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>It also includes a new national cancer strategy worth $300 million over five years to reduce cancer wait times and improve the quality of care.
>Share with provinces and territories the cost of creating new capacity in regional centres of
specialized care
>Work with provinces and territories to ensure that the Canada Health Act principle of “accessibility” includes provision of “timely access”
>Implement a Public Health Care Protection Initiative to protect public health care..
>Will develop a
National Pharmaceuticals Strategy.
>Allow mix of
public ad private health care delivery: health care is publically funded
and accessible
>Says will improve waiting times for medical treatments by the end
of 2006. Would pay to send patients to outside jurisdictions or even the
United States. Would use existing money.
>Would provide $50-million a year to implement a "national cancer
strategy"
>Would implement
September 2004 Health accord with provinces, focused on wait times
>Compensate hep C as recommended by Krever
>Spend money on physical activity, including amateur sport
>Tax credit on sports and kids
>Introduce a plan to put $200 million per year into a Health Care Provider Training Fund. This commitment is sufficient to fund the equivalent of another 16,000 nursing training spaces.
>Introduce legislation to protect our single-payer, public health care system
>$1-billion national drug plan that would cover 50% of the cost of medically necessary drug costs above $1,500.
>Reinvest tax giveaways to corporation to education and health
care
>Supporting people in the health sector who want to upgrade their skills
>Help cheaper generic drugs come to market sooner
>Expand the coverage of home care
>Co-ordinate a national pharmacare plan
>Assist provinces to increase the number of detox and treatment beds
>Increase taxes on tobacco products, alcohol and junk food
>Ban all non-natural pesticides and insecticides by the year 2010
>1Implement the pan-Canadian goal of increasing physical activity by 10 per cent over 5 years
>Make a strategic investment of $500 million over 5 years to aggressively address inactivity and obesity
>Iinvest almost
$500 million to help firms in such markets as China.
>Reinforce British Columbia’s position as a transportation gateway. Create a
policy on strategic gateways and trade corridors with the U.S..
>Defend primary producers against international trade challenges
>Look at appointing envoys between U.S./Canada to look at future of NAFTA
>Look at free-trade talks with partners in Asia-Pacific, Japan and India
>Bring balance to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal of hear interest of workers
>Develop priority industrial sector strategies in sectors such as auto, aerospace, steel, tourism,
forestry and shipbuilding.
>Propose a reform of the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, placing these institutions under the authority of the UN general assembly
>The 2005 federal budget included a $13-billion injection to Canada's military budget over the next five years, which might sap a Tory issue from the 2004 campaign. Defence Minister also promised $5-billion to buy military aircraft
>Increase troops by 5,000, 3,000 reserves.
>Arctic sovereignty: increase capacity for surveillance with unmanned vehicles.
>Boost troops by 13,000 and 10,000 reserves
>Wants to boost spending by $5.3-billion over five years.
>Wants to ressurect the airborne regiment and have a disaster assistance response team
>Have veterans bill of rights and ombudsman
>Promising $5.3-billion in military spending over five years to protect Arctic sovereignty.
> Name a National Security Commissioner to better coordinate Canada's security and intelligence organization
> Expand intelligence gathering activities overseas and work more closely with foreign spy agencies
>Arm border officers
>Reorient Canada’s defence procurement to support the priorities of peacekeeping,
>Commit Canadian troops to overseas operations only under the auspices of international
peace and security organizations.
>Speed up the investigation and compensation of military and civilian personnel exposed to
Agent Orange/Agent Purple.
>Scrap the Anti-Terrorism Act,
>Banning the use of security certificates.
>Demanding that the federal government files for study by the Standing Committee on National Defense for any purchase proposition of military equipment exceeding 100 million $ before going forward
>Also demanding that it allows for a real consultation on the purpose of the army before going forward with huge spending
>Supporting the troops and veterans that are victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and of the use of Agent Orange
>Work to establish a standing international peacekeeping force under UN control
>Create an International Affairs and Comprehensive Security Agency
>Create a Rapid Response Force with a mandate for peacekeeping and environmental restoration
>Press for UN reform, including creating a human rights council.
>Would lead a campaign through the UN to ban all weapons in space
>Tough talk on Canada-U.S. issues such as softwood lumber
>To double development assistance to reduce poverty
>Advance Canada's
values on the international stage
>Give foreign aid and make it accountable
>Increase overseas assistance toward OECD average level
>Parliament oversight over foreign policy and commitment of troops.
>Parliament should ratify international treaties.
>Improve our aid effectiveness
>Establishes poverty reduction as the
priority for Canada’s Official Development Assistance
>Immediately implement the Pledge to Africa legislation to send drugs to developing countries to
support the fight against HIV/AIDS.
>Proposing that the government puts forward a plan regarding international aid so that it reaches UN target of 0.7% of the GNP
>Coming back with the agenda of democratizing the process of adopting international treaties and elaborating foreign policy
>Support the provision of royalty-free and low-cost AIDS medicines for Africa, Asia and South America
>Increase foreign aid spending to 0.5 per cent of GDP by 2010
>Initiate a review of Canada's current international security alliances.
>$342-million over the next three years for arts centres
>Gave stable funding to arts and culture sector in Canada
>Introduced
legislation to amend the Copyright Act.
>Preserve role of National Film Board and other agencies
>Increase access to international television and programming
>Maintain $140-million to amateur sport
>Give more opportunities for Canadains to learn both official languages
>Providing increased funding for the Canada Council for the support of artists.
>Directing the CRTC to require clear, binding, monitored and enforced
standards for broadcasters
>Reviewing and restructuring the CRTC
>Ensuring that Canadian television networks remain Canadian owned.
>Maintaining pressure on the federal government so that it campaigns for the quick ratification by other countries of UNESCO’s Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions
>Protect Canada's cultural identity during trade negotiations
> Direct the CRTC to reserve more bandwidth for independent and non-profit stations
>Introduce a law mandating cinemas and video chains to have 20 per cent Canadian content
>Increase the
number of apprenticeship graduates
>Would spend $600-million a year to split the cost of an undergrad degree in both the first and final year of a program. Maximum of $3,000 each year.
>$135-million from the post-secondary innovation fund would go to improving access at universities and colleges for disabled students.
>Bring together public and private researchers
>Invest $500-million to suppot university based research
>$100-million to improve support for post-secondary students.
>Decrease thresholds for student loan eligibility
>Exempt first $10,000 of scholarship from tax
>Credit on text boks.
>Reinvest tax giveaways to corporation to education
>A dedicated transfer of cash to provinces, in return for binding commitment to better
access and lower tuition fees
>Re-investing in a stable, long-term federal grant system
>Overhauling the Canada Student Loans Program
>Work to increase federal financial support for university-based research.
>Boost participation in cooperative education programs and apprenticeships
>Harmonize government programs to provide a single need-based grant program to reduce student debt.
>Liberals would
more than double thr
spending on child care to $11 billion through 2015.The previous $5-billion
Liberal plan, which runs for five years, has resulted in signed agreements
with all 10 provinces.
>$500-million package Friday aimed at helping the elderly, the disabled
and people who serve as caregivers for sick relatives
>Establish a family leave program - take up to two months off work
without losing their job and while receiving UI benefits, plus boost the
caregiver tax credit
> $100-million over five years to establish a registered disabilities
savings plan, similar to an RRSP
>Interest costs on reverse mortgages would be cut by as much as 2%
>Increased the (GIS) benefits for 1.6 million low-income seniors by
$2.7 billion over five years.
>Commitment to CPP and OAS for seniors and GIS
>Won't tax income trusts
>To offer child-care payment of $1,200 for families with children under six and create 125,000 child-care spaces. Offer tax credits for businesses and community groups to create day care spaces. Honour commitments for one year
>Seniors: Promising to double the amount of pension money they can shelter from income tax. To cost $2.2-billion.
>Would give a $500 tax credit for organized physical activities
>Expected: The party had pledged that it would not bring forward legislation on abortion
>Promising a $1-billion annual home-care transfer he says could provide services for 100,000 Canadian households a year
>Would create as many as 40,000 new long-term care spaces over four years.
>Would spend $1.8-bilion to create 200,000 day-care spaces; Wants a Child Care Act
>Increase the Child Tax Benefit by $1,000 per child
>Initiating an annual review of seniors’ income needs
>Demanding of the federal government that it transfers to the government of Québec the amount it saves off of its taxation from the Québécois low contribution day-care centers
>Laying out a new bill to abolish GST on diapers and products for newborns
>Maintaining its efforts aiming at insuring that seniors that are entitled to it receive the Guaranteed Income Supplement and that the government refunds the 3.2 Billion $ it has taken from them over the past years;
>Sign the UN's global initiative for the elimination of discrimination and violence against women
>Create a "Comprehensive Anti-Poverty Strategy for Canada
>Create tax incentives for businesses to implement flexible schedules and on-site childcare
>Boost funding for early childhood education
>Touts agreements put into place with the provinces on health and equalization
>Said he would address fiscal imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces. Ensure shared cost program get consent of majority of province; provinces able to opt out.
>Would support regional development agencies
>Work for permanent changes to equalization formula so natural resource revenue is removed from it
>Committing the government to long-term consistent funding of shared cost programs
with the provinces, territories and local governments,
>Restoring fairness to equalization
>Fighting against
the fiscal imbalance, federal intrusions and demand a right of withdrawal
with full compensation in all spheres relevant to its jurisdiction
>Supporting
in Ottawa any unanimous decision taken by the National Assembly of Québec
>Want to give Quebec a place in international forums such as culture,
education or healthcare
>Considering the Saint Lawrence River as a major political and parliamentary
action issue
>Quebec’s regions receive a larger part of the structured investments
of the government
>Recognize a clear result to a clear question in the event of a future Québec referendum
>A transition to Legislative Federalism a democratization of intergovernmental relations, bringing federal and provincial elected representatives together to help guide the discussions of intergovernmental decision-making bodies
> Liberals point mostly to steps they have already taken: the appointment of the Gomery commission, lawsuits against ad firms, bureaucratic measures such as hiring more auditors, and a $1.14-million "repayment" from the Liberal Party to the government coffers; their whistleblower act; new governance rules.
>Martin says he supports the idea of an elected Senate
>Appointing a special prosecutor to handle politically sensitive prosecutions
>Controls over polling and advertising contracts, a tougher Lobbyists Registration Act, a ban on secret donations to political candidates and a host of other measures to reassure Canadians that there will be no repeat of the sponsorship fiasco
>Wants an elected Senate in the interim, then introduce Senate reform; restore rep by pop in three provinces; make votes 'free'
>Would end all partisan polling with public money and bidding for public-opinion research.
>Ensure truth in budgeting
> Would introduce stronger whistleblower legislation.
> MPs who switch parties would first have to go through a byelection. >Proper appointment of Supreme Court Judges,
>End abuses in the appointment of other public officials
>Pass a new Act that makes MPs accountable to their electorswhen they switch parties.
>Pass a new Fixed Elections Act
>Introduce an Every Vote Counts Act to change Canada’s federal electoral system to a mixed
electoral system that combines constituency-based MPs with proportional representation.
>Making sure that the federal government respects the rules of democracy, the laws of Québec and governmental integrity to avoid another sponsorship scandal
>Ensure greater transparency in the federal government through toughened ethics rules
>Introduce fixed election dates
> Lower the voting age to seventeen
>Create a Government Accountability Act to ensure that all those who monitor government are selected at arms length from those they monitor
>Strengthen the mandates of Independent Officers of Parliament
>Limit the amount of donations to candidates to no more than $1,000 annually from any donor
> Institute mandatory training in ethics for MPs and their staffs
>Would establish a national renewable fuels standard to set a minimum 5 per cent mix of renewable fuels in gasoline and diesel by 2010
>Established funds to buy emission reeuction credits and to work to meet emission reductions
>Will expand air and monitoring
>Protect water by restoring threatened ecosystems
>More money to expand the National Parks
>Lead the way in implemeting Kyoto on a national and interanational level.
>Made-in-Canada
plan for greenhouse gases. No word on Kyoto
>Clean up contaminated sites
>Address water quality: penalties for illegal dumping; watershed management
>Legislate reduction of smog causing pollutants
>NDP says it will
push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020
>Party wants to introduce a new law to protect water, establishing national
standards for clean drinking supplies.
>Push for a law to force companies to pay for the environmental damage
they cause and to prove their products are safe for the environment.
>Financial
incentives for energy production
>Fight smog by implementing a green car strategy.
>Pursue a target that lives up to our responsibilities to the KyotoAccord
to address air pollution.
>Introduce the polluter pays concept and
to replace the current emphasis on voluntary action with mandatory pollution
prevention
measures.
>Phase out subsidies for non-renewable energy production
>Making sure that the federal government enforces the Kyoto Protocol in a fair and just way, without having Québec pay for Alberta’s oil industry or Ontario’s automobile industry
>Demand a surtax on profits of major oil companies
>Eliminate the
use of the most dangerous toxic chemicals by 2008.
>Enact product stewardship legislation that would require wood producers
to increase the life span of their products
>Stop any and all bulk water exports
>Promote life-cycle product stewardship of metals
>End all federal subsidies to fossil fuel sectors
>Expand existing and institute new energy conservation strategies
>Shift taxes on fossil fuels to earlier stages in the production cycle
>Fair, efficient
and smat taxes
>$30-billion in personal tax cuts, including reduced the tax rate for
the lowest income tax bracket, increase personal amount
>Working income tax benefit to supplement earnings of low-income workers
>Dismisses Harper's call for GST cuts
>Promising more tax breaks for small businesses and farmers. Lifetime
capital gains exemptions to $750,000 from $500,000.
>Will work to remove disincentives that could discourage
those who would otherwise want to keep working past the age of 65
>Won't tax income trusts
>Limit the future
growth of spending (excluding national defence, indian affairs) to rate
of inflation plus population growth
>Tories say they will lower the GST by two percentage points within
five years.
>Calls for the raising of the threshold for the small business tax
rate from $300,000 to $400,000 and reducing the small business tax rate
from 12 per cent to 11 per cent over five years
>Seniors: Promising to double the amount of pension money they can
shelter from income tax. To cost $2.2-billion.
>There could
also be tax cuts for middle-income Canadians and additional breaks for
businesses but it is unknown how much further the Conservatives are willing
to go beyond cuts that have already been proposed by the Liberals.
>Would go through with corporate tax cuts announced in last Liberal
budget
>Won't tax income trusts
care
>Proceed with the increased basic personal credit amounts
>Decrease in the lowest personal income tax rate, announced in Nov. by Liberals
>Supports right of workers to join unions.
>Revitalizing and building on the EI Program, broaden eligibility for training benefits
>Helping small business on loads venture capital
>Ensure fair wages and working standards (minimum wage, pay equity, unions)
>Introduce legislation to create an independent watchdog on oil and gas prices that will report
to Parliament,
>Increase the Child Tax Benefit by $1,000 per child
>Increase financial
transfers to Quebec to redress the fiscal imbalance between the federal
government and the provinces
>Reform employment insurance to provide higher benefits to people in
seasonal trades
>Demand a surtax on profits of major oil companies
>Propose actions to answer to the effects of globalization by supporting
R&D
>Supporting the development of Québec’s social economy
and cooperative movement
>Demanding of the federal government that it transfers to the government
of Québec the amount it saves off of its taxation from the Québécois
low contribution day-care centers
>Demand the abolition of loopholes in the income tax system allowing
Canadian businesses to pay less than they should by settling in Barbados,
a tax haven.
>Reduce taxes
for Canadians earning less than $45,000
>Begin a partial, gradual, revenue neutral tax shift from income, consumption
and business taxes to resource use taxes, pollution taxes and land value
levies reflecting corporate profits
>Create thousands of new "Green collar jobs" by encouraging
the development of low-emission industries
>Reduce taxes for small and medium sized businesses in their first
5 years of existence
>Enforce measures to ensure that corporate pension plans are adequately
funded
>Pledges to repeal
Ottawa's power to override the Charter of Rights
>Pledges an outright ban on handguns to combat gun violence in cities.
> Call for a amnesty and buyback program, a "Gunstoppers program"
to help get rid of illegal guns, which would cost $30-million.
> It would consider toughening gun crime laws. It would reintroduce
legislation to double sentences for key gun crimes, waive re-licensing
fees for owners of long guns and give $50-million toward community efforts
to reduce gun and gang crime.
> Part of the plan is to pour $225-million into an RCMP team of 250
officers to combat gangs, organized crime and drug trafficking. And it
would hire 75 officers to work to fight gun smuggling.
>Would impose
mandatory minimum prison terms of between five and 10 years for people
convicted of major firearms offences. Pledged to introduce a minimum sentence
of five years for possession of a loaded restricted or prohibited weapon,
such as a handgun
>Work for programs to address youth at risk.
>Toughtening on sentencing, parole.
>Promised to crack down on current bail and parole policies and hire
more police, including 1,000 RCMP officers
>Amend Youth Criminal Justice Act
>Get tough with sex offenders (regsistration)
>Says he will call a full judicial inquiry into Air-India.
>Ending house arrest for serious crimes
> Bringing in face recognition and other biometric technology to screen
people at border crossings and ports of entry
> Hire 1,000 new RCMP officers with the savings from scrapping the
federal gun registry
> Raise
the age of sexual consent from 14 to 16
> Support
for community-level crime prevention programs
> Anyone
14 years or older who is charged with a serious violent or repeat offences
is "automatically" subject to adult sentences
>Says property rights should be included in the Charter
>Prevent decrim. of marijuana.
>Amendment to Constitution to include right to own property
>Stopping the illegal importation of guns from the U.S. with a four-year minimum sentence for importing illegal guns and toughening border controls >Support for reverse-onus legislation for bail on all gun-related crimes and making sure bail conditions are strictly adhered to.
>Change to legislation so that young offenders 16 and over who are charged with gun offences are tried as adults.
>Stop the illegitimate importation, sale of and access to the precursors of crystal meth.
>Return a significant portion of the proceeds of crime back to local communities and
neighbourhoods,
>Create a new offence for possession of precursors for the purpose of meth production.
>Restore a national ports police to combat organized crime,
>Actively promote the use of restorative justice, rather than prison, for first time non-violent offenders
>Regulate marijuana under federal legislation as a product similar to alcohol and tobacco
>Upgrade penalties for those convicted of a crime involving a firearm
>Support Bill C-50 to "consolidate animal cruelty offences and increase the maximum penalties."
>Says he will repeal his $975 landing fee for immigrants, which he implemented in 1995.
>Speed the assessment and recognition of the credentials of internationally
trained workers,
>Make immigration system more proactive. Will welcome about 16,000 students and resident workers annually by 2007.
>Improve re-unification effort. Ensure children adopted overseas become Canadian citizens
>Set up an agency to evaluate foreign credentials and help employers assess the skills of recent immigrants.
>Rapidly reduce the backlog of deportation orders
>Priority on deporting criminals
>Support parents who adopt foreign-born children
accountable.
>Increase funding for settlement by 20%.
>Issue a full apology to Chinese Canadians
>Abolish head tax on immigrants.
>Enact a once-in-a-lifetime provision to enable Canadian
citizens and permanent residents to sponsor one relative to help reunite families
>Assist immigrants in gaining recognition
for their credentials and qualifications.
> Regularize the estimated 200,000 people living in Canada without official status
$755-million in emergency aid for grains and oil seeds farmers
>The federal Fisheries Department said it will invest $96-million over the next five years to increase aerial surveillance over Labrador's coastal waters
>$35 million over the next seven years for research into prion diseases - mad cow disease and its human form, among others - through the formation of a virtual network.
>Promising more tax breaks for small businesses and farmers. Lifetime capital gains exemptions to $750,000 from $500,000
>Put money to marketing of livestock and agri-food products
>would establish a national renewable fuels standard to set a minimum 5 per cent mix of renewable fuels in gasoline and diesel by 2010
>Enhance the competitiveness of forest industry
>Harper promised
to give provinces more control over fisheries, to call an inquiry into
the collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in British Columbia's Fraser River,
and to scrap the capital gains tax on transfers of fishing boats and licences
within a family
>Conservative government would immediately take steps toward unilateral
control of fisheries in the international waters beyond Canada's 200-mile
limit.
>Promises addtiaional $500-million for farm-support programs
>Want 5% renewable content in gas and diesel
>Want to replace Income Stabilization Program and introduce disaster
relief plan.
>Defend agricultural sectors in negotiating trade agreements.
>Demand U.S. play by the rules on softwood
>$1-billion in funding or softwood
>Manage fisheries though joint management and councils
>Investigate the collapse of sockeye salmon stocks
>We favour respecting consumers’ right to know through mandatory labelling of genetically
modified organisms
>Setting up a National Conservation Fund
>Improve Canada’s environmental rules regarding endangered species
>Stabilize income for family farms, based on the fundamental principle that farmers in Canada and the
United States should be able to compete on an equal playing field.
>Work with provinces, territories, communities and Aboriginal people on a sustainable
forest management strategy
>Proposing many measures aiming at improving the Saint Lawrence River’s competitiveness, to stimulate regional aerial and railway transport
>Ban bottom dragging and lead efforts for a global ban on harmful fishing practices.
>Pass legislation requiring labeling of genetically engineered foods
>Ensure that supply management systems provide stable domestic markets, viable farm income, and easier market access for specialty and organic producers
>Protect animal welfare by phasing out factory farming, reducing distances live animals can be transported, improving conditions of animals
>Increase the number of high school and of post-secondary graduates
>10-year plan for the
delivery of reliable, quality health care – on reserve and off.
>Close the housing gap on First Nations reserves
>Regulations for complex commercial and industrial development projects
>Accept targets
at recent First Minister and aboriginal leader; work to achieve targets
>Support development of property ownership on reserves
>Let parents choose schooling they want for their kid
>Look to settle 'comprehensive claims'
>Measures to resolve backlog of 'specific' claims
> Compensation for residential school abuse
>Resolve land claims
>Improve health
>More on youth, infrastructure, languages, training, environment
>Recognizing Canada’s responsibilities for residential schools abuse by quickly implementing lump-sum compensation
>Supporting First Nation, Métis, and Inuit initiatives to improve health.
>Ensuring equitable participation of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples and governments in Canada’s stewardship of air, water and lands.
>Implement the recommendations of the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
>Negotiate and legislate primary hunting, fishing, trapping and logging rights
>Promote Aboriginal culture, language and history as a fundamental source of Canadian identity
>Pledges an outright ban on handguns to combat gun violence in cities.
>Committed to
provide $5 billion to municipalities over five years, plus a GST rebate
>Improve highways
>Track road congestion
>Mr. Harper would bring a 16% federal tax credit for users of public-transit. This would cost $4.7-billion or give a person savings of $153 a year.
>Maintain infrastructure deals
>$200-million a year in tax credits to encourage building of rental units for affordable housing
>Restart a 10-year national housing program to build 200,000 affordable and co-op housing units; Underwrite low-interest mortgages for affordable housing
>Make a massive re-investment in Canada's public transportation infrastructure.
>Make transit passes tax-deductible
>Enforce a mandatory target of 25 per cent better fuel efficiency
>Create new funding networks for more locally-run housing, child care and health programs
> Expand the agreement to redirect a greater share of federal tax revenues toward municipal needs
>Fund a national housing program to build energy-efficient co-ops and affordable housing units