Issue | PC [71] [72] | NDP [73] [74] [75] | Liberal [76] [77] [78] | Green [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] | New Blue [84] | Ontario Party [85] [86] |
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Budget | - Eliminate the deficit in the 2027–2028 fiscal year [87]
| | - Lower the deficit to $5 billion by 2025-2026 [88]
- Present a balanced budget in the 2026-2027 fiscal year [89]
| - Lower the deficit steadily from $20 billion in 2022–23 to $6 billion in 2025-26
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Business subsidies | | - Provide all mining tax revenue to northern Indigenous communities
- Raise business taxes by an unspecified amount
- Subsidize 2SLGBTQIA+, Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs, including the restoration of the Indigenous Culture Fund [90]
- Fund art projects dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion
- Create a small business recovery grant
- Lift the cap on the Risk Management Program
- Provide a loan guarantee to young farmers
- Provide another round of Tourism Recovery Program payments
| - Guarantee loans to small businesses
- Reimburse businesses for costs up to $200 a day for workers to take up to ten paid sick days
| | - Eliminate Torstar's online gambling licence (NorthStar Gaming)
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COVID-19 | | - Add COVID-19 vaccination to the immunization schedule for schools [91]
- Launch a public inquiry into Ontario's response to COVID-19 [92]
- Require at least three vaccine doses for vaccine passports [93]
- Give the Chief Medical Officer of Health the authority to override government decisions
| - Add COVID-19 vaccination to the immunization schedule for schools [91]
- Launch a public inquiry into Ontario's response to COVID-19 [94]
| - Launch a public inquiry into Ontario's response to COVID-19 [95]
| - Eliminate all COVID-19 restrictions and mandates
- Prohibit the use of COVID-19 vaccine passports by businesses
- Expand early treatment for COVID-19
| - Eliminate all COVID-19 restrictions and mandates
- Prohibit the use of COVID-19 vaccine passports by businesses
- Outlaw the ability for the provincial government to impose lockdowns
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Education | - Invest $14 billion to build more schools [95]
- Expand three-year college degrees [96]
- Spend $42.5 million to expand medical education [95]
- Cover tuition and other costs for nursing graduates who commit to work in rural and underserved areas [95]
| - End academic streaming
- Hire 20,000 more teachers
- Hire more custodians and school maintenance staff
- Reduce Grade 4 to Grade 8 class sizes to 24
- Reduce kindergarten class sizes to 26
- Prioritize Ontario based authors and publishers in schools
- Eliminate EQAO testing
- Scrap mandatory online high school courses
- Convert all OSAP loans to grants
- Double the Rural and Northern Education Fund
- Increase funding for special education
- Increase the number of high school trades and shop classes [97]
- Forgive student loan interest
| - End academic streaming
- Spend $10 billion building and repairing schools [98]
- Hire 10,000 more teachers [98]
- Hire 5,000 more special education workers
- Cap class sizes at 20 students for all grades
- Restore Grade 13 as an option for secondary school students for a minimum of 4 years [99]
- Eliminate EQAO tests and replace with new assessment strategy
- Double current OSAP funding [94]
- Continue the tuition freeze
- Eliminate interest on provincial student loans
- Cover tuition costs for medical and nursing students working in a rural or remote communities [94]
- Provide free tuition for all ECE programs
| - Expand nursing schools by 7% every year [95]
- Reduce Grade 4 to Grade 8 class sizes to 24 [95]
- Reduce kindergarten class sizes to 26 [95]
- Introduce a school lunch program [95]
| | - Create a school voucher program
- Remove Critical Race Theory from the curriculum
- Remove gender theory from the curriculum
- Allow the creation of charter schools
- Make it illegal for teachers to promote partisan political positions in the classroom
- Allow parents to opt their children out of certain school lessons
- Require universities to maintain free speech on campus
- Require universities to hire ideologically diverse educators
- Lower tuition fees for degrees with high labour market demand
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Elections | | - Replace the electoral system with Mixed Member Proportional
- Reduce annual political donation limits to $1600
- Ban protests that incite racist, homophobic, transphobic or xenophobic hate
| - Introduce ranked ballots for the next provincial election followed by an independent review [94]
- Allow municipalities the usage of ranked ballot voting systems for elections
- Explore potential changes such as lowering the voting age, voting on weekends and expanded advanced voting [94]
| - Create citizens assembly on electoral reform with mandate to provide binding recommendation to ensure that every vote counts
- Allow municipalities the usage of ranked ballot voting systems for elections
- Limit total contribution for municipal elections to $1000 for all candidates, combined
- Reduce donation limits for provincial political parties, candidates, and constituency associations to $1000 per year
- Restore Auditor General oversight of government advertising
- Require a five-year gap before MPPs and government advisors can register as lobbyists
| - Eliminate subsidies to political parties
| - Establish a process for voters to recall their MPP if they fail to represent them
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Energy and Environment | - Create a new provincial park [100]
- Subsidize the manufacturing of electric vehicles [101]
| - Create a cap-and-trade system [102]
- Ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035
- Create a $10,000 tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicles
- Ban the conversion of any agricultural land into development
- Expand the Greenbelt
- Plant one billion trees by 2030 [103]
- Ban non-medical single-use plastics by 2024 [104]
- Upgrade public school buildings to make them carbon neutral
| - Create five new provincial parks [105]
- Ban new natural gas plants
- Plant 100 million trees per year until 2030 [106]
- Protect 30% of Ontario's land and expand the Greenbelt
- Ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 [94]
- Create a $8,000 tax credit for the purchase or lease of electric vehicles and $1,500 for respective charging equipment [107]
- Eliminate connection fees for rooftop solar charging panels [94]
- Restrict some single-use plastics
- Provide grants and interest-free loans to retrofit homes and buildings [94]
| - Reduce electricity subsidies by $20 billion over 10 years
- Eliminate gas-powered power plants
- Oppose the building of new nuclear power plants or uranium mines [108]
- Protect 30% of Ontario's land and double the size of the Greenbelt [109]
| | - Ban the dumping of untreated waste into bodies of water
- Fund municipal governments to upgrade sewage treatment
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Healthcare | - Build new hospitals in Niagara Falls; Windsor-Essex [110] [111]
- Build 3,000 new hospital beds in 2022-2023
- Provide publicly funded prescriptions to low-income seniors
- Provide publicly funded dental care to low-income seniors
- Offer incentive payments of up to $5,000 over the next two years to nurses who stay in the job [95]
| - Repeal Bill 124
- Establish provincial standards for home-care services and providers [95]
- Build 30,000 mental health supportive housing spaces over ten years
- Provide publicly funded prescriptions to all residents
- Provide publicly funded dental care to all residents
- Increase hospital funding [95]
- Add additional funding to clear the surgical backlog [95]
- Eliminate all user fees in healthcare
- Collect race-based data on health care
- Hire 22,000 more nurses
- Hire 300 more physicians in Northern Ontario
- Stop mergers of public health units
- Provide $400 per month to informal caregivers
- Publicly fund contraception
| - Repeal Bill 124
- Build 3,000 new hospital beds
- Hire 100,000 new health care workers [112]
- Introduce a Portable Benefits Plan for those without or lacking in their employer benefits; provides drug, dental, vision, and mental health coverage [94]
- Build 15,000 mental health supportive housing spaces
- Fully fund clinical costs for hospices
- Build new hospitals in Windsor, South Niagara, Markdale, Moosonee, Moose Factory Island, Innisfil, Whitby and Ottawa [94]
| - Build 60,000 mental health supportive housing spaces
- Increase mental health funding [95]
- Provide publicly funded prescriptions [95]
- Provide publicly funded dental care [95]
- Create a dedicated crisis response line for mental health
- Cover mental health therapy through public funding
| - Work on clearing the backlog of procedures
| - Do not fire healthcare workers who refuse to participate in abortion or assisted-suicide
- End the prohibition on private health facilities and insurance
- Prohibit sex-change surgeries for minors
- Require parental consent for medical treatment for children
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Housing | - Use MZOs to approve the construction of more housing supply
| - Implement rent control
- Subsidize rent for low-income households
- End exclusionary zoning
- Restore in-person hearings at the Landlord and Tenant Board [113]
| - Implement rent control
- Implement a ban on foreign buyers for at least four years [94]
- Fund the construction of 138,000 public housing units, of which 22,000 will be dedicated to off-reserve indigenous residents
- Ban the use of MZOs
| - Implement rent control including vacancy control
- Fund the construction of 100,000 public housing units
- Restore 260,000 community housing units
- Provide portable housing benefits to 311,000 people
- End blind bidding [95]
- Require home inspections at the seller's expense [95]
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Indigenous | | - Create an indigenous curriculum
- Boost funding for Indigenous language education [114]
- Support more Indigenous representation on boards
- Clean up the English-Wabigoon River system [114]
- Establish a provincial strategy to address the suicide crisis among Indigenous youth [114]
- Commission a monument that recognizes the victims of the residential school system [114]
- Establish the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a statutory holiday [114]
- Strengthen fire protection [115]
| - Mandate the inclusion of residential schools into the curriculum [116]
| - Reform child welfare and protection services by ensuring Indigenous communities are served by Indigenous-led providers
- Wortk with NCTR to identify, collect, and provide copies of all records relevant to the history and legacy of the residential school system in Ontario
- Make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday
- Restore funding for the Indigenous curriculum program
- Develop a mandatory curriculum on colonialism and residential schools, treaties, and Indigenous histories and experiences
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Long-term care | - Build 30,000 long-term care beds over six years [94] [117]
- Create a standardized survey of long-term care residents [95]
| - Phase out for-profit long-term care homes [118]
- Build 50,000 long-term care beds [94] [119]
- Hire 10,000 more PSWs
- Raise pay for PSWs by at least $5 per hour [95]
| - Phase out for-profit long-term care homes [120]
- Build 30,000 long-term care beds over six years; redevelop an additional 28,000 existing spaces [94] [121]
| - Phase out for-profit long-term care homes [95]
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Regulation | | - Raise the minimum wage to $20/h over 5 years [123] [124]
- Ban licensed sport shooters from owning handguns
- Provide ten publicly funded sick days for all workers
- Increase the number of jobs covered under Employment Standards and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act [97]
- Implement price controls on gasoline
- Require automobile insurance businesses to charge the same premiums in all regions of Ontario
- Ban the issuing of payday loans
- Require the hiring of more women and racial minorities
- Implement UNDRIP
- Require mandatory anti-oppression and anti-bias training for all public employees and politicians
- Subject all government programs and regulations to a gender-based analysis
| - Raise the minimum wage to $16/h and implement regional living wages [125] [126]
- Ban licensed sport shooters from owning handguns
- Provide ten paid sick days for all workers [125] [127]
| - Raise the minimum wage each year by $1, starting at $16 in 2022, with a top-up in cities where the cost of living is higher
- Increase the number of provincially-legislated paid sick days from three to ten, and provide small businesses financial support to fund the program
- Ban employers from requiring a sick note from a medical practitioner when an employee is ill
| - Prohibit lobbyists from being involved in political parties
- Make it illegal to conduct fraud in internal political party votes
| - Reduce immigration levels to match housing supply levels
- Prohibit foreigners from buying houses
- Repeal Bill 163
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Social assistance | - Increase ODSP payments by 5%
| - Increase ODSP payments by 20%
- Increase OW payments by 20%
- Conduct a basic income pilot project
| - Increase ODSP payments by 20% [128]
- Increase OW payments by 10% [116]
- Increase Old Age Security by $1,000 per year [129]
- Bring back the basic income pilot [94] [130]
| - Increase ODSP payments by 100% [131]
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Taxation | - Remove license plate sticker requirements and their respective fees [132]
- Reduce gasoline taxes by 5.7 cents per litre for six months starting on July 1, 2022 [122]
- Reduce fuel taxes by 5.3 cents per litre starting on July 1, 2022
- Increase the Non-Resident Speculation Tax and extend its reach beyond the GTHA [95]
- Extend qualification for the LIFT tax credit to $50,000 [133]
- Create an Ontario Seniors Care at Home Tax Credit [134]
| - Freeze taxes for low and middle income families [135]
- Create a tax on housing speculation
- Introduce an annual vacancy tax on residential property [113]
- Maintain the Non-Resident Speculation Tax at 20% [113]
- Raise taxes on upper income workers by an unspecified amount
- Create a filming tax-credit
- Extend the Staycation tax credit [97]
| - Remove the provincial sales tax from prepared meals under $20 (increase from $4) [94] [136]
- Increase the corporate tax rate by 1% on corporations with a profit above $1 billion
- Increase the income tax rate by 2% on income over $500,000
- Introduce a 5% tax on vacant homes for non-Canadian owners; 2% for Canadian owners [94]
- Introduce a ‘use it or lose it’ tax on developers sitting on land ready for development
- Create a $75 tax credit for each winter tire installed
- Increase the eligibility for the Low-Income Individuals and Families (LIFT) tax credit from $38,000 to $50,000 [137]
- Rebate Northern municipalities 5% of the provincial mining tax
- Suspend corporate income tax collection for small businesses for 2022 and 2023 [138]
| - Add a 1% surtax onto the income taxes of the top 10% earners [95]
- Introduce a 20% multiple homes speculation tax on third and additional properties
| | - Eliminate the PST on gasoline and diesel
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Transportation | | - Restore passenger rail service to Northern Ontario
- Cancel the construction of Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass
- Require transit projects to make Canadian-made vehicles
- Remove tolls on Highway 407 for commercial drivers [140]
- Pursue penalty fees from 407 ETR for failing to meet a minimum standard of traffic in 2020 and 2021 [140]
- Designate Highways 11 and 17 as Class 1 highways
- Four-lane Highway 69, Highway 11/17, Highway 3; the Morriston bypass
- Move ahead with the Thunder Bay Expressway Interchange Project
- Expand Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph
- Fund two-way all-day GO Transit to Kitchener-Waterloo
- Extend the Hurontario LRT to downtown Brampton
- Fund 50% of municipal transit costs
| - Restore the Northlander service to Northern Ontario within two years [94]
- Cancel the construction of Highway 413
- Reassess the proposed Bradford Bypass' environmental impact [94]
- Reduce all transit fares in Ontario to $1 per ride [141]
- Cut the cost for monthly passes to $40 per month [106]
- Make public transit publicly funded for veterans
- Widen Highway 401 at targeted bottlenecks, including from Milton to Mississauga and between Pickering and Bowmanville [94]
- Build a new Highway 7 between Guelph and Kitchener
- Expand Highway 3 between Windsor and Leamington
- Complete the four-laning of Highway 69 and Highway 11/17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon by 2025 [94]
- Build the Ontario Line Subway, Scarborough Subway Extension, Yonge North Subway Extension and Eglinton Crosstown West Extension [94]
- Fund two-way all-day GO Transit to Milton
- Extend GO Transit trains to Bowmanville [94]
| - Cancel the construction of Highway 413
- Cut transit fares by 50% for at least 3 months [95]
- Fund 50% of municipal transit operating expenses [95]
- Expand GO Transit services [95]
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Unions | | - Allow contractors to unionize
- Allow any workplace to unionize when 55% of workers endorse unionization
- Ban strikebreakers
- Allow students to unionize
| - Allow contractors to unionize
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