Who Stands Where?

CHV2OE – Civics
Unit 2 Activity 3
Lucy Li
Conservative Party of Canada
LEADER:

PIERRE POILIEVRE
Issue #1: Affordable Housing
The Conservatives want to:
• Make changes to policies in
order to build homes faster
- "Require unaffordable big cities
like Vancouver to increase
homebuilding by 15% annually
or face big financial penalties
and have portions of their
federal funding withheld."
- "Reward cities who are
removing gatekeepers and
getting homes built by providing
a building bonus for
municipalities who boost
homebuilding"
• Impose a penalty on big city • Sell off 15
gatekeepers for egregious cases of percent of the
NIMBYism federal
government’s
- "We will empower residents to file 37,000
complaints about NIMBYism (an acronym buildings
for the phrase "not in my back yard",
characterized by opposition by residents - "We will require
to proposed developments in their local these buildings
area) with the federal infrastructure to be turned
department. into affordable
housing"
- When complaints are well-founded, we
will withhold infrastructure dollars until
municipalities remove the blockage and
allow homebuilding to take place.
Issue #2: Immigration
• Conservatives believe in • They want to allow applicants
a well-functioning to pay a fee to have their
immigration system that processing expedited
promotes family
reunification and allows - "The revenues from these fees will
new immigrants to go toward hiring additional staff to
achieve their dreams. address administrative backlogs.
- They also want to speed up
application processing by reducing
red tape, streamlining applications,
and using resources to their full
potential."
• The Conservatives also
want a fairer
immigration system
- They want to move
operations online
- They also want to record all
interactions between
immigration officers and
applicants. They say this
would be “to help ensure
oversight, fairness, and
accountability” in the
immigration system.
Issue #3: Global Warming
The Conservatives want to:
• fight climate change and
protect the environment
without hurting the economy
- "Canada’s Conservatives will work
with the provinces to implement
an innovative, national, Personal
Low Carbon Savings Account. This
will put a price on carbon for
consumers without one penny
going to the government. It will be
completely transparent and
engage consumers in the process
of building a lower carbon future."
• Increase the amount of
zero emission vehicles
- Introduce a zero emission
vehicle mandate, requiring
30% of light duty vehicles
sold to be zero emissions by
2030
- Work with the Biden
administration to strengthen
vehicle emission standards in
North America
- Invest in transmission
infrastructure to bring clean
energy to where it’s needed
• Lower industrial
emissions
- Tie Canada’s industrial
carbon price to that of our
biggest trading partners -
the European Union and the
United States, starting with
those regions that have
carbon markets
- Assess progress after two
years and be prepared to set
industrial carbon prices on a
path to $170/tonne by 2030
Issue #4: Abortion
• All Conservative MPs are now designated as anti-choice because of the unanimous vote for Bill
C-311 in June 2023, and the rightward shift of the Conservative Party.
Green Party of Canada
LEADER:

ELIZABETH MAY
Issue #1: Affordable Housing
The Green Party wants to:
• Legislate housing as a
legally protected
fundamental human
right for all Canadians
and permanent
residents.
- Declare a national housing
affordability &
homelessness emergency
• Provide financing for housing • Build 25,000 new
issues affordable housing units
and refurbish 15,000
- Provide financing to non-profit more, annually for the
housing organizations and next ten years
cooperatives to build and restore
quality, energy efficient housing for
seniors, people with special needs
and low-income families
Issue #2: Immigration
The Green Party wants to:

• Work to remove • Make a comprehensive overhaul of • Support multicultural

unnecessary our immigration and refugee communities
barriers protection system.
recognizing the - Assist multicultural
professional - Expand the arbitrary powers of the organizations to obtain
credentials of Minister of Immigration charitable status.
immigrants.
- Abruptly wipe hundreds of thousands of - Work with municipalities and
people off the waiting list that they had provinces to improve the
been forced to endure because of integration of new Canadians
Canadian administrative failure into the multicultural fabric of
our country.
- Encourage the casual employment of
huge numbers of temporary workers with - Improve cultural and business
no attachment to Canada links with the home countries
of new Canadians.
Issue #3: Global Warming
The Green Party wants to:

• Declare a Climate • Establish an inner cabinet of all
Emergency parties
• Maintain carbon pricing • Remove all fossil fuel
generation from our national
• By 2030, rebuild and east-west electricity grid.
revamp the east-west
electricity grid to ensure • Create millions of new, well-
that renewable energy paying jobs in the trades by
can be transmitted from retrofitting every building in
one province to another. Canada – residential,
commercial, and institutional –
to be carbon neutral by 2030.
• Set stringent new targets
• Modernize VIA Rail,
expand service and
ensure trans-modal
connections across
Canada to light rail and
electric buses, so that no
one in rural and remote
areas of Canada lacks
efficient, affordable and
safe public transit.
Issue #4: Abortion
• The Green Party of Canada’s policy that all in Canada must have timely access to safe, legal
abortions.

- "All Green Party Members of Parliament must endorse the Green Party’s values, including support of a
woman’s right to choose. There is zero chance an elected representative of our party will ever reopen the
abortion debate."
Liberal Party of Canada
LEADER:

JUSTIN TRUDEAU
Issue #1: Affordable Housing
The Liberals want to:

• Prioritize significant new • Undertake a review of • Increase the new

investment in affordable
housing and senior
facilities
- They have made a ten-year
investment of nearly $20
billion in social
infrastructure
escalating home prices in high-
priced markets – like Vancouver
and Toronto – to determine
whether speculation is driving
up the cost of housing.
residential rental
property rebate on the
GST to 100 percent,
eliminating all GST on
new capital investments
in affordable rental
housing.

- Provide $125 million per

year in tax incentives to
increase and substantially
renovate the supply of
rental housing across
Canada
Issue #2: Immigration
The Liberals want to:

• Reduce processing times • Introduce electronic • Implement a program to

that have been impacted applications for family issue visas to spouses
by COVID-19 to under 12 reunification. and children abroad
months. while they wait for the
processing of their
permanent residency
application, so that
families can be together
sooner.
Issue #3: Global Warming
The Liberals want to:
• Create more jobs
- "create new, middle class
jobs for Canadians by
making Canada a world
leader in batteries to power
the clean economy, helping
industries adopt clean
technologies to cut
pollution, and supporting all
workers to ensure no one is
left behind."
• Create cleaner communities
- Provide 5,000 toward zero emission
vehicle purchases for over half a
million Canadians
- Build 50,000 more zero emission
vehicle chargers, requiring half of
all passenger vehicles sold in
Canada to be zero emission by 2030
and all to be zero emission by
2035,
- Chart a path toward net-zero
buildings across the country,
• Create less pollution
- build a net-zero electricity
grid by 2035
- ensure we drive down
emissions from oil and gas
to meet our shared goal of
net-zero emissions by 2050
- continue to phase-out coal
by ending thermal coal
exports by 2030.
Issue #4: Abortion
The Liberals want to:
• Make sure that the
public has access to
sexual and reproductive
health services
- Establish regulations under
the Canada Health Act
governing accessibility for
sexual and reproductive
health services so there is
no question, that no matter
where someone lives, that
they have access to publicly
available sexual and
reproductive health
services.
• Provide Funding • No longer provide
charity status to anti-
- Provide up to $10 million to Health abortion organizations
Canada to develop an easily (for example, Crisis
accessible portal that provides Pregnancy Centres)
accurate, judgement-free, and
that provide dishonest
evidence-based information on sexual
and reproductive health and rights,
counseling to women
about their rights and
which will include a section that
counters misinformation about about the options
abortion. available to them at
all stages of the
- Provide up to $10 million over 3 years pregnancy.
to youth-led grassroots organizations
that respond to the unique sexual and
reproductive health needs of young
people.
NDP Party of Canada
LEADER:
Insert the Party Logo below then
delete this instruction JAGMEET SINGH
Issue #1: Affordable Housing
The NDP wants to:
• Support renters
- ensure that more affordable
rental units are built across
the country
- provide immediate relief for
families that are struggling
to afford rent in otherwise
suitable housing
• Build more housing
- create at least 500,000 units of quality, affordable housing in the next
ten years, with half of that done within five years.
- spur the construction of affordable homes by waiving the federal
portion of the GST/HST on the construction of new affordable rental
units
- Work in partnership with provinces and municipalities, build capacity
for social, community, and affordable housing providers, to provide
rental support for co-ops, and meet environmental energy efficiency
goals.
Issue #2: Immigration
• New Democrats believe • They believe that family
that people applying to reunification should be a
be residents or citizens priority
of this country deserve
to be treated with - They have plans to end the
respect unfair cap on applications to
sponsor parents and
grandparents, and take on the
backlogs that are keeping
families apart
• They want to protect
newcomers by taking on
unscrupulous
immigration consultants
- fix the system to get rid
of the backlog, and work
with Canadians to
resettle refugees in our
communities
Issue #3: Global Warming
The NDP wants to:

• Take climate • Prioritize building on net-zero legislation • Establish multi-

leadership year national and
- support Canada’s net-zero target by reviewing sectoral carbon
- create and fund a financial legislation, such as the Bank of budgets
Climate Accountability Canada Act, the Export Development Canada
Office, to provide Act, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment - Power communities
independent oversight Board Act, to ensure federal financial levers
carbon-free
of federal climate and Crown corporations are aligned with the
progress, to engage the goal of net-zero
- Continue with
public, and to make carbon pricing
recommendations on - put in place a framework for corporate
how to achieve our climate accountability to ensure mandatory
goals transparency on carbon risk from publicly
traded companies
Issue #4: Abortion
• The NDP believes that "Everyone deserves safe, accessible abortion and reproductive health
services. Jagmeet and Canada’s NDP will continue to fight for reproductive justice in every
community. We’ll enforce the Canada Health Act to prevent provinces from putting up barriers
to accessing abortion, and we’ll work to improve access to services in rural, remote, and
northern communities."