Thank you for this effort. My biggest wish for more proportional representation. That I feel like would help bridge rural and urban places. My biggest problem I foresee selling this is, how do we pay for all these wishes. I suppose it would be the wealth tax. Here’s hoping they can make the math math

Yes please, to all of that.

I guess the only thing I can critique is that I don’t see new industry (or maintaining current industry) being created to bring foreign money into the country.

There’s mention of higher taxes on corporations and super high earners - which is great of course and can bring in a lot of money to government coffers, but how can we get more foreign money into Canada?

Stop price gouging with a grocery cap

We will introduce emergency price caps on basic food items—like pasta, frozen vegetables, and infant formula—to keep costs of food down. These items have seen some of the steepest increases since 2020: cooking oil is up 75 per cent, pasta is up 43 per cent, and infant formula—an essential for so many parents—is up 30 per cent and still climbing.

Price regulations are already in place for a number of sectors of Canada’s economy, like electricity, natural gas and certain medicines. And they have been used in other jurisdictions to tackle food price inflation. We would attempt to negotiate this cap but if big grocery chains refuse, we would act by passing the appropriate legislation.

To enforce this cap, we will put in place a mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct. We will also strengthen the Competition Bureau to act as a grocery price watchdog with the power to impose serious penalties on those who don’t comply. These powers will extend to price gouging, price surging, price fixing and shrinkflation.

We would also help boost competition in the grocery sector. We know that the sector is currently dominated by just five companies, who control over three-quarters of the market. This concentration has driven up prices and led to unfair market practices. Our mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct would help level the playing field in the grocery industry. We would establish a National Food Cooperative Strategy aimed at boosting independent small- and medium-sized grocery stores. And we would fix Nutrition North, to make sure the subsidy goes straight to people, and not to corporations.

Taking the GST off of essentials

Last fall, the Liberal government put in place a temporary GST holiday on certain goods, in recognition of the cost of living crisis facing families. The Liberals rejected our proposal that the measure be extended, while the Conservatives opposed it altogether.

But families are still facing rising prices – and Donald Trump’s trade war is driving prices even higher. That’s why we would permanently remove the GST from the essentials that every family needs. This includes grocery store meals, diapers and strollers, and monthly cell, internet and home heating bills. We estimate this measure will save a family of four $448 per year.

Expand mental health coverage

New Democrats believe that mental health care is healthcare. And yet only about half of Canadians who need professional help are able to receive it, and millions of Canadians didn’t access mental health services because of costs.

Mental health struggles have surged since the pandemic, with Canadians now three times more likely to report poor or fair mental health. For young people, the crisis is even more urgent—over half say cost is stopping them from getting the help they need.

As a tangible step to expanding mental health coverage, we will ensure that all Canadians can access services like psychotherapy and counselling by launching a new plan to cover these services for those who are currently not covered by work plans. And we will expand funding for crisis and addictions care to help people access the care they need

Rent control and other tenant protection measures

We will fight soaring rents by requiring strong tenant protection measures from other levels of government as a condition for accessing federal housing funding. These measures

include rent control, as well as prohibitions on practices such as renovictions, demovictions and other predatory landlord practices aimed at pushing people out of their homes and driving up rents.

To support this goal we will set aside 100% of suitable federal crown land to build over 100,000 rent-controlled homes by 2035, as well redesigning and expanding the Public Land Acquisition Fund to acquire even more public land to build on. And we will publicly finance new construction – with a new Community Housing Bank to partner with non-profit developers, co-ops, and Indigenous communities

Cutting taxes and putting more money into people’s pockets

We will raise the basic personal amount to $19,500 to allow workers to earn more before starting to pay taxes. This would put $505 back in the pockets of those earning between $19,500 and $177,882. We will also lower the high-income BPA to best target these changes to lower-income earners.

We will also boost income support for those who are most vulnerable. We will double the Canada Disability Benefit, providing individuals up to an additional $2400 a year. And we will take a tangible step towards a guaranteed livable income by raising the Guaranteed Income Supplement to lift all seniors out of poverty.

Protect you from having to pay for care

While Canadians want real improvements in public health care, Pierre Poilievre has met privately with U.S. hospital CEOs and backs expanding for-profit care—opening the door to two-tier, American-style health care. And the Liberals have looked the other way as provinces like Alberta and Ontario have expanded private care and made wait times worse.

New Democrats would put a stop to U.S.-style privatization and protect public health care from Donald Trump’s trade agenda. That includes banning American corporations from buying Canadian health facilities, blocking any trade deals from putting health care on the trading table, and strengthening the Canada Health Act to stop cash-for-care clinics from charging you for basic care. Canadians need to be able to access the care they need, when and where they need it - whether that be through a phone call, a virtual consultation, or an in-person visit with their primary care provider – all without having to pay for that care.

Standing by workers and businesses

While the Liberals have studied, reviewed, and delayed EI reform for years, New Democrats are putting forward concrete improvements that working people have been demanding for decades.

We would ensure that every dollar collected from Canada’s counter tariffs go directly to support workers and communities hit hardest – with no loopholes and no delays.

COVID-19 exposed massive gaps in Canada’s Employment Insurance system. Meaningful improvements to EI are needed to guarantee support is there when Canadian workers need it. That includes reducing the threshold for qualifying to a universal 360-hour standard, extending the duration of benefits to 50 weeks, and increasing the benefit level and insurable earnings cap to provide a minimum weekly benefit of $450.

Cutting Emissions and Energy Bills

We will launch an ambitious national retrofit program to reduce emissions and make life more affordable—starting with the people who need it most. Working with local businesses for installation, the program will deliver free energy efficiency upgrades to millions of low-income households, including apartment buildings, with a goal of eliminating energy poverty in Canada by 2035. By retrofitting every building in the country by 2050, we’ll cut climate pollution, lower monthly bills, and create good local jobs in every region.

We will modernize the Energy Efficiency Act, update the National Building Code including cooling requirements and safe maximum indoor temperature limits, and develop an effective federal emissions performance standard for large buildings.

Creating good jobs in a sustainable economy

With the Trump administration’s illegal tariffs, it’s more important than ever that we make our economy competitive and resilient. We will create good-paying union jobs in electric vehicle manufacturing, construction, energy efficiency retrofitting and renewable power.

New Democrats are committed to our Build Canadian, Buy Canadian Plan to boost our domestic economy and create a stronger and more independent economy. As part of this plan we would develop sector-specific industrial strategies for energy, mining, manufacturing, buildings and transportation, with workers at the table every step along the way, with the goal of accelerating Canada’s clean energy transition and attracting new investment in communities across the country. And we would provide additional supports to train more workers for tomorrow’s green economy. Our goal will be to support good, new jobs in clean industries, and support the decarbonization of essential industries like steelmaking, cement-making, transportation and others.

Local communities should receive the economic benefits and jobs from low-carbon projects. Community Benefits Agreements between community, labour, governments and employers for all federally-funded infrastructure projects will ensure communities get what they need to prosper.

We recognize that clean electricity will be critical to building a competitive economy that supports people in local communities. We will aim to power Canada with net-zero electricity by 2035, moving to 100% non-emitting electricity by 2045. To support this goal we will bring together provinces and terriroties to prioritize the building of an East-West interprovincial power grid.

Working with allies

New Democrats would take additional steps to expand and deepen trade relations with countries other than the US. We have spent too long deepening our economic ties with the US, we can’t let ourselves become so economically dependent on a single trading partner ever again.

With global peace and security under attack throughout the world, we would pursue a strong and principled foreign policy based on solidarity, human rights, and multilateralism. That includes boosting international aid funding to 0.7 per cent of our Gross National Income, ensuring Canada’s sanctions are applied consistently to all major human rights violators, and supporting international justice institutions like the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

We will cancel Canada’s F-35 contract to ensure our needs are met by a proposal that supports Canadian assembly jobs as well as using our knowledge and capacity to maintain them. We will meet Canada’s commitment of increasing defence spending to two per cent of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product by no later than 2032, with an emphasis on making investments that support Canadians, communities, those who are serving in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Veterans. That will also include new investments in arctic sovereignty and in facilities which benefit Northerns and their communities.

We would join the increasing number of countries that recognize the State of Palestine. This is a concrete step towards peace and justice for Palestinians and Israelis, consistent with Canada’s traditional support for a two-state solution. We will impose sanctions on key figures in the Netanyahu regime who have incited violence, genocide, and annexation. And we will immediately impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel, and close loopholes that allow military and goods and technology to be exported to countries that abuse human rights.

And we would continue to support Ukraine and Ukrainians in their fight against Putin’s horrific invasion and genocide. This includes putting in place stronger sanctions to hold Putin’s oligarch friends accountable for their complicity in this war.

Putting an end to unfair elections

We will fix Canada’s broken voting system and make every vote count. For too long, our electoral system has distorted results and denied millions of Canadians real representation. In 2025, New Democrats will make sure it’s the last election held under this outdated, unfair system—ten years after the Liberals promised change and failed to act.

Unlike the Liberals, we will actually deliver. We will establish an independent citizens assembly to advise on how best to put in place a Mixed-Member proportional system in time for the next federal election. This will ensure that the next Parliament truly reflects the choices of voters.

Make sure every Canadian can find a family doctor.

Across Canada, more than 6.5 million Canadians don’t have access to primary care. New Democrats will guarantee that every Canadian can access primary care and a family doctor by 2030, by putting in place a comprehensive strategy that retains and hires more doctors, nurses and other health-care workers.

To help tackle the doctor shortage, we’ll boost Canada Health Transfers by an additional 1% for provinces that commit to action and publicly report on their progress. This incentive will support real partnerships to train, recruit, and retain the health workers Canadians need. We will take tangible steps to help connects every Canadian with a family doctor, including:

Creating residencies for qualified, internationally trained doctors already living in Canada Implementing a pan-Canadian licensure, to help medical professionals practice where they are needed across the country Working with provinces and doctors to reduce burdensome administrative bureaucracy imposed on medical practitioners that takes time away from patients Training and equipping more doctors from northern and rural communities Working with territorial governments to provide housing and facilities for family doctors and primary care teams to keep healthcare providers in the North Connecting every Canadian to primary care also means supporting a team-based approach, including supports for nurses, nurse practitioners, and other health professionals. We will work with Canada’s nurses to close the job vacancy gap in the nursing sector, to ensure wage parity and safe staffing ratios. We will make patients safer and improve working conditions for nurses. And we will put in place a $5,000 tax credit to help boost pay for more than 780,000 nurses and Personal Support Workers.