"We will end the stress and uncertainty of applying at dozens of child care centres and following up endlessly to secure a spot and establish one single Daycare Application Portal for each region to make it easier to find quality childcare close to home." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will establish a wage grid for child care workers and ensure decent work standards to keep them on the job." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will ensure access to French language education programs close to home, and invest in French-language child care, a proven gateway to French language education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Designing a refundable tax credit in Ontario linked to food purchased from stores indicators from the Ontario Consumer Price Index (O-CPI) and phased in similarly to the Ontario Childcare Access and Relief from Expenses (CARE) Tax Credit requires a structured approach that balances inflation responsiveness, income sensitivity, and administrative feasibility.

The NDP’s Monthly Grocery Rebate would be delivered to Ontarians on a monthly basis. The baseline credit/benefit is tied to the cost of a basket of essential food items, how much each family spent on the basket of essential food items annually before Ford became Premier, and how much that price has increased since. The amount is increased given changes to the price of the basket of essential food items in grocery stores. The rebate is non-taxable and recipients are identified based on 2024 tax filings.

This design ensures the credit adapts to rising food costs while targeting low-to-moderate-income families. By borrowing some successful elements from Ontario’s existing refundable credits (e.g., the CARE Tax Credit’s phase-in structure and the Trillium Benefit’s inflation adjustments), it balances equity, efficiency, and simplicity.

Eligibility Criteria

Residency: Recipients must be Ontario residents as of December 31 of the tax year.

Income Threshold: Introduce a phased-in structure where the credit amount decreases as household income rises.

• Full credit for family households with adjusted net income ≤ $65,000; full credit for individuals with adjusted net income ≤$50,000.

• Partial credit phased out by 3.5% of family household income exceeding $65,000, and reaching zero at $100,000 (final phase-out credit = 51%)

• Partial credit phased out by 3.5% of individual income exceeding $50,000, and reaching zero at $65,000 (final phase-out credit = 51%)

Base Credit: Provides $40 per adult in each household.

Family Size Adjustments: Provide additional amounts per dependent (eg $20 base credit per child under 18) to reflect higher food costs for larger households."

— ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will bring transparency to grocery prices by forcing big retailers to display signage when they raise prices on basic grocery items more than two per cent in a week (by weight, to protect against shrinkflation), and we’ll crack down on price fixing and other unfair practices by establishing a new consumer watchdog to keep food prices fair." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will create an office for a provincial Consumer Watchdog that will be a one stop shop for consumer complaints. A core challenge of consumer protection in Ontario that enforcement requires the individual to pursue legal action, or the Government of Ontario to impose a fine on those who violate it. You shouldn't need a lawyer to stop corporations from gouging you with deceptive pricing. The Consumer Watchdog would hold the power to investigate businesses or other entities on consumer protection laws or practices. They could release public reports similar to the Auditor General or the Ombudsman of Ontario, and to level fines or other penalties against businesses found to be in violation of consumer protection legislation." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will establish a Corporate Crime and Competition Bureau to enforce competition laws and prevent coordinated price hikes among Ontario grocers. The Bureau would focus on actively monitoring large corporations and conspiracies that would otherwise be nearly impossible to detect at the consumer level." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Every week, families are forced to make difficult decisions about what they can afford to put on the dinner table.

Seven long years of Doug Ford have cost you. Grocery bills are higher than ever and Ford isn’t doing nearly enough about it.

Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side to put more money back in your pocket with a predictable Monthly Grocery Rebate.

The Ontario NDP will:

1. Create a Monthly Grocery Rebate: To help families offset the rise in grocery costs, we will provide a recurring monthly grocery rebate based on household income and family size. At a time when people are feeling anxious about their budgets, the Monthly Grocery Rebate will give stable relief to millions of households.
2. Stop Price Gouging: We’ll bring transparency to grocery prices by forcing big retailers to publicly post when they raise prices more than two per cent in a week. We’ll crack down on price fixing and other unfair practices by establishing a new watchdog to enforce competition laws and keep food prices fair.

Doug Ford delayed urgently needed highway projects, such as the expansion of Highway 11/17, Highway 69 and Highway 7, while fast-tracking projects that benefit developers with connections to the Conservatives. The NDP will prioritize long-planned, long- delayed and safety-enhancing highway expansion projects such as:

1. Highway 11/17 Widening Project
2. Highway 7 Kitchener-to-Guelph Project
3. Morriston Bypass Project
4. Highway 40 Widening Project
5. Highway 69 Widening Project
6. Cochrane Bypass Project
7. Highway 401 London-to-Tilbury Widening and Concrete Safety Barrier Project

Instead of pitting road users against one another and playing politics with municipal planning, an NDP government will support municipalities to ensure the safety and choice of all road users.

"Permanently cutting the provincial tax on gas by 5.7 cents per litre and on diesel by 5.3 cents, for total savings of 10.7 cents per litre of gas when combined with the PCs’ cancellation of the Liberal cap-and-trade carbon tax. Since the gas tax cuts were first introduced, the Ontario PCs have saved the average driver more than $400." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Undertake a comprehensive review of provincial auto insurance practices and premiums, which have become the most expensive in Canada, in order to bring costs down for consumers, improve accident care and better protect owners from auto theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

The current provincial funding cap on domestic students is preventing more and more Ontario high school students from attending an Ontario university program of their choice.

The NDP will work with the sector to review the funding formula to ensure Ontario’s world class post-secondary education sector has the resources they need, and so that young people who work hard can find a spot in a program of their choice.

The NDP will reverse the 700 million dollars in cuts to OSAP, and make sure all students graduate debt-free by converting loans to grants.

The NDP will double Ontario’s Career Ready Program from 2020 levels so Ontario colleges and universities can create additional work-integrated learning opportunities. We’d create thousands of new, paid co-op and internship opportunities for young people.

The NDP will end chronic homelessness by 2030, adopting the successful Housing First model used in jurisdictions such as Finland. We will ensure that people living on the streets or in encampments can transition to a safe, secure and permanent home, investing in at least 60,000 supportive homes, with access to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other supports.

The NDP will end legislated poverty by doubling ODSP and OW rates so that people with disabilities will receive the adequate income they are entitled to under our commitments to the UNCRPD.

"Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index it to inflation so that Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Commuters in Niagara will finally be able to ride on the long-planned and long-delayed expansions and improvements to the GO Lakeshore West rail line, including moving ahead on the Grimsby GO station and restoring reliable express GO service." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We’ll cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50 to improve reliability and affordability." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

The NDP will immediately make your transit service more reliable, frequent, convenient and affordable by restoring the province’s previous 50% funding for municipal transit and paratransit net operational costs. This will allow municipalities to hire more drivers and ensure that your transit arrives on time when you need it.

Many Ontario cities and towns are only a modest car drive away from each other, but people who do not or cannot drive a car are often forced to use expensive, unreliable and fragmented intercity bus or rail services that can take several times longer than what a car trip would take – if passenger service exists at all.

You deserve better, which is why the NDP will connect Ontario’s communities together with a comprehensive, integrated, reliable, convenient and affordable intercity bus and rail passenger transportation network, so people will finally have a real choice when travelling between different cities and towns across Ontario.

"A re-elected PC government would upload the Ottawa LRT, subject to due diligence, and integrate its operations under Metrolinx. This integration would create new opportunities to reduce costs and improve services through greater economies of scale and expertise in managing large projects, particularly as the LRT project completes Stage 2 and begins Stage 3 expansion." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"When fully realized, GO 2.0 would support the creation of multiple new lines, including a line running through mid-town Toronto, a line from Bolton to Union Station via Woodbridge and Etobicoke, as well as extensions and improvements to existing lines, including Richmond Hill." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Moving up the Sheppard East subway extension to connect the TTC’s Line 4 with the Scarborough Subway Extension at Sheppard Ave. East and McCowan Road." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Working in partnership with the federal government, CPKC and CN to ensure continued and reliable freight rail access throughout the region, a re-elected PC government would seek to build a freight rail bypass along the Highway 407 corridor in Peel Region that would take freight rail around the City of Toronto to reduce congestion and free up existing rail capacity for passenger train service." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Hire an additional 300 special constables for TTC, OC Transpo, Metrolinx and other major transit service providers across the province." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Introduce the More For You Tax Cut, delivering $1,150 in permanent financial relief for Ontario families. This includes permanently cutting taxes for Ontario workers on taxable income between $51,446 and $75,000 by 22%, from the current 9.15% to 7.15%; as well as eliminating sales tax (HST) on home heating and hydro bills." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Reduce and/or eliminate personal income tax for low-income workers by indexing the Low-Income Workers Tax Credit." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22