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Affordability

Childcare

Promesses de ONDP

Create 53,000 new, public or not-for-profit affordable childcare spaces
Establish a regional waitlist for childcare spaces
Establish a wage grid for childcare workers and ensure decent work standards

"We will establish a wage grid for child care workers and ensure decent work standards to keep them on the job." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Invest in French-language childcare

"We will ensure access to French language education programs close to home, and invest in French-language child care, a proven gateway to French language education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Food costs

Promesses de ONDP

Provide a recurring monthly grocery rebate based on household income and family size

"Designing a refundable tax credit in Ontario linked to food purchased from stores indicators from the Ontario Consumer Price Index (O-CPI) and phased in similarly to the Ontario Childcare Access and Relief from Expenses (CARE) Tax Credit requires a structured approach that balances inflation responsiveness, income sensitivity, and administrative feasibility.

The NDP’s Monthly Grocery Rebate would be delivered to Ontarians on a monthly basis. The baseline credit/benefit is tied to the cost of a basket of essential food items, how much each family spent on the basket of essential food items annually before Ford became Premier, and how much that price has increased since. The amount is increased given changes to the price of the basket of essential food items in grocery stores. The rebate is non-taxable and recipients are identified based on 2024 tax filings.

This design ensures the credit adapts to rising food costs while targeting low-to-moderate-income families. By borrowing some successful elements from Ontario’s existing refundable credits (e.g., the CARE Tax Credit’s phase-in structure and the Trillium Benefit’s inflation adjustments), it balances equity, efficiency, and simplicity.

Eligibility Criteria

Residency: Recipients must be Ontario residents as of December 31 of the tax year.

Income Threshold: Introduce a phased-in structure where the credit amount decreases as household income rises.

• Full credit for family households with adjusted net income ≤ $65,000; full credit for individuals with adjusted net income ≤$50,000.

• Partial credit phased out by 3.5% of family household income exceeding $65,000, and reaching zero at $100,000 (final phase-out credit = 51%)

• Partial credit phased out by 3.5% of individual income exceeding $50,000, and reaching zero at $65,000 (final phase-out credit = 51%)

Base Credit: Provides $40 per adult in each household.

Family Size Adjustments: Provide additional amounts per dependent (eg $20 base credit per child under 18) to reflect higher food costs for larger households."

ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Require big grocery retailers to publish when they raise prices more than 2% in a week
Establish a watchdog to enforce competition laws and keep food prices fair

"We will create an office for a provincial Consumer Watchdog that will be a one stop shop for consumer complaints. A core challenge of consumer protection in Ontario that enforcement requires the individual to pursue legal action, or the Government of Ontario to impose a fine on those who violate it. You shouldn't need a lawyer to stop corporations from gouging you with deceptive pricing. The Consumer Watchdog would hold the power to investigate businesses or other entities on consumer protection laws or practices. They could release public reports similar to the Auditor General or the Ombudsman of Ontario, and to level fines or other penalties against businesses found to be in violation of consumer protection legislation." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will establish a Corporate Crime and Competition Bureau to enforce competition laws and prevent coordinated price hikes among Ontario grocers. The Bureau would focus on actively monitoring large corporations and conspiracies that would otherwise be nearly impossible to detect at the consumer level." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Create a universal school food programme, using fresh food prepared and grown in-province

"Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Double funding for the First Nations School Nutrition Program

Public transit

Promesses de ONDP

Expand the GO Lakeshore West rail line, build the Grimsby GO station, and restore reliable express GO service

"Commuters in Niagara will finally be able to ride on the long-planned and long-delayed expansions and improvements to the GO Lakeshore West rail line, including moving ahead on the Grimsby GO station and restoring reliable express GO service." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Advance planning for expanded GO rail service to communities such as Cambridge, Guelph, and London
Fund Phase 2 of the Waterloo ION LRT
Cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50

"We’ll cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50 to improve reliability and affordability." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Climate Change & the Environment

Conservation and environmental protection

Promesses de ONDP

Protect the Niagara Escarpment
Restore the power of Conservation Authorities to review projects that might threaten farmland, groundwater, and wetland systems
Prevent new aggregate pits or quarries, including proposed quarries near Mt. Nemo and in Campbellville, and the dumpsite in Dresden
Transfer provincial lands to create the new Ojibway National Urban Park in Windsor

"We will deliver on the Ojibway National Urban Park in Windsor: The Ford government is reneging on its promise to transfer provincial lands to complete this new urban park. An NDP government will transfer these lands immediately and complete the work to get the park established." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Electric vehicles

Promesses de ONDP

Bring back electric vehicle rebates
Install electric vehicle charging infrastructure
Reintroduce electric vehicle-readiness building code requirements

Public transit

Promesses de ONDP

Expand the GO Lakeshore West rail line, build the Grimsby GO station, and restore reliable express GO service

"Commuters in Niagara will finally be able to ride on the long-planned and long-delayed expansions and improvements to the GO Lakeshore West rail line, including moving ahead on the Grimsby GO station and restoring reliable express GO service." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Advance planning for expanded GO rail service to communities such as Cambridge, Guelph, and London
Fund Phase 2 of the Waterloo ION LRT
Cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50

"We’ll cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50 to improve reliability and affordability." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Wildfires

Promesse de ONDP

Compensate wildfire first responders as fire fighters, and recognise occupational diseases from fighting wildfires

"We will continue to stand behind our brave wildfire firefighters as they battle increasingly severe wildfires during longer fire seasons due to climate change. An Ontario NDP government will recognize these first responders to be firefighters, so that they may be fairly compensated for their service, and we will remove all barriers to any occupational diseases, such as cancers associated with firefighting, from being recognized by the workplace compensation system." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Education

Childcare

Promesses de ONDP

Create 53,000 new, public or not-for-profit affordable childcare spaces
Establish a regional waitlist for childcare spaces
Establish a wage grid for childcare workers and ensure decent work standards

"We will establish a wage grid for child care workers and ensure decent work standards to keep them on the job." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Invest in French-language childcare

"We will ensure access to French language education programs close to home, and invest in French-language child care, a proven gateway to French language education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Francophone education

Promesse de ONDP

Invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programmes in the English system

"We’ll invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

K-12 funding

Promesses de ONDP

Reverse cuts to education

"We will reverse Ford’s education cuts and invest in a new, needs-based funding formula. The Ford government has cut education funding by $1,500 per student since 2018, leaving schools with fewer teachers and larger class sizes." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Review the funding model for schools to focus on student needs, not numbers of students

"We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Fix funding for student transportation

"And we’ll make sure students can get to class reliably and on time by fixing Ford’s broken student transportation funding." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will fix student transportation funding. Students across Northern Ontario lost bus services when the Ford government increased the distance eligibility. Attendance rates among students in Thunder Bay who lost access to the bus service have dropped. We will make sure you can count on a school bus to come on time for your child to get to and from school safely, by fixing the student transportation funding formula." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

K-12 learning needs

Promesses de ONDP

End the practice of streaming for students with disabilities

"We’ll end the practice of streaming and make sure we are using data to support more equitable schools." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Review the funding model for schools to focus on student needs, not numbers of students

"We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

K-12 staffing

Promesses de ONDP

Hire more teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, and custodial and trade workers

"Hire more staff. Large class sizes, less direct support, it can be hard to learn in Ford’s Ontario. Dedicated teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, custodial and trade workers – they make all the difference helping students get the one-on-one attention they need and maintaining a nurturing learning environment. Having more caring adults in schools makes them safer for everyone." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Create incentives for mental health professionals, social workers, and speech and language therapists to work in schools in the North

"We will improve access to Autism services by creating incentives for mental health professionals, social workers and speech and language to work in schools and community settings in the North." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Post-secondary funding

Promesses de ONDP

Permanently increase base funding for post-secondary institutions

"We’re committed to investing in public post-secondary education, permanently increasing base funding and investing in research and innovation to maintain our competitive edge." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Innovation starts with education. We’re committed to investing in public post-secondary education at institutions like Lakehead University, Northern College, Cambrian College, and funding a dedicated French Universite de Sudbury. We will permanently increase base funding and ensure they have the reliable funding they need to deliver world-class education." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Fund a dedicated French Universite de Sudbury
Work with Indigenous post-secondary institutions to offer more programmes and credentialing

"We will work with Indigenous post-secondary institutions, like the Seven Generations Education Institute to offer more programs and credentialling." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

School construction and upgrades

Promesse de ONDP

Invest an additional $830M/year in school repairs

"Fix our schools. Ontario’s schools are saddled with a massive repair backlog left behind by the Liberals, and it has only grown under Ford’s Conservatives. Freezing classrooms without heat in the winter, gyms and cafeterias with leaking roofs. We’ll fix schools to give students a high quality, nurturing learning environment. We will invest an additional $830 million a year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years while keeping up with school maintenance needs." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

School nutrition

Promesses de ONDP

Create a universal school food programme, using fresh food prepared and grown in-province

"Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Double funding for the First Nations School Nutrition Program

Health & Healthcare

Diagnostic and procedure wait-times

Promesses de ONDP

Increase the Northern Health Travel Grant rates to help patients and their families travel to get care

"We will also increase rates for the Northern Health Travel Grant to help ease the cost burden on patients and their families who have to travel to get care." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Create a centralised referral system that covers the entire province and its specialties

"Ontario needs a centralized referral system that covers the entire province and its specialties. From pediatrics to adult care, wait times vary greatly for diagnostic imaging, surgical and specialist access. A centralized referral system would connect patients to care faster. The Ford government promised this in their Your Health plan but have not delivered." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Drugs and addiction

Promesses de ONDP

Fund more detox beds and residential treatment beds

"We will fund the addition of detox beds and residential treatment beds." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Increase funding to community mental health service providers like CMHA and AMHO

"We will increase funding to community mental health service providers, like CMHA and AMHO, that provide crucial services to help people with addictions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Emergency wait-times

Promesses de ONDP

Restore 24/7 emergency services to Welland Hospital
Return to 90/10 cost sharing with municipalities for ambulance services for the next two years

"We will ensure you can call 911 from everywhere in the North and improve access to emergency medical services. We will return to 90/10 cost sharing with municipalities for ambulance services for two years to get more ambulances and paramedics on the road while maintaining locally focused delivery in partnership with municipal service managers." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Family doctors and primary care

Promesses de ONDP

Speed up approval of team-based primary care proposals

"We will accelerate the approval of team-based primary care proposals from Community Health Centres, Nurse Practitioner Led Clinics, and Indigenous Primary Care Organizations that have submitted applications but still await review and funding." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Connect doctors to a support team for administrative work

"We will unlock more time for doctors to spend with patients by cutting the administrative burden and connecting doctors to a support team." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Patients Ahead of Paperwork: Family doctors are spending up to 20 hours a week, the equivalent of more than two days of full-time work, on the paperwork burden — filling out lengthy forms, writing unnecessary sick notes for employers — time that eats away at the amount of time doctors can spend with patients. Taking paperwork off of doctors’ desks will allow them to see an avg of 20 more patients a day.

• The Ontario Medical Association estimates that 40-50% of their time can be freed up when doctors are connected to team-based care. By reducing the amount of time doctors spend on administrative work, we can unlock thousands of hours for doctors to spend with patients and significantly increase the number of patients that each doctor can roster.

• We will streamline time-consuming administrative tasks and reduce the number of forms that are required to be filled out by a doctor

• We will invest in a surge of additional healthcare staff so that doctors can spend their time being doctors." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Hire 200 family physicians and 150 specialist doctors for Northern Ontario
Add 3,500 doctors to the primary care system over 4 years by increasing residency spots and connecting new grads to interdisciplinary teams

"We will add 3,500 doctors to the primary care system over four years. We will increase residency spots in medical schools and clear barriers for the 13,000 internationally trained and ready-to-practice doctors in Ontario who are ready to enter the healthcare workforce." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will pay community health workers fairly to make sure the sector does not fall behind. We will increase residency seats and licensing opportunities for internationally trained doctors and healthcare workers already here in Ontario who are not yet able to practice.

• We will add 3,500 doctors to the primary care system by increasing residency spots in medical schools and incentivizing new graduates to stay in primary care by connecting them to an interdisciplinary team.

• We will clear barriers for the 13,000 internationally trained and ready-to-practice doctors to enter the healthcare workforce." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Create a centralised referral system that covers the entire province and its specialties

"Ontario needs a centralized referral system that covers the entire province and its specialties. From pediatrics to adult care, wait times vary greatly for diagnostic imaging, surgical and specialist access. A centralized referral system would connect patients to care faster. The Ford government promised this in their Your Health plan but have not delivered." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Invest $4.1B over four years to ensure everyone has access to team-based primary care

"We will invest $4.1 billion over four years to ensure everyone in Ontario has access to team-based primary care." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

No longer require family doctors to pay when their patients receive care from a walk-in clinic

"Stop the practice of “negation,” where your family doctor has to pay when you receive care from a walk-in clinic, and patients can face “deregistration” and lose their doctor as a result." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Increase pay in the community health sector by investing in a base budget increase of 5% annually for community health organisations

"Make sure workers in the community health sector are paid fairly. Ontario needs to invest in a base budget increase of 5% or $33.7 million annually for community-governed comprehensive primary health care organizations. Members have only seen a 6% increase over 27 years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Francophone health

Promesses de ONDP

Create culturally appropriate training and long-term and home care for Francophone and First Nations seniors

"We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Return the midwifery programme to Sudbury University

"We will return the midwifery program to Sudbury University to increase access to labour and delivery services while growing our francophone health care workforce." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Health staffing

Promesses de ONDP

Legislate safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios

"We will bring in safe nurse-patient ratios for better care and end the reliance on for-profit private nursing agencies that are costing hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Increase the number of nurses, including hiring at least 15,000 nurses over the next three years
End reliance on private, for-profit nursing agencies
Establish a Northern Command Centre to manage health care worker capacity across the North

"We will establish a Northern Command Centre to support recruitment, gather data on system capacity, and quickly identify emerging workforce issues." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Increase funding to locum programs and opportunities for educational and targeted skills development in Northern Ontario

"We will increase funding to locum programs and opportunities for educational and targeted skills development in northern Ontario, building local knowledge and a skillset suited for the unique challenges of medicine in remote communities." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Hospitals

Promesses de ONDP

Remove parking fees at hospitals

"We will eliminate parking fees at hospitals for staff, visitors and patients. No one should be worried about paying for parking at a hospital during an affordability crisis, whether you are a patient, a loved one, a front-line worker or a doctor." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Expedite the Windsor-Essex Regional Hospital
Build a new hospital for Brandford
Restore service to Fort Erie and Port Colborne Urgent Care
Restore 24/7 emergency services to Welland Hospital

Long-term care

Promesse de ONDP

Create culturally appropriate training and long-term and home care for Francophone and First Nations seniors

"We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Mental health

Promesses de ONDP

Increase funding to community mental health service providers like CMHA and AMHO

"We will increase funding to community mental health service providers, like CMHA and AMHO, that provide crucial services to help people with addictions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Establish wage parity for health care workers in community settings, allowing primary care providers to offer mental health support

"We will establish wage parity for health care workers in community settings to ensure community primary care providers can also offer mental health support." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Natal care

Promesse de ONDP

Return the midwifery programme to Sudbury University

"We will return the midwifery program to Sudbury University to increase access to labour and delivery services while growing our francophone health care workforce." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Seniors' health and wellbeing

Promesses de ONDP

Provide a monthly Caregiver Benefit for those caring for loved ones at home

"We will make it easier for seniors to age at home safely with reliable access to home care and a monthly Caregiver Benefit for those caring for loved ones at home. We will make it more affordable for seniors to make renovations that will help them age at home." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Create culturally appropriate training and long-term and home care for Francophone and First Nations seniors

"We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Housing & Homelessness

Home construction and supply

Promesses de ONDP

Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

"Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Provide grants and low-cost financing for non-market housing providers

"We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. Homes Ontario will provide grants and low-cost financing to enable more non-market housing providers, like Mel Swart Co-Operative Homes and Welland’s Commonwealth Cooperative, to build on the long history of co-operative housing in the Niagara region. We will speed up the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit or co-op housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Homeless services

Promesse de ONDP

Provincially fund homeless shelters, community housing, and homelessness prevention programmes

"Homelessness has tripled since 2016 and is rising faster in Northern Ontario than in southern Ontario. This has imposed an especially high burden on Northern Ontario municipalities, which are left stuck paying the price for provincial policy failures. An Ontario NDP government will upload the costs of community housing, shelters and homelessness prevention programs back to the province where they belong." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Public and affordable housing

Promesses de ONDP

Create 60,000 new supportive housing units

"Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing

"Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing, as part of our costed Homes Ontario plan, which sets a goal of 1.5 million new homes in 10 years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy

"We will work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy to deliver affordable, culturally-appropriate housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Rental housing

Promesses de ONDP

Work with the federal government to increase funding for the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which assists with rental costs

"More housing benefits that help people move out of shelters, into homes. Doug Ford has withheld funding for programs like the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, allowing shelters to overflow. We’ll work with the Federal government to boost the program and help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Provide more protections for renters

"Stop people from losing their homes by bringing forward real protections for renters and doubling social assistance rates so people can better keep up with the cost of housing." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Crack down on renovictions, demovictions and other illegal tactics. We’ll beef up the rules, fix the Landlord and Tenant board and we’ll stop the Conservative and Liberal plan to evict people faster." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Double social assistance rates
Attach rent control to the unit, so that landlords can't raise rents between tenants

"We’ll attach rent control to the unit to stop landlords from jacking up rent between tenants - removing the incentive for landlords to use unethical tactics to squeeze out existing tenants so they can raise the rent on the next one." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Remove the rent control exemption for units built after 2018

"We’ll close the unfair loophole that exempts units built after 2018." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

"Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Limit short-term rentals like Airbnb to one's primary residence

"Limit short-term rentals (eg: Airbnb) to one’s primary residence, protecting the supply of long-term rental housing" — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Jobs, Businesses, & Labour

Agriculture

Promesses de ONDP

Remove the cap from the Risk Management Program

"To address the threat of Trump tariffs on agricultural products like pork, beef, grain products and fresh vegetables, an Ontario NDP government would completely remove the cap from the Risk Management Program, ensuring the government has the tools it needs to protect Ontario farmers from Cochrane to Algoma, and the jobs they support." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Create a universal school food programme, using fresh food prepared and grown in-province

"Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed. Ontario already feeds some kids in school, we’ll expand it for all and use fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario to do it. We can help kids focus on their teacher, not their hunger, and give families some financial relief." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Stop plans to convert 770 acres of farmland in the Wilmot area into an industrial area

"We will protect prime farmland and stop the unfair and secretive Wilmot land grab, focusing development sensibly and cost-effectively within existing urban boundaries." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Gig and contract workers

Promesse de ONDP

Classify app-based gig workers as employees

Inter-provincial business and trade

Promesse de ONDP

Find new customers for Algoma Steel in Sault St. Marie, Vale mining in Sudbury, and the forestry industry

"We will find new customers for Algoma Steel in Sault St. Marie, Vale mining operations in Sudbury, that will benefit the thousands of Northerners employed in mining operations and related industries, and the thousands employed in the forestry industry." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Labour protections

Promesses de ONDP

Return to a simple card certification system for forming unions

"We’ll make it easier to form a union and collect the bigger paycheque that comes with it, by returning to a simple card certification system." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Ban the use of replacement workers during job disputes
Mandate equal pay and 10 days of paid leave

"We will continue to champion real reforms that benefit workers that have been rejected by the Ford government including: 10-days paid leave; equal pay; anti-scab legislation, and enforcement of workplace law violations, including severe penalties for unsafe work conditions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Manufacturing

Promesses de ONDP

Bring back electric vehicle rebates
Require the Ontario Line subway project to have 25% Canadian content

"We will restore Canadian Content requirements that Ford changed for the Ontario Line subway project back to 25 per cent, to make sure Ontario transit projects use Ontario made vehicles like those built in Thunder Bay. Northern communities have lost thousands of good paying manufacturing jobs since 2018. We will work with unions, employers and communities in Algoma, Timmins, Scheiber and Terrace Bay to protect jobs and the communities built around industries." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Tourism

Promesse de ONDP

Bring back the Stay-cation Tax Credit to encourage tourism and travel within Ontario

"We will bring back the Stay-cation Tax Credit to encourage tourism and travel within Ontario. This will help stabilize Niagara region tourism recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of tariffs." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Trump's Tariffs

Promesses de ONDP

Work with affected industries, alongside labour unions, to defend jobs and help businesses find new markets

"We will work with affected industries in auto, agriculture and steel, and tourism, alongside labour unions, to defend every job, help businesses find new markets, promote Ontario-made goods and direct government to procure locally." — _On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara_, retrieved 2025-02-20

Direct government agencies to prioritise Canadian goods in procurement processes

"We will immediately direct provincial agencies to prioritize Canadian goods in their procurement processes and will work with the federal government to protect the incomes of workers affected by tariffs." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Launch a Buy Ontario campaign to promote Ontario goods

"We will also direct the provincial government and provincially-funded entities to adopt Buy Ontario public procurement policies to offset the impact of tariffs on Ontario food exporters." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Negotiate a joint federal-provincial income assistance programme to support people affected by tarrifs
Create a Premier's Task Force on the Economy with business, labour, and civil society

Society & Government

Infrastructure

Promesse de ONDP

Provide consistent formula-based funding to municipalities to maintain, snow-clear, and repair infrastructure

"We will provide adequate, predictable and consistent formula-based provincial funding to ensure that municipalities are able to maintain, snow-clear and repair their roads, bridges and other infrastructure, with additional support for small and Northern municipalities that must look after large areas with small tax bases." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Intimate partner violence

Promesse de ONDP

Recognise intimate partner violence as an epidemic

"We will recognize Intimate Partner Violence as an epidemic, and ensure survivors have the support they need to get on their feet, including emergency shelters." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Transportation & Transit

Highways and roads

Promesses de ONDP

Expand Highway 40 to Sarnia
Add concrete safety barriers to the most dangerous section of Highway 401

"We’ll expand highway 40 to Sarnia and fix Carnage Alley, the most dangerous section of Hwy 401, where the Ford government failed to prioritize concrete safety barriers." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Take back financial responsibility for formerly provincially-owned controlled-access highways and "Connecting Link" highways

"The province will take back financial responsibility for formerly provincially owned controlled-access highways and for “Connecting Link” highways whose costs were unfairly downloaded onto municipalities, like the EC Row Expressway in Windsor." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Widen Highway 11/17 and Highway 69, and build the Cochrane Bypass
End private highway maintenance contracts

"We will put an end to private highway maintenance contracts that have been a disaster for Ontario drivers and bring snow clearance and highway maintenance back under public control." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Increase training for truck drivers to prepare them for snowy winters

"We’ll also make sure truck drivers receive increased training, so they are prepared for Ontario’s snowy winters, especially in Northern Ontario." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Inter-city bus and rail

Promesses de ONDP

Implement a Northern Rail and Bus Strategy to fast-track Northlander passenger service to Timmins and Cochrane

"The Ontario NDP will implement a Northern Rail and Bus Strategy that will fast-track the long-delayed delivery of the Northlander passenger service to both Timmins and Cochrane, with a proper connection to the Polar Bear Express." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Support rail services like the Huron Central and Algoma Central Rail Lines

Northern air travel

Promesse de ONDP

Upgrade runways and terminal buildings, increase staffing levels, expand service hours, and ensure de-icing equipment at northern airports

"An NDP government will make urgently needed improvements to Northern Airports that are critical for 29 Ontario First Nations that are accessible only by air. We will upgrade runways and terminal buildings, increase staffing levels, expand service hours, and ensure de-icing equipment at all airports." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Public transit

Promesses de ONDP

Expand the GO Lakeshore West rail line, build the Grimsby GO station, and restore reliable express GO service

"Commuters in Niagara will finally be able to ride on the long-planned and long-delayed expansions and improvements to the GO Lakeshore West rail line, including moving ahead on the Grimsby GO station and restoring reliable express GO service." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

Advance planning for expanded GO rail service to communities such as Cambridge, Guelph, and London
Fund Phase 2 of the Waterloo ION LRT
Cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50

"We’ll cost share municipal transit operating funding 50-50 to improve reliability and affordability." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

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