Ontario election: Party platform highlights
Posted October 6, 2011 7:07 pm.
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Below are highlights of the Ontario Liberals, Conservatives and NDP:
Liberals
(Details provided by: The Canadian Press)
- 30 per cent tuition credit for full-time college and university students whose families earn less than $160,000 a year
- Create 60,000 new post-secondary spaces; add three new university campuses
- Expand GO commuter trains to all-day service along existing corridors over 10 years
- Spend $60 million to add three million hours to home care for seniors
- Give seniors a tax credit of up to $1,500 to offset renovations that make it easier for them to stay at home or with relatives
- Reduce taxes on small business to 4.5 per cent from five per cent
- Reduce childhood obesity by 20 per cent; double the children’s activity tax credit
Click here for more information on the Ontario Liberals party platform.
NDP
(Details provided by: Ontario NDP)
- Take the HST off hydro and at gas pumps
- Four-year transit fare freeze
- Lower small business taxes
- Cut emergency room wait times in half
- Phase out coal-fired electricity
- Freeze tuition fees for college, undergraduate, and graduate students
- Build 50,000 new affordable housing units over 10 years
- Balanced budget by 2017-18
Click here for more information on the Ontario NDP party platform.
Conservatives
(Details provided by: The Canadian Press)
- Balance the budget by 2017-18
- Cut government spending by two per cent (except for health care/education)
- Increase education spending by $2 billion by end of first term
- Full-day kindergarten for all schools by 2014
- End mandatory time-of-use pricing for electricity
- Reduce corporate tax rate to 10 per cent by 2013
- Invest more than $35 billion for new infrastructure
- Streamline the welfare system
- Close all coal-fired plants by 2014
Click here for more information on the Ontario Conservatives party platform.
Green Party
(Details provided by: Green Party)
- Creating jobs for a twenty-first century economy
- Harnessing safe, affordable energy to power our communities
- Promoting access to quality, sustainable health care close to home
- Feeding our communities by championing local farms
- Delivering government that works for people
