaganda in educational materials and ensure that curriculum is based on evidence-based research.
School nutrition
Communist's promise
Introduce a provincial food and nutrition program, based in all schools and communities.
To ensure that every person in the province has access to a proper diet.
Trades
Communist's promise
Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.
Health & Healthcare
Drugs and addiction
Communist's promises
Decriminalize drug use and treat it as a health issue
Funding community centres specifically for drug users, making rehabilitation centres a public utility with services provided free of charge, and increasing peer-driven and community-focused education programs.
Maintain and expand safer consumption sites
To ensure a safe and free supply of drugs to users through prescription programs along with humane treatment plans in order to prevent further overdose deaths.
Reverse the privatization of alcohol sales, expand and strengthen the publicly owned LCBO by absorbing The Beer Store
Utilize increased public revenue to finance comprehensive public health care services including alcohol addiction treatment.
Health staffing
Communist's promise
Put all doctors and healthcare professionals on a provincial salary.
Hospitals
Communist's promises
Restore health and hospital funding that has been cut, and halt and reverse the delisting of services to community hospitals.
Stop and reverse hospital closures.
Long-term care
Communist's promise
Put all Long-term care facilities under public ownership and operation.
This includes funding for adequate and well-paid staff and sufficient protective equipment and procedures.
Prescription drugs and pharmacare
Communist's promises
Expand healthcare to include full coverage for dental care, vision care, pharmacare, mental health care and long-term care.
Provide full healthcare coverage to all residents of Ontario.
This includes temporary foreign workers, international students, and refugees; and eliminate health premiums, co-payments and the University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP).
Housing & Homelessness
Home construction and supply
Communist's promises
Build 200,000 units of rent-geared-to-income social housing units immediately.
Build 550,000 units of affordable housing.
Build 15,000 units of transitional housing.
To support people leaving situations of domestic violence, incarceration, homelessness or shelters.
Maintain levels of affordable housing based on need.
Homeless services
Communist's promises
Recognize housing as a human right.
Introduce a Tenant Bill of Rights and provincial housing program to ensure adequate housing based on need is provided to all.
Provide adequate funding for accessible emergency shelters throughout the province.
Public and affordable housing
Communist's promises
Invest in social housing, including co-op housing with more emphasis on public and rent-geared to income housing.
Build 200,000 units of rent-geared-to-income social housing units immediately.
Build 550,000 units of affordable housing.
Upgrade and maintain existing units so that they are safe, secure, affordable, accessible and environmentally sound.
Trades
Communist's promise
Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Poverty
Communist's promise
Enact a full employment program.
Trades
Communist's promise
Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.
Transportation & Transit
Fuel and transportation costs
Communist's promises
Price controls on gas.
Eliminate transit fares.
Public transit
Communist's promise
Full provincial funding to massively expand transit.
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Biography
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Wai Kiat Tang, a dedicated trade unionist and longtime advocate for working people, is the Communist Party - Ontario candidate for Scarborough-Rouge Park in the upcoming provincial election.
A carpenter by trade and currently an aviation worker, Wai Kiat has been actively involved in Canada’s progressive, peace, and labour movements for over 20 years. He resides in cooperative housing in Scarborough and is committed to fighting for policies that prioritize the needs of working families.
Wai Kiat and the Communist Party will ensure a $25/hour minimum wage, affordable public and cooperative housing to tackle the housing crisis, and expanded public services like the Sheppard East Subway extension to Morningside. Strongly opposing corporate greed and cuts to education and healthcare and aiming to build a coalition for progressive change in Scarborough.
A passionate advocate for his community, Wai Kiat believes the establishment parties have failed Scarborough. He is determined to fight for full employment, youth opportunities, and respect for working people.
This election, Wai Kiat asks: What have big business politicians done for you? If you’re ready for real change, vote Communist to put working people first.
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