A Place to Grow: New Ontario Liberal team releases fully-costed plan for Ontario
A Place to Grow: New Ontario Liberal team releases fully-costed plan for Ontario Fair, fully-costed, and forward-thinking plan presents choices for voters
Nickel Belt – The Ontario Liberals have released their plan for Ontario, A Place to Grow. It will improve public education, clear the surgery backlog, and revolutionize elder care. At its core, A Place to Grow is about tackling Ontario’s affordability crisis and helping families get ahead – including by introducing $1 transit fares, lowering the cost of food, and making buying and renting a home more affordable.
Gilles Proulx: For our kids future
Our Liberal plan will make Ontario:
A Place to Grow Your Family
- Eliminate HST on more meals, funded by fair taxes
- Replace the minimum wage with a regional living wage, starting at $16/hour
- Build 1.5 million new homes and deliver rent control
A Place to Grow Older
- Revolutionize senior care in Ontario by guaranteeing home care
- End for-profit long-term care
- Boost pensions by up to $1,000 for seniors who need it
A Place to Grow Healthy
- Clear the surgical backlog and set maximum wait times
- Ensure access to a doctor or nurse practitioner within 24 hours
- Make more mental health help available
A Place to Grow Economic Dignity
- Give every worker access to benefits and 10 paid sick days
- Build to a four-day workweek
- Eliminate corporate taxes for two years for small businesses hit hard by the pandemic
A Place to Grow Up
- Build and repair schools with $10 billion funded by scrapping Highway 413
- Hire 10,000 teachers for smaller class sizes
- Fully fund an optional Grade 13 to give students a chance to catch up
A Place to Grow Sustainably
- Cut transit fares to $1 a ride everywhere in Ontario
- Cut Ontario’s carbon pollution in half by 2030
- Protect and expand the Greenbelt and create new provincial parks
A Place to Grow Together
- Raise disability and social assistance benefits
- Advance Indigenous reconciliation
- Ban handguns
