CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY

PLATFORMSMembers:_____Mudassar Irfan__________________

Issue

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Educatio
n

We will provide direct

help to students from
low- and
middle-income families
to help them pay for
their education and
ensure that debt loads
are manageable. We
will increase the
maximum Canada
Student Grant for
low-income students to
$3,000 per year for
full-time students, and
to $1,800 per year for
part-time
students.https://www.l
iberal.ca/realchange/po
st-secondary-education/

Invest $250 million

in additional federal
student grants over
four years, with an
emphasis on helping
students who need it
most, creating as
many as 50,000 new
grantshttps://www.n
dp.ca/news/college-u
niversity-to-be-moreaffordable-under-ndp

The basic grant

provides 20 cents on
every dollar for the first
$2,500 contributed
annually to an RESP;
An enhanced grant
provides 20 cents on
every dollar for the first
$500 contributed for
children from
low-income families;
and An enhanced grant
provides 10 cents on
every dollar for the first
$500 contributed for
children from
middle-income
families.
http://www.conservativ
e.ca/prime-minister-har
per-announces-further-s
upport-for-families-savi
ng-for-their-childrens-e
ducation-2/

Work with
provinces and
higher learning
institutions to
reduce
post-secondary
tuitions.
Boost
participation in
cooperative
education
programs and
apprenticeships.
Encourage more
hands-on
learning in our
post-secondary
education
system.Harmoni
ze government
programs such
as the
Millennium
Scholarship
Fund to provide
a single
need-based
grant program
to reduce
student
debt.https://w
ww.greenparty.
ca/en/platform2
006/education_e
mployment

Bloc
Quebecois
Push the
federal
government to
restore
education
transfers to
the levels seen
before the cuts
in the
mid-nineties.
Demand more
federal
transfers for
post-secondar
y education
(college and
university)
and social
programs of
$2.75 billion
over three
years for
Quebec
-Continued
support for
tax-exempt
scholarships
for
postdoctoral
students.https
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rdpress.com/2
011/04/27/blo
c-quebecois-el
ections-2011platform-outli
ne/

Health
Care

Environment

Canadas
publicly-funded
universal health care
system is a source of
pride for Canadians
and a source of
economic security for
the middle class and
those working hard to
join it. When
Canadians are in good
physical and mental
health, they are able to
work better, be more
productive.https://ww
w.liberal.ca/realchange/
a-new-health-accord/

Bringing in quality,
affordable childcare.

Our Conservative
Government has been
focused on lowering
taxes and balancing the
budget, while
increasing direct benefit
payments to individual
Canadians and
increasing transfer
payments to the
provinces and territories
for the services
Canadians depend
upon, including health
care and education.
That was our promise to
Canadians and were
delivering.http://www.
conservative.ca/harperoutlines-balanced-budg
et-low-tax-plan-to-prote
ct-canadas-economy-2/

Expanding
public health
insurance to
cover
prescription
medication is
not only about
creating a
healthier and
fairer Canada
it also makes
economic sense.
By creating a
bulk medicine
buying agency,
Canadians
would save
billions
annually.
https://www.gre
enparty.ca/en/he
althcare

Canada's
aging
population is
putting more
pressure than
ever on
provincial
health-care
budgets, Bloc
Quebecois
Leader Gilles
Duceppe said
Tuesday,
adding that
the issue will
be a major
campaign
theme for his
party.http://w
ww.ctvnews.c
a/politics/bloc
-quebecois-lea
der-calls-healt
h-care-most-i
mportant-elect
ion-issue-1.25
53245

In the last decade, as

every other country in
the world moved
forward into clean tech,
into building a
stronger, more
sustainable economy,
Harper took us
backwards. By denying
climate change, he
denied Canadians
opportunity: the
opportunity to
strengthen our
economy; to take
advantage of the
ingenuity and talent of
our people; and to take
the lead in the race to

After 10 years in

Our conservation

office, the

record shows that you

Conservatives have

can protect our

done nothing on

cherished natural

Our natural
environment is
the source of
our wealth and
our health.
Canadas
forests, water,
soil and energy
resources fuel
our economy.
However, if we
treat our
environment
like a business
in liquidation,
those resources
and our
economy will
suffer. The lack

The NDP
and Bloc
Qubcois are
both in favour
of a
cap-and-trade
system for
putting a price
on carbon, the
Green Party is
in favour of a
fee-and-divide
ndprogram
and the
Conservative
Party does not
believe in
putting a
national price

Strengthening our
public health care
system.
Ensuring a
cleaner
environment by
holding polluters
accountable.
Kick-starting the
economy and
creating good
jobs.https://ww
w.ndp.ca/platfor
m

climate change, and

Canadians will only
get more of the same
from the Liberals,
said NDP
Environment critic
Megan Leslie
(Halifax). The NDP

environment while still

growing the economy,
said Prime Minister
Harper. The new
measures I am
announcing today will
make a real difference

create new, high-tech,

clean
jobs.https://www.liber
al.ca/real-change-a-ne
w-plan-for-canadas-env
ironment-and-economy
/

is the only party with

to the health of our

a plan to protect the

Pacific salmon and to

environment and

the conservation of

grow the economy.

BCs marine

https://www.ndp.ca/n
ews/ndp-will-protectenvironment-and-gro
w-economy

environment.http://ww
w.conservative.ca/harpe
r-announces-additionalmeasures-to-protect-bcs
-natural-environment/

Law and
Order

The team of scholars

behind Vote Compass
gave Canada's five
political parties the
opportunity to take part
in the process to ensure
the parties' policies
lined up with the way
Vote Compass
interprets respondents'
answers.
All five parties had the
chance to answer the
Vote Compass
questionnaire for
themselves, and were
given the opportunity
to challenge the
assessments before the
"final codes" went
in.http://www.cbc.ca/

The New
Democrats propose
to hire 2,500 more
police across the
country. (However,
to assuage any fears
that these might be
scary, angry,
baton-wielding Tory
police, the platform
assures us that its
part of a balanced,
effective approach
based on prevention,
policing, and
prosecution.)
Theyd also throw an
additional $35
million into crime
prevention
programs.http://toro
ntoist.com/2011/04/p
latform_primer_law_
and_order/

Stephen Harper wants

you to know that youre
not safe. Nine pages of
the Conservative
platform document are
devoted to discussion of
crime and punishment.
One of five headline
priorities in the Tory
platform is the
commitment to make
our streets safe, through
new laws to protect
children and the elderly
( the rest of us are on
our own). Keep in mind
that this is in a country
where the crime rate
dropped 17 per cent
between 1999 and
2010.http://torontoist.c
om/2011/04/platform_p
rimer_law_and_order/

of federal
regulation,
monitoring, and
action has made
Canada one of
the worlds
biggest and
most tragic
offenders
against the
environment.
We rank
amongst the
worlds worst
for wasteful use
of natural
resourceshttps:
//www.greenpar
ty.ca/en/policy/
vision-green/en
vironment

The Green
platform writers
are
uncommonly
garrulous, and
actually devote
almost as much
platform space
to crime as the
Tories. That
may sound
counter-intuitiv
e, but they use
their pages to
describe a more
nuanced
approach than
the
Conservatives
binary
crime/punishme
nt
paradigmhttp://
torontoist.com/2

on
carbon.http://
www.davidsu
zuki.org/blogs
/election/2015
/10/election-e
nvironmentalcheat-sheet/

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_primer_law_an
d_order/

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n-law-and-order-1.106
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Family

We will cancel tax

breaks and benefits for
the wealthy including
the Universal Child
Care Benefit and
introduce a new
Canada Child Benefit
to give Canadian
families more money to
raise their kids.
With the Canada Child
Benefit, nine out of ten
Canadian families will
receive more than
under Stephen Harpers
confusing collection of
child benefit programs.
For the typical family
of four, that means an
additional $2,500 in
help,
taxhttps://www.liberal
.ca/realchange/helpingfamilies/

We will take the

first step towards our
goal of universal,
affordable childcare
by immediately
flowing funding for
over 60,000
childcare spaces at
no more than $15 a
day. We will restore
the age of retirement
to 65, and introduce
a new Consumer
Protection Act to cap
ATM fees and ensure
Canadians have
access to a
low-interest credit
card.https://www.nd
p.ca/platform

Building on a strong
record of supporting
Canadian families who
are saving for a childs
education, a re-elected
Harper Conservative
government will
enhance Registered
Education Savings
Plans (RESPs) by
doubling the federal
grant for low- and
middle-income
families.|http://www.c
onservative.ca/prime-mi
nister-harper-announces
-further-support-for-fa
milies-saving-for-theirchildrens-education-2/

The tax policy

pursued by
Green Party
MPs will
increase the
opportunity for
Canadians to
spend more
time with
family. More
and more adults
with full-time
employment
outside the
home are
stressed and
stretched to care
for elderly
parents,
children,
partners or
spouses with
debilitating
illness, and any
family members
with
disabilities.http
s://www.greenp
arty.ca/en/polic
y/vision-green/p
eople/family