CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY

PLATFORMS
Group Members:_
MTIRA AND SHAMMME
Issue

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Education

For too many

Bringing in

Improve

Boost

Canadians,
rising costs have
made postsecondary
education
increasingly out
of reach.

quality,
affordable
childcare
begin to
address the
deplorable
quality of
education in
many First
Nations
communities.

students skills
in critical
thinking,
problem-solving
and information
management

comprehensive
support plan for
the
manufacturing
and forest
industries

Improving

cut the small-

Help health

access and
reducing the
cost of
prescription
medications

business tax rate

from 11 percent

care in country
Defense of
public health
care and
supports the
creation of a
national plan

Economic

Work to

The

opportunities of
our environment
and create
the clean jobs of
tomorrow

tighten up rules
to keep drunk
drivers off our
streets

From traffic
laws to
regulations on
how the

Move forward
on a national
inquiry and an
action plan to

Conservatives
have cut funding
for the National
Round Table on
the Environment
and the
Economy
(NRTEE)
because the
research group
promoted carbon
taxing.
The party that
styles itself as
the custodian of
law-and-order

participation in
cooperative
education
programs and
apprenticeships.
People who
earn more than
$150,000 would
also face a tax
increase of 1.5
percentage
points.
Greener
buildings
promote
environmental
sustainability
and decrease
atmospheric
emissions
that contribute
to global
warming.
The Green
Party of Canada
has set out its
plan for a
sustainable
future grounded
in fiscal
responsibility,
ecological
health, and
social justice

Repeal all the

Harper era
criminal laws
creating

Confiscate
goods acquired
by criminal
means by

Health Care

Environment

Law and
Order

Bloc
Quebecois
Develop a

increases to
economic and
population
growth,
promising the
transfers

Fight climate
change apply
the Kyoto
Protocol, with a
true carbon
market, based on
a territorial
approach.
Provide a
refundable tax
credit for transit
passes.

Family

government
operates, laws
help provide
society with
order and
structure.
The Liberals
are as interested
in managing the
cops as the
crooks,
particularly
where those two
groups intersect
The Canadian
Learning Strategy
Family Care:
Standing With
Canadians Who
Care for Loved
Ones
A Stronger
Public Pension
System for
Working
Canadians
Health and
Health Care: At
the Table for
Canada

end violence
against
Aboriginal
women
On the surface,
the NDP offer a
fairly balanced
platform that
doesnt make
madly expensive
promises.

and the keeper

of Canadian
values is also
the party that
when it suits its
needs sees no
evil and hears no
evil.

mandatory
minimum
sentences
Oppose any
attempts to
privatize prisons
in Canada

reversing the
onus, implement
a series of
measures to
provide police
forces with the
means to fight
street gangs and
abolish release
after one sixth
of a sentence
has been served.

Improve access
to justice for all
by renewing the
federal
governments
commitment to
legal aid.
Increased
grants to
students
They help to
reduce poverty
and contribute
market

The term
family values,
particularly when
used in election
years, is rarely
about what really
matters to
children and
families.

The Greens are

committed to a
high-quality
federally-funded
child care
program in
Canada,
accessible to
any family that
wants to place
children into
early childhood
education.

With the Bloc

Quebecois,
Quebecers are
making gains. It
is the incessant
work of the Bloc
with the Quebec
government that
allowed the
creation of the
Quebec parental
leave plan in
2006. The same
year, while the
federal
government was
setting up what
would become
the Universal
Care Benefit of
children (UCCB),
the Bloc
launched an
offensive to
make it nontaxable
successfully