Conservative Party Liberal Party of New Democratic Green Party of Marxist-Leninist

of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada

Health Promises incentives Promises a Pledges $165 Calls on every party Strengthen the
for doctors and Canadian brain million to hire more to endorse the five Canada Health Act
nurses to practise in health strategy. doctors and nurses, principles of the to remove loop
rural and remote repatriate Canadian Canada Health Act. holes that allow
areas. Wants a Canadian health care workers provinces to
health promotion practising abroad Would create a privatize delivery of
Would fund Brain strategy to reduce and fix credentials national pharmacare health care, de-list
Canada research. obesity. for foreign doctors. plan. services and
severely limit
Pledge defibrillators Has an appetite for Would create a services.
and proper training a national food Children's Nutrition
in every recreational policy to encourage Initiative to provide Promises to halt the
hockey arena. healthier eating, and healthy food in increase
clearer food schools. privatization of the
Commit to six per labelling. health care system
cent escalator for Pledge to create a and reverse
health care funding. Offers incentives Canadian Food privatization and
for doctors and Strategy to profiteering where it
nurses to practise in encourage healthier now exists.
rural and remote eating.
areas. No new private, for-
profit nursing
Would work with homes or long-term
the provinces to care facilities
lower the cost of should be licensed.
prescription drugs.
Staff patient ratios
will be established
by health care
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
providers for all
types of care and
once confirmed, all
facilities will be
required to meet
these standards and
governments
required to fund
them.

A pharmaceutical
and medical supply
and equipment
purchasing board
should be
established to
purchase all
approved drugs,
medical supplies
and equipment in a
public process open
to all.

Review all existing

patents on drugs and
medical supplies.

The right of health

care workers to
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
defend their wages
and working
conditions as a
fundamental right
which cannot be
taken away by
government decree
must be guaranteed
in law.
Early Learning & Income splitting up $500 million a year Would extend EI Would invest an
Childcare to $50,000 for to the provinces to eligibility to parents early childhood
families with create more just finished education.
children under 18. childcare spaces. maternity or
Will cost $2.5 Would increase to parental leave.
billion a year but $1 billion a year in
will only begin once four years. Would create
federal books are 25,000 child care
balanced, currently $1 billion in family spaces.
scheduled for 2015- care employment
16. Savings of insurance benefit. Plan to create a non-
$1,300 per family taxable Child
per year. Benefit.

Would create a
Children's Nutrition
Initiative to provide
healthy food in
schools.
Income Support Would offer tax Would treat pay Would extend EI Pledge to expand The right to a
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
credit for volunteer equity as a human stimulus measures EI, protect pensions livelihood, food,
firefighters. right in federally until unemployment of retired workers shelter, education
regulated industries. rates drop to pre- and reduce EI, CPP and health must be
Promise income- recession levels. contributions for recognized as a
splitting up to Would cancel business basic human right
$50,000 for families corporate tax cuts Would create a and the starting
with children under and restore tax rate Caregiver Benefit Want income point for reform of
18. Cost is $2.5 to 2010 level of 18 for people caring splitting for the social security
billion a year but per cent. for elderly or common law, same system. By putting
will only begin once dependant family sex families and the well-being of all
federal books are Would cap stock- members. single mothers with human beings at the
balanced, currently option deductions. adult children. centre, a new
scheduled for 2015- Favours innovation Pledge to reform EI direction for society
16. Savings of and productivity tax to allow people to Would legalize and can be found.
$1,300 per family credit qualify while caring tax marijuana.
per year. for relatives at the Would strengthen
Would extend the end of life. Would eliminate the Canada
Small business "flow-through income taxes for Investment Act.
breaks, such as one- shares" tax model. Wants inter- those who make
year EI tax break to Pledges green generational Home less than $20,000.
hire new employees. renovation tax Retrofit program to
The new hiring credit. help renovate Would eliminate the
incentive credit will homes when caring deficit by taxing
be available to Wants volunteer fire for aged relatives. pollution.
approximately fighters tax credit.
525,000 employers, $120 million to They support a pro- Would strengthen
reducing their 2011 support post active pay equity the Canada
payroll costs by secondary education program. Investment Act.
about $165 million. or technical training
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
cost for veterans Would reduce tax
$300 million rates for small
towards Guaranteed Expand CPP business and
Income Supplement benefits, $700 provide $4,500 in
million boost to GIS tax credits per new
hire. Would raise
corporate taxes to
19.5 per cent to pay
for this program.

Cap credit card

interest rates and
regulate transaction
fees

Would create a
caregiver benefit for
people caring for
elderly or dependant
family members.

Pledge to increase
the education tax
credit amount.

Would create a
rebate on federal
taxes on home
heating fuel.
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada

Promise to reduce
tax rate for small
business to nine
from 11 per cent.

Would institute a
Job Creation Tax
Credit.

Would give tax

credits for trades’
people who travel
more than 80 km for
work.

Would keep the

corporate tax rate
below that of the
United States.

Strengthen pensions
and retirement
security.

Would create a
volunteer
firefighters tax
credit.
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada

Restore pensions
and benefits to
veterans.
Education & Job Promise interest free Pledge $1 billion Would create Youth employment
Skills / Training student loans for annually for high integrated, plan.
part-time workers. school students to community based
attend university or child-centred early Calls for a national
Would eliminate trade school. learning and initiative on youth
mandatory education centres. education and
retirement for Pledges a Veterans employment.
federally regulated learning benefit. Pledge more money
companies. Pledges an to the provinces to Raise corporate
Aboriginal learning lower tuition fees. taxes to 19 per cent.
Would extend the benefit.
life of some job Would increase the Support sustainable
retraining programs Wants language education tax credit agriculture, fishing
and wage earner training for new amount. and forestry
protection program, Canadians. industries.
as well as interest- Pledge increased
free student loans Would launch an funding to Canada End corporate bail-
for part-time Innovation Gateway Student Grants for outs for big
workers. to support marginalized business and
innovation and groups. subsidies to the
Small business - entrepreneurship in nuclear and fossil
one-year EI tax aerospace, Would invest $1 fuel industries.
break to hire new manufacturing, billion in Aboriginal
employees. New natural resources education Implement a
hiring incentive and new emerging carbon-neutral
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
credit will be sectors. Would reduce pricing model for
available to business tax rates the economy.
approximately Pledges youth and provide $4,500
525,000 employers, hiring incentive. in tax credits per
reducing their 2011 new hire.
payroll costs by Would cancel the
about $165 million. accelerated capital Would support
cost allowance for agriculture by
Loan guarantees for oil sands boosting funding to
Lower Churchill investment. find more export
hydroelectric markets.
project from Would strengthen
Labrador to the Investment Pledge tax writeoffs
Newfoundland. Canada Act and for companies to
Would also provide clarify the "net buy new equipment.
financial support to benefit" measure.
other clean energy Would increase
infrastructure Would launch an funding for regional
projects in Canada. Innovation Gateway development in
to support Northern Ontario.
Would reintroduce innovation and
the budget bill that entrepreneurship in Would use the gas
was defeated in aerospace, tax to fund
March. manufacturing, municipal
natural resources infrastructure.
Would not raise and new emerging
personal or business sectors. Pledges to invest in
taxes. agriculture to
Promises support family
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
Would eliminate Transportation and farms, and local,
one regulation every Infrastructure organic farming.
time a new one is strategy including
introduced. high speed rail, Would give Quebec
highway repairs, $2.2 billion
Pledge to invest in commuter rail and compensation for
research and science municipal water and harmonizing sales.
chairs. sewers.
Would balance the
Would implement a Would spend $500 budget within four
digital economy million for full years.
strategy. national high-speed
wireless internet. Would create a
Support aerospace federal minimum
and shipbuilding, wage.
fishing and mining
industries. Plan to extend EI
stimulus measures
Would introduce until unemployment
legislation to rates drop to pre-
implement an recession levels.
accord with Quebec
on development of Would reform EI.
offshore resources.

Would create a
"Helmets to
Hardhats" program
to retrain veterans in
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of Canada Canada Party of Canada Canada Party of Canada
the construction
trades.
Affordable Promises Promises to build Create six
Transportation Transportation and high speed rail lines municipal
Infrastructure on the Windsor- superfunds to help
strategy including Quebec and modernize transit
high speed rail, Calgary-Edmonton and infrastructure,
highway repairs, corridors and to the community housing,
commuter rail and Halifax-Sydney and recreation and water
municipal water and Regina-Saskatoon
sewers routes.