CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY

PLATFORMS
Issue

Liberal

NDP

Conservative

Green

Bloc
Quebecois

Education

For too many

Canadians,
rising costs have
made postsecondary
education
increasingly out
of reach.
while Liberals
support an
education
system
developed along
comprehensive
lines, the local
community must
be left to decide
what sort of
schools are best
for them, and the
mix of subjects
to be taught.

Bringing in
quality,
affordable
childcare.
begin to
address the
deplorable
quality of
education in
many First
Nations
communities.

Improve
students skills
in critical
thinking,
problem-solving
and information
management.

Boost
participation in
cooperative
education
programs and
apprenticeships.
People who
earn more than
$150,000 would
also face a tax
increase of 1.5
percentage
points.

Develop a
comprehensive
support plan for
the
manufacturing
and forest
industries.

Health Care

Improving
access and
reducing the
cost of
prescription
medications

cut the smallbusiness tax rate

from 11 percent

Help health
care in country
Defense of
public health
care and
supports the
creation of a
national plan

Greener
buildings
promote
environmental
sustainability
and decrease
atmospheric
emissions
that contribute
to global
warming.

increases to
economic and
population
growth,
promising the
transfers

Environment

economic
opportunities of
our environment
and create
the clean jobs of
tomorrow

Work to tighten
up rules to keep
drunk drivers off
our streets

The
Conservatives
have cut funding
for the National
Round Table on
the Environment
and the
Economy
(NRTEE)

The Green
Party of Canada
has set out its
plan for a
sustainable
future grounded
in fiscal
responsibility,
ecological

Fight climate
change apply
the Kyoto
Protocol, with a
true carbon
market, based on
a territorial
approach.

because the
research group
promoted carbon
taxing.

Law and
Order

From traffic
laws to
regulations on
how the
government
operates, laws
help provide
society with
order and
structure.
The Liberals
are as interested
in managing the
cops as the
crooks,
particularly
where those two
groups intersect

Move forward
on a national
inquiry and an
action plan to
end violence
against
Aboriginal
women
On the surface,
the NDP offer a
fairly balanced
platform that
doesnt make
madly expensive
promises.

The party that

styles itself as
the custodian of
law-and-order
and the keeper
of Canadian
values is also
the party that
when it suits its
needs sees no
evil and hears no
evil.

Family

The Canadian
Learning Strategy
Family Care:
Standing With
Canadians Who
Care for Loved
Ones
A Stronger
Public Pension
System for
Working
Canadians
Health and
Health Care: At
the Table for
Canada

Improve access
to justice for all
by renewing the
federal
governments
commitment to
legal aid.
Increased
grants to
students
They help to
reduce poverty
and contribute
market

The term
family values,
particularly when
used in election
years, is rarely
about what really
matters to
children and
families.

health, and
social justice.
Care and
protection of the
environment
Repeal all the
Harper era
criminal laws
creating
mandatory
minimum
sentences
Oppose any
attempts to
privatize
prisons in
Canada

Provide a
refundable tax
credit for transit
passes.

The Greens are

committed to a
high-quality
federally-funded
child care
program in
Canada,
accessible to
any family that
wants to place
children into
early childhood
education.

With the Bloc

Quebecois,
Quebecers are
making gains. It
is the incessant
work of the Bloc
with the Quebec
government that
allowed the
creation of the
Quebec parental
leave plan in
2006. The same
year, while the
federal
government was
setting up what
would become
the Universal
Care Benefit of
children (UCCB),
the Bloc
launched an
offensive to
make it nontaxable

successfully.