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CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY

PLATFORMS
Name: Vinay Patel
Issue Liberal NDP Conservative Green
Education Provide $500 over the Invest $250 Doubling the Increase investments in
next three years for million in additional enhanced grant for post-secondary education
building and federal student lower-income and ensure that public
refurbishing First grants over four families from 20 funding plays a major role
Nation schools. years. cents to 40 cents in research and
per dollar on the development initiatives.
Invest $50 million in Phasing out first $500
additional annual interest on federal contributed each
funding to the student loans. year.
Post-Secondary
Student Support
Program.

Health Care Make the Fighting the Provide capital Address drug addiction
Employment Insurance privatization of funding to help as a health problem by
Compassionate Care public health care establish legalizing marijuana and
Benefit more flexible services, including the Canadian focusing efforts on harm
and easier to access, so through the use of Cancer Societys reduction, treatment, and
that it provides help existing Cancer prevention.
for more than just mechanisms within Prevention Centre,
end-of-life care. the Canada Health in conjunction with Provide funds to expand
Act. other provincial health
Join with provincial levels of insurance to cover proven
and territorial Providing government and alternative therapies that
governments to buy incentives to recruit donors. are less expensive and
drugs in bulk, reducing and train more invasive.
the cost Canadian health Renew the
governments pay for professionals, mandate and
these drugs, and especially doctors funding of
making them more and the Canadian
affordable for nurses. Partnership against
Canadians. Cancer.
Environment Create a new Low Establishing Investing $15 Strengthen CEPA with
Carbon Economy binding targets and million to restore specific and strong
Trust. The Trust will clear and conserve key regulations to reduce
provide funding to standards to cut British Columbian particulates, sulphur
projects that materially greenhouse gas estuaries, and to dioxide, nitrogen oxide,
reduce carbon emissions. preserve the lower and other airborne
emissions under the Harrison Rivers contaminants
new pan-Canadian Imposing strict salmon ecosystem.
framework. We will energy efficiency Establishing regulations
endow the Low and Include support for and product standards to
Carbon Economy emissions standards the Pacific Salmon promote water-efficient
Trust with $2 billion in for motor vehicles, Foundations technologies in Canada.
our mandate. appliances, and efforts to restore
buildings. estuaries on
Fulfill our G20 Vancouver Island
commitment and phase and in Southern
out subsidies for the British Columbia,
fossil fuel industry to preserve
over the medium-term. Harrison River
We will also work in salmon habitat and
partnership with the to implement
United States and conservation action
Mexico to develop an plans.
ambitious North
American clean energy
and environmental
agreement.
Law and We will ensure that Investing in crime Introduce Review the Young
Order no one fleeing prevention, Declared Areas Offenders Act to ensure it
domestic violence is focusing on legislation, is not an inducement to
left without a place to at-risk youth and allowing the youth crime, while
turn. We will increase gangs. Minister of Foreign retaining its core
investments in Affairs to principle, that youth
growing and Safeguarding the identify any part of should not be treated as
maintaining Canadas rights, health, and the world where hardened criminals.
network of shelters dignity terrorists
and transition houses, of prisoners. are active as a Revise laws to increase
as part of our broader no-go zone for penalties for domestic
investment in Canadians violence and ensure
social infrastructure. without legitimate protection for the victims
business there`. and survivors of domestic
We will amend the violence.
Criminal Code to ``modernize the
reverse onus on bail definition of High
for those with previous Treason to include
convictions of intimate fighting
partner violence. We against the
will also specify that Canadian Armed
intimate partner Forces alongside
violence be considered jihadist terror
an aggravating factor groups.``
at sentencing, and
increase the maximum
sentence for repeat
offenders.
Family Allow parents to A focus on the Double grants for Urge reforms to our tax
receive benefits in core priorities of low- and and labour policies in
smaller blocks of income middle-income ways that will increase
time over a period of security, housing families saving for the opportunity for
up to 18 months and social their childrens Canadians to spend more
inclusion. education. time with family.
Make it possible for
parents to take a Making EI benefits Expand grants for Promote an integrated
longer leave up to more flexible and families with program of supports, tax
18 months when generous disabled children cuts, and
combined with to allow families to awareness-raising
maternity benets take time off to care emphasizing that time
at a lower benet for spent with children and/or
level. dying parents at in the community is
home. essential for the
continuation of our
society.

https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/first-nations-education-2/
https://www.ndp.ca/news/college-university-to-be-more-affordable-under-ndpv
http://www.conservative.ca/prime-minister-harper-announces-further-support-for-f
amilies-saving-for-their-childrens-education-2/
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/platform2006/education_employment
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/a-new-health-accord/
http://xfer.ndp.ca/2017/Documents/2016_POLICY-EN.pdf
http://www.conservative.ca/media/plan/conservative-platform-en.pdf
http://www.conservative.ca/harper-announces-additional-measures-to-protect-bc
s-natural-environment/
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/more-flexibility-for-parents/
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/vision-green/environment/air-quality
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/vision-green/environment/water
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/vision-green/people/health-care
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/vision-green/people/justice/real-security
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/vision-green/people/family

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