TORONTO - A running list of election promises announced by the Progressive Conservatives, NDP, Liberals and Greens in Ontario since late March:
April 28: Spend $158.8 billion over 10 years for highways, transit and hospitals, with $20 billion promised this year alone. Highway projects include Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass, widening Highway 401 east from Pickering, and improving the QEW Skyway. Hospital investments include $1 billion each for projects at the Scarborough Health Network and Unity Health.
Invest an additional $114.4 million over three years in a Skilled Trades Strategy. Provide an additional $268.5 over three years to Employment Ontario. Hire 300 doctors in northern Ontario, including 100 specialists and 40 mental health practitioners. Fund travel accommodations for medical residents to take elective rotations in rural and northern communities. Create more residency rotation positions to help retain doctors in the north.Create a mixed-member proportional voting system designed by an independent group of citizens.Establish provincial standards for home and community care services.
Restore the previous government’s free tuition program. Convert post-secondary student loans to grants. Retroactively erase student loan interest. April 21: Cover prescription birth control under OHIP, including Plan B, the pill, intrauterine devices, implants, shots, patches and rings. Raise base pay for personal support workers to $25 an hour. Guarantee access to mental health services for all health professionals. Repeal Bill 124, which limits public sector compensation increases.
April 12: Establish $10-a-day before- and after-school care. Top up the 18-month federal parental leave program. Reintroduce the Pay Transparency Act. Require publicly listed companies to disclose how many women and people from equity-deserving groups are on boards and in senior management. Require companies bidding on government contracts to achieve equitable representation. Create an Ontario Women’s Health Strategy. Provide free menstrual products in schools, libraries, transit stations.
April 26: Build 60,000 supportive homes with wraparound mental health and addictions services over 10 years.
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