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Jeanne McGuire

Communist candidate for Humber River—Black Creek

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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Jeanne McGuire is a former public sector worker who has been employed in education, health and recreation. She was active in the trade union movement as a member and held various executive positions. An early participant in the movement for women’s equality, she has written and spoken extensively on the issue. Jeanne joined the Communist Party of Canada in 2016 as she realized that capitalism could not solve the biggest issues facing the people of Ontario, Canada or the world.

“Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis, it is unable to halt the slide into greater and greater economic inequality, it has created and is unwilling to end homelessness and food insecurity, it is unable to offer the young a future of full employment. That is why I joined the Communist Party and that is why I am running in this election. Working people deserve more than they are getting from the economy and the political parties that represent the interests of those who own the corporations that dominate the economy.”

To contact Jeanne’s campaign, send an email to: jeanne@communistpartyontario.ca



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