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It’s a complicated question,” Singh said Friday after his party released its fiscal plan, showing a $32.7-billion deficit next year and no return to balanced budgets in its forecast.“I wouldn’t have bought it and I’m really clear on that. coast gave the company and its investors cold feet.The party said its plan would still see the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio fall over the four-year time period.The largest new spending promises include $10 billion for.Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said the plan was to buy the pipeline, get past all the hurdles, and then sell it to a private backer. Create a national cycling and walking infrastructure fund.Increase the Canada child benefit by 15 per cent for children under one, remove federal taxes from employment-insurance payments for maternity and parental leave, introduce an extra 15 weeks of leave for adoptive parents (EI currently covers 35 weeks for adoptive parents), and work to establish “guaranteed paid family leave” for those who don’t qualify for EI.Increase old age security by an extra 10 per cent once a senior turns 75 with change to take effect July 2020; increase the Canada Pension Plan survivor benefit by 25 per cent.Expand the Learn to Camp program, and give 75,000 low-income children and their families up to four nights in national or provincial parks, including travel bursaries of up to $2,000.Introduce a $200 credit, called a “culture pass,” for every Canadian child when they turn 12, to be used in theatres, museums and other cultural venues.Remove federal income tax from maternity and parental benefits under employment insurance, by providing a tax credit of 15 per cent for any income earned under these two programs.Allow more Canadians to qualify for the disability tax credit by reducing the number of hours spent per week on life-sustaining therapy needed to qualify for the credit from 14 to 10 and expand the definition for that therapy.Stay informed this election (and beyond) with First Reading.Spend $10 billion over the next four years to create 500,000 new child-care spaces, and establish free or low-cost childcare for all Canadian families by 2030, with the daily fee topping out at about $10 per child.Allow new parents to condense their employment-insurance benefits to enable them to take shorter parental leaves while still receiving the full benefit.
Federal election platform guide announced by the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Green party since the official start of the campaign . Singh says this will save families more than $550 a year.The party says it plans to expand Canada’s health-care system and will develop a “long-term roadmap” include dental care, eye care, hearing care, mental-health care, seniors care and more in the Canada Health Act.Singh says the NDP will work with health-care workers, provincial and territorial governments and with Indigenous communities to develop the plan.“We believe that we need to work towards a health-care system that covers us from head to toe,” Singh said. Extend a student-loan-repayment grace period to two years from six months.

Pass legislation to help businesses and workers make the transition to clean energy.Conserve and protect 25 per cent of Canada’s land and 25 per cent of Canada’s oceans by 2025, working towards 30 per cent of each by 2030.Spend $3 billion to plant two billion trees over 10 years, support 3,500 seasonal, tree-planting jobs, help cities expand and diversity their urban forests, protect Canada’s trees from infestations, and help rebuild forests after wildfires.Create a publicly funded $15-billion “climate bank” to support businesses fighting climate change, and provide money for a cross-Canada corridor for clean energy.Create a $40-million coastal protection fund to defend wild salmon, remove derelict vessels, clean up coastlines and improve coast guard equipment and training.End pipeline, coal, oil or gas drilling and mining approvals.Ban the production, distribution and sale of unnecessary or non-essential petroleum-based single-use plastics by 2022.Require a 60-per-cent cut in Canada’s greenhouse-gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2030, reaching net zero in 2050; have 100 per cent of Canada’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2030; ban the sale of cars with combustion engines by 2030.View all policy through the lens of the climate crisis: the economy, health, education, foreign affairs, immigration, public safety, defence, social welfare, transportation.Cancel the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and redirect funds to expand and refurbish the national electricity grid.Set interim greenhouse-gas emission targets at five-year-intervals beginning in 2025 as part of a plan to have a 60-per-cent cut in Canada’s emissions below 2005 levels by 2030, reaching zero net emissions in 2050.Reintroduce a 15-per-cent tax credit for public transit that would apply at tax time to any transit pass allowing for unlimited travel within Canada on local buses, streetcars, subways, commuter trains, and ferries, as well as electronic fare cards when used for an extended period.Increase annual federal funding for BC Ferries by $30 million.Spend $600 million in 2020-21, rising to $720 million by 2023, to develop regional rail networks and strengthen rail connections between regions, and building high-speed rail in the Toronto-Ottawa-Quebec City triangle and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. It shows $35 billion in planned new spending next year and $30.5 billion in expected new revenues.The plan shows many new investments would be front-loaded in the first year of an NDP government, as the projected deficit falls to $18 billion in the second year, then sits at around $16.5 billion for the remaining two years.Singh defended keeping the books in the red.“A lot of times when people hear ‘balanced budgets,’ they hear austerity and they hear cutting their services — and I don’t believe in that,” he said.“I do believe in being prudent and I believe people want us to live within our means. Please try again,Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments.
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Launch an inquiry into money-laundering in the real-estate sector. “Under our plan, Canadians will see a historic expansion of the services covered under our national health-care system for the 21st century.”.If elected this fall, Singh says the federal NDP will start by fast-tracking a universal drug plan to ensure a late 2020 start date.Singh says if his party forms government after the October federal election, it will inject $10 billion annually into a national pharmacare program.“We have a crisis in health care. The party released a 109-page document titled ‘A New Deal for People’ on Sunday, which sets out the NDP’s vision for Canada.The document outlines the party’s plan to expand the health-care system with a “comprehensive, universal and public” pharmacare program. COVID-19. Singh has already ruled out propping up a minority Conservative government led by Andrew Scheer, so his position on Trans Mountain could be a significant consideration if the Liberals seek to form a government without a majority of seats.“What do we do with it? In 2018, the NDP … We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful.