Our key goals are to modernize Canada in such a way that we have a more equitable country that can better handle the challenges we are going through today, as well as ones that are likely to be issues in the future. A Canada ready for the growth in automation technology, climate uncertainty, a post-capitalist society, future pandemics, and so much more.

Agriculture & Food

  • Tax credits to vertical farms and food growing greenhouses built within a 50 KM radius of the downtown core of any city over 100,000 people as long as they guarantee at least 80% of the food grown will be sold within 100 KM.
  • Provide zero interest loans to farmers looking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their climate impact so that we can have a more sustainable food sector.

Artificial Intelligence

  • Establish an AI Ethics Board: A federally funded body comprising diverse experts, including ethicists, engineers, sociologists, and Indigenous representatives, to oversee the ethical implications of AI deployments in both public and private sectors.
  • Provide funding to schools and community organizations for workshops and curricula that enhance public understanding of AI’s capabilities and limitations.
  • Launch federally subsidized reskilling initiatives to prepare workers in at-risk industries for emerging AI-driven roles, ensuring an equitable transition.
  • Develop a public, secure cloud infrastructure to facilitate affordable access to compute resources for startups, researchers, and public institutions.
  • Enact legislation guaranteeing citizens the right to opt out of AI-driven profiling for commercial purposes, along with rights to data access and correction.

Arts & Culture

  • Improve and increase tax balancing for artists that might experience long periods of low income and few periods of high income.
  • Establish artist-focused housing initiatives within urban centers, providing affordable live-work spaces.
  • Offer low-interest loans or grants for artist co-ops to build studio spaces or housing.
  • Fund art therapy programs in hospitals, senior care homes, and communities, focusing on improving mental health through creative expression with a special focus on Indigenous art.

Business

  • Mandated minimum of 12 paid sick days per year for workers (4 hours per day for part-time workers, shift average [8, 10, 12 hours] for full-time workers).
  • Full-time, and/or benefits inclusion time, to be defined as 30 hours per week or above.
  • Make the right to disconnect federally supported with employers with 25 or more employees responsible for developing disconnecting-from-work policies.
  • Ban non-compete agreements in labour contracts.
  • Allow businesses with less than $100,000 in revenues to use simple cash accounting.

Child Care & Family

  • Paid leave if miscarriage (15 days at 100% salary coverage before 23 weeks gestation, and full maternity leave beyond 23 weeks) with the same rules as a maternity leave.
  • Ensure timely access to perinatal mental health services with guaranteed check-ins two weeks, one month, three months, six months, and a year after a pregnancy by a mental health professional.
  • Allow for an option of 12 weeks of parental leave to be divided by parents at 100% of salary as an option for those that can’t sustain a longer period at the current 55% rate.

Climate Change & Environment

  • Immediately protect wild ocean and spawning salmon on the Pacific coast, reducing catch limits for companies to 10% of allowable today.
  • End the traditional commercial fishing industry over 12 years.
  • Stop fish and fish product imports over 16 years.
  • Sustainable land-based, closed-containment, farmed fish as the only transition option for the next 20 years, invest cautiously in this direction.
  • Invest and support development of fish meat alternatives.
  • Invest in habitat restoration on all three coasts of Canada for fish and wildlife.
  • Define moderate living amounts for sustainable fishing and hunting in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples.
  • Increase carbon pricing and reduce the loopholes and trading that big polluters are currently using.

Cryptocurrency

  • Introduce mandatory financial literacy programs for students, including modules on digital currencies.
  • Introduce a Green Mining Certification Program, rewarding operations that meet environmental standards.
  • Introduce a national crypto fraud hotline for victims to report scams.
  • Establish a federal Crypto Fraud Task Force to investigate and prosecute scams, Ponzi schemes, and phishing attacks targeting Canadian investors.

Deficits & Debt

  • Coming soon…

Democracy & Governance

  • Members of Parliament salary cut to their constituents’ median household income (they still get benefits, pension, expense account, staff funding, etc.).
  • Members of Parliament may not serve longer than sixteen years total.

Drugs

  • Decriminalize all drugs.
  • Increase penalties for the sale and trafficking of drugs with a focus on attending required programs and community service.
  • Increase penalties of violent crimes related to drugs.
  • Develop and invest in more mental health and community supports for those using drugs.

Economy & Affordability

  • Immediate institution of a Universal Basic Income called the Valued Canadians Dividend. It will provide all citizens and permanent residents over 18 years old with $2500 per month. This will replace various income support programs typically making up payments below this threshold. This amount to be pinned to increase with inflation.
  • End other Federal benefits programs that the VCD supersedes such has:
    • Employment Insurance program
    • Sickness benefits program

Education

  • One and two year college and trade school program tuition to be covered by the Federal Government, for those without any previously completed post-secondary certificates, diplomas, or degrees.
  • Expand the Federal Bursary program to cover 150,000 more students in need.
  • End interest on the Federal portion of student loan repayments.
  • Require employers with more than 100 staff to spend at least 1 percent of their total payroll on training their employees annually.

Energy

  • Invest in modern nuclear power.
  • Work towards shutting down or revamping/renovating current nuclear power plants.
  • Invest heavily in solar, wind, tidal, and heavily subsidize geothermal energy projects.
  • Invest in deep drilling technology to make geothermal energy more affordable in more areas in Canada.
  • Invest in a modern energy grid with redundancy, power storage, and interconnected grid opportunities.
  • Work towards shutting down all coal and gas power plants over the next 8 years.

First Nations

  • Using all available resources, intervene in areas where there are clean water issues and resolve that immediately. If the band needs money to facilitate repairs, facilities, staffing, or training, provide that support. If they need engineers or construction workers on site to carry out the efforts, make that happen. And if neither is feasible, bring free potable water as near on site as possible.

Foreign Affairs

  • Adjust our portfolio of countries receiving foreign aid from Canada so we are only helping countries that are of a certain developmental difference behind our own. We could use the Human Development Index from the United Nations which sets Canada at #16 with a score of 0.929 in the 2020 report. It would be ideal to primarily help countries with a Medium human development score or lower which would be approximately 75% of our score or worse or 0.7 and lower.
  • Transition the funds focus over the next 8 years to be used for long-term education, infrastructure, healthcare and food development projects monitored and audited by multinational NGOs.
  • Increase foreign aid by 2% per year for the next 8 years.

Forestry

  • Increase the requirement for replacement planting of trees in the forestry sector as well as requiring forestry to further decarbonize by reducing overall fuel and oil usage by 5% year over year for the next 10 years.

Genomics

  • Temporarily ban genetics work that actively manipulates the reproductive cells of plants or animals for four years. Allow for a review every two years. Only allow virtual/simulated testing of such technologies until such a time that a council of top tier geneticists in Canada feel confident that we have enough understanding of the potential side-effects to take on live trials of this technology.
  • Temporarily ban the release of plants/animals with their reproductive cells engineered for no less than six years.

Guns

  • Common sense approach with gun safety being a priority.
  • Increase spending on free gun safety training.
  • Increase budget for search and seizure of weapons crossing our borders.
  • Harsher sentencing for those caught with illegal weapons.
  • Harsher sentencing for violent gun crimes.
  • Invest in and support gun training centres and sports shooting ranges having safe lockers on site for storage, handling, and maintaining private sport shooting weapons.

Healthcare

  • Head to toe healthcare including basic preventative checks and services. More details on what that means below, but we feel making this top-line commitment is important.
  • Dental care coverage to include two cleanings per year, fillings, tooth extractions, and x-rays to maintain basic dental health.
  • A system to determine increasing inclusion of new services based on a research based approach for potential future healthcare costs.
  • Vision care coverage to include biannual vision check, and a pair of glasses (frames and lenses up to $400 for those under 18 and $600 for those over 18 with values increasing with inflation).
  • National pharmacare plan where all doctor prescribed medication with a DIN that would typically be covered by the federal employee benefits program to be covered free for all Canadian citizens.
  • Increase allowable coverage of mental health services through doctors where up to 26 sessions per year can be prescribed and covered free under a Federal mental health plan through a budget increase of $8 billion in payments to the provinces and territories to increase the availability of mental health care.
  • Take a housing first approach to mental health care and build 100,000 permanent supportive housing spaces with wrap-around services.
  • Free menstrual products (pads and tampons) available at hospitals, pharmacies, and schools.
  • Free dental products (toothpaste, toothbrush, floss) available at hospitals, pharmacies, dental offices, and schools.

Housing

  • Setup a non-profit crown corporation to build houses with an immediate goal to build 2% of all housing starts per quarter (600 – 1800 new units per quarter) and a long-term goal to build 5% of all housing starts under $500,000 in current value in 8 years.
  • Housing first planning in concert with the decommodification of housing should be the goal, work with provinces and municipalities to bring this change about.
  • Require Airbnbs, VRBOs or other temporary housing to have a proper business license and specific home insurance otherwise fine the owner for each infraction of using their home as a business ($5,000 max per instance).
  • Ban full-property Airbnb / VRBO listings, this includes full apartment units, full houses, but exclude recreational properties.
  • Tax foreign buyers 25% on purchases and use any revenue generated by this policy change to support low income housing initiatives.
  • Temporarily ban international purchasers for non-recreational housing for at least 5 years.
  • Stop numbered corporations from purchasing residential properties/units.
  • Increase the down-payment requirement to a minimum of 25% for secondary property purchases and 50% on properties beyond the second, but exempt recreational properties such as cottages and three-season (Spring/Summer/Fall) homes.
  • Change Capital Gains so that non-owner occupied home sales are at a 60% inclusion rate, but only on sales of homes purchased after this law comes into effect. Houses purchased previous to this are covered under the previous rule (50% Capital Gains).
  • Have the Capital Gains inclusion rate for home sales increase 5% per decade (so 65% at 10 years after this change begins). The goal being that real estate should not be the primary investment vehicle in Canada.
  • Require property sales/purchase data to be open and available on real estate sales websites so that potential purchasers can see previous transactions relating to the house that they are reviewing.
  • Prohibit blind bidding on properties, make all offers open to all those submitting an offer on the purchase of a property.
  • Require historical information relating to real estate offers and sales to be publicly available online and through easy information requests.
  • Adjust the tax free First Home Savings Account to be the tax free Home Savings Account, and allow the cap to be 10% of the median household price with no limitation on age, and no longer just for first time home purchases.
  • Require a home inspection report to be included with any residential real estate sales listing.
  • Require, by law, real estate agents and mortgage lenders to act in the best interest of their signed clients similar to fiduciary responsibilities in the financial space.
  • Allow for up to 30 year terms on CMHC insured mortgages on homes valued up to 60% of the median residential single family house price (around $450k today).
  • Change the mortgage stress test to stop discriminating against small business owners and contractors.
  • Increase investment in rent-geared-to-income opportunities in partnership with provinces/territories and municipalities seeing a higher than median amount of homelessness or precariously housed individuals.

Infrastructure

  • Invest in waste reduction systems, education, technology, and facilities to reduce and reuse what would otherwise go to a landfill.

International Trade

  • Coming soon…

Immigration

  • Coming soon…

Jobs & Skills Training

  • Guaranteed jobs program (infrastructure, military, community support, and construction) with a median salary of $48,000/yr (indexed to inflation), government benefits, and government pension program.
  • 200 to 1 income cap for corporate executives and board members including whole compensation value.
  • Tradespeople under 35 years old will pay no Federal tax on their first $50,000 of normally taxable income (above personal amount and VCD) each year.
  • All employment listings must include the expected salary range and expected number of hours.

Justice & Police

  • Coming soon…

Language

  • Coming soon…

National Defense and Veterans Affairs

  • Invest in mental health support for veterans.
  • Invest in removing the backlog of veterans support services.

Northern Affairs

  • Coming soon…

Oil & Gas

  • Stop new oil and gas projects in Canada.
  • Focus on retraining opportunities for oil and gas workers in the green energy and other aligned employment sectors as well as funded opportunities to move out of the energy sector through retraining grants.
  • Immediately end all Federal funding and subsidies towards the oil and gas sector.
  • Require oil companies to clean up inactive wells.

Public Safety & Security

  • Coming soon…

Retirement & Seniors

  • Work with the provinces to invest in more not-for-profit seniors residences creating 100,000 long-term care beds in the next 8 years.
  • Reverse the marketing trend of trying to convince and support seniors living in their own homes as it creates huge inefficiencies in care.
  • Improve current seniors residences through renovations, oversight, and better information management/distribution.
  • Create an oversight group to monitor long term care homes, their safety, infection control, and services to ensure Canada has a top tier long term care system.

Taxes

  • Federal Tax Rates to change to:
    • 15% on the first $60,000 of taxable income, plus
    • 22% on the next $60,000 of taxable income ($60,001-$120,000), plus
    • 28% on the next $50,000 of taxable income ($120,001 – $170,000), plus
    • 32% on the next $50,000 of taxable income ($170,001 – $220,000), plus
    • 36% on the next $280,000 of taxable income ($220,001 – $500,000), plus
    • 40% on taxable income over $500,001
  • Work with the provinces and territories to simplify tax rates and progressive amounts to reduce confusion and with a focus on reducing tax burden on lower-income individuals.
  • Increase the capital gains inclusion rate on investments by 5% every other year for the next 8 years (from 50% to 70%). Do this for all capital gains, and not just corporations and trusts over $250k.
  • Increase compliance funding for the corporate areas of the CRA’s enforcement section so they can better investigate corporate tax issues.

Technology, Internet and Communications

  • Require a $20 per month 25 megabit downstream, 25 megabit upstream Internet connection package from incumbent telecommunications companies with 3TB cap minimum with price frozen for the next 4 years. Allow a modem rental fee, but vendors must provide a modem for under $100 for direct purchase.
  • Require a $20 per month, no-connection fee, no SIM card charge, 5GB of data at best possible speed using current technology, with unlimited Canada-wide text messaging and unlimited Canada-wide cellular minutes cell phone plan with price frozen for the next 4 years.
  • Overages of cellular minutes, text-messages, media messages, and data to be limited to no more than ten percent higher than the average of the G7 countries most used incumbent costs.
  • Establish right to repair as federal law and provide a tax credit to companies based on an independent assessment of their support in providing documentation, replacement parts, and tools for repairs.

Transportation

  • Invest hundreds of millions in funding for high speed rail lines projects that go connect two provinces/territories.
  • Work with the Ontario and Quebec governments to fund and build a high speed rail project between Windsor and Quebec City with stops in Windsor, London, Kitchener, Mississauga, Toronto, Oshawa, Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Trois-Rivieres, and Quebec City.
  • Provide federal funding to low-carbon transit projects such as zero-emissions buses and electric trains.
  • Support and invest in fare-free municipal transit development programs in areas with less than 250,000 people.

US / Canada Relations

  • Coming soon…

Youth

  • Coming soon…

Water

  • All Canadians must have access to clean drinking water. Invest what it takes to service any community over one hundred people with clean drinking water by repairing water systems, adding additional filtering, treatment, and/or installing new water systems where needed.
  • Companies and corporations to be banned from sourcing and bottling Canadian water as a product for sale over the course of 4 years with an immediate 50% reduction of water source rights in the first year.