1) Create Jobs
- Build 200,000 units of affordable social housing in 4 years; enact rent controls
- Restore and expand value-added manufacturing and secondary industry
- Nationalize US Steel – and restart Canada’s domestic steel industry
- Build a Canadian car that’s affordable, fuel-efficient, and environmentally sustainable
- Rebuild crumbling provincial / municipal infrastructure
- Invest in youth and social programs
2) Raise Wages and Incomes
- Raise the minimum wage to $19
- Raise pensions and reduce the voluntary pension age to 60
- Introduce a guaranteed annual income – a living wage
- Raise social assistance and disability above the poverty line
- Expand Employment Insurance to cover all unemployed for the duration of unemployment at 90% of previous earnings
- Introduce public auto insurance
3) Progressive Tax Reform
- Rescind the HST and remove education from the property tax
- Double the corporate income tax rate
- Introduce wealth and inheritance taxes on estates over $750,000
- Eliminate taxes on personal incomes under $40,000
- Enact progressive tax reform based on ability to pay
4) Invest in Quality Public Services – Stop Privatization!
Health
- Expand healthcare with denticare, vision care, pharmacare, and long-term care
- Reverse delisting of services; eliminate health premiums and co-payments
- Put doctors on salary; enforce the Canada Health Act
- Prosecute ORNGE profiteers
Education
- Enact a single, secular public school system open to all
- Deliver a new, needs-based funding formula for public education
- Eliminate tuition fees and increase funding to post-secondary education
Childcare
- Build a provincial system of quality affordable and regulated public childcare
Sports, Culture and Recreation
- Invest in amateur sports and recreation, TVO, public broadcasting, and democratic Canadian culture
5) A New Financial Deal for Cities
- Deliver stable statutory transfers to cover the real costs of city services, or deliver new wealth-taxing powers to cities
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- Adequately fund public transit, health, housing, childcare and social assistance
- Return 50% of gas and road user taxes to cities
6) Enhance Food Security
- Stop bank foreclosures of family farms; guarantee long-term, low-cost loans
- Protect marketing boards, and roll back prices on food essentials
- Abolish factory farming and genetically modified food
- Protect farmland from urban sprawl, landfills
- Fight for Canada’s food sovereignty
7) Public Ownership and Democratic Control of Energy
- Develop publicly owned wind, solar, and thermal energy; phase out coal-fired and nuclear plants
- Rebuild Ontario Hydro: public ownership and affordable public power
8) Just Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims
- Press Harper to negotiate settlements now
- Stop corporate, private or public development on lands with Aboriginal claims
- Raise living standards: build housing, create jobs, provide quality education and healthcare on reserves and off
- Recognize Aboriginal self-government and self-determination
9) Equality Rights for All
- Put police under strict civilian control; reduce and restrict police weaponry
- End racial profiling and enforce hate crimes laws
- Stop criminalizing dissent and enforce the Human Rights Code
- Support gay-straight alliances in Ontario schools
- Enact transgendered rights; restore legal funding for court challenges
- Fight to eliminate racist immigration and refugee laws
10) Curb Corporate Power – Strengthen Labour and Democratic Rights
- Cancel CETA, NAFTA, TPP and other pro-corporate trade agreements. Fair trade – not free trade – with the world.
- Strengthen foreign investment laws; enact plant closure legislation with teeth
- Enact anti-scab laws, bankruptcy protection for workers, and card check union certification for all workers
- Protect free collective bargaining and the right to strike in Ontario
- Enshrine a Labour Bill of Rights in the Constitution
- Enact Proportional Representation and democratic electoral reform