"And we will strongly support Ontario Creates and Ontario Arts Council programs to ensure people throughout the arts and culture sector have the support and respect they need." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will also partner with Ontario’s francophone community to grow and promote book publishing, film and television, live performance, and cultural festivals in French — a key thread in the tapestry of our province." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Undertake an ambitious Saving Annually through Value and Efficiency (SAVE) process that will aim to achieve 2.5% of annual savings and value enhancement for Ontario taxpayers." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create an Office of Cost Control which will have the responsibility for oversight on all major public sector procurement projects and spending at both the municipal and provincial level, including reviewing the significant overspending on recent transportation projects. We will also leverage the best available Canadian innovation, technology and artificial intelligence (AI), cut down on outsourcing, improve efficiency and project delivery, and better focus the province on what it can do best." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"End for-profit care and introduce provincewide licensing of group homes to ensure our services place children at the centre of care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Develop an updated funding formula that brings greater financial stability to the sector and prioritises the delivery of non-profit high-quality, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, community-based care that empowers children and youth" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure children’s aid societies have access to the complex care, housing and financial supports needed to support families to be successful" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure access to affirming and inclusive care for those with complex needs by sufficiently funding community-based organisations and service providers to deliver highly specialised, intensive and licensed out-of- home care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a strategy to recruit, train and retain foster families and spaces for respite." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Prioritise family- and community-based placements by ensuring kin and alternate caregivers receive adequate financial assistance and have timely access to local supports, services, and treatment" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Shift the Ready, Set, Go to a readiness-based system with no aging out, ensuring adequate integrated and individualised transition supports are available" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Support Indigenous-led child welfare and protection services to ensure they can address the unique needs of the children in their care, and keep children in their communities." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools, including but not limited to covering costs for free evening, weekend, March break, and summer permits for non-profit community organisations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Provide start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens through land gifts and organisational support to eliminate urban food deserts" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will double social assistance rates for ODSP and OW to get people out of deep poverty and boost the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit program to help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Improve the Assistive Devices Pro- gram to better meet the needs of those requiring assistive tools, including more up-to-date devices, training, and fewer barriers to access as well as ensuring appropriate standards for repair of devices" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Immediately increase funding for community living agencies across Ontario, including the Passport and Special Services at Home programs, in line with both cost of living and the needs of developmentally delayed adults" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Phase in a Basic Income, with the first step being to at least double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW) rates and get rid of aggressive and unfair clawbacks, including clawbacks from the Canada Disability Benefit

1. Eliminate any unnecessary red tape, reporting requirements, and other barriers typically faced by those needing financial support
2. Remove ODSP from the purview of Employment Ontario
3. Ensure shelter allowances reflect the shelter costs where people live"

— Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index it to inflation so that Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will reform our voting system to make it fair and more inclusive, replacing first-past-the-post with a mixed-member proportional voting system where every vote counts. We will consult with the public, civil society and other political parties to design a made-in-Ontario voting system that reflects the needs of our communities." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a diverse, randomly selected Citizens Assembly on electoral reform with a mandate to provide binding recommendations on modernising Ontario's electoral system to ensure that every vote counts and that the legislature reflects the democratic will of the people" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase the number of mobile polls at hospitals, seniors’ residences, and for people with accessibility issues which prohibit them from easily leaving their homes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Make funding available for non-profit organisations that provide additional training and mentorship opportunities for women, Black, Indigenous, racialised, and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals who are considering running for political office" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increase the quality and quantity of local public input in provincial decision-making by creating new channels to give citizens a voice, both through MPPs and ministries" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure that interpreters, translators, or multilingual written materials are available in publicly funded services. Improve awareness of their availability" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Require a minimum proportion of women on public corporations’ boards and executive level positions, with a goal to achieve gender parity" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Re-enact the Pay Transparency Act, a vital tool for addressing the gender pay gap in this province, which was repealed by this government" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Apply a gender-based analysis to all government legislation and programming to advise on how gender equity can be better achieved" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"The Ontario NDP will strengthen lobbying rules and the Members Integrity Act, ensuring decisions are made in the public’s best interest— not for profit-driven political friends." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

""Lead an across-government effort to spend taxpayers’ money wisely and invest the savings back into economic stimulus and health care.

Investigate all of Doug Ford’s giveaways, handouts, and sweetheart deals for his rich friends, including the:

$1.9 billion spent on speeding up the sale of booze by multinational corporations, big grocers, and foreign retail giants

$100 million deal with Elon Musk (noted Donald Trump insider) and Starlink Snap closure of the Ontario Science Centre on land primed for development

$2 billion sell-off of Ontario Place to a foreign-owned spa

Sweetheart deal to open ServiceOntario outlets in private American-owned stores $8 billion Greenbelt giveaway to his friends and donors, an issue that is currently being investigated by the RCMP

Dozens of crony patronage appointments at public institutions like the LCBO, Ontario Power Generation, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee and more

MZO’s Doug Ford gave to his rich buddies"

— Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Any policies impacting First Nations will be guided by the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), as a matter of law, across government." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"And we’ll formalize our commitment to a tripartite consultation process between First Nations rights holders, the provincial government, and resource industries on any proposed plan impacting First Nations territories." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"An NDP government will ensure, through resource revenue agreements that revenues are equitably shared and flow to First Nations, including 100% of mining tax revenues." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We’ll work to fulfill Ontario’s obligations to the outstanding Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, and we’ll make Truth and Reconciliation Day a statutory provincial holiday." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Implement UNDRIP to ensure equity for Indigenous peoples" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Recognise First Nations’ right to self-determination and establish a co-management stewardship model for the development of provincial resources with fair revenue sharing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Recognise and integrate Indigenous laws and legal traditions in the nego- tiation and implementation process- es involving treaties, land claims, and other constructive agreements" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Support Indigenous-led child welfare and protection services to ensure they can address the unique needs of the children in their care, and keep children in their communities." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a fair, open and independent land claims process for land to be restored to Indigenous treaty holders and support Indigenous land defenders in asserting their treaty rights and actions taken to confront threats to their traditional lands" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Work with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to identify, collect, and provide copies of all records relevant to the history and legacy of the residential school system in Ontario" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Develop a Framework to End Violence Against Women, aligned with the 2007 report by the Ontario Native Women’s Association and the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres as mandated by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"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

"Provide $2B per year for capital spending for municipalities to build resilient infrastructure through a dedicated Climate Adaptation Fund" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Launch the Pothole Prevention Fund, which will support municipalities with road maintenance funds to help make Ontario roads safer and prevent accidents and vehicle damage that can occur from potholes." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"[...] uploading municipal building approvals for provincially-led and/or provincially-funded schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, courthouses, union training centres and other critical infrastructure projects." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Providing another $5 billion for the Building Ontario Fund, for a total of $8 billion, to invest in housing, long-term care, energy, transportation and municipal infrastructure projects." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"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

"Completing courtroom repairs, considering reopening shuttered courthouses, and building new courthouses in regions where there is not enough existing infrastructure." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Funding Legal Aid Ontario so more Ontarians can access procedural assistance, legal information and legal advice." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Reform the current bail system to ensure the 80% of people in jail awaiting trial have access to fair and fast trials and to prevent the overcrowding of prisons" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ensure that court mental health workers are available in all regions of Ontario to divert more individuals living with a mental health issue and/or substance use concern out of the justice system and into mental health and addictions services and supports" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Restore adequate funding to Legal Aid by boosting their base budget and develop a long-term, structurally stable funding plan" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Reducing criminal court backlogs and ensuring justice for victims by continuing to invest $30 million to hire over 190 new criminal prosecutors and appointing new judges and justices of the peace . A re-elected PC government will also focus the judicial selection criteria and process to select judges and justices of the peace that uphold the Criminal Code and are tough on crime." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Expanding the use of GPS monitoring bracelets for people granted bail and requiring offenders to pay a fee to offset the cost of administering the GPS Monitoring Program to improve community safety and save taxpayers millions of dollars each year." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Making bail payment real and effective by mandating upfront payment of bail bond deposits." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Building more jails so that we have enough capacity to keep dangerous criminals off our streets and behind bars, where they belong ." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Increasing access to addictions treatment units in jails, including as a condition of probation, to help people exit the vicious cycle of crime and addiction and keep communities safe." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Expanding the use and scope of practice for opioid antagonists and partial agonists medications in correctional and community settings to combat long-term addiction and dependence by increasing access to medications that block the effects of opioids." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Train more officers to get crime and drugs off our streets and launch special Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders involved with illegal drug and fentanyl trafficking, firearm offences, robberies, home invasion, carjacking and auto-theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Create a comprehensive strategy to ensure equitable, inclusive and affirming access to care and treatment for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities within our healthcare system including gender-affirming procedures and medications" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Require ongoing educational training about 2SLGBTQIA+ identities, gender and sexuality, and examine prejudice, assumptions, and privilege that builds awareness of homo/bi/transphobia and racism for those providing publicly funded services" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Reinstate upper-tier regional planning authority to ensure coordinated and sustainable planning to build the housing we need while protecting agricultural and natural heritage" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Assess the use of City Charters as a mechanism to empower major Ontario cities, such as Toronto, and prevent inappropriate interference in local democracy by the provincial government" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will protect the Greenbelt, and Ontario’s prime farmland, by focusing growth sustainably and cost-effectively within the pre-2022 urban boundaries, keeping infrastructure costs down in the process." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Reverse the Ford government’s changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"In addition to supporting farmers by stopping the paving of prime farmland, we’ll also protect your basement from flooding by stopping the paving of wet- lands. Wetlands act as a critical buffer to protect our homes from flooding, absorbing rainwater during intense storms that are only increasing in intensity, frequency and cost due to climate change. Unfortunately, Doug Ford’s approach of destroying wetlands with wasteful projects like Highway 413, and his attack on Conservation Authorities, is increasing the risk of your home flooding in the next big storm. In addition to protecting wetlands, we’ll make it easier for families to flood-proof their basements with zero-interest loans, and support cities to spruce up their roads, bridges and buildings to be ready for the next torrential downpour." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Restore the independence and ca- pacity of the Greenbelt Council and Niagara Escarpment Commission to enable decision-making consistent with the goals and objectives of those provincial plans" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Protect prime farmland, including the Greenbelt and champion a sustainable agri-food sector to support farmers and rural communities." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"A re-elected Ontario PC government will open the first new, all-season provincial park in 40 years to focus on building stronger and healthier communities by expanding recreational opportunities for families to enjoy . The Bigwind Lake Provincial Park, located near the Town of Bracebridge, will offer facilities and recreational activities including swimming, hiking, cross- country skiing, and add around 250 new campsites to the Ontario Parks system." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Cracking down on auto theft by investing more than $70 million in new measures to help police dismantle organized crime networks, along with stiffer penalties for auto thieves, including a life-time driver’s license ban for repeat offenders and the strongest penalties in Canada for VIN fraud, including up to $100,000 in fines and six months in jail, alongside strengthened measures and technology at Service Ontario to eliminate all transactions involving stolen vehicles." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Continue supporting our brave men and women in policing by graduating an additional 550 police officers each year for a total 2,080 annually, eliminating tuition fees for Basic Constable Training to incentivize new recruits and investing $1 billion for a new and renovated Ontario Police College and Ontario Provincial Police Academy to help improve and expand police training in our province." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"$38 million to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organizations implement measures to ensure their community spaces remain safe and secure, such as hiring security staff, surveillance cameras, security assessments, cybersecurity and building repairs." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Expanding and strengthening the Sex Offender Registry to include more types of offenses, such as human trafficking, to hold more criminals to account by naming and shaming those that are convicted of these heinous crimes. This is on top of the enhancements to Christopher’s Law that our PC government passed making it illegal for sex offenders to change their names and hide their identities." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Train more officers to get crime and drugs off our streets and launch special Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders involved with illegal drug and fentanyl trafficking, firearm offences, robberies, home invasion, carjacking and auto-theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Hire an additional 300 special constables for TTC, OC Transpo, Metrolinx and other major transit service providers across the province." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Safeguard communities and assist policy to monitor and catch criminals by introducing the SAFE Rebate (Supporting Access to Funding for Equipment) that offers up to $500 rebate for homes, $5,000 rebate for small businesses and $10,000 rebate for religious/cultural institutions to purchase safety equipment that deters auto-theft, robberies and other criminal activities." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Ban organizing or participating in hate-motivated activities or protests that incite violence or intimidation within 100 metres of the property line of any vulnerable social infrastructure (ex. place of worship, school, childcare centre, or hospital) anywhere in the province, and impose a maximum fine of $100,000 for each violation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will re-establish the Anti-Racism Secretariat to support communities to stamp out hate. The Secretariat will coordinate collection across government to ensure programs and services meet our equity goals." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"We will create Anti- Racism Councils to advocate on behalf of racialized communities and provide information, advice and recommendations to the government, through the minister, on all ethnocultural matters, including anti-racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and education, human rights, immigration, settlement and cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Strengthen the Anti-Racism Directorate to more ambitiously address systemic racism in education, child welfare, health and justice sectors through increased funding, more objective goals, and improved reporting on data outcomes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Commit to the elimination of racism and discrimination within the Ontario Public Service ensuring this includes conducting random external audits, data collection and reporting, and establishing a safe harassment and discrimination reporting system for staff" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Bolster the Human Rights Tribunal to ensure that they have adequate resources to address each concern in a timely and effective way" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Pass the Our London Family Act to change the way we address Islamophobia in Ontario" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

"$38 million to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organizations implement measures to ensure their community spaces remain safe and secure, such as hiring security staff, surveillance cameras, security assessments, cybersecurity and building repairs." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

"Ban organizing or participating in hate-motivated activities or protests that incite violence or intimidation within 100 metres of the property line of any vulnerable social infrastructure (ex. place of worship, school, childcare centre, or hospital) anywhere in the province, and impose a maximum fine of $100,000 for each violation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

"Increasing the Community Sport and Recreation Fund by $300 million to help build more rinks, arenas, sports centres and other community infrastructure." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

"Investing $50 million to expand the Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) Joint-Air Support Unit with two additional H-135 helicopters to support the Niagara Regional Police and the Windsor Police Service with increased patrols, security and enforcement at key border entry points for the province. The Joint-Air Support Unit was created by the PC government through a $134 million investment in last year’s budget, with new police helicopters to help police in Ottawa, Toronto, Durham, Halton and Peel fight auto theft and combat organized crime." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19