CANADAS FEDERAL PARTY PLATFORMS

Group Members:_______________________________________________________
Issue

Liberal

NDP

Education

-Free
education from
kindergarten to
grade 12
-They will invest
an additional 50
million dollars in
postsecondary
support
program
-Will make
education more
affordable

-Plan to make
education more
affordable and
help students
pay off their
loans

Health Care

-Plan to make
home care
more available,
prescription
drugs more
affordable, and
mental health
care more
accessible

-Plans to
implement
various changes
to the health
care system
thatll provide to
all citizens of
Canada
including
aboriginals and
those who live
below the
poverty line

Conservativ
e
-Will support
families and
help them
save of for
education

Green

-Will make
various
investments
in mental
health care
through
Mental
Health care
commissions
of Canada
- Believe
that there
isnt much
focus on
mental
health care
in Canada

- Overall the
Green party
has various
strategies with
great potential
mainly
focusing on
improving
communication
and
coordination
between
provinces and
territories
-Plan to revert
to the previous
level of funding

-Reduce post
secondary
tuitions by
working with
provinces and
education
institutions

Bloc
Quebecois
-Will shift the
form of
education
currently to
accessibility
- Currently
used in
Quebec which
has areas that
surpass
Canadas
education
standards

- Using a new
formula they
will tie funding
increases to
economic and
population
growth,
promising that
the transfers
will never fall
below three
per cent a year

Environment

-Will make
environmental
assessments
credible again

Law and
Order

-Believe in
different
methods to deal
with young
offenders and
adults
- Will like to
have more
detention
centers that
only rehabilitate
the young

Family

- They will give

families more
money to keep
up with the high
cost of raising
families

- Propose
various national
emission
reduction
targets as part
of the global
effort to reduce
greenhouse
gases
- Have thought it
through and
have an
accountability
mechanism to
ensure the
targets are met
- Believe in
upholding a
youth criminal
justice system
that distinct from
the adult courts

- Plan to
restore and
enhance
salmon
habitat and
protect the
marine
environment,
as part of
the
Conservativ
es
government
s plan to
conserve
and restore
-In their
belief of
protecting
society will
like
introduce
stricter
penalties to
offenders
(adult and
youth)

- Will increase
the minimum
income
requirement for
sponsoring a
parent or
grandparent by
30%, double the

-A typical
two-earning
family of four
will receive
tax relief and
increased
benefits of

-Has set out

various plans
for a
sustainable
future
grounded in
fiscal
responsibility,
ecological
health, and
social justice

-support a
federal GHG
emissions limit
that would
keep global
warming below
2 degrees
celsius over
pre-industrial
levels

- Plan to keep
the level of
young
criminals low
by preventing
the from
completing any
crimes in the
very beginning
- Will alleviate
poverty,
legalize
marijuana
increase
physical fitness
and emphasis
on sports, as
well as
investing in
community
health
- urge reforms
to our tax and
labor policies
in ways that
will increase
the opportunity
for Canadians
to spend more

- Punish
offenders,
even when
they are young
teenagers, and
even children.
As for the
young the
avenue that
works is
rehabilitation
and
reintegration .

- Open to any
suggestions
concerning but
not limited to
public health
and family
standards

sponsorship
up to $6,600
undertaking
per year
period from ten
to twenty years
and reduce the
maximum age of
a dependent to
18

time with
families.
-Promote an
integrated
program of
support, tax
cuts and
awareness
raising
emphasizing
that time spent
with children is
necessary for
the
continuation of
society