Ontario NDP 2018 Platform: Quick Reference Guide

[one_third]Corporate Taxes

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• Increasing the corporate tax rate on profits to 13% from 11.5% (1% increase in 2019-20, .5% 2021-22)
• Businesses with payrolls over $3 million will no longer qualify for small business exemptions

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Income taxes

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• Increase in the personal tax rate from 13.16% to 14.16% on taxable income over $220,000

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Job Growth

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• Invest $57 million annually from the Jobs and Prosperity Fund to create opportunities in the skilled trades
• Establish a stream within the Jobs and Prosperity Fund to promote manufacturing research and development

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[one_third]Pharmacare and Dental Care

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• Universal pharmacare, beginning with 125 `essential` medicines
• Dental coverage for all Ontarians by requiring all employers to provide dental benefits to workers and their families through a monthly payroll deduction

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Hospital Funding and Community Care

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• Will increase hospital funding by 5.3% immediately
• Open 2,000 new hospital beds
• Invest $19 billion over 10 years to hospital capital expansion
• Build 35 new Community Health Centres by 2025 and invest $30 million in community care
• Double Ontario’s investment in the First Nations Health Action Plan, providing $209 million per year beginning in 2019

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Seniors’ Care

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• Open 15,000 more long-term care beds over five years, bringing the total to 40,000 by 2028
• Extend hands-on care daily minimum to four hours per patient
• Increase home care funding by $300 million

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[one_third]Skills Development

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• Create a fund within the Jobs and Prosperity Fund for opportunities for mid-career education
• Open 27,000 new work-integrated-learning opportunities such as co-ops or paid internships for students

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Post-Secondary Education

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• Students who qualify for OSAP will receive a non-repayable grant instead of a loan
• Forgive any student loan interest owed or paid to the province by any student or past student with outstanding debt to the province
• Invest in more tenure track positions at post-secondary educational institutions and allowing more contract educators to become full-time professors and instructors

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Primary Education

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• Cap kindergarten classroom capacity at 26 students
• Implement a moratorium on school closings

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[one_third]Transit

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• Provincial government will fund 50% of net transit and paratransit operating costs around Ontario.
• Provide two-way all-day GO rail service between Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto
• Year-round GO service from Niagara to Toronto
• Build Toronto’s downtown relief line ASAP
• Build a new LRT line through Hamilton

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Infrastructure

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• Will invest $180 billion in infrastructure over the next 10 years, focused on public projects
• Invest $16 billion to repair public schools
• Invest in capital needed to ensure communities have sustainable access to clean water

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Affordable Housing

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• Overhaul Inclusionary Zoning regulations to increase the number of affordable homes and rental properties required
• Implement a new housing anti-speculation tax to both domestic and foreign speculators who do not pay taxes in Ontario

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Northern Transportation

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• Restore Ontario Northlander`s passenger service and support Huron Central and Algoma Central Rail Lines

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Broadband

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• 10-year $1 billion fund for bringing broadband service to rural and Northern Ontario

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Municipal Investment

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• Restore funding for the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund, increasing to $550 Million

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[one_third]Hydro & Energy

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• Cut hydro bills by 30%
• Return Hydro One to public ownership
• A $100 million investment on natural gas expansion to reduce dependence on high-carbon diesel and heating oil
• Exempt First Nations communities from electricity delivery charges and connect remote communities to Ontario’s grid

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Agriculture

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• Protect supply management and Ontario’s Production Insurance Program

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Forestry

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• Dedicate $1 billion to a Provincial Forestry Strategy in the Ring of Fire

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Mining

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• Provincial share of mining taxes will be transferred to First Nations leadership

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[one_third]Carbon Pricing

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• 25% of cap-and-trade revenues will support lower-income, rural, northern, and trade-exposed industries
• Maintain cap-and-trade system agreement with California and Quebec

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Renewables

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• Solar, water, and wind will be at the heart of the electricity grid through responsible integration

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Retrofitting

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• Invest in a $50 million interest-free on-bill home retrofitting program to help Ontarians consume less electricity

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[one_third]Wages

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• Support minimum wage increase to $15/hour and index future increases to inflation

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Employee Benefits

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• Require employers to provide at least three weeks paid vacation to every full-time employee
• Transfer pharmacare costs from small-businesses to the province, saving approximately $1.9 billion annually

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Pensions

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• Increase the Pension Benefit Guarantee Fund guaranteed amount to $3,000 per month

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