Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)
The Communist Party fights for the working class. Working people can't afford more pro-corporate governments, so that's why we're putting forward a people's alternative that will challenge the power of corporate monopolies and put people's needs and the planet before profit.
Affordability
Childcare
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
Enact price controls on food.
Fuel and transportation costs
Price controls on gas.
Eliminate transit fares.
Post-secondary costs and loans
Eliminate tuition fees for post-secondary education
Cancel student debt
Provide a living stipend to all post-secondary students.
Poverty
Enact a full employment program.
Public transit
Full provincial funding to massively expand transit.
Tax measures and rebates
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
Full provincial funding to massively expand transit.
Education
Childcare
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
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
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
Support gay-straight alliances in Ontario schools, enforce trans rights, and restore legal funding for court challenges.
Post-secondary costs and loans
Eliminate tuition fees for post-secondary education
Cancel student debt
Provide a living stipend to all post-secondary students.
Post-secondary funding
Increase funding to public post-secondary education and end corporate funding and privatization.
School construction and upgrades
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
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
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
Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.
Health & Healthcare
Drugs and addiction
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
Put all doctors and healthcare professionals on a provincial salary.
Hospitals
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
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
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
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
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
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
Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Poverty
Enact a full employment program.
Trades
Expand apprenticeship programs and invest in youth employment.
Transportation & Transit
Fuel and transportation costs
Price controls on gas.
Eliminate transit fares.
Public transit
Full provincial funding to massively expand transit.
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