CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Group Members: Tamia

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Education

We will
provide direct
help to
students from
low- and
middle-income
families to help
them pay for
their education
and ensure
that debt loads
are
manageable.
We will
increase the
maximum
Canada
Student Grant
for low-income
students to
$3,000 per
year for
full-time
students, and
to $1,800 per
year for
part-time
students.

Invest $250
million in
additional
federal student
grants over
four years, with
an emphasis
on helping
students who
need it most,
creating as
many as
50,000 new
grants. begin
phasing out
interest on
federal student
loans,
eliminating it
completely by
Year 7 and
saving the
average
student
$4,000.

Conservative
government
will enhance
Registered
Education
Savings Plans
(RESPs) by
doubling the
federal grant
for low- and
middle-income
families.
Canadian
families had
saved in total
over $44.4
billion in
RESPs for
their childrens
post-secondar
y education.

Immediately
cut tuition fees
for students
and their
families
without
adequate
financial
means, and
remove the
inadequate 2%
cap on tuition
for all First
Nations and
Inuit students.

https://www.lib
eral.ca/realcha
nge/post-seco
ndary-educatio
n/

https://www.nd
p
.ca/news/colle
ge-university-t
o-be-more-affo
rdabl
e-under-ndp

http://www.con
servative.ca/pri
me-minister-ha
rper-announce
s-further-suppo
rt-f
or-families-savi
ng-for-their-chil
drens-educatio
n-2/

Eliminate any
existing or
future student
federal debt
above
$10,000.
https://www.gr
eenparty.ca/en
/media-release
/2015-09-16/gr
eens%E2%80
%99-pl
edge-abolish-t
ui
tion-fees-invest
- youth

Bloc
Quebecois

Health Care

$3 billion,
over the next
four years, to
deliver more
and better
home care
services for all
Canadians.
will make
high-quality
mental health
services more
available to
Canadians
who need
them, including
our veterans
and first
responders.
https://www.lib
eral.ca/realcha
nge/a-new-hea
lth-accord/

$10 million
per year for
research and
enhanced
healthcare
collaboration
across the
country.
$15 million
per year for
healthcare
providers and
community
mental health
associations to
implement best
practices for
wait-time
reductions for
better care.
https://www.nd
p.ca/news/mul
cair-to-improve
-mental-healthcare-young-ca
nadians

Increase
health care
funding to the
provinces and
territories.
Renew the
Canada Brain
Research
Fund when it
expires in
2017, with
another $100
million over
seven years.
Renew the
mandate and
funding of the
Canadian
Partnership
against Cancer
again in 2017.
http://www.tim
escolonist.com
/news/local/par
ty-platforms-he
alth-care-and-s
eniors-1.20887
04

Expand health
care to cover
prescription
medication for
all Canadians
and public
dental
coverage for
low-income
youth (under
18 years of
age), and
increase the
emphasis on
preventative
health care.
Establish a
national
seniors
strategy, and
increase
investment in
preventative
health care.
http://www.tim
escolonist.com
/news/local/par
ty-platforms-he
alth-care-and-s
eniors-1.20887
04

Environment

well protect
our wildlife and
our water by
increasing the
amount of
protected
marine and
coastal areas
to 5 per cent
by 2017 and
10 per cent by
2020. work

Ensuring a
cleaner
environment
by holding
polluters
accountable.
The NDP will
clean up
Ottawa, and
replace
Stephen
Harpers

additional
steps to
restore and
enhance
salmon habitat
and protect
the marine
environment,
as part of the
Conservative
governments
plan to

has set out its

Law and
Order

with the
provinces
within 90 days
of the Paris UN
climate change
conference to
establish a
framework for
reducing
Canadas
collective
carbon
footprint.
https://www.lib
eral.ca/realcha
nge/real-chang
e-a-new-plan-f
or-canadas-en
vironment-andeconomy/

culture of
corruption and
scandal with
transparency
and
accountability
https://www.nd
p.ca/platform

conserve and
restore
Canadas
environmental
heritage.
investing $15
million to
restore and
conserve key
British
Columbian
estuaries, and
to preserve
the lower
Harrison
Rivers salmon
ecosystem.
http://www.con
servative.ca/ha
rper-announce
s-additional-m
easures-to-prot
ect-bcs-natural
-environment/

within a triple
bottom line
(economic,
ecological, and
social)
approach to
every policy,
our position on
key
environmental
issues is
clear. It is
urgent that the
Canadian
government
set real
targets, with
measurable
objectives, and
put in place the
resources to
deliver on
those goals.
https://www.gr
eenparty.ca/en
/policy/vision-g
reen/environm
ent

We will
ensure that no
one fleeing
domestic
violence is left
without a place
to turn. We will
increase
investments in
growing and
maintaining
Canadas
network of
shelters and
transition
houses, as

We will
ensure that
communities
have the
resources they
need to invest
in crime
prevention
programs,
particularly
those targeting
youth, by
increasing
federal support
to crime
prevention

out a National
Counter-Terror
ism Strategy to
outline
relevant laws
and
procedures
and [highlight]
the means to
protect our
country from
terrorism.
http://torontoist
.com/2011/04/
platform_prime

The first
defense in
reducing crime
is to keep
young people
from
becoming
criminals.
Green Party
programs to
alleviate
poverty, to
legalize
marijuana, to
increase
physical fitness

Family

part of our
broader
investment in
social
infrastructure.
https://www.lib
eral.ca/realcha
nge/preventing
-domestic-viole
nce-and-sexua
l-assault/

initiatives from
$65 million to
$100 million
per year.
http://www.can
adianlawyerma
g.com/legalfee
ds/221/ndps-cr
ime-and-punis
hment-platform
.html

r_law_and_ord
er/

and sport, as
well as
investing in
community
health, will al
pay big
dividends in
reduced
crime.
https://www.gr
eenparty.ca/en
/policy/vision-g
reen/people/ju
stice/real-secur
ity

With the
Canada Child
Benefit, nine
out of ten
Canadian
families will
receive more
than under
Stephen
Harpers
confusing
will amend
federal
bankruptcy
legislation to
move
pensioners
and long-term
disability
recipients to
the front of the
line of creditors
Conservative
government
has
consistently
cut taxes and
put more

will amend
federal
bankruptcy
legislation to
move
pensioners
and long-term
disability
recipients to
the front of the
line of creditors
when their
employers
entered court
protection or
declare
bankruptcy
will increase
the funding in
the Canada
Student Grants
Program by
$200 million a
year
http://www.ccd
online.ca/en/so
cialpolicy/electi

Conservative
government
has
consistently
cut taxes and
put more
money back
into the
pockets of
every single
Canadian
family to help
ensure that
families have
more money to
spend on their
priorities, like
paying their
mortgage,
planning for
retirement and
saving for their
childrens
post-secondar
y education.
http://www.con
servative.ca/pri
me-minister-ha

Promote an
integrated
program of
supports, tax
cuts, and
awareness-rais
ing
emphasizing
that time spent
with children
and/or in the
community is
essential for
the
continuation of
our society.
https://www.gr
eenparty.ca/en
/policy/vision-g
reen/people/fa
mily

money back
into the
pockets of
every single
Canadian
family to help
ensure that
Urge reforms
to our tax and
labour policies
in ways that
will increase
the opportunity
for Canadians
to spend more
time with
family.
collection of
child benefit
programs. For
the typical
family of four,
that means an
additional
$2,500 in help,
tax-free, every
year.
https://www.lib
eral.ca/realcha
nge/helping-fa
milies/

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