The Canadian Press Posted Monday, May 9, 2022, 11:55 AM EDT Last Updated on Monday, May 9, 2022, 11:58 AM EDT
TORONTO – The Ontario Liberals launched their platform at the cost of Monday. Here are some key promises:
– Balance the budget by 2026-2027, leaving room for “unforeseen circumstances”.
– Build 1.5 million homes in 10 years, work with municipalities to expand zoning opportunities and regain control over rents.
– Establishment of Ontario Home Building Corporation for financing and construction of affordable housing; construction of 78,000 new social and community homes, 38,000 homes in supportive housing and 22,000 new homes for indigenous peoples.
– Increase the minimum wage to $ 16 per hour in January, then develop regional living wages.
– Provide 10 paid sick days for all workers and study a four-day work week.
– Eliminate the provincial portion of HST from prepared foods under $ 20.
– Introduce an additional one percent tax on corporate profits over $ 1 billion.
– Introduce a new tax group for Ontario residents with a taxable income of over $ 500,000 per year, taxation at a rate of 15.16 percent.
– Extend childcare from $ 10 a day to after-school childcare.
– Provide free training for early childhood college programs.
– Complement the federal program for 18 months of parental leave so that benefits are not reduced and increase the tax credit for raising children in the province.
– Reduce the cost of transit travel across the province to $ 1 by 2024.
– Get up to $ 9,500 in discounts on electric vehicle purchases.
– Termination of long-term care for profit by 2028
– Increase funding for home care and help 400,000 more older people receive home care by 2026
– Increase old-age security by $ 1,000 per year for eligible adults.
– Hire 100,000 health professionals and train 3,000 new mental health and addiction specialists.
– Clear the gap in diagnostics and surgery with an investment of $ 1 billion.
– Set the maximum waiting time for operations.
– Save everyone without an employer compensation plan in a transferable benefit plan, including the self-employed, concert performers and contract workers.
– Invest an additional $ 3 billion in mental health and addiction services and raise the bar on new consumer and treatment services sites.
– Forgive all student loans for nurses, paramedics and other health professionals on the front line of COVID-19.
– Reduce carbon and methane pollution by more than 50 percent by 2030, move to completely clean energy, ban new natural gas installations and gradually eliminate dependence on them.
– Expand the green belt and list 30 percent of Ontario’s land as protected by 10 percent.
– Disposal and recycling of 60% of landfill waste by 2030 and 85% by 2050
– Eliminate corporate taxes for two years for the companies most affected by the pandemic.
– Limit class sizes to 20 students for all classes and hire another 10,000 teachers.
– Double the funding of OSAP and give “significantly” more grants and eliminate interest on provincial student loans.
– Increase the rates of payments for assistance to people with disabilities by 20 percent and reintroduce a pilot basic income.
– Use ranked ballots for the next provincial elections and allow municipalities to use them and explore other changes in voting, such as lowering the voting age.
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