CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Issue Liberal NDP Conservative Green

Education We will invest $50 The NDP will make
million in additional the college and
annual support to university more
the Post- affordable.
Secondary Student
Support Program,
which supports
Indigenous
students attending
post-secondary
education, and will
allow the program
to grow in line with
increasing demand.

Health Care New Democrats strongly support

are committed the Canada Health
to preserving Act and its
public, not-for- objective of a
universally
profit universal
accessible, publicly
health care. We
funded health-care
would system in Canada.
strengthen the That is why he has
act to bring out- increased funding
of-hospital for health care to
services such as record levels and
home care and why we will
long-term care continue to
inside the public increase funding for
health-care health care at 6 per
cent a year to
system, helping
ensure that all
to get costs
Canadians have
under control. access to high-
quality healthcare
regardless of ability
 to pay.

Environment We will modernize The green party

the National will try to restore
Energy Board, and preserve the
ensuring that its environment.
composition They will do
many things
reflects regional
regarding the
views and has environment to
sufficient expertise try to make this
in fields like good for families.
environmental
science,
community
development, and
Indigenous
traditional
knowledge.

Law and We will ensure that Greens support

Order communities have the smarter
resources they need to
invest in crime
investments to
prevention programs, further reduce
particularly those crime through
targeting youth, by better programs
increasing federal in youth activity
support to crime
and early
prevention initiatives
from $65 million to childhood
$100 million per year; education.

Family Because the Canada RESPs allow a childs

Child Benefit is tax- savings to grow tax
free and tied to free. There are no
income, it also annual limits, and the
provides greater lifetime limit is
support to those who $50,000.
need help the most: Contributions are paid
single-parent families from after-tax income.
and low-income
families. Our plan will
lift 315,000 Canadian
children out of
poverty.