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Ensuring Fair Wages and Benefits

We will create a federal minimum wage for work in federally regulated enterprise.
We'll create a benefits bank to provide non-universal benefits to temporary, agency, non-standard, and self-employed workers funded through contributions from employers and employees.
We are committed to allowing workers to claim Employment Insurances after one week, as opposed to the current two.
We'll adjust, based on regional unemployment, and generally lower the number of days a person must work on reentering the job market to qualify for Employment Insurance.
We will reduce the number of hours an employee must work in order to qualify for Employment Insurance, especially for transient workers.
We'll create a new regime of Employment Insurance for seasonal workers by allowing workers to claim Employment Insurance at a slower rate and removing obligations to accept lower-paying jobs or look for jobs if employers of seasonal workers vouch to rehire them.
We will make Employment Insurance claim forms accommodate for apprentices trying to claim benefits and informing apprentices on their right to claim.
We're going to train Service Canada workers servicing areas with large Indigenous populations in sensitivity and Indigenous language skills to better accommodate Indigenous peoples while claiming Employment Insurance.
We'll work to ensure that job benefits for high-demand jobs are paid for work performed for agencies and requiring work for a certain interlude.

Defining Rights and Responsibilities

We'll regulate low-hour contracts with vulnerable workers.
We're committed to mandating that employers must give employees a statement of terms and conditions of their work before hiring.
We will give employees the legal right to ask their employer without fear of reprisal for more flexible working conditions, like in the United Kingdom.
We'll allow agency workers to directly apply for jobs they perform if they pay compensation to their agency.

Protecting Unions and Public Employees

We'll repeal discriminatory financial disclosure requirements imposed on unions by previous Conservative governments.
We'll repeal essential service strike provisions enacted by Conservatives which give the Government power to set the definition of essential services.
We'll repeal and modernize Conservative changes to legislation governing public employee sick leaves.
We'll reinstate the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act repealed by previous Conservative governments to promote high labour standards through government contracting, including a code of conduct for employers regarding treatment of their workers.

Improving Enforcement of Labour Laws

We're committed to undertaking a full and comprehensive review of enforcement of the Labour Code.
We'll fund the collection of statistics on the demographics on vulnerable federal industry workers.
We'll work with the provinces and territories to create a licensing system for foreign recruiters of temporary foreign workers and creating a registry of temporary foreign workers and their employers.
We will work to empower temporary foreign workers to receive better working conditions by requiring employers to state the nature of the working relationship, allowing them access to federal hearings if they are threatened with deportation, and giving them assistance in their own language.

Investing into Skills

We will invest $300 million into skills training on the job such as through the Workplace Skills Strategy.
We will invest into programs such as the Youth Employment Study to enable students, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, gain the experience they need to begin their careers.
We will increase funding for Labour Market Development Agreements within the Employment Insurance framework to allow those currently on Employment Insurance to get back employed and pick up marketable skills and experience.
We'll advise the Minister of Labour on increasing supports to retrain workers employed in shrinking energy industries.

We'll keep canadians educated

We're going to increase the availability of funding to students from the Canada Student Loan Program and ensure compensation for non-participating provinces and territories in the program.
We'll provide more education funding help to disadvantaged Indigenous students.
We'll promote more youth apprenticeships in government departments and Crown Corporations.
We're going to increase the Canada Student Loan Program for low- and middle-income students.
We'll forgive and reduce student loans based on family income.
We'll allow the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan contributions to be drawn down to pay for education.
We'll boost Registered Education Savings Funds and Canada Student Bonds to allow more families to save money to send their children to school.
We're going to split the Canada Social Transfer to create a Canada Education Transfer to ensure quality education in our schools and increased funding overall

We'll fight to keep Canadians healthy

Making Sure Canadians Afford Medications

We will implement a comprehensive and public universal pharmacare program.
We will create a national drug formulary to lower drug prices for provinces and individuals through bulk-buying and evidence-based prescribing guidelines.
We will base maximum prices allowed to be charged on prices in other countries which better resemble Canada in terms of drug research and development spending.
We'll remove GST/HST and excise taxes on medicinal marijuana by classifying it as a prescription drug.

Making Sure Canadians Get Quality Treatment

We're committed to defending up-front free healthcare for medically necessary procedures.
We will allow provinces to receive limited federal healthcare funding while conducting experiments in private healthcare systems where public care has proven inadequate as long as they demonstrate their effectiveness within several years.
We'll create a fund to promote good practices in hospitals and pharmacies, such as mandatory reporting of drug dispensing errors to provincial health authorities or Health Canada.
We will provide more funding for home care.

Continuing to Improve Mental Health

We will create a National Mental Health Strategy to encourage provinces to expand access to mental health professionals.
We're committed to continuing and to direct greater funding of mental health services initiated by Liberals through a renewal of the Health Accord.
We will give provinces funds based on the number of non-institutionalized mental health patients.
We're committed to respecting people with mental health issues throughout government.
We will incorporate mental health considerations into health policy and criminal justice.

Supporting Healthy Lifestyles

We're going to continue supporting the rehabilitation of people with addictions by establishing safe injection sites and increasing funding for narcotics and opioid addictions treatment.
We will institute plain packaging laws for cigarettes to reduce their appeal.
We will ban menthol in cigarettes to reduce the attractiveness of cigarettes to first-time smokers.
We'll support healthy diets by implementing calorie labeling laws for fast food.
We're going to ban marketing and athletics company sponsorships of junk food to those under the age of 17.
We will revise the Canada Food Guide, including by making a category of always discouraged foods.
We will make national parks free to visit permanently.
We'll increase taxes on tobacco, and give more money to First Nations to enforce tobacco laws, and ensure better policing in general.
We will create a cost-shared Universal Healthy School Food Program to ensure that all school children learn basic food skills and have access to healthy, nutritious meals every day.
We'll work with Indigenous leadership to create a Healthy School Food Program for schools within First Nations reserves.
We will introduce an unhealthy food tax to encourage healthier eating, and will also introduce a rebate of $10 per month to low-income Canadians so they are not unjustly affected by the tax.
We're committed to creating a foundation for strong links between agriculture, sustainability, and health via policy instruments of Health Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
We will create a multi-stakeholder governance body (such as a National Food Policy Council) that would bring stakeholders from across the food system to help the government make smart, common-sense decisions about the food we eat.
We'll ensure governance mechanisms are properly resourced to ensure meaningful participation from stakeholders and overall accountability and implementation, and that governance mechanisms has an adequate budget to propose and implement innovative food programming and experimentation that meets the priorities set out in the policy.
We will introduce a total ban on advertising to those under the age of 13 with certain exemptions, following Quebec law.

Growing the compassionate society

Helping Canadian Families

We will be investing $10 billion in addition to the 10-10-10 Plan over the next 5 years into increased child benefits and child care spaces.
We're committed to investing in longer, more flexible, and more transferable parental benefits and working with the provinces and territories to amend their labour codes in collaboration with the federal government.
We will invest $100 million over 5 years and $20 million thereafter towards combating gender-based violence through research, education, anti-unemployment, and anti-deskilling programs, and greater enforcement of the current law.
We will increase the Survivors Benefit which has lost 38% of its buying power over the last two decades.

Helping our Seniors

We will increase the amount of money received from the Canada Pension Plan as a percentage of pre-retirement income.
We're going to increase the amount Canadians can contribute into the CPP, making the CPP more transparent, and allowing greater flexibility in claiming retirement pensions.
We'll increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement for low-income seniors and Old Age Security for seniors living by themselves by 10% and also indexing the GIS to a Seniors’ Price Index.
We'll be increasing the Compassionate Care Benefit and ensure that it can be used in other cases than taking care of a loved one nearing death.
We will create a National Seniors Care strategy, emphasizing the values of independence and support for the most in need seniors.
We will support provincial development of seniors homes.
We're committed to enhancing the family caregiver tax credit for seniors.

Creating Affordable and Accessible Housing

We will investigate any policy tools available to combat growing house prices in urban areas like Toronto and Vancouver.
We will make social housing more inclusive by requiring social housing funded in part by the federal government to have at least 45% of residential units be fully accessible to those with disabilities.
We will encourage municipalities and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to maintain or increase their rent-geared-to-income units within co-op organizations through subsidies and directives.
We'll make sure that people impacted by significant life changes can benefit from the Home Buyer's Plan without being taxed on their withdrawn registered retirement savings.
We're committed to creating an inventory of federal lands and buildings and seek to allow the use of these by private sector organizations, including those offering affordable housing.

Helping Struggling Canadians

We will maintain Canada’s current regime of equalization and territorial financing formula funds.
We'll establish a National Legal Aid Plan with the provinces and territories.
We're committed to applying pressure on provinces and compensating them for raising gift limits to Canadians receiving disability supports, as done in British Columbia and Alberta.
We're committed to helping poorer Canadians receive every penny in federal money they are entitled to
We will help disabled Canadians by introducing regulations on companies that claim percentages of benefits received for helping Canadians apply and receive the Disability Tax Credit, and provide more support to non-profit agencies that help Canadians apply for and receive DTC benefits, as well as making the program easier to apply for, be approved for, and receive.
We will ensure that information given to government departments that provide services on how to improve services recounting personal experience cannot be used to withhold services from you.
We're committed to creating a commission to study how to include social and cultural factors into decision-making and making reforms to laws for these purposes.

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Making it Easier to Become a Canadian

We will moderately increasing the number of economic immigrants accepted per year to 200,000 to help drive economic growth and allow more people to create a new life in Canada and easing the path to citizenship for permanent residents.
We'll allow all temporary workers and their immediate families to apply for permanent residence status in Canada based on their record as temporary foreign workers.
We're going to increase numbers of refugees accepted by Canada, especially those persecuted due to their ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.
We will offer a one-time amnesty for certain people without legal status in Canada.
We'll offer a clear path to citizenship for international students who graduate in the top 10% of students in recognized Canadian universities.
We'll work to improve language programs for new immigrants, especially for learning French.
We will loosen the current mobility restrictions in place on temporary foreign workers while creating incentives in the immigration system for temporary foreign workers not to overstay their visas.
We will make international adoption easier for Canadian families.
We'll introduce a program that allows illegal immigrants who have lived here for a long time to apply for immigration without fear of deportation, like the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program in the United States.
We will end the unfair rules that allow Canada to decline immigrants on potential medical costs.
We'll make sure that people who apply for permanent residency are able to receive it in the case that their sponsor dies before they receive status.
We will make sure that the process to become a sponsored refugee is a quicker and more seamless process.

Making Canada More Attractive Worldwide

We will work to negotiate free movement of people with other countries, especially those in the Commonwealth.
We will enhance credential recognitions for skilled immigrants.
We'll ensure that Canada is an attractive destination for overseas students, especially those studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related subjects.
We're committed to eliminating the cap on caregivers in the immigration system.
We will work to attract high-skilled immigrants by enlarging immigrant quotas and giving out more visas.
We're committed to enlarging our manufacturing sector by giving out more work visas.
We will work tirelessly to make Canada more attractive to technology firms and start-ups.

Preserving our environment

Protecting Our Skies

We're committed to revising and strengthening the current Canadian price on carbon while giving the provinces more choices on pricing carbon.
We will ban the sale of gasoline and diesel cars by 2050.
We'll encourage the adoption of clean vehicles by increasing vehicle choice, creating clean vehicle fuel stations across Canada, and aligning to North American regulations, codes, and standards.
We will create a price for pollution by planes on international flights.

Preserving Our Land

We'll limit the deductibility of Canadian Exploration Expense to cases of project failure.
We will ensure logging and other activities in federal forests are sustainable.
We're committed to reducing emissions from freight by increasing information-sharing with freight carriers through programs like SmartWay so they make budget-conscious decisions on clean vehicles and fuel.

Protecting Our Oceans

We will reverse changes to the Fisheries Act by past Conservative governments which weakened protections for fish populations.
We're going to create a Fisheries Committee to advise the Ministry of Fisheries on an ongoing basis on administration and enforcement of the Fisheries Act.
We will make sure Canadians are not put on the hook to clean up pollution by oil and gas developers by properly applying the polluter pays principle in law.
We'll observe all relevant International standards on emissions from sea vessels.
We're committed to banning oil and gas extraction activity in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean until the management of the ecology of the ocean is improved.
We will protect waterways by allowing Indigenous communities to recommend waterways in need of protection, generally expanding waterways protected, and creating a public database of waterway obstructions.
We're committed to reaching an agreement on fishing in the High Arctic and funding research as to it's potential and dangers.

Protecting Our Wildlife

We will improve implementation of the Species at Risk Act.
We will follow various, long-standing recommendations made with regards to the protection of Pacific Canada's wild salmon.
We will make entry into Canada's national parks free of charge for youth under 18 years of age.
We will invest into Parks Canada to restore cut services and towards the expansion of National Wildlife Areas to protect at risk species.
We will invest over $500 million towards the protection of marine ecosystems, including for the further development of marine conservation areas and for research on the elimination of the Asian carp in the Great Lakes, primarily looking at sounding out method.

partnering with indigenous peoples

Making up for Historical Wrongs

We will recognize Indigenous governments as full partners in the federation.
We will implement the Truth and Reconciliation Committee's recommendations to the federal government, including the implementation of a missing and murdered indigenous women inquiry.
We're committed to creating an Indigenous Languages Act to ensure a basic level of services to Indigenous communities in their own language and promoting languages by funding Indigenous language radio stations and schools for on-the-land programs.
We will make Indian status not discriminatory based on sex.

Securing Indigenous People a Bright Future

We'll give First Nations more taxation powers to make sure they can raise the funds they need.
We will end policies clawing back transfer funding to self-governing First Nations for income they earn through taxation or business ventures.
We will making mortgage financing easier for First Nations.
We're committed to giving Indigenous students the chance at education they deserve by getting teachers on every reserve at a rate of 1 teacher every 40 students in the next 15 years.
We will direct Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to track opioid overdoses on First Nations reserves.
We'll amend the Indian Act and First Nations Elections Act to allow for alternative voting systems to be used in chief and council elections, including electronic voting.

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