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Party
Platforms
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Party
Positions ...
Economy
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Defence
Housing
LIBERAL
PARTY OF CANADA
Where
the Liberals stand
FROM
CANADIAN PRESS
HEALTH CARE
 | Promise
a 10-year plan with a sustained boost in health
transfers to the provinces.
| Demand
new accountability measures from provinces, like
published lists of waiting times for procedures.
| Support
public funding for medically necessary care but have no
policy against private-sector involvement in providing
services. |
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ECONOMY
| Use
budget surplus to pay down national debt with goal of
reducing it to 25 per cent of GDP.
| Sell
off government shares in Petro-Canada and invest
proceeds in an eco-friendly technology fund. |
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CITIES
| Transfer
slice of federal gas tax or other revenue stream to
municipalities for infrastructure improvements. |
SOCIAL/ENVIRONMENT
| Re-establish
a national housing plan.
| Improve
aboriginals’ systems of education and accountable
government, and ensure clean drinking water on native
reserves.
| Create
an international niche for Canada as a builder of
democratic institutions
| Accelerate
transfers from $1-billion Municipal Rural Infrastructure
Fund to five-year period instead of the anticipated 10
years.
| in
failed states.
| $3.5
billion cleanup of polluted federal sites, with 60 per
cent of the fund to be spent in the North.
| Create
a national child-care system.
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DEFENCE
| $7
billion in capital projects promised, including $2.1
billion for joint support ships, $700 million for
mobile-gun system, $1.3 billion for search-and-rescue
aircraft, $3 billion for maritime helicopters.
| Create
an integrated foreign policy where military
interventions are tied to aid projects, trade
initiatives and diplomatic missions.
| Add
5,000 new members to the regular forces and 3,000 more
to the reserves, which currently have 15,500 part-time
members |
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NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF CANADA
Where
the NDP stands
source:
FROM CANADIAN PRESS
ECONOMY
| Committed to balanced budgets and slow debt-reduction.
| Targeted tax cuts for low- and middle-income earners.
| Eliminate GST for essential goods. |
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CITIES
| Transfer five cents per litre from federal gas tax, or
$2.5B, to provinces for municipal infrastructure repair. |
HEALTH
CARE
| Immediately
re-establish federal funding at 25 per cent of medicare
costs.
| Reverse
private delivery of services.
| Create
national homecare and pharmacare programs and enforce
national standards on access to care. |
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DEFENCE
| Improve
salaries and job benefits for armed services personnel.
| Refuse
to participate in proposed U.S. missile-defence program. |
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SOCIAL
| Re-establish
a national housing plan.
| Cut
tuition by 10 per cent. Student loans interest free.
| Create
national transportation strategy to provide long-term
funding and incentives to promote public transit.
| Cap
credit-card interest rates to five points above prime
rates.
| Complete
support for same-sex marriage. |
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ENVIRONMENT
| GST
rebates for clean cars.
| Build
10,000 wind turbines and retrofit buildings with new
windows and furnaces to make them more energy efficient. |
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BLOC
QUÉBÉCOIS
Where
the Bloc stands
FROM
CANADIAN PRESS
ECONOMY
| Demand federal transfers of about $8 billion each year
to the provinces to eliminate so-called fiscal
imbalance.
| Call for a more generous Employment Insurance program
that would reach additional workers while scaling back
existing EI surpluses.
| Eliminate gasoline surtax. |
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HEALTH CARE
| Call for substantial federal funding transfers to
provinces with no conditions attached. |
SOCIAL
| Abolition of GST on books.
| Want $4.5 billion spent on affordable housing over
three years.
| Demand an additional $2.4 billion annually for
international aid. |
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DEFENCE
| See peacekeeping as military priority, not combat
missions.
| Forbid Canadian soldiers from participating in wars
deemed to violate international law. |
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FOREIGN
POLICY
| Refuse to participate in missile-defence shield with
the U.S. |
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GREEN
PARTY OF CANADA
Where
the Green Party stands
ENVIRONMENT
| Establish
a special five-year tax break on energy efficiency
retrofits in commercial and residential buildings.
| Push
for the adoption of profit-linked efficiency initiatives
(gas/electric).
| Increase
fuel taxes by ten cents (to be phased in over three
years).
| Introduce
tax incentives to help homeowners reduce home heating
and electricity bills. |
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HEALTH
CARE
| Reduce the long hours that Canadians are working
| for more time spent engaging in outdoor activities.
| Canadian consumers with stricter labelling
requirements on packaged foods.
| the availability of less expensive generic
prescription drugs.
international trade agreements to ensure that they
protect each nation’s ability to regulate health care
systems, in accordance with national and regional health
and environmental priorities. |
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ECONOMY
| Lower
taxes on income, profit and investment, to promote
increased productivity and job creation.
| Raise
taxes on harmful activities such as pollution, waste and
inefficiency.
| Shift
taxes onto land use and away from incomes.
| Maintain
a balanced budget and reduce the national debt.
| Cancel
planned cuts to corporate capital taxes. |
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CITIES
| Negotiate an agreement to give municipalities a fixed
share of federal tax revenues.
| Support a grassroots movement to create municipal
charters. |
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CONSERVATIVE
PARTY OF CANADA
Where
the Conservatives stand
FROM
CANADIAN PRESS
ECONOMY
| Twenty-five
per cent tax cut for middle-income earners, with the
long-term goal of pulling Canadian tax rates lower than
the U.S.
| Provide
a $2,000 tax deduction per child for families.
| Redirect
money from industrial subsidies to lower taxes and
research and development.
| Hand
provinces three to five cents from the 10-cent-a-litre
gas tax for road repair.
| Lower
business and capital-gains taxes and eliminate the
capital tax.
| Introduce
a legislated plan setting targets for national debt
repayment.
| Eliminate
annual surplus in Employment Insurance fund. |
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HEALTH
CARE
| Deliver
almost $37 billion in new funding promised under the
2003 federal-provincial Health Accord.
| Support
a new national drug plan to be negotiated with the
provinces.
| Maintain
the Canada Health Act’s guarantee of public funding
for necessary services.
| Favours
private delivery of some medicare services. |
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JUSTICE
| Scrap
federal gun registry and divert savings to hiring of 200
Mounties.
| Establish
retroactive national sex offender registry.
| Eliminate
'public good' defence as regards child pornography.
| Class
anyone convicted of a third violent or sexual offence as
a dangerous offender, allowing them to be jailed
indefinitely.
| Strip
federal prisoners of voting rights.
| Stricter
standards for releasing dangerous offenders on bail.
| Introduce
consecutive sentences for multiple violent crimes.
| End
possibility of house arrest for violent criminals. |
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DEFENCE
| Boost
military funding by $1.2 billion immediately, and
eventually increase that to $2 billion.
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FOREIGN
POLICY
| Talk
with U.S. about joining North American missile-defence
system. |
SOCIAL
| End
existing firearms registry and work with provinces on
another gun-control strategy.
| On
June 3, Stephen Harper revealed he would allow a free
vote on abortion if an MP introduced a private member's
bill. |
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ENVIRONMENT
| Legislate
caps on smog-causing pollutants and spend $4 billion
over 10 years to clean contaminated sites. |
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