| Issue | PC | NDP | Liberal | Green |
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| Education | | - Invest an additional $830 million a year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years while keeping up with school maintenance needs. [69]
- Create a universal School Food Program and use fresh food prepared and grown in Ontario.
- End the practice of streaming.
- Invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system.
- More school transportation funding.
| | - Clearing the backlog in school repairs, supporting students with special needs, and extending OHIP to cover mental health care. [70]
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| Energy and Environment | - Permanently cutting the provincial tax on gas by 5.7 cents per litre and on diesel by 5.3 cents.
| | | - Working with Indigenous communities to conserve 30% of natural areas by 2030.
- End reliance on fossil fuels, invest in low-cost renewables and build climate-friendly transit options. [71]
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| Healthcare | - Investing $1.8 billion more to connect everyone in Ontario to a family doctor and primary care.
| - Hiring of at least 15,000 nurses over the next three years to ensure safe staffing ratios and end the reliance on private agencies. [72]
- Expand healthcare in Northern Ontario by hiring 350 doctors, including 200 family physicians and 150 specialists.
- Establish a Northern Command Centre to manage capacity across the North.
- Fast-track solutions in the first 100 days—more family health teams, shorter specialist wait times, and flexible care options.
- Clear the path for 13,000 internationally trained doctors and increase residency spots province-wide. [73]
| - Guarantee a Family Doctor for all Ontarians by 2029. [74]
| - Two new hospitals in Huntsville and Bracebridge.
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| Housing | | - Create 60,000 new supportive housing units. [75]
- Double the supply of permanently affordable homes, legalize fourplexes and increase density around transit, and provide funding for non-profit and co-op housing providers.
- Reintroduce rent control, stopping unethical evictions.
- Upload shelter funding to the provincial government. [76]
| - Eliminating the provincial Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers, seniors downsizing, and non-profit home builders. [77]
- Scrapping Development Charges on new middle-class housing, which can add up to $170,000 on the price of a new home, and replacing them with a Better Communities Fund to ensure that the province invests in and benefits from sustainable municipal growth. [78]
- Introducing fair, phased-in rent control similar to Manitoba, resolving Landlord-Tenant Board disputes within two months, and establishing the Rental Emergency Support for Tenants (REST) Fund to help vulnerable renters avoid eviction during financial emergencies. [79]
| - Allowing for the construction of fourplexes and four-storey buildings as of right across the province and sixplexes in cities over 500,000, and midrise buildings of up to 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and main streets.
- Removing development charges on homes, condos and apartment units under 2,000 square feet that are built within urban boundaries, and creating an Affordable Communities Fund to cover municipalities’ housing infrastructure costs.
- Removing the Land Transfer Tax for first-time homebuyers. [80]
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| Agriculture | | | | - Immediately increasing funding to expand business risk management programs by $150 million annually.
- Prioritizing Ontario-grown food by developing local procurement guidelines for public sector purchases, and establishing a fund to increase local processing capacity.
- Creating an AgTech Innovation Fund.
- Introducing a provincial program to pay farmers for environmental goods and services by working with organizations such as ALUS (Alternative Land Use Services).
- Establish an Ontario Foodbelt to protect farmland. [81]
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| Infrastructure | - Investing up to $15 billion more over three years to speed up key capital projects, including widening the QEW between Burlington and St. Catharines. [82]
- 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.
- Increasing the Community Sport and Recreation Fund by $300 million to help build more rinks, arenas, sports centres and other community infrastructure.
- $56 million to upgrade and repair Highway 174 prior to it being uploaded to the province. [83]
- $50 million to upgrade rural roads and highways outside the downtown core.
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| Social assistance | | - Double ODSP payments. [84]
- Overhaul WSIB.
- Expand workers’ health care benefits so they can receive the treatments they need, including mental health care. [85]
- Create a Monthly Grocery Rebate
- Forcing large retailers to publicly post when they raise prices more than two per cent in a week.
- New watchdog to enforce competition laws and keep food prices fair. [86]
| - Double ODSP payments. [87]
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| Taxation | | | - Cut the income tax rate for the middle-class. [88]
- Eliminate sales tax (HST) on home heating and hydro bills.
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| Transportation | - Investing more than $200 billion to build roads, highways, transit and other infrastructure projects while investing over $2.5 billion to train more than one million people for better jobs and bigger paycheques in the skilled trades.
- Upload the upload Ottawa LRT system to the provincial government.
- More than $50 million to design and build a new interchange at Highway 416 and Barnsdale Road.
- $80 million to support the Kanata North Transitway.
- Taking tolls off Highway 407 East, which runs between Brock Road in Pickering and Highway 115 in Clarington.
- Legislation to ban use of congestion pricing on all provincial and municipal roadways. [89]
| | - Upload the Ottawa LRT system to the provincial government. [90]
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| Tariff response | - $10 billion in cash-flow support for Ontario employers. [91]
- $3 billion in payroll tax and premium relief.
- $120 million to support approximately 18,000 bars and restaurants.
- $40 million for a new Trade-Impacted Communities Program.
- $300 million to expand the Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit.
- $600 million for the Invest Ontario Fund.
| - Create a Premier's Task Force on the Economy with business, labour and civil society. [92]
- Invest in retraining opportunities in post-secondary and the skilled trades.
- Removing the cap from the Risk Management Program.
- Promote interprovincial cooperation and break down trade barriers.
- Launch a Buy Ontario campaign to promote Ontario goods.
- Direct Ontario government-funded agencies to procure locally.
- Negotiate a joint federal-provincial income assistance program to support people whose livelihoods are impacted by tariffs.
- Support Canada's national tariff response.
| - Offer a bonus to nurses and doctors who return to Canada from the U.S.
- Remove the hidden tax on home building and introduce phased-in rent control.
- Cut the small business tax rate in half, 3.2% to 1.6%, and increase the eligible income threshold.
- End the Starlink contract with the provincial government. [93]
| - Immediately create a ‘tariff taskforce’ that works across party, jurisdictional and sectoral lines to defend Ontario workers, jobs and companies in trade negotiations.
- Create an investment tax credit.
- Create a Protect Ontario Fund for businesses disproportionately impacted by tariffs. [94]
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