Our Politics
2025
NDP
Conservatives
Liberals
Affordability
Conservatives
Liberals
- No major policies announced
Arts & Culture
Conservatives
Civil Rights
Economy & Business
NDP
Conservatives
- Cut income taxes for lowest tax bracket from 15% to 12.75%
- Remove capital gains tax on reinvestments in Canada until 2026
- Cut taxes on work, investment, energy, and homebuilding
- Increase TFSA limit by $5,000 for Canadian investments
- Increase maximum age to own an RRSP from 71 to 73
- Whistleblower incentives, task force to close overseas tax havens
Liberals
- Cut income taxes for lowest tax bracket from 15% to 14%
- Raise capital gains lifetime exemption to $1.25 million
- Boost adoption of AI technology by providing an AI deployment tax credit
- Introduce automatic tax filing for all Canadians, starting with low-income households and seniors
- Encourage Canadian innovation to stay in Canada by introducing a patent box to reward companies who locate or stay in Canada
- Make the Black Entrepreneurship Program permanent
Education
NDP
- No major policies announced
Conservatives
Liberals
- No major policies announced
Environment
NDP
Conservatives
Foreign Policy
NDP
Conservatives
Government
NDP
- No major policies announced
Conservatives
Liberals
- Eliminate internal trade barriers, recognize credentials across Canada
- Balance federal operational budget over 3 years
- Use AI to improve government efficiency
- Establish Office of Digital Transformation to identify, implement, and scale technology solutions
- Promote “Buy Canadian” through procurement and labelling
- Improve support and services for veterans
Health & Safety
NDP
Conservatives
- Keep existing dental and childcare programs
- Hire 2,000 new CBSA agents for border security
- Unify health and safety regulations for tradespeople across Canada
- Deny bail to repeat offenders, tougher sentencing for serious crime, “three strikes” law for repeat offenders
- Invest $1 billion in addiction treatment for 50,000 Canadians
- Scrap gun buyback program
- Ban supervised consumption sites near sensitive areas, close overdose prevention sites
Liberals
- Expand dental care to low-income adults aged 18-64
- Hire 1,000 new CBSA agents for border security
- Enhance child protection measures online
- Increase penalties for non-consensual intimate image distribution, criminalize non-consensual sexual deepfakes
- Protect vulnerable communities with additional funding for hate crime prevention
- Make bail more difficult for specific crimes, repeat offenders by reversing burden-of-proof
- Expand RCMP and CBSA to combat smuggling and crime
- Increase funding for public prosecution and first responder mental health
- Amend Canada Post Corporation Act for drug interdiction
- Strengthen gun control through buyback program, transfer gun classification to RCMP
- Hire 1,000 additional RCMP officers
- Classify hate-motivated murders as first-degree
Housing
NDP
- Provide low-interest loans for first-time homebuyers through CMHC
- Build 100k rent-controlled homes on federal land by 2035
- Ban corporate purchases of affordable rentals
- Increase fund to help non-profits purchase affordable apartments, incentivise municipalities to introduce rent controls
- Retrofit 3.3 million homes with energy-saving upgrades
- Invest $16 billion to build 3 million homes by 2030
- Permanent ban on foreign homebuyers
- Increase anti-flipping tax to 5 years
Conservatives
Immigration
NDP
- No major policies announced
Indigenous Relations
Liberals
- Double Indigenous Loan Guarantee to $10 billion
- Uphold Jordan’s Principle and reform indigenous child welfare
- Ensure clean water for First Nations, protect freshwater
- Continue progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Calls for Justice and the National Action Plan
- Implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
Infrastructure
NDP
Conservatives
- Commit $1 billion to co-fund roads, approve “Ring of Fire” northern Ontario mining permits within 6 months
- Pre-publish permits for power stations, LNG plants and pipelines
- Double Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil and gas production, approve LNG Newfoundland and Labrador project
- Remove redundant environmental assessments
Liberals
- Establish “first and last mile fund” to build roads to new resource mines
- Expand high-speed rail project from Windsor to Québec City
- Remove redundant environmental assessments
- Invest $5 billion in trade corridors and transportation infrastructure
- Create Major Federal Project Office to expedite approvals
International Trade
NDP
- Support targeted, dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs against the U.S.
- Expand trade beyond the U.S. with higher standards for workers and the environment
- Prioritize procurement, value-added processing within Canada
- Prevent asset stripping in auto sector by U.S. corporations after receiving government subsidies
- Require Canadian parts in US auto imports
- Introduce a Border Carbon Adjustment
Science
NDP
- No major policies announced
Conservatives
- No major policies announced
Financial Support
NDP
- Increase EI benefits, eliminate 1-week waiting period for EI benefits and extend coverage to 50 weeks
- Reduce EI qualification threshold to 360 hours and include contractors and self-employed
- Raise maximum insurable earnings and EI benefit rate above 55%
- Double Canada Disability Benefit
- Increase Guaranteed Income Supplement
Conservatives
Youth & Child Care
Conservatives
- No major policies announced