"Cracking down on drugs, including fentanyl and its precursors, illegal guns, and stopping organized crime gangs from smuggling cars out of the country. We will train 1,000 new Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers. In addition, to secure our borders, we will stand up additional border scanners, drones and new K-9 teams, to target more suspicious shipments at our land borders, ports, and railyards;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

"Holding those profiting from bringing fentanyl into our communities accountable by prosecuting more complex drug production trafficking and importation offences. We will invest in the Public Prosecution Services of Canada so that they can do so;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

"Provide urgent and immediate support to address the overdose crisis by adding $500 million to the Emergency Treatment Fund to support municipalities, Indigenous Peoples, and community health care organizations to confront the toxic drug and overdose crisis and connect more people to treatment and vital services, faster." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Amending the Canada Post Corporation Act to allow police to search for and seize fentanyl and other contraband in Canada Post mail with a general warrant." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

"Fund treatment for 50,000 Canadians. A new Conservative government will fund treatment for 50,000 Canadians in treatment centres with a proven record of success at getting people off drugs. This includes successful models like the Bruce Oake Recovery Centre, which helps people recover and reunite with their families, communities, and culture. To ensure the best outcomes, funding will follow results. Where spaces in good treatment programs exist, we will use them, and where they need to expand, these funds will allow that." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

"Ban drug dens from being located within 500 metres of schools, daycares, playgrounds, parks, and seniors’ homes and impose strict new oversight rules." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

"Poilievre also pledged to crack down on the Liberals’ reckless experiments with free access to illegal drugs that allow provinces to operate drug sites with no oversight, while pausing any new federal exemptions until evidence justifies they support recovery." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

"He will also end the exemption for fly-by-night provincially-regulated sites." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

"Existing federal sites will be required to operate away from residential communities and places where families and children frequent and will now also have to focus on connecting users with treatment, meet stricter regulatory standards or be shut down." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

"Existing federal sites will be required to operate away from residential communities and places where families and children frequent and will now also have to focus on connecting users with treatment, meet stricter regulatory standards or be shut down." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

"Ensure Canadians can securely access their health care data because your medical history should be available instantly to you and your doctor anytime and anywhere in Canada. We will table legislation to enable secure access to health data. Better data that moves with patients to each new appointment means better care, better outcomes, and more choice for patients." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Launch a Task Force for Public Health Care Innovation to invest and scale up made-in-Canada public health care solutions, leverage, and improve the quality of data, and evaluate and ensure accountability in public investments in health care, including the $25 billion Working Together Agreements signed with provinces and territories." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"To help tackle the doctor shortage, we’ll boost Canada Health Transfers by an additional 1% for provinces that commit to action and publicly report on their progress. This incentive will support real partnerships to train, recruit, and retain the health workers Canadians need." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Working with territorial governments to provide housing and facilities for family doctors and primary care teams to keep healthcare providers in the North" — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Build critical health infrastructure like hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities by working with provinces and territories." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

"Build hospitals, clinics, and more by investing $4 billion to construct and renovate community health care infrastructure. This will also support investments in public long-term care; improve access to team-based care, including mental health care services; and provide funding for expensive machinery like MRIs. We have seen hospitals and clinics closing at the same time as health care needs are growing. The urgency to end wait times and hallway health care cannot be ignored. It’s time to build hospitals so that Canadians have access to the care they need. We will work with provinces and territories to accelerate this work and cost-share these investments. We will also work with First Nation, Inuit, and Métis communities to ensure improved access to these critical services." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Make it easier to set up clinics in new communities through a new-practice fund to help family doctors with the costs of opening a practice, such as new clinic space and medical equipment and technologies. New doctors graduate with a lot of debt. We want them to be able to start practices in communities where patients are looking for doctors." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"To help tackle the doctor shortage, we’ll boost Canada Health Transfers by an additional 1% for provinces that commit to action and publicly report on their progress. This incentive will support real partnerships to train, recruit, and retain the health workers Canadians need." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Implementing a pan-Canadian licensure, to help medical professionals practice where they are needed across the country" — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Working with territorial governments to provide housing and facilities for family doctors and primary care teams to keep healthcare providers in the North" — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"And we will put in place a $5,000 tax credit to help boost pay for more than 780,000 nurses and Personal Support Workers." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Increase medical school and residency spaces, and build new medical schools and expand residency positions, especially for family medicine. This will be done in close collaboration with each province and territory to reflect their priorities and population needs. We will consider the unique health care access needs of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis and establish a dedicated stream to increase access to medical care in areas of federal jurisdiction." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Make it easier for internationally trained doctors and health professionals to practice in Canada. We will work with provincial and territorial partners to streamline credential recognition for internationally trained doctors and nurses so that qualified health care professionals already living here can contribute to our health care system." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Address labour mobility issues and implement pan-Canadian licensure so that health workers can be employed anywhere in Canada. By advancing mutual recognition of credentials across provinces and territories we can improve workforce flexibility, lower health care costs, and reduce regional shortages [more]." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Recruit qualified doctors through a new global recruitment strategy that will fast-track the arrival of doctors into Canada, including Canadians practicing abroad and other U.S.-trained physicians and health researchers. To make sure Canada fully capitalizes on this opportunity, we will increase funding for research grants and infrastructure at our hospitals and other health care institutions." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Provide Personal Support Workers (PSWs) with up to $1,100 a year by immediately legislating a refundable Health Care Workers Hero Tax Credit." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Reduce the administrative burden on doctors with streamlined and standardized forms and scaling up digital tools that significantly reduce paperwork and leave more time for patient visits. And we will also launch a new program to support doctors in safely and securely adopting new digital tools such as e-prescribing and e-referrals. We will also support tools that are bilingual for doctors and nurses." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Implement a national licence for physicians and nurses, giving health workers more mobility across the country and making it easier to respond to workforce needs across jurisdictions." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Support training for nurses, PSWs, and teachers by expanding the Union Training and Innovation Program (UTIP) to include training spaces. When we take care of caregivers, they are better able to take care of patients." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"As a tangible step to expanding mental health coverage, we will ensure that all Canadians can access services like psychotherapy and counselling by launching a new plan to cover these services for those who are currently not covered by work plans." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Provide 100,000 young people a year with mental health care by establishing a permanent Youth Mental Health Fund. This fund will enhance community-based mental health services and give access to mental health care to people who otherwise would not, improving the lives of young people, and the friends and families that love them." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"Invest in deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, and shelters in recognition of the link between housing and mental health outcomes. We will do this through $6 billion invested in the new Build Canada Homes (BCH) which will build and acquire housing. This investment builds on the Rapid Housing Initiative which supported 15,000 homes for our most vulnerable, including projects like Dunn House in Toronto, Canada’s first-ever social medicine supportive housing initiative. We will continue to work with partners to deliver projects that recognize the link between housing and health outcomes." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

"We will get the job done, putting in place a universal program within four years. Mark Carney’s proposed cuts would stop pharmacare in its tracks. During the first year of the next Parliament, we will get deals with every province to cover diabetes medications and birth control. And we will expand that first step by covering essential medicines by the end of the first year, building to full coverage by the end of four years." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

"Significantly reduce wait times for life-saving medications. Canadian patients wait too long for public access to medicines following Health Canada approval, compared to patients in peer countries, putting us behind other G7 countries. By cutting red tape without compromising on safety we will cut this timeline while maintaining all relevant safety standards, supporting our research community, and delivering lifesaving medicines more quickly." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22