OLP Policy

Ontario Liberal Policy

Policy Summary

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Work and Economic Dignity

Provide 10 paid sick days for all Ontario workers.
Regional, dynamic, living wage starting at $16/hr.
Portable drug, dental, and mental health services for all Ontario workers.
Ban underpaid gig and contract work.
Equal pay for equal work - implement Pay Transparency Act which Doug Ford has delayed since 2018.
Match up to $1000 in annual retirement savings for low-income earners.
For seniors, add up to $1,000 more per year to the amount received by existing pensioners through Ontario’s Guaranteed Annual Income System (GAINS). As well, increase the eligibility threshold to $25,000 for single seniors or $50,000 for couples.

Revolutionizing Senior Care

We’ll expand and make permanent the Seniors’ Home Safety Tax Credit to make living at home safer and more accessible – as well as cover more costs for assistive devices, such as wheelchairs, hearing aids and lifts.
Ontario Caregiver Tax Credit refundable, tax-free and paid out throughout the year and enhance access to support programs and tools.
Help 400,000 more seniors get home care by 2026.
We’ll also fund 15,000 new assisted living homes – including small, accessible and community-based residential services – as well as “hub and spoke” care that provides a comprehensive continuum of care.
Increase funding for home care by 10% annually prioritizing non-profit care.
Fund assisted living alternatives and “hub and spoke” community care.
Create a dementia care network.
Fully fund the clinical costs for hospices.
End for-profit long-term care as quickly as possible with a target of 2028.
Place audits, inspections and zero-tolerance sanctions on long-term care homes that endanger residents or misdirect funds.
Repeal rules that protect long-term care companies from legal liability.

Small Business Support

Suspend corporate taxes for small businesses hit hard by the pandemic, for two years.
Eliminate incorporation fees for new start-ups.
Provide loans to help small businesses invest, and help small businesses go digital.
Cap credit card and delivery fees paid by small businesses.

Environmental Initiatives

End Ministerial Zoning Orders (MZO's) unless they are used for fast-tracking of critical provincial projects, like affordable housing, employment lands/projects, not-for-profit nursing homes, or expansions to protected green space. Add transparency measures, like required consultations and judicial reviews, to make sure projects respect environmental protections.
Ontario Liberal Electric Vehicle Incentives
- Give families an incentive of $8,000 on the purchase or lease of eligible electric vehicles and $1,500 on charging equipment.
- The Ontario Liberal Electric Vehicle Incentive would save families up to $8,000, on the purchase or lease of electric vehicles (up to $55,000 MSRP for a vehicle of 6 seats or less and up to $60,000 MSRP for 7 or more seats, mirroring Transport Canada’s list of vehicles eligible for the federal rebate) and up to $1,500 for charging equipment.
- Rapidly expand the availability of vehicle charging stations in apartment buildings, workplaces, parking lots, city streets and all OnRoute and GO stations across the province. Ontario Liberals would do this by providing a 30 per cent subsidy for building charging infrastructure through a new provincial investment.
Create five (5) new provincial parks and expand Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park.
Reinstate Ontario's Chief Scientist.
An Ontario Liberal government would take the equivalent of 500,000 cars off the road by planting 800 million new trees over the next 8 years.

Children and Families

Refund to parents, retroactive to January 1, 2021 the extra costs resulting from Doug Ford’s delay in initiating affordable child care: averaging $2,750 per child.
Reduce fees for before and after-school care by over half to $10/day by September 2022 to ensure families can access flexible licensed care that encourages recreation and skill-building.
Enhance the 18-month parental leave program to ensure new moms and dads have the option to stay at home longer with their infants without their EI benefits being reduced by the end of next year, while working with the federal government to fill gaps for those who don’t qualify for EI.
For families choosing options and caregivers outside of licensed childcare, like having grandparents take care of kids, we’ll enhance the Childcare Access and Relief from Expenses (CARE) tax credit by 50% to an average of $2,000 and will provide it in regular advance payments.
Free tuition for all early childhood education (ECE) programs at Ontario’s colleges while ensuring the economic dignity of workers with enhanced pay and benefits for workers, to align with full-day kindergarten classrooms. We will also improve recruitment, retention and professional learning opportunities. The majority of childcare workers, almost all women, earn less than $20/hr – our new wage grid would range from $23-40/hr for ECEs.

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Healthcare

Repeal Bill 124 to allow increased wages for provincial health care workers, and help attract and retain sorely needed workers.
Expedite the process to get internationally educated nurses credentialed.
Establish regulation over temporary staffing agencies, so that they cannot price gouge long-term care homes desperately requiring staffing
Provide mental health supports to workers in LTC facilities facing unprecedented burnout during this pandemic.
Raise the standard of care that is provided, including number of baths given and the quality of food that’s served;
Raise PSW base pay to at least $25/hour and increase wages for health care workers
Hire as many PSWs and nurses across the province necessary to make sure seniors get the care they need;
Provide access to personal protective equipment (PPE), regular testing, and mental health supports for PSWs and nurses and their families;

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Equal Pay and Opportunity for Women

Implement the Pay Transparency Act that has been delayed by the Ford government.
Lower the cost of childcare: provide $10 before and after school care by September 2022.
Top-up the 18-month parental leave program to ensure EI benefits aren't reduced.

Women's Health and Safety

Expand the Ontario Fertility Program to cover one cycle of egg freezing.
Provide free menstrual products in schools, libraries, transit stations and other public spaces.
Create an Ontario Women's Health Strategy
Increase support for prevention of gender-based violence on post-secondary campuses.
Create clear rules around disclosure and the "right to know" of an intimate partners' history of abusive behaviour or domestic violence and create 3,800 more supportive homes for women fleeing domestic abuse.
Increase funding for equity-deserving organizations by $20 million.

Education

Class size caps of 20 across the board to ensure students have the one-on-one attention they need to recover, for at least the next three years.
Cancel Highway 413 and redirect the $6-10 billion in capital costs to repair and build schools and new child-care spaces.
$700 million to reduce class sizes in Grades 4-8 from 24.5 to 20 (6,700 additional teachers)
$400 million to reverse Doug Ford’s cuts and further reduce class sizes in Grades 9-12 from 23 to 20 (3,800 additional teachers).

Autism Support

Implement a needs-based Ontario Autism Program for every child, including Applied Behavioural Analysis, occupational therapy, mental health and speech and language pathology. Current policy is age-based and a teenage to adult gap in service has been identified.
Hire 5,000 more special education workers and reduce wait times for school services for students with autism. Wait times have continued to increase. Delays in diagnosis and beginning of services are a big problem.
Implement a direct billing option for autism therapy.
Conduct a comprehensive reform of special education and better transition people into adult services.

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Safety in Ontario

An Ontario Liberal Government will ban the sale, possession, transport and storage of handguns across the province.
Accept the federal government’s offer to fund a buy-back program;
Partner with the federal government to stop gun smuggling at the Ontario-US borders;
Advocate to extend the ban nationally so that guns can’t be funnelled through inter-provincial borders.

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Fighting Racism

End public education "streaming" in Grades 9 and 10.
Create a new fund to hire and incent more diverse and underrepresented police officers, in addition to existing planned policing hires
Ensure regular police training for de-escalation, anti-racism, cultural sensitivity and mental health
Require police services to disclose annual statistics regarding the diversity of their officers, leadership and police service boards
Reverse Conservative funding cuts to anti-racism programs
Enhanced Crown Attorney units dedicated to advising police and prosecuting hate crimes and extend the period for putting forward human rights complaints from one to five years
New laws to protect our churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, gurudwaras and other faith institutions from violence and intimidation
Immediately pass the Our London Family Act to create new tools and strategies to combat racism
Create a Cabinet Minister dedicated to fighting racism

Equal Protection and Support of the 2SLGBTQ+ Community

Provide culturally competent and gender affirming health, mental health and long-term care
Fully cover medications that prevent and treat HIV, including PrEP and antiretroviral therapy
Reduce wait times and barriers to gender-affirming surgeries
Build 2,000 supportive homes for 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Ensure 2SLGBTQ+ youth are welcomed and supported in schools
Provide $20 million to 2SLGBTQ+ community centres, organizations and Prides

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