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Liberal Social Platform [top] |
| Build 20,000 affordable housing units over four years, involves matching federal funds. |
| Establish housing allowance program, providing relief for 35,000 families. |
| Revamp protection for tenants and create new rent controls. |
Make assistance available to 75 per cent of all families with children under four years of age. A household making $75,000 annually would be eligible for $5 a day. |
Give subsidy of $15 a day for families earning $25,000 or less. Those with low income and now have full subsidy will retain it. |
Establish college of early childhood educators. |
| Enhance Family Resource Centres and Early Years Centres. |
| Repeal 60-hour workweek. |
Increase minimum wage to $8.00 over five years, up from $6.85. |
Double the number of apprentices in Ontario. |
Increase support to women's shelters. |
Improve enforcement of family support payments. |
Create "Rapid Re-employment Training Project." |
New Democratic Party Social Platform [top] |
| Reduce child-care fees to $10 a day for children up to five years of age. |
| Create 20,000 new regulated day-care spaces. |
| Stop "clawback" of Child Tax Benefit for those on social assistance. |
| Link Ontario Disability Support program to cost of living; overhaul application process. |
| Create new holiday in February by making Heritage Day a statutory holiday. |
| Create indexed and more portable pension. |
| Immediately increase minimum wage to $8.00 an hour, up from $6.85. |
| Freeze rents for two years and bring back rent control. |
| Build 32,000 affordable housing units over four years, involves matching federal funds. |
| Repeal the 60-hour workweek. |
| Implement pay equity for home-care and child-care workers, citing a 1999 court ruling. |
| Tie benefits for workers' compensation to inflation. |
| Improve system of women's shelters and crisis centres with additional funding, as well as improve services for women who are recent immigrants or have disabilities. |
| Provide legal aid for family law. |
| End lifetime ban for social assistance. |
| Increase housing allowance for social assistance to 85 per cent of community average. |
| Consider tying social assistance to cost of living. |
| "Crack down" on sweatshops. |
Progressive Conservative Party
Social Platform [top]
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| Increase funding for Early Years program to $192 million this year. |
| Create Ontario Child Benefit for families on social assistance. |
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Increase disability payments by five per cent.
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| Eliminate mandatory retirement age.
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| Create Shared Care Teams to provide health services for the homeless. They would have the power to remove homeless people from the streets, if deemed necessary.
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