• Aboriginals
• Afghanistan War
• Agriculture
• Arts & Culture

• Child Care
• Consumer Protection
• Defense
• Economy

• Environment
• Fisheries
• Health Care
• Infrastructure

• Immigration
• Iraq War
• Law & Order
• Middle East
• Taxes

• Trade
• Abortion
• Capital Punishment
• Credit Crisis
• Marijuana

1. Will improve Aboriginal education programs
2. Will protect Aboriginals attending schools not covered by the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
3. Push for improved housing for First Nations and Inuit in northern Canada

1. Support the restoration of the Kelowna Accord, and fulfill the commitments within other related accords and agreements
2. Work to renew the Metis nation’s partnership in Confederation

1. Will invest $5-billion over five years to improve the standard of living of First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities
2. Legally recognize the legitimacy and jurisdiction of indigenous governments

1. Support the restoration of the $5.1-billion commitment of the Kelowna Accord
2. Set up task forces to address Aboriginal treatment in the justice system as well as putting more effort into searching for Aboriginal women who have gone missing

1. Continue to ask that the federal government honour existing treaties fully, so as to form a partnership with Aboriginal Peoples based on trust, mutual respect and the recognition of rights

1. Provide reasonable social assistance by 2011.
2. During the campaign, Stephen Harper said Canada would be out of Kandahar by 2011.

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1. Will remove troops by 2011.
2. Recognize that there is a long-term relationship with the people of Afghanistan and Canada must help them build a stable, secure, and democratic country.

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1. Will withdraw all Canadian forces from the Afghanistan combat mission, with reasonable advance notice and in consultation with our allies.
2. They will still deliver assistance to the people of the country and ensure human rights and erase corruption.

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1. The Green Party does not support
   further Canadian participation in the NATO-led combat mission to Afghanistan beyond
   February 2009. They do support more social assistance in order for the country to become more independent and to strengthen the structure of their government.

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1. The Bloc opposed the extension of the mission to 2011 and has called for a “rebalancing” of the mission.

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1. Plan to set aside $500-million over the next four years to implement an Agricultural Flexibility Program
2. Ensure Western Canadian farmers can choose whether to sell grain on the open market or through the Canadian Wheat Board
3. Will invest $50-million to create a stronger slaughter capacity in various regions to make beef and dairy industries more efficient.

1. Introduce a new regional flexibility fund to help regions improve crop insurance and environment programs
2. Support the promotion of local farmers’ markets and the branding of Canadian foods

1. Ban the use of Terminator seeds
2. Advocate limiting meat packers’ ownership of cattle in order to prevent large corporations from controlling industry prices
3. Provide funding for farmers who wish to shift to organic or Biointensive pest management systems of agriculture.
   (NDP 1)
4. Support independent agricultural extension workers to facilitate environmentally friendly farming methods
   (NDP 1)
5. Will make the Canadian Wheat Board the only brokers for Canadian wheat and barley
   (NDP 1)

1. Shift government-supported research away from biotechnology and energy-intensive farming and towards organic food production
2. Work to ban experimentation with planting and promotion of genetically engineered crops

1. Will protect the Offer-Management System at the core of Quebec’s agriculture industry

1. Will proceed with cutting culture funding by $45-million
2. Plan to provide tax breaks to parents of up to $500 for each child enrolled in arts activities
3. Increase funding for French-language TV5 by $25-million over five years
4. Will not reintroduce legislation that denies tax credits to films deemed “contrary to public policy”
5. Alternate the chairmanship of the Canadian Radio-Telivision and Telecommunications Commission between French and English speakers

1. Raise the annual budget of the Canadian Council of the Arts to $360-million over four years
2. Reverse $45-million in Conservative program cuts
3. Increase budget for international arts promotion by $26-million, and the museum assistance program by $16 million

1. Reverse $45-million in Conservative program cuts
2. Increase funding for the Canada Council of the Arts
3. Provide sustained funding for the Canadian Television Fund and Telefilm Canada
4. Ensure television and telecommunications networks remain Canadian owned

1. Maintain or increase support for the CBC, Canada Council for the Arts, National Film Board and Telefilm Canada
2. Reverse $45-million in Conservative program cuts

1. Ensure all federal money earmarked for culture flows to the province with no strings attached

1. Allow the annual taxable $1,200 universal benefit to increase at the rate of inflation, and make the payment non-taxable for single parents
2. Improve access to parental leave for self-employed workers
3. Invested $250 million per year to assist the provinces and territories in creating new child care spaces
   (Conservative Website 1)

1. Maintain yearly $1,200 benefit and spend $1.24 billion over four years to create 165,000 new childcare spaces
2. Provide a tax credit worth $350 for children under 18

1. Provide non-taxable monthly cheque of up to $416 for children under 18
2. Create 250,000 childcare spaces over four years

1. Promote a federally funded universal program, and offer employers a tax credit of $1,500 a year for each childcare space created

1. Ensure all federal money earmarked for culture flows to the province with no strings attached
2. Any new federal childcare dollars come with no strings attached

1. Continue training Afghan police and army before a 2011 troop withdrawal
2. Rebuild the Dahla Dam, repair schools, train teachers, promote better governance

1. Pull troops out of Kandahar by 2011, and focus on development and diplomacy
2. Plan to spend $60-million to help soldiers with post-traumatic stress

1. Withdraw troops from Kandahar, and focus on a diplomatic solution to the war
2. Focus the military on disaster relief and peacekeeping

1. Restore Canada’s peacekeeping role, and help build a United Nations reaction force
2. Shift the Afghanistan mission from NATO to UN control

1. Pull troops out of Kandahar, while maintaining some military presence in Afghanistan
2. Rebalance the mission towards development and diplomacy

1. Against implementing new taxes/subsidies and are opposed to bailouts
2. Modest investments in certain industry sectors
3. Are committed to continue running a surplus
4. Reduce red tape for small businesses.

1. Produce economic and fiscal update, immediately assess Canada’s regulatory framework
2. Call premiers meeting
3. Invest billions in manufacturers, infrastructure and research
4. Apply a host of tax breaks for green technology and tax increases for polluters (carbon tax plan)
5. Invest $1 billion in the Advanced Manufacturing Prosperity (AMP) Fund to promote a greener, more competitive manufacturing sector.
   (Liberal 1)

1. Roll back corporate tax cuts and pour resulting billions in retraining programs and incentives to manufacture green cars and other products

1. Renegotiate NAFTA
2. Set up green venture capital funds
3. Base economic policy on environment and well-being

1. Federal support of the forestry and manufacturing industries
2. Reduce Quebec’s dependence on oil
3. Bring in a single tax return

1. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 (3% below 1990 levels)
   (Conservative 2 and Post website)
2. Dedicated $2 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels
   (Conservative 2)
3. Mandatory caps on industrial pollution per unit of production
4. Incentives and investments to encourage green technologies and energy efficiency
5. Created a $225 million investment to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands
   (Conservative 2)

1. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20-25% below 1990 levels by 2020
2. Carbon tax on fossil fuels for consumers and industry; mandatory cap and trade system in subsequent years
3. Green incentives and investments

1. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2020
2. Introduce regulations for cap and trade system with absolute reductions in emissions from industry
3. New dedicated public transit fund; green jobs strategy

1. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 1990 levels by 2020
2. Carbon tax on fossil fuels for consumers and industry, mandatory caps for industry on carbon exchange market
3. Green incentives and investment

1. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions with science-based targets to avoid dangerous climate change
2. Reduce dependence on fossil fuels that cause greenhouse gas emissions

1. Increase fines for gas vendors and home-heating companies that overcharge consumers by more than three percent
2. Raise the penalties for bid-rigging and price-fixing
3. Clamp down on false and misleading advertising
4. Create a code of conduct for wireless service industry; punishing Cell Phone companies that charge for unsolicited text messages and companies sending Internet spam

1. Invest $50-million to hire 100 new food inspectors and strengthen laws and regulations to ensure that only safe food and products are sold in Canada

1. Reduce hidden fees, and ban ATM fees for institutions regulated under the Bank Act
2. Push for more accountability and transparency from Cellphone companies, banks and airlines
3. End charges on incoming text messages

1. Ensure wholesomeness of foods by monitoring pesticides, herbicides and growth hormones and limit children’s exposure to the marketing of junk foods
2. Ban experimentation and promotion of new genetically engineered foods and research
3. Opposes mergers of Canada’s big banks; supports credit union system

1. Review the role of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

1. Modernize the administration of Canada’s fisheries to focus on conservation and use sanctions, rather than court proceedings, to deal with violators.

1. Partner with the provinces to fund an early-retirement program
2. Support energy efficiency efforts with the party’s Green Fisheries and Transport Fund

1. Focus on the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of Canada’s marine resources
2. Ensure that all aquaculture operations meet the highest environmental standards
   (NDP 1)
3. Invest more in habitat protection and salmon enhancement.
   (NDP 1)
4. Increase fishing law enforcement by hiring more fisheries officers and updating the Fisheries Act.
   (NDP 1)

1. Place a permanent moratorium on oil and gas exploration and development in ecologically sensitive areas, particularly the west coast of British Columbia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence
2. Sign and ratify the global treaty to ban bottom trawling
3. Strengthen the Fisheries Act

1. invest $475-million over five years to refurbish ports for small fishing vessels in Quebec and in Canada

1. Implement 10-Year $41.3 billion Federal/Provincial plan to strengthen health care
2. Increased funding for new training spaces to address the shortage of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals
3. Allocate funds for data collection and sharing

1. National minimum coverage for catastrophic drug costs for such illnesses as cancer and diabetes
2. Train more health professionals, help foreign-trained ones get Canadian credentials
3. Forgive $10,000 in student debt for each year a newly graduated doctor works in a small community with few medical service

1. Double the number of doctors and nurses in training
2. Forgive loans of newly graduated doctors who stay in family practice for a decade
3. Oppose for-profit medical services

1. Protect universal health care
2. Encourage long-term care at home
3. Oppose any level of privatized, for-profit health care
   (Green 1)
4. Work with the Canadian Medical Association to immediately establish qualification standards and on-the-job mentorship programs to fast-track certification of foreign trained health care professionals
   (Green 1)

1. Wants to create a separate, universal health-care system in Quebec

1. Building Canada plan in the 2007 federal budget, to spend $33-billion on infrastructure projects over seven years
2. Allow cities to get a portion of money in areas such as public transit, water systems, roads and recreational facilities

1. Invest $70-billion over 10 years for infrastructure needs
2. Endorse a new Infrastructure Bank to provide low-interest financing for projects

1. Transfer equivalent of one percentage point of GST for cities and communities to finance infrastructure projects
2. Transfer a portion of gas tax specifically for public transit needs

1. Would like to raise the GST to 6% to transfer to municipalities for their infrastructure needs
2. New bonds and superfunds to finance new projects

1. A new funding formula for municipal infrastructure projects
2. Federal government to pay 50% of the costs, versus 35% for the provinces and 15% for the cities

1. Implement new law giving the minister new discretionary powers to fast-track groups of immigrants
2. Lower landing fees, and speed recognition of foreign credentials

1. Invest $800-million in new programs, including matching new arrivals to jobs suited to their skills
2. Repeal discretionary powers of the minister

1. Accelerate recognition of foreign credentials, degrees

Reduce backlogs to help reunify families to raise immigration rate to one per cent of population

1. Push professional societies to recognize foreign credentials
2. Increase money for language training and work with cities and provinces to settle new arrivals

1. Give refugees the right to appeal rulings
2. Press the federal government to give Quebec the authority to help reunite families

1. Stiff punishment for criminals
2. Crack down on serious youth crime, allowing judges to impose life sentences, publish names
3. Abolish conditional sentences (”house arrest”) for 30 offences. Offendants should spend time in jail instead of their living rooms.
   (Conservative 3 & Post)
4. Minimum prison terms for drug crimes
5. Mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes
   (Conservative 3)

1. Create $40-million fund to combat guns and gangs
2. Ban military assault rifles like one used at Montreal’s Dawson College
3. Work with U.S. to reduce illegal gun smuggling
4. Introduce law against cyberbullying

1. Empower municipalities, provinces to ban handguns
2. Tackle gun smuggling
3. Add 2,500 new police officers nationwide
4. Decriminalize marijuana

1. Legalize and tax marijuana
2. Promote restorative justice, where offenders make reparation to victims and community contrary to Conservative view of stiff punishments

1. Focus on intervention and rehabilitation for young offenders, rejecting proposed Conservative crackdown
2. Decriminalize marijuana
3. Retain federal gun registry

1. Maintain a pro-Israel foreign policy. The Conservatives condemn Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist organizations.

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1. Dion on Hamas:”The government should, right away, commit itself to maintaining the $52-million in help. The social problems in the (territories) are awful, and, in fact, Canada should do more not less.” –Globe and Mail – March 30, 2006

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1. Recognize the right of both Israelis and Palestinians to live in peaceful co-existence in viable, independent states with negotiated, agreed-upon borders; no Israeli settlements remaining in the Palestinian state; an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian land; an end to loss of life of innocent civilians; and an international peacekeeping presence.

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1. Will recognize both parties as their own state.
2. Will adhere to pre-1967
   borders and also seek to incorporate an international plan for stimulating economic
   prosperity in both nations. Human rights is a priority and the violence must stop.

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1. Cut tax on diesel and jet fuel from four to two cents a litre
2. Modest tax benefits for seniors, first-time homebuyers, apprentices, parents with kids in the arts and people with disabled spouses

1. Impose tax of $10 per tonne of greenhouse-gas emissions, growing to $40 per tonne in four years
2. Cut bottom three income-tax rates, lower corporate tax rate by one per cent and offer tax credits to low-income earners

1. Raise corporate-tax rate back to last year’s level, and cancel future corporate tax cuts promised by Tories
2. Non-taxable child benefit of up to $416 a month for children under 18

1. Impose carbon tax of $50 per tonne of greenhouse-gas emissions
2. GST back to 6% and invest funds in infrastructure and public transit

1. Lobby for refundable tax credits that would enable money-losing manufacturing and forestry companies to innovate out of slump
2. lobby for range of tax credits, such as credit of new graduates to convince them to stay in Quebec

1. Negotiate new bilateral trade deals and work to break down interprovincial trade barriers
2. Open new trade offices in China, India, Brazil and elsewhere

1. Discourage trade with countries with lousy environment and worker protection records
2. Rip up the softwood lumber agreement and renegotiate NAFTA

1. Renegotiate NAFTA
2. Insist federal government buy Canadian and honour Kyoto Protocol
3. Ban offshore factory fishing draggers and production and consumption of organically grown agricultural products

1. apply trade-based aspects of the Kyoto Protocol, including the administration of a “true” carbon market

1. Will not reopen the abortion issue and will leave abortion laws as is.
2. Will prevent others from opening debate on the abortion issue.

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1. Will not support any legislation that undermines a woman’s right to choose or that threaten a woman’s ability to access safe abortion services in Canada.

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1. Reaffirm women’s right to safe therapeutic abortion services.

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1. Will oppose any possible government move to diminish the right of a woman to a safe, legal abortion.
2. The right to choose is fully supported.
3. Will also expand programs in reproductive rights and education to avoid unwanted pregnancies, and expand supports for low-income mothers.

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1. Hold a pro-choice stance and will advocate women rights to abortions.

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1. Has recently changed its policy so that Canada will no longer fight to reverse the death sentences of Canadians facing execution in foreign countries.

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1. Are completely against the decriminalization of marijuana and seek to make the laws regarding marijuana stiffer.source

1. Propose to make the laws regarding marijuana possession less harsh. They recognize people use it casually or experiment with it and should not have a criminal record. However, growers will be faced with tougher sentences.source

1. Support the decriminalization of marijuana for personal use.
2. “Our party is in favour of modernizing our marijuana laws and creating a legal environment where people can enjoy marijuana in the peace and quiet of their own home or in a cafe without the fear of being criminalized.”- Jack Layton, October 2003source

1. Since the party was founded, it has called for the legalization of marijuana.
2. The Green party maintains that Canada has implicitly acknowledged that marijuana laws are ridiculous

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1. Support the decriminalization of marijuana for personal use.

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