PLATFORMS Health The Economy Education Defense Families Environment

& PARTIES
• Forgive up to $40,000 in • A two-year extension to the ‘acceler • Increase the income • Continue with plan • Extend the ecoENERGY • Phase out some of the
Canada Student Loans ated capital investment’ threshold for loans and to spend $15 billion to retrofit-Homes program subsides to the fossil fuel
for doctors and nurses grants to part-time purchase and service a industry
• $420 million to extend EI pilot proj • New family caregiver
practicing in rural and students fleet of 65 F-35 joint
ects to help recipients find jobs tax credit • $17 million to contain
remote communities strike fighters
• $10 million extension for the ‘Work- • Cut interest rates the spread of plum pox, a
• New tax credit on
• New physical fitness tax charged in some cases lethal plant disease
sharing Fund’ to help companies fees associated with
credit worth up to $75 for so students can
avoid layoffs. children’s artistic, • Create a hunting and
adult fitness expenses work and study
• Expand ‘ Wage Earner Protection Plan’ cultural, recreational wildlife advisory panel
• Increase existing credit and developmental
• Create a one-year hiring credit to help • Provide a loan guarantee
for parents of kids activities
small businesses hire new employees “I will strive to make this not the of $4.2 billion to the
in sports to a maximum
highest-spending country in the world, • Lift the $10,000 cap on Lower Churchill hydro
of $150 • Cut a $2.2 billion deal with Quebec to
but instead the lowest taxing one.” the medical-expense electric project
implement an HST tax in the province tax credit
– Stephen Harper
Cost of Platform: $6.6 Billion over 4 years

• Establish a “National Food • Reverse corporate tax cuts • Offer $4,000 in tax-free • Cancel the F-35 deal • Cancel the F-35 deal • Institute a cap-and-trade
Policy” which includes grants to any Canadian system
• $120 million towards • $120 million towards
new food labeling regula- • Reduce the size of the deficit to about who chooses to go to
the Veterans Learning the Veterans Learning • Eliminate tax break for oil
tions and stronger $18.9 billion by 2013 university or college
Benefit Benefit sands
regulation on transfats
• Early Childhood
and salts • Find $500 million through program • New 6-month family • Create a green renova-
Learning Fund (begins “As an academic
review reallocation ($250 million from care EI benefit tion tax credit for energy
• $40 million “Health Start” with $500 million for you just build up a
ending oil sands tax break and • New family care tax -efficient home
program to provide first year, raising to an habit of trying to
$263 million from cancelling the benefit renovations
healthy food to children annual commitment of give honest answers
of low-income families Public Private Partnerships program) to questions…The • Quadruple renewable
$1 billion by fourth year) • $270 million-a-year
once you get into ‘Affordable Housing energy production
• Additional funding for • Veterans’ Learning
politics your task is Framework’ • Protect more national
brain research Benefit to pay for
mostly to conceal parks and marine
post-secondary
the truth.” habitats
education
– Michael Ignatieff
Cost of Platform: $8.2 Billion over 2 years

• Hire 1,200 new doctors

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• Cut the small business tax rate • $800 million in transfers • End pension reductions • Improve EI to make it • Cut federal subsidies to
and train thousands of to 9 per cent to the provinces to for retired and disabled easier for families to the fossil fuel industry
nurses over the next 10 lower post secondary veterans care for aging loved
years • Boost corporate tax rate to 19.5 • Establish a training fund
per cent tuition fees ones
• Restore an income for jobs in the ‘green
• $80 million to upgrade • Increase funding to the
• Create a job creation tax credit for security plan for former • Reduce the cost of energy economy’
medical schools, support Canada Student Grants
employers of $4,500 per new hire members of the Forces everyday essentials like
doctors and forgive Program by $200
• Help veterans move to home heating
student loans for medical • Limit credit card interest rates million per year
professionals • Raise education tax construction and • Ensure that every
credit to $5,760 per year building trades family takes home
• Provide access to home more of every pay
care for an additional cheque
100,000 families “I support our troops.
I support bringing them home.”
– Jack Layton
10 Cost of Platform: $48 billion over 4 years

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