This is a page from the 2023 Prince Edward Island general election.
Affordability platforms
Here's what the candidates in District 8: Stanhope - Marshfield, and their parties, are promising.Cell & Internet services
NDP
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Recognise cell and Internet services as essential
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Complete an Island-wide fibre high-speed network
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Subsidise Internet packages for all families with students in school
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Eliminate cell phone dead zones
Childcare
PC
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Create a $20M fund to provide grants to Early Learning Centres to expand
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Build childcare centres in all new public buildings, until wait lists are eliminated
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Designate six more early learning centres this year
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Create a pension plan for Early Childhood Educators this year
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Start a national recruitment campaign for Early Childhood Educators to live and work in PEI
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Give grants to private developers who build childcare centres into multi-unit buildings in under-served regions
NDP
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Develop province-wide before- and after-school childcare programmes
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Increase wages of childcare workers
Dental care and optometry
Food prices
Fuel and transportation costs
Minimum wage
We don't have any PC policies on Minimum wage.
NDP
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Increase the minimum wage to $17/hour, and tie it to inflation
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Create a plan for providing a guaranteed livable basic income
Poverty
We don't have any PC policies on Poverty.
NDP
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Create a plan for providing a guaranteed livable basic income
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Broaden eligibility and double annual support through the PEI Home Heating Program until 2025
Prescription drugs & pharmacare
Public transit
PC
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Invest in an Island-wide transit system
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Add more routes
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"Continue to make investments in the Island-wide transit system, keeping fares at $2 per trip and adding more routes, to make it more affordable to get to and from work." — peipc.ca, 2023-03-17
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NDP
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Develop a regional and urban public transit network
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Offer free public transit for people with incomes under $40K
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Create a province-wide, publicly-owned transit system, run on renewable energy
Student loans
We don't have any PC policies on Student loans.
NDP
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Retroactively remove interest on provincial student loans
Tax measures and rebates
PC
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Roll back property taxes to 2020 rates
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Provide a $500 tax credit for volunteers with registered charities and non-profits
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Increase the Seniors Tax Credit to $6,510, and raise the threshold to $36K
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Increase the Basic Personal Exemption Amount to $15K over the next 4 years
NDP
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Give back more of the provincial portion of the quarterly HST rebate to eligible Islanders
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Create a new tax bracket for the highest income earners