Democracy and Culture

keeping canada whole

We're committed to refusing to work with parties in Parliament on issues of Quebec's place in the federation who do not recognize the need for Quebec to eventually sign onto Canada's current constitution.
We will work with Quebec towards a solution to make them accept signing the constitution.
We'll pursue devolution of powers for Nunavut similar to those for Yukon and the Northwest Territories, looking into the possibility in having the Yukon becoming a province, and developing a roadmap for territories to become provinces.

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Protecting Canadian Values

We will promote a secular society by removing religious exemptions to neutral and generally applicable laws, subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We're committed to making sure the federal government must obey all of the Charter by clarifying the notwithstanding clause does not apply to it.
We will decriminalize drug possession for small amounts of drugs for personal use and legalizing low-harm substances identified by an expert community based on scientific evidence.
We're going to defend the unrestricted right to abortion across Canada.
We will pursue legalization of sex work while giving sex workers the right to unionize and benefit from Labour Code protections.
We're going to maintain the current right to doctor-assisted suicide in Canada.
We will work on ending the use of torture by all government security and intelligence agencies.
We will work to promote community outreach and funding counter-radicalization, not creating invasive laws, to fight terrorism.
We will ban the cruel and inhumane practice of animal fighting and preserving animal welfare.

Protecting Canadian Civil Society

We're committed to investigating the use of non-economic, life quality-based measures to evaluate policies across government departments.
We will continue to coordinate the work of cultural institutions through Acts like the Canadian Heritage Committee Act.
We will increase funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, transparently appointing its Chief Executive Officer and increasing the powers of its ombudsman.
We will make appointments to the CBC board based on merit and more representative of Canadian diversity.
We're going to put all media on an equal footing by getting rid of unfair tax provisions against traditional media.
We will be re-establishing the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women to advise the government on policies to promote gender equality.
We will allow charities to conduct their affairs without harassment by clarifying rules surrounding charity political activities.
We'll expand whistleblowing protections to apply to whistleblowing to the press under certain conditions.
We will support a fund to help underrepresented groups become more represented in Canadian media.
We'll invest in the digitization of forgotten government publications.
We're going to establish a permanent committee to decide who goes on Canadian currency.

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Reforming Our Electoral System

We are committed to eliminating first-past-the-post in favour of a system of proportional representation.
We're committed to repealing parts of the Conservative Fair Elections Act which make it hard for honest Canadians to vote and increasing penalties on actual wrongdoers.
We will free the Chief Electoral Officer to communicate in the best interests of Canadians on the Canada Elections Act.
We will engage in consultations with the provinces and territories on making registration for voting a part of the curriculum and letting Elections Canada contact moving people to remind them to re register.
We'll make the Parliamentary Budget Office create costings of the platforms of political parties.
We will institute a limit for the length of a by-election campaign.
We're committed to introducing rules on algorithms and 'bots' to deter interference in democracy.
We will enhance limits on corporate and union donations to third parties by taking into account non-advertising uses, such as funding operation and running social media platforms, as well as non-monetary contributions.
We will allow the political donation tax credit to apply at a reduced rate on contributions to municipal campaigns.
We'll make the fixed-term election date in June, in line with Ontario.
We will allow write-ins in elections, and add a none-of-the-above option.

Making Parliament Stronger and More Representative

We will get rid of omnibus bills by giving the Speaker the power to order them split and studied.
We will force the government to give reasons to stop Parliament.
We'll reduce the time Parliament is inactive by appointing a special aide for coalition-building after each election.
We're going to require officers of parliament to pass votes in multi-partisan committees.
We will introduce electronic voting and allowing the first question in Question Period to be submitted in writing to receive a better answer.
We'll create split Question Periods for individual Cabinet members, to allow issues to be addressed in greater depth.
We're committed to making government accounting and financial reporting more transparent and understandable to Canadians by costing all legislation and having Parliament approve spending plans.
We will allow reports in Parliament to be introduced through debatable motions so Parliament considers them in-depth and increasing funding to produce them.
We will creating a National Security and Intelligence Review Committee in Parliament to oversee intelligence and policing agencies.
We're going to create an officer of Parliament to help newly elected members of Parliament learn about legislating, collecting information about their experiences in Parliament, and keeping a database of staffers.
We're committed to depoliticizing Parliament committees by allowing members to vote for their deputy chairs and make regulations on membership, not party leaders.
We will allocate more time to the business of the Opposition and making it easier for private members to introduce bills.
We will require proactive disclosure of travel and hospitality expenses by all parliamentarians and make the proceedings of the Board of Internal Economy viewable by default.
We'll make pregnancy and parental leave extend to Members of Parliament by exempting them from penalizations for absence during their leaves.
We will make ministers from outside parliament able to be appointed if they pass a House of Commons confidence vote.

Reforming Government

We're committed to creating a single, central website to receive requests for personal information from the government.
We will make it easier to comment on regulations and making being hired to work for the public service transparent.
We'll train the CEOs of Crown corporations to the specific challenges of managing partly public companies.
We're going to make Crown corporations more transparent by releasing their routine mandate letters to the public and their interaction with the government.
We will form an agency to review intelligence and national security activities across government to protect human rights.
We'll allow the Security Intelligence Review Committee to conduct joint investigations with other independent national security review bodies.
We're going to reduce the conditions when the federal Cabinet can deny Access to Information Act requests.
We will make it easier to request access to information by eliminating most fees.
We're committed to allowing the Information Commissioner to issue binding disclosure orders on information.
We will reform the Security of Information Act to make gag orders only apply on specific information.
We'll create an Office of the Advertising Commissioner and make it responsible for helping the Auditor General review government advertisements for non-partisanship.
We will embrace impact-based funding, and make departments report strategies to move towards it.
We'll ban the appointment of senators in an election period, which has been abused by political parties.
We will study the possibility of shadow cabinet ministers receiving additional pay to encourage strong and democratic opposition to the government of the day.
We'll pursue a constitutional amendment that will allow the federal government to legislate on behalf of the provinces until such time that they legislate on the same matter.
We will create a central list of all government spending pronouncements to allow Canadians to more easily spot waste.
We will appoint a Chief Science Advisor and science advisors within every government department.

Reforming the Legal System

We will create an application process for appointments to federal courts available to all Canadians with appointees to be recommended to the Prime Minister through independent advisory boards.
We will introduce legislation to protect against discrimination based on immigration status, social condition and police records.
We're going to extend the mandate of the Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service to decide further education requirements for judges.
We'll eliminate mandatory minimum sentences except for serious offences like first-degree murder.
We will support the digitization of court services like summons to enhance our legal system's success and efficiency.
We'll make mandatory minimum sentences presumptive and avoidable if reasons are given.
We're committed to the creation of new security classification for women in order to make sure that they are not punished as severely as men and make sure that racial and Indigenous considerations are also taken into account in sentencing.
We will legalize polygamy in cases where it's shown the mental and societal effects are limited and subject to strict conditions of consent.
We're committed to exempting people who simply unintentionally spread HIV from sexual assault and assault charges.
We will introduce legislation against harassing abortion providers and patients in their homes and in clinics and to not have offences related to murder apply to live-birth abortion babies.

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