Key policy priorities of the main Canadian parties in the Sept. 20 federal election.
ECONOMY - Help create more than 1 million jobs by extending a recovery hiring program to enable businesses to take on more workers. Provide aid to the culture and tourism sectors.
HOUSING - Create a rent-to-own program, ban new foreign ownership of homes for two years, institute an anti-flipping tax and improve transparency of bidding processes. Build or renew 1.4 million homes over four years.CLIMATE CHANGE - Ensure the oil and gas sector cuts emissions of greenhouse gases to achieve a net-zero level by 2050. Require at least half of all passenger vehicles sold to be zero-emission by 2030, and all to be zero-emission by 2035.ECONOMY - Create 1 million jobs within a year.
COVID-19 & HEALTHCARE - Add C$60 billion to healthcare funding transfers to the provinces over 10 years. TAXES - Implement a COVID-19 excess profits tax of 15% on corporate windfall profits during the coronavirus pandemic. Increase top marginal tax rate by two points to 35%.
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