CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Issue

Liberal

NDP

Conservativ
e
-Increase
the amount
of grants for
education
savings
plan

Green

Education

-Make post
secondary
education
more
affordable
-Improve First
Nations
education

-To make
education more
affordable by
handing out
grants and
improving the
system

Health
Care

-An
investment of
$3 billion, over
the next four
years, to
deliver more
and better
home care
services for all
Canadians.
-Add more
mental health
care clinics

-Providing
funding to hire
over 7,000
doctors, nurse
practitioners,
nurses and other
health
professionals
nationwide
-Make
prescription
drugs
affordable
with securing
better prices
and working
with provinces
towards
universal
coverage for
all
Canadians.

-They are
debating on
the options
of a family
doctor for
every
Canadian,
appropriate
funds for
healthcare
research,
and support
for
electronic
records.

-Establish a
national seniors
strategy, and
increase
investment in
preventative
health care
-Establish a
national seniors
strategy, and
increase
investment in
preventative
health care

Environme
nt

-Protect
wildlife and
our water by
increasing the
amount of
protected

-The party
promises that an
NDP government
would kickstart
renewable
energy

-To be
investing
heavily in
green
energy and
energy-

-Ensure that
water is
managed in a
way that helps
create healthy,
sustainable

-Promote more
hands on
learning in
postsecondary
education
-Reduce post
secondary
tuitions
-Introduce more
cooperative
education
programs/
apprenticeships

Bloc
Quebecois
-Push the
federal
government to
restore
education
transfers to
the levels
seen before
the cuts in the
mid-nineties.
-Continued
support for
tax-exempt
scholarships
for
postdoctoral
students.
-More control
over finances
at a provincial
level more so
than control at
the federal
level as the
federal
government
doesnt run
any hospitals
other than the
first nations
and veterans
which they
suggested to
be poorly
managed.

-Plans to
develop and
protect the St.
Lawrence
River.
-Reduce

Law and
Order

marine and
coastal areas
to 5% by 2017
and 10% by
2020.

production by
investing in the
sector.
- Would create a
national cap-andtrade program to
help Canada
meet its
emissionsreduction goals

-We will
refocus our
development
assistance on
helping the
poorest and
most
vulnerable.
- Renew
Canadas
commitment
to
peacekeeping
operations.
-Maintain
current
National
Defence
spending
levels,
including
current
planned
increases

-Ensuring that
communities
have the
resources they
need to invest in
crime prevention
and anti-gang
programs
especially those
designed for
youth by
investing an
additional $30
million.
-Work with
provinces,
territories,
municipalities
and Indigenous
communities to
provide stable,
ongoing funding
to put 2,500 new
officers on the
streets and keep
them there.

efficient
technology
-Back in
2o15, the
party stated
to cut
Canadas
greenhouse
-gas
emissions
by 30 per
cent from
2005 levels
before
2030, but
with no plan
for
additional
regulations
for oil-sands
developmen
t
-Take a
more
hardline for
the justice
system
-Build 5,000
more prison
places

communities and
fosters
sustainable
livelihoods by
demanding that
government
-Strengthen
CEPA with
specific and
strong
regulations to
reduce
particulates,
sulphur dioxide,
nitrogen oxide,
and other
airborne
contaminants

Quebecs
dependency
on oil. Every
additional liter
of oil not
purchased
reduces
greenhouse
gas emissions
and keeps
money in the
economy.
-Set of
measures
proposed to
reduce
dependency
on oil

-Review the
Young Offenders
Act to ensure it
is not an
inducement to
youth crime,
while retaining
its core principle,
that youth
should not be
treated as
hardened
criminals
-Revise laws to
increase
penalties for
domestic
violence and
ensure
protection for
the victims and
survivors of
domestic
violence

--A monthly
pension for life
for disabled
military
veterans and
more
government
resources for
veteran
health,
including
PTSD.
-Push for
Quebecs own
criminal code.
-More money
for a national
strategy for
crime
prevention.

Family

-Cancel tax
breaks and
benefits for
the wealthy
including the
Universal Child
Care Benefit
and introduce
a new
Canadian Child
Benefit to give
Canadian
families more
money to raise
their kids.

-Creating and
sustaining one
million quality
child care spaces
at no more than
$15 a day.
-Ensure that
parents who are
laid off after
returning to work
from maternity or
parental leave
will have access
to regular EI
benefits.

-To take a
more
traditional
family
values
approach
while
making
decisions

-Specifically
ensure that
Canadas
universal child
care program
provides
workplace child
care spaces
wherever
possible
-Ensure all
seniors who
qualify are made
aware of
available federal
income
supplements and
instructed on
how to apply for
them

-Increase
family income
allowable
under GIS.
-Take
measures to
encourage
phased
retirement.

Sources
https://www.ndp.ca/platform/childcare-and-family-benefits
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/post-secondary-education/
https://www.ndp.ca/news/college-university-to-be-more-affordable-under-ndp
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-harper-education-savingsresp-1.3218925
https://www.greenparty.ca/en/platform2006/education_employment
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/a-new-health-accord/
https://www.greenparty.ca
https://www.liberal.ca/real-change-a-new-plan-for-canadas-environment-andeconomy/
https://www.liberal.ca/files/2015/10/New-plan-for-a-strong-middle-class.pdf
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/helping-families/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/energy-and-the-environment-fourthings-to-know-before-youvote/article26468735/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/oct/08/conservatives-law-order-crime
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/28/healthcare-canadaelection_n_8195816.html