The Role and Development of the Family
The Bloc has released no official statement on its policies concerning the role of the family in society.

As a part of its policies to support workers, the Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– it is delighted by the ever-increasing role played by women in the job market and wants to see all glass ceilings shattered.
– it is in favor of concrete measures to promote work-family balance, and believes in helping parents make the most of the precious moments of parenthood.

Health Care

The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– it believes that all people have the right to health, safety and dignity at every stage of their lives.
– it believes that Quebecers want a safe society that respects the dignity and physical and psychological integrity of everyone, regardless of age, condition, status, appearance, religion, beliefs or place of residence.
– it is in favor of a solid, adequately funded social safety net for all Quebecers.
– it supports a free, universal and public healthcare network.
– it believes that as long as the federal government collects taxes from Quebecers, it has a duty to fund its fair share of health care on a sustainable basis, unconditionally and with respect for the jurisdictions of Quebec and the provinces.
– it is in in favor a dignified end of life for each person, in the way he or she chooses freely and in an informed manner.
– it believes that every person, first and foremost women, has the right to control their own body, and we necessarily oppose any attempt to control or dispose of someone else’s body.

Mental Health & Addictions
The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– mental health is a national and enduring crisis of unprecedented dramatic proportions that is sabotaging, taking lives, the lives of real people.
– it is urgent that Quebec has the means to save thousands of people from the most deafening and burdensome of ailments, unconditionally and by recognizing Quebec’s full expertise and jurisdiction in healthcare.
– it recognizes that drug dependence is a public health issue, not a criminal one, and that stigmatization contributes to the current situation, particularly with regard to the opioid crisis. Consequently, it demands decriminalization of the use and possession for personal consumption of all drugs.

Care & Support for the Elderly
The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– the standard of living and purchasing power of seniors and retirees are being severely affected by inflation, rising interest rates, the federal government’s refusal to raise old age security pension and the federal government’s discrimination against pensioners aged 65 to 74.

Education & Young Workers
The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– it believes accessible, effective and well-funded education in the national language is at the heart of Quebec’s future.
– it recognizes that young people are one of Quebec’s greatest assets, that they represent the future of the Quebec nation, and that as such, they should have a greater role in Quebec’s collective development.

Culture, Arts & Tourism

The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– Quebec is a proud nation, proud of: (i) its common and official language, French; (ii) its history of resilience, creativity and solidarity, and (iii) its fundamental values of hospitality, sharing and equality, values that make Quebec a land of opportunity for those who live here, those who come here and those who will come here.
– it defines “Quebecer” as anyone who lives in Quebec and freely chooses to be a Quebecer.
– its members are the promoters of what distinguishes the Quebec nation: its French language, its arts and culture, its clean energy and greener technologies, its rich, distinct and diverse regions, its innovative, entrepreneurial and caring economy, and its unique fabric of SMEs.
– its members are the voice and the personality traits that make Quebec the piece of the puzzle that bothers the pretenders to a post-national Canada, everywhere the same, atomized by individualism to the detriment of collective values and interests, predictable and quick to adopt a one-track mind.
– Quebecers are bound by their common French language and their common history, which is the foundation upon which Quebec has built its identity.
– Quebecers share an attachment to equality between the sexes and genders, equality for all; they are also attached to Quebec’s institutions; and believe in the separation of religion and state.
– it recognizes that the preservation of the Quebec people, Quebec culture, the Quebec state and the French language is a constant and ongoing struggle in Quebec’s history, and supports measures to protect the Québec identity and avoid the folklorization of its people, culture and language.
– it recognizes that the defence of Quebec’s language, culture and identity is intimately linked to the protection of its territory, and therefore that the disappearance of one or the other puts this interdependence at risk. It believes that the preservation of Quebec territory and subsoil is inseparable from the protection of peoples, their social cohesion and their culture.
– it recognizes the vital importance of the French-speaking branch of the film (NFB) in the history of Quebec and world cinema.
– it believes that the Quebec state will always be in a better position than the federal government to preserve Quebec’s rich cultural heritage, and therefore advocate amendment of the federal Film Act to transfer to the government of Quebec, if it so wishes, the entirety of the NFB’s Montreal studios, copyrights and related archives which, in the past, were financed by Quebecers’ tax dollars.
– it believes that Quebec must have all the powers it needs to protect and develop its economy, cultural sector and its communications, including laws, regulations and funding, both for companies and institutions and for artists, and must allow artists who renounce federal interference to be compensated by the Quebec state.
– it supports all of Quebec’s performing arts and believes that it has a responsibility to the community to adequately support international tourism and festivals.
– it supports the book industry and the strengthening of copyright, including in defence of the status of the artist, and undertakes to work to ensure that, in the new digital environment, creators have their rightful place and are fairly remunerated.
– it supports Québec’s international initiatives, particularly in the Francophonie and at UNESCO.
– it is enthusiastic about the development of cultural initiatives outside the major centers, such as regional festivals, which each offer Quebecers an experience as unique as it is unforgettable.
– it believes in protecting the flora, fauna and waterways that are both the face of Quebec’s regions and the signature of their tourism industry, namely the woodland and migratory caribou, the right whale, the copper redhorse, the chorus frog and species whose habitats have been compromised by human activity.
– it believes that Quebec should have exclusive jurisdiction over all natural resources on its territory: its water, its fisheries, its forests, its mines, its agriculture… everything!  Since these economic activities are intimately linked to Quebec’s relationship with the environment, and since the federal government is both incompetent and hypocritical in such matters, it is only logical that Quebec should have full powers in environmental matters.
– it believes that it is the stakeholders in the regions themselves who are best placed to plan their economic development while protecting resources, rather than bodies established hundreds of kilometers away in major cities.  It therefore believes that the economic priorities and preferred sectors of Quebec’s regions should be established by regional and municipal institutions, in collaboration with the Aboriginal communities concerned, and provided with autonomous, sustainable budgets to ensure their realization through research, technology transfer, innovation and direct business support.
– it is in favor of resilience and food independence of Quebec, communities, and encourages all measures aimed at increasing the presence on Quebecers plates of products caught in the St. Lawrence.

Tourism
The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– it serves as ambassadors for the regions of Quebec in the promotion of tourism, fighting tooth and nail for seasonal industries such as tourism, fishing and forestry in both public and private forests.

Sport
The Bloc’s most recently-published Programme states that:
– it believes that sport shapes the collective Quebec intelligence and contributes to its social cohesion, that it improves self-esteem and self-confidence while reducing depression and anxiety. They affirm that sport is at once an issue of public health, culture and social cohesion; and that that sport should be the sole responsibility of the Quebec nation.
– it firmly believes that the sporting activities of young athletes, especially girls and women, must be governed by extremely rigorous measures to ensure their protection. We believe that young athletes must be made constantly aware of their duties and responsibilities, and of the values that must guide their behavior at all times. It supports thorough investigations into all situations of abuse.

Role and development of the family

The party states that:
– parents are the best and primary caregivers for their own children, and that taxpayer-funded childcare is no substitute
– marriage means exclusively the union of one man and one woman, and is the most basic of human relationships and the foundational building block of society
– the marriage commitment between a husband and a wife provides the most stable environment for the raising of children
– children do best in homes having both a mother and a father
– public education should not include harmful ideologies such as gender fluidity, links between CO2 and climate change, economic socialism, etc.

The party advocates:
– restoring the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman and rescinding government support for “same-sex marriage”
– focusing public education on essential career skills such as math, science, literature and history
– strengthening the family unit, reducing divorce and the necessity of one couple maintaining two homes
– restraining state interference in family matters except in cases of obvious and provable child abuse
– restraint of state interference in religious, medical, and moral issues, which are matters of parental jurisdiction
– making stay-at-home parenting more affordable

Healthcare

The party states that:
– Canada’s healthcare system is good but can be improved
– more emphasis should be placed on preventive care and alternative medicine
– Big Pharma must not maintain its monopoly on treatment protocols and access to drugs

The party advocates:
– shortening waiting lists for urgent treatments by credentialing more qualified doctors and defunding elective procedures such as abortion, euthanasia, and “gender reassignment” surgery
– improving design of new hospitals to incorporate modern design features to limit the spread of infectious disease

Drug abuse
The party states that:
– marijuana is a gateway drug, impairs judgment and contributes to traffic fatalities
– pregnant mothers pass THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) to their pre-born children
– it would eliminate “drug injection sites” and re-criminalize the possession and sale of recreational marijuana

Support for the Elderly

The party states that the Canada Pension Plan is inadequate for meeting the needs of Canada’s seniors, even when combined with the Old Age pension.

The party advocates introduction of a new Personal Income Security Account, in addition to OAS, to give Canadians control over their own employment pension funds, with contributions to be made by both the employer and employee to each employee’s individual account as is now done for the CPP.

Education & Young Workers

The party acknowledges  that public education is a provincial responsibility, but calls for federal protection of children from harmful ideologies such as gender fluidity, links between CO2 and climate change, economic socialism, etc.

The party advocates:

– focusing public education on essential career skills such as math, science, literature and history
– parental rights to know what children are being taught in school
– restraining state teaching of things that are contrary to the beliefs of their parents

Culture, Arts & Tourism

Culture, Arts & Tourism

The party states that:
– the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) costs taxpayers $1.6 billion every year
– CBC has pushed and continues to push abortion, gender confusion and assisted suicide
– CBC must be defunded / privatized

Role and development of the family
The party states that:
– it believes that the family unit is essential to the well-being of individuals and society, because that is where a child learns values and develops a sense of responsibility
– its goal is nothing less than to make Canada the most family-friendly country in the world

To support families, the party advocates:
– increased funding for child care, to help women enter the workforce by converting the Child Care Expense Deduction into a refundable tax credit covering up to 75% of the cost of child care for lower income families
– paying out the deduction over the course of the year so that families do not have to pay the cost of child care and then get the money back later
– improving Maternity and Parental Leave programs by allowing participating parents to earn up to $1,000 per month to enable them to stay connected to the workforce and ease their return to work
– to help expectant parents with the myriad of first-time costs for cribs, clothes, car seats and a range of other items needed for a family, expanding the Canada Child Benefit by allowing benefits to begin at the 7th month of pregnancy rather than at childbirth
– to support parents traumatized by miscarriage, allowing them to receive three days of paid bereavement leave
– reforming EI parental benefits to ensure that parents who lose a child are not abruptly cut off from their benefits and ensuring that EI parental is extended for at least eight weeks following the death of an infant
– creation of a National Adoption Strategy, including an awareness campaign to promote adoption, and working with the provinces to ensure equal access to adoption for all children, including support for international adoption by working with other countries to align processes; creating an EI benefit for adoptive parents, modelled on EI maternity benefits; and increasing the maximum a parent can claim under the Adoption Expense Tax Credit from $15,000 to $20,000 and making the credit refundable

Child Care
The party states that:
– Canada’s productivity consistently lags our G20 counterparts
– according to the IMF, increasing women’s labour participation in the workforce could increase Canada’s productivity by 4% in the medium term
– experience in Quebec has shown that increasing child care affordability increases the number of women who choose to work outside the home
– to enable women to enter the workforce and increase national productivity, it advocates converting the Child Care Expense deduction into a refundable tax credit covering up to 75% of the cost of child care for lower income families

Health Care
The party states that:
– all Canadians should have reasonable access to timely, quality health care services, regardless of ability to pay
– provinces and territories should be able to include balanced public and private health care options
– the party promotes wellness and disease-prevention programs as a part of health care
– the 20-year patent term achieves a workable balance between encouraging development of new drugs and assuring they are available at affordable prices

The party advocates working with provinces to boost the annual growth rate of the Canada Health Transfer to at least 6%, thereby injecting nearly $60 billion into the healthcare system over ten years

Health Security and Independence; Pandemic Response
In view of government’s responsibility to protect the health of citizens, and to reduce Canada’s health security and reduce reliance on foreign countries like China, the party advocates:
– partnering with pharmaceutical companies to increase production of critical medicines and build domestic vaccine production capacity
– using procurements by government and those receiving government funding to strengthen domestic production of personal protective equipment (PPE)
– overhauling and rebuilding Canada’s National Emergency Stockpile System to ensure the country has the supplies needed to be prepared at all times for future threats

To ensure that Canada is ready to face future pandemics, including the bioterrorism threats, the party advocates rapid action to protect health while avoiding long-term impacts mental health and the economy, including:
– an immediate public inquiry to examine every aspect of the national pandemic response, ensuring that all lessons learned from the crisis are publicly aired, and that learnings can be immediately adopted
– working with allied nations to investigate the origins of COVID-19

To increase national resiliency to pandemics and other threats, the party advocates implementation and annual review and updating of an Emergency Preparedness Plan, comprising:
– ramping up Canadian research and production capacity by making Canada one of the best jurisdictions globally for pharmaceutical research and development and the production of vaccines and medicines
– reviewing regulation to avoid driving pharmaceutical companies away from Canada
– following the UK’s example, implementing a strategy for sector growth a well-thought-out way rather than just handing out money
– negotiating constructively with the pharmaceutical industry to reduce drug prices while providing long-term regulatory certainty
– working with universities, the private sector, provinces, territories, and partner countries to review response plans, including domestic vaccine research, trials development and manufacturing capacity and readiness , with a focus on novel vaccine platforms
– reviewing Health Canada’s regulatory processes and the balance between Canada’s industrial, health, and economic relationships with the global biomanufacturing sector in light of Canada’s poor performance in accessing vaccines during COVID-19
– working with pharmaceutical companies and others to increase domestic stocks and production of critical medicines, ingredients, and PPE in Canada
– reinstating the tariff on imported PPE
– working with infectious disease experts, provinces, and territories to develop evidence-based contact tracing systems for our borders
– developing a national system for sharing data across jurisdictions on pathogen transmission, immunity levels, and vaccination rates with transparent reporting requirements and coordination among jurisdictions
– strengthening Health Canada, by partnering with the private sector and working with provinces to harmonize ICU training to ensure that ICU credentials are transferable among jurisdictions so that that capacity can be bolstered in emergencies

Support for the Elderly
To help the many Canadians who care for parents and to help seniors avoid having to live in Long-Term Care homes, the party advocates:
– a Canada Seniors Care benefit, paying $200 per month per household to any Canadian who is living with and taking care of a parent over the age of 70
– amending the Home Accessibility Tax Credit by increasing the limit from $10,000 per dwelling to $10,000 per person
– action to fix Long-Term Care and help seniors stay in their own homes
– to prevent recurrence of neglect or abandonment such as that seen in Long-Term Care homes during the COVID pandemic, the party advocates amending the Criminal Code provisions on failing to provide the necessities of life to make clear that the operator of a licensed care facility shall be presumed to have a legal duty to the residents of that facility.

Long-Term Care
The party advocates:
-working with the provinces to develop a set of best practices for Long-Term Care homes which, like the National Building Code, would provide guidance for provinces without intruding on their jurisdiction
– working with all those provincial governments who want to commit to long-term care projects and encourage all provinces to incorporate the results into provincial law
– in the meantime, devoting $3 billion of infrastructure funding over the next three years to renovate Long-Term Care Homes in all provinces and territories across Canada, to improve the care that residents receive, and encouraging partnerships with private non-profits that have historically provided a significant amount of Long-Term Care
– helping meet the need for Personal Support Workers by providing priority in immigration programs to those who can work in Long-Term Care, and promoting such careers through immigration and refugee settlement programs

Employment for Working Elders
The party advocates:
– doubling the Canada Workers Benefit up to a maximum of $2,800 for individuals or $5,000 for families and pay it as a quarterly direct deposit rather than a tax refund at year-end, to help seniors who choose to continue working past retirement to give themselves a bit more income

Pensions
To protect elders from cuts to their pensions when the company they work for goes bankrupt, the party advocates:
– changing legislation to ensure that pensioners have priority over corporate elites in bankruptcy or restructuring
– preventing executives from paying themselves bonuses while managing a company going through restructuring if the pension plan is not fully funded
– ending requirements for underfunded pension plans to be converted to annuities, which can lock in losses and reduce worker payouts
– requiring companies to report the funding status of their pension plans more clearly.

Education & Young Workers
The party states that it believes in greater accessibility to education by eliminating as many barriers to post-secondary education as possible.

The party advocates:
– educational transfer payments to provinces based on numbers of enrolled students
– increasing the government’s contribution for the Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) from 20 to 30 percent, up to $2500 per year
– providing tax incentives and relief for student loans

Culture, Arts & Tourism
The party believes that:
– our culture is what binds Canadians together; that our shared identity stems from the stories we tell through music, television, art, and other media
– cultural industries are a huge economic driver, creating over 765,000 jobs in our economy
– Canada’s multicultural society is a valued reality, while all Canadians should adopt common Canadian values such as equality, democracy, and the rule of law

To help build jobs and infrastructure while connecting Canadians to nature, to each other, and to globally recognized tourism destinations and promoting fitness and mental wellness, the party advocates:
– continued construction of the Trans-Canada Trail, providing $12.5 million per year in funding

Online Media
To support Canadian culture and create a level playing field between Canadian businesses and foreign web giants, the party advocates:
– repealing Bill C-10, which gives too much power to regulators while failing to provide businesses with the clear guidelines they need to operate, and replacing it with legislation that updates the Broadcasting Act to deal with the realities of an increasingly online market and the need to provide businesses with certainty and consumers with choice
– requiring large digital streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video to reinvest a significant portion of their Canadian gross revenue into producing original Canadian programming, of which a mandated proportion must be French language programming, and if they fail to comply within a given year, requiring them to pay the difference into the Canadian Media Fund
– exempting content uploaded by Canadians onto social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Tik Tok from regulation in order to protect free speech
– streamlining and reduce the regulatory burden placed on conventional Canadian broadcasters and cable companies, including CRTC license fees and Canadian Media Fund contribution requirements, with the loss in revenue to be compensated by a portion of the revenue from the new digital services tax
– conducting a full review of the mandate of the CRTC to ensure that it better reflects the needs of Canadians and doesn’t prevent Canadian broadcasters from innovating and adapting to changes in the market
– protecting CBC Radio and CBC North
– reviewing the mandate of CBC English Television, CBC News Network and CBC English online news to assess the viability of refocusing the service on a public interest model like that of PBS in the United States, ensuring that it no longer competes with private Canadian broadcasters and digital providers

Independence of Canadian Media
The party states that loss of digital advertising revenue to American tech giants like Google and Facebook is putting local newspapers out of business, costing Canadian jobs, and undermining the ability to tell local, Canadian stories

To secure a level playing field for Canadian media, ensuring that Canadians are paid fairly for the content they create while encouraging the creation of more Canadian media and culture, the party advocates:
– introducing a digital media royalty framework to ensure that Canadian media outlets are fairly compensated for the sharing of their content by platforms like Google and Facebook, including adapting a made in Canada approach that incorporates the best practices of jurisdictions like Australia and France; providing a robust arbitration process and the creating an intellectual property right for article extracts shared on a social media platform; and ensuring that smaller media outlets are included, and that the government won’t be able to pick and choose who has access to the royalty framework
– introducing a Digital Services Tax representing 3% of gross revenue in Canada to make web giants pay their fair share
– significantly reducing the amount of money spent by the government on advertising with big foreign tech companies like Twitter and instead direct federal ad dollars to Canadian media, including community weeklies, regional media, and ethnic media
– recognizing and correcting the adverse economic impact for creators and publishers from the uncompensated use of their works in a manner consistent with the unanimous recommendations of the Heritage Committee of the House of Commons Report in 2019
– ending the current government’s $600 million media bailout, as media outlets should be supported in ways other than directly receiving tax dollars. Government funding of “approved” media undermines press freedom, a vital part of a free society
– conducing a review of federal book publishing policy to enhance the commercial viability of Canada’s independent publishing sector.

Canadian Heritage
The party states that Canada has a rich heritage as one of the world’s oldest constitutional democracies.  That heritage should be more effectively highlighted and taught to future generations. Unfortunately, many of nation’s public monuments and heritage buildings are in a state of disrepair

To address this issue, the party advocates:
– creation of a new Canadian Heritage Preservation Fund to provide a total of $75 million in grants to municipal governments over the next five years for the repair and restoration of historical monuments, statues, and heritage buildings
– continuing to support efforts to maintain Canada’s national monuments
– ensuring the prompt completion of the Canadian Monument to the Victims of Communism

Official Languages

The party advocates:
– working with the Government of Québec to apply the French Language Charter to federally regulated businesses operating in Québec
– tabling, as a priority, legislation modernizing the Official Languages Act providing increased powers for the Official Languages Commissioner; giving the Treasury Board the authority and responsibility for ensuring the application of the Act across federal departments; creating an Official Languages administrative tribunal to deal with citizen complaints; stronger positive obligations in Part VII of the Act; and creating more robust mechanisms for the consultation of Official Language minorities
– creating a new $30 million per year budgetary envelope to provide federal funding to minority francophone post-secondary institutions such as Université de Moncton, the University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean, and the Ontario French University and participating significantly in their future financing, in collaboration with the provinces
– increased support for francophone primary and elementary education via the Official Languages in Education Program to reflect demographic growth in the minority francophone student population
– increased francophone immigration outside Québec to ensure that the demographic weight of francophone minorities will be maintained
– adopting an official French version of the 1867 British North America Act, for which only the English version currently has official status

Role of the family

The party has published no specific official statement concerning the role of the family in society.

Support for families
In an online policy publication presented as current as of March 2025, the party states that:
– too many Canadians struggle to care for their families. Parents can’t find affordable child care. Young people face huge student debts and high living costs. Working people can’t get time off to care for sick family members. Seniors worry about paying their bills.
– it believes that caring for each other makes our whole society stronger, and undertakes to make sure everyone gets the support they need.

To support people at every stage of life and make life better for all generations, the party advocates:
– creating universal early learning and child care that every family can afford.
– expanding paid leave to elder care, miscarriage, and other family needs.
– making college and university free so students can learn without going into debt.
– introducing a Guaranteed Livable Income, so no one lives in poverty.
– ensuring that skilled workers are available and properly funded, including funding more child care centers with trained early childhood educators, and helping more people train as care workers.
– supporting home care services for seniors, including creation of intergenerational cohousing for elders and youth, and ensuring that family members who care for loved ones get both financial support and workplace protection.

Health Care

In an online policy publication presented as current as of March 2025, the party states that:
– universal health care is part of Canadians are, and they are proud of it.  The Canadian system helps millions of people through illness and injury every day.
– but the system needs to be stronger. Millions of Canadians don’t have a family doctor. Seniors struggle to pay for medicine. Mental health care is hard to get for too many of the people who need it the most.
– meanwhile, for-profit corporations are taking over more health services. This threatens the universal public health care system all Canadians count on.
– its goal is simple: a well-funded universal health care system that puts people first, not profits.

To strengthen the public health care system after years of underfunding, to sure everyone gets the care they need, when they need it, the party advocates:
– providing stable, long-term funding to provinces and territories.
– training and hiring more health care workers to improve access and cut wait times.
– expanding home care and community care.
– ensuring access to reproductive care across Canada.
– investing in public health care instead of allowing for-profit corporations to deliver more services.

Expanded health care
The party states that health care should cover more than hospitals and doctor visits.

The party advocates:
– making medicines free for everyone through universal pharmacare.
– providing dental care for more Canadians who can’t afford it.
– covering mental health care so everyone can get the help they need. Mental health care must be available everywhere – in our communities, schools, and prisons. When people get mental health support early, bigger problems are prevented later.

Education, Youth & Young Workers

The party has published no specific current statement regarding its policies on Education, youth, or young workers.

In published policy statements presented as current as of March 2025, the party advocates:
– creation of a Youth Climate Corps to hire young Canadians to help communities become climate-ready.
– creation of a nationwide civil defence corps focused on responding to climate disasters.

Post-Secondary Education
The party states that:
– before the pandemic, the average student graduated with $28,000 of debt. The pandemic had a severe financial impact on post-secondary students.
– education is a fundamental human right, and universal access to quality post-secondary education and skills training is a right, not a privilege.

The party advocates abolishing post-secondary education tuition.

Culture, Arts & Tourism
The party has published no specific current statement regarding its policies relating to culture, arts, or tourism.

Role and development of the family

The party states that:

– increased maternal workforce participation is good for economic growth and increases domestic product per capita, as well as individual family income
– accessible and affordable child care helps create jobs and spurs economic growth

The party advocates:

– $10 a day child care to make life affordable for families
– laying the foundation for a Canada-wide early learning and childcare system, in order to correct economic losses to women caused by the COVID recession
– allocating $625 million to ensure that a safe and sufficient level of child care is available to support the gradual return to work of parents
– allocating a further $20 million to establish a Federal Secretariat on Early Learning and Child Care
– allocating a further $70 million to sustain the existing federal Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Secretariat, to support Indigenous participation in development of a Canada-wide child care system
– providing a further $870 million per year for enhance fee subsidies for child care
– providing a further $420 billion in one year to train early childhood educators
– investing a further $75 million to improve quality of Indigenous child care programs through delivery of quality, culturally-relevant care
– providing $1200 per year for each child under the age of six for families with incomes under $120000 per year families receiving Canada Child Benefits an additional $300 per child

Healthcare

COVID Recovery

The party advocates:

– mandatory vaccines on planes, trains, and in the federal public service
– support for proof-of-vaccination credentials
– safer indoor spaces, like schools and businesses, with better ventilation
– free vaccine boosters, for everyone

The party reports that:

– of the $322 billion spent by the federal government to fight the pandemic by December 2020, $59 billion was used to support critical health care systems, purchase personal protective equipment, and support critical research and vaccine development
– as of December 2020, it has secured the largest number and greatest variety of vaccine doses, per capita, of any country

Of the $322 billion spent by December 2020:

– $284.2 million was spent to improve capacity for shipping, storing, and distributing vaccines
– $4.3 billion was spent for testing and contact tracing
– $1.2 billion was spent for helping provinces and territories prepare health care system & supporting those with mental health and addition challenges
– $4.5 billion was spent for personal protection equipment for the federal government
– $3 billion was spent to provide income for workers unable to work due to COVID -19
– $2 billion was spent to support municipalities
– $4.5 billion was made available for optional fund-matching for critical transit support
– it required all incoming international travellers to quarantine upon arrival, and provided $322 million in 2020-21 to provide quarantine facilities at Canada’s four largest airports
– it provided a further $100 million in 2020-21 to support safe voluntary isolation in municipalities across Canada, for those who cannot safely isolate at home

Health Care

The party advocates:

– support to hire 7,500 doctors and nurses
– better long-term care
– working to hire 50,000 personal support workers (PSWs) and raising their wages to $25 an hour
– publicly accessible mental health care
– action to address the opioid crisis and make it easier for people with problematic substance use to access treatment
– 10 days of paid sick leave for federally regulated workers
– protecting your sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Pharmacare

The party advocates:

– investing at least $170 million in governmental capacity to manufacture vaccines, by establishing a new bio-manufacturing facility at the National Research Council Therapeutics Centre in Montreal
– investing up to $792 million in private bio-manufacturing capacity through the Strategic Innovation Fund
– exploring ways to promote long-term sustainable growth in the bio-manufacturing sector, through the National Research Council and Strategic Innovation fund
– establishing new Canadian Drug Agency to negotiate drug prices on behalf of all Canadians
– developing a national strategy for high-cost drugs for rare diseases, with funding of $500 million per year, beginning in 2022-23

Support for the Elderly

The party reports that:

– from April to July 2020 it deployed members of the Canadian Armed Forces to support 54 long-term care facilities affected by the pandemic in Ontario and Quebec
– has committed to providing more than $50 million for support of long-term care facilities, including pay raises for home workers and training for additional workers
– it provided Old Age Security top-ups of $300 to seniors, as support during the pandemic
– it provided top-ups of $200 to recipients of Old Age Security payments, to defray costs of staying home and staying safe

The party advocates:

– working with provinces and territories to establish national long-term care standards, including improved conditions for support workers and improve retention

Students & Young Workers

The party reports that:

– under its leadership the federal government has provided as much as $2 billion to provinces and territories to support a safe return to class and to protect students and staff
– younger workers were the hardest-hit age group as a result of the pandemic, with a drop to historic lows in youth employment
– to support post-secondary students who were unable to obtain summer employment during the summer of 2020, the government provided $2.94 billion in income support
– in addition, the government provided $228 million to graduate and post-doctoral students to support extended research scholarships

The party advocates:

– to prevent the pandemic from derailing future opportunities for young workers, doubling student summer grant programs and providing funding for new opportunities
– increasing federal summer jobs placements by 40,000 to 120,000 by providing $447.5 million in new investments for 2020-21
– investing an additional $575 million over two years in youth employment and skills training, to providing approximately 45,300 job placements
– eliminating $329.4 million in federal interest on student and apprentice loans for 2021-22

Culture, Arts & Tourism

The party reports that:

– for some businesses, such as tourism and hospitality businesses affected by the pandemic, it is working with private lenders to offer loans on reduced terms
– it has allocated $181.5 million in 2021-2033 to the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts, for their funding programs
– to support local radio and television broadcasters, it advocates waiving of $50 million in 2020-21 licensing fees

Role and development of the family
The party states that it hopes to build a future where families feel more secure and more hopeful in their lives.

Child Care
The party believes that every parent should be able to access quality child care when needed, with a licensed provider who earns a fair wage.

The patty advocates:
– working with other levels of government, Indigenous communities, families, and child care workers to ensure that care is inclusive and responsive to the needs of all Canada’s children
– investing $1 billion dollars in the first year, and more than that annually, along with provinces and territories

Diet & Nutrition
The party states that:
– every child in Canada should have access to nutritious food, and that no one should have to try to learn on an empty stomach
– a recent UNICEF report ranked Canada 37 out of 41 countries in terms of access to nutritious food for children

The party advocates working with provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities to work towards a national school nutrition program that will give every child access to healthy food and to food literacy skills to make healthy choices for life, including making culturally appropriate food available

Health Care

Pharmacare
The party states that:
– it led the fight to establish universal public health care in Canada. Medicare changed the lives of millions of people – and it is one of our party’s proudest achievements
– still, today millions of families cannot afford to take the medications they need because they have no employer-provided drug coverage. The number of uninsured people forced to skip their medications is growing as more people work on contract, are self-employed, or have jobs that just don’t come with health benefits
– many seniors are putting their health at risk because they don’t have drug coverage and can’t afford to pay out-of-pocket
– Canada is the only wealthy country in the world with a universal health care system that lacks universal prescription insurance coverage. Canada pays the third highest prices for prescription drugs in the world, straining its health care systems across the country, and have to deal with a patchwork of programs and coverage

The party advocates:
– immediately beginning to work with the provinces right away to target an annual federal investment of $10 billion
– developing a national strategy to cover drugs for rare diseases, so that coverage is no longer determined by where you live or what private insurance your family has
– ensuring that pharmaceuticals are financed by a public insurance system that covers everyone, putting an end to costly copayments, deductibles and premiums, and includes negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies to brings down prices for everyone

Public Care
The party states that:
– universal access to public health care is one of the party’s proudest achievements
– quality medical services are under threat from privatization and cuts
– too often, Canadians are getting different care depending on their province of residence

The party advocates:
– immediate action to prevent the sale of blood products, and to make sure that people can access safe abortion services in all regions
– working with the provinces and territories to tackle wait times and improve access to primary care across the country, including development of secure, accessible virtual healthcare
– identifying coming gaps in health human resources and making a plan to recruit and retain the doctors, nurses and other health professionals Canadians need
– working with the provinces and territories to expand and improve access to palliative care across the country

Modernizing Care
The party states that:
– the Canada Health Act is supposed to fund all medically necessary services that Canadians might need. Many kinds of needed services are covered, however.
– as jobs with extended health benefits become harder to find, fewer people will have access to extended healthcare services
– over the next decade, Canadians need a historic expansion of the services covered under the national health care system.

With respect to dental care, the party:
– states that one in three Canadians has no dental insurance – and almost seven million people don’t visit the dentist every year because they can’t afford to, so that many people go without needed care, until the pain is so severe that they are forced to seek relief in hospital emergency rooms.  Good oral health is a critical component of overall good health, and should be covered by the health care system.
– advocates working together with provincial partners, health professionals and dentists to develop a roadmap to incorporate universal dental care into the public health care system, and immediately deliver dental care coverage for people who don’t have any private insurance

In addition, the party states that:
– more than one in five Canadians struggling with mental health challenges who have expressed a need for counselling weren’t able to get it
– eye check-ups are important for preventing vision loss and identifying other health issues, yet many, particularly children and seniors, don’t get regular eye care, or struggle to pay for glasses
– mental health care should be available at no cost for people who need it.  As a first step, it advocates implementing mental health care for uninsured Canadians, and ensuring that pharmacare covers prescription medication
– mental health coverage should include a national perinatal mental health strategy to support growing families before and after birth
– Canadians struggling with infertility should also have access to the procedures and care they need, no matter which province or territory they live in
– the long-term path to providing public coverage for these services will require strong federal re-investment in our health system, with the knowledge that investing in preventative health services will ultimately save money and give Canadians the care they need to live healthy, full lives

Pandemic Response
The party states that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed serious weaknesses in Canada’s pandemic preparedness and response capacities.

To strengthen national preparedness and response systems so that Canada is never again unprepared and left behind in a global pandemic, the party advocates:
– taking an immediate leadership role in a federal vaccination strategy to ensure all Canadians can be vaccinated
– providing stable, long-term funding for the Public Health Agency of Canada to prepare to provide surge capacity in the event of a crisis
– ensuring that Canada has the manufacturing capacity for vaccines for public health emergences, including establishment of crown corporation charged with domestic vaccine production
– ensuring that Canada maintains an adequate and responsibly managed stockpile of personal protective equipment, with an emphasis on supporting domestic production
– ensuring that the ability of the Chief Public Health Officer to speak freely about public health issues without the fear of political retribution, including protection by law, and requiring the Chief Public Health Officer to report to parliament annually about recommendations to improve public health emergency preparedness
– working with universities and health professionals to ensure that public research on critical health issues continues to flourish
– working to strengthen the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, which provides surveillance and early warnings that are critical for managing international public health

Emergencies
– taking action to regulate natural health products

Opioid Crisis
The party states that:
– seventeen Canadians die every day from opioid-related causes. Tens of thousands of families have lost parents, partners, siblings, and children
– every part of the country has been impacted by these highly addictive and dangerous drugs, from the busiest downtown neighbourhoods to the most remote communities
– too often, impacts are even worse for the most vulnerable and marginalized people
– the federal government is lagging behind the urgent action being taken by provinces like British Columbia

The party advocates:
– declaring a public health emergency and working with all levels of government, health experts and Canadians to end the criminalization and stigma of drug addiction, so that people struggling with addiction can get help without fear of arrest, while getting tough on those who traffic in and profit from illegal drugs
– creating a safe supply of medically regulated alternatives to toxic street drugs, supporting overdose prevention sites and expand access to treatment on demand for people struggling with addiction
– an investigation into the role drug companies may have played in fueling the opioid crisis, and seeking meaningful financial for the public costs of this crisis

Support for the Elderly
The party states that:
– the elderly deserve to live in comfort and safety
– seniors and those suffering disability should be able to remain in their homes with the care they need
– family caregivers deserve more support – and should never have to worry about whether their loved ones are getting good care
– every Canadian, of every age, deserves to live in dignity and be treated with respect by their government and the health care system
– all provinces and territories fund home care services as part of publicly insured healthcare, but there are inconsistent standards between provinces; and with resect to long-term care, understaffing at residential homes is an ongoing and critical problem across the country.  Staffing shortages make for poor quality care, hamper infection control and also leave health care workers at risk of experiencing workplace violence

To provide access to quality home care and long-term care no matter those in need live, the party advocates:
– ending private, for-profit long-term care and bringing long-term care homes under the public umbrella, beginning with the federally-owned long term care company Revera
– working collaboratively with patients, caregivers, and provincial and territorial governments to develop national care standards for home care and long-term care, regulated by the same principles as the Canada Health Act, including providing legally protected access to home care and long-term care services with ensured consistent quality of care across the country
– ensuring that funding is tied to maintenance of desired standards, including a core basket of home care services covered by provincial insurance plans, and setting minimum national care standards
– working with the provinces to develop and support workforce strategies and violence prevention, including making sure that care workers have better wages, stable jobs and health and safety protections

To provide financial security for seniors, the party advocates:
– development of a National Seniors Strategy that will work with the provinces, territories and Indigenous governments to make seniors health care a priority, reduce isolation and tackle seniors’ poverty, including a funded national dementia strategy and an elder abuse prevention plan developed with seniors to put an end to abuse and neglect in our communities
– through a national pharmacare program, providing prescription medicine to all seniors, saving seniors hundreds of dollars every year
– a national dental care plan
– a one-year delay to help seniors at risk of having their GIS benefits suspended for being unable to make the required income statement
– to assist caregivers, making the Canada Caregiver Tax Credit refundable
– creating half a million affordable housing units in the next decade, including accessible housing choices for seniors
– to address isolation, improving seniors’ access to technology and support
– additional funding for community programs that do outreach to seniors to combat isolation
– working with cities to make transit more affordable and convenient, create more community recreation spaces
– supporting innovative housing solutions like intergenerational co-housing

Education & Young Workers

Education
The party states that:
– accessible and publicly-funded education is a great source of opportunity for everyone in society. It can transform lives, opening new horizons and new opportunities for people from every background; is the greatest gift citizens can give one another
– students who have the grades and the drive to study hard should be able to get the education they want – at any age, and in every community, from affordable child care and early years education through to university and college, apprenticeship training, skills development, and retraining programs
– sky-rocketing and student debt are barriers to many students.  Today the average student with debt owes $28,000 at the end of an undergraduate degree, and will end up paying over $10,000 more than a student who is able to graduate without taking on debt

To ensure that every Canadian has access to quality post-secondary education, regardless of their income, the party advocates:
– working with the provinces and territories to cap and reduce tuition fees, and building towards making post-secondary education part of our public education system so kids can go from kindergarten to a career without the barrier of cost
– to make education more affordable immediately, following the lead of provinces that have eliminated interest rates on student loans
– implementing a targeted debt forgiveness program for graduates that will forgive up to $20,000 in student debt
– moving away from loans and permanently doubling non-repayable Canada Student Grants

Civilian Climate Corps
The party proposes creation of a new Civilian Climate Corps to mobilize young people and create new jobs supporting conservation efforts and addressing the threat of climate change by undertaking activities such as helping restore wetlands, and planting the billions of trees that need to be planted in the years ahead

Culture & Arts

Arts
The party believes that arts and culture are at the heart of the Canadian identity, and important in our understanding of one another.

The party advocates support for a a strong, independent Canadian arts and culture industry, including:
– a dedicated re-building package for the performing arts, theatre, festivals and other arts that have been impacted by the pandemic
– ensuring that talent can thrive on both digital and traditional platforms
– the ability of artists to earn a decent living from their art
– ensuring that government has an important role in ensuring that a diversity of Canadian voices tell our stories
– ensuring that Facebook, Netflix, Google, and other web giants pay their share of taxes and contribute to funding Canadian content in both official languages, just as traditional media do
– modernizing the Broadcasting Act fairly in order to create a level playing field between Canadian broadcasters and foreign streaming services, to rebalance negotiating power for Canadian independent producers and the Canadian cultural sector, and to ensure Canadian programming is owned by Canadians
– prioritizing partnerships with Canadian independent producers, including increased funding for Telefilm and enhanced financial support for the Canada Media Fund
– increased funding for CBC and Radio-Canada to help reverse funding cuts under previous governments, as public broadcasting has a remarkable legacy of connecting all points of the nation, and needs to have an even stronger future to ensure that Canadians have access to accurate, relevant information no matter where they live
– in view of special challenges faced by people who make a living in the arts and culture industry, implementing income tax averaging for artists and cultural workers

Official Languages
The party advocates:
– enhancement of the Action Plan for Official Languages to improve access to services in the language of choice, including working with the provinces and territories to improve minority language education, and attract more French-speaking immigrants to communities all across the country
– modernization of the Official Languages Act to strengthen oversight and accountability, expand the scope of language rights and ensure that minority language communities are consulted on decisions that impact them
– ensuring that Canadians can access justice in their language of choice, and that judges on the Supreme Court are bilingual
– adoption of the principal of asymmetry, which recognizes that as a minority official language, French requires particular protection and promotion
– ensuring promotion and revitalization of Indigenous languages, recognizing that honouring Canada’s linguistic heritage must include reconciliation

 Health Care

General Health Care
In a policy publication presented as current in March 2025, the party states that:
– Canada’s public health care system has the worst wait times of any developed country.
– Health care costs have been increasing at an unsustainable rate, increasing financial pressures on the budgets of provincial governments.
– the situation is likely to get worse with Canada’s aging population.
– as seen during the COVID pandemic, the Canadian health care system is too rigid and bureaucratized to quickly adapt to a crisis situation.
– although health care is an exclusive provincial jurisdiction, the federal government has insisted that the provinces satisfy a series of conditions set in the Canada Health Act in exchange for transfer payments, which are not tied to health care expenses but simply added to the provinces’ general funds.  These conditions discourage innovation and cause bickering between the federal and provincial governments.
– such confusion and undue interference lead to bickering between Ottawa and the provinces over who is responsible for the failings of our health care system, and how much money

Ottawa should contribute. It prevents the implementation of sound reforms.
– Canada is among the OECD countries that spend the most on health care.  Ottawa’s health care transfers to the provinces have more than doubled since 2006, from $20 billion to $52 billion in 2024-25, with nothing to show for it.
– the fundamental problem is that Canada is the only developed country where the government has a monopoly on medically required care.  All other OECD countries (with the exception of the United States) have universal mixed private-public systems that guarantee citizens equal access.
– patients in these countries have a lot more choice than Canadians. They can be treated in public or private hospitals, with the government or their private insurance paying for the treatment. Wait times are non-existent or very short, and nobody is denied care because of low income.
– it’s time for Canada to implement reforms in line with the more efficient and less costly mixed universal systems of other developed countries. Throwing more federal money at the problem, as all the other parties are proposing, is not the right approach, it is part of the problem.
– provincial governments will never make the tough decisions if they can always blame Ottawa for not sending enough money. We must end the current confusion over who does what and who is responsible for the problem.

The party advocates:
– repealing the Canada Health Act, and creating conditions for provincial and territorial governments to set up mixed private-public universal systems like other developed countries. Provinces would be fully responsible for health care funding and management, and fully accountable to their citizens for the results, while Ottawa will respect the Constitution and stop meddling.
– replacing the Canada Health Transfer cash payments with a permanent transfer of tax points of equivalent value to the provinces and territories, to give them a stable source of revenue.  In practice, Ottawa will give up its Goods and Services Tax (GST), and let provincial and territorial governments occupy this fiscal room. In 2024-25 the GST is expected to bring in about $52 billion in revenues, which is the same amount transferred by Ottawa to fund health care.
– establishing a temporary program to compensate poorer provinces whose revenues from the tax will be lower than the transfer payments they used to receive.

COVID pandemic
In a policy publication presented as current as of March 2025, the party states that:
– the unprecedented government response to the covid-19 pandemic has had massively negative repercussions on Canadians’ physical and mental health, economic well-being, as well as their rights and freedoms.
– the standard approach to pandemic management had always been to protect the vulnerable and allow the rest of the healthy population to go about their regular lives while building herd immunity. Lockdowns of entire populations were never part of any pre-covid pandemic planning.
– this experiment was largely ineffective in reducing the spread of the virus, but caused significant collateral damage. The vast majority of covid victims were elderly patients with comorbidities in nursing homes that governments failed to protect. Lockdown measures will cause even more deaths in the longer term due to stress-related illnesses, depression, postponement of surgeries, drug overdose, suicide, domestic violence, etc.
– governments don’t want to admit that they were wrong and are imposing increasingly authoritarian measures on the population, including vaccine passports. Both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated will suffer under a regime of segregation, constant control, and surveillance. It is illusory to believe that the virus can be eradicated. We have to learn to live with it, without destroying our way of life in the process.
– Section 1 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that reasonable limits to our rights and freedoms can only be imposed f it has been demonstrated that they are justified in a free and democratic society.
– no such demonstration has not been made for COVID restrictions, most of which are arguably unconstitutional.
– no such demonstration has been made for COVID restrictions, including mask and vaccination requirements, most of which are arguably unconstitutional.
– although most of the measures in response to the COVID pandemic have been implemented by provincial governments, Ottawa has an important coordinating role to play at the national level and can influence provincial policies.  Ottawa encouraged and supported lockdown policies through the transfer of tens of billions of dollars in financial aid to provinces and territories.

The party advocates:
– promoting a rational and scientifically based approach to the pandemic that focuses on the protection of the most vulnerable, guarantees the freedom of Canadians to make decisions based on informed consent, and rejects coercion and discrimination.
– replacement of the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada with someone who will work with provincial agencies to implement a rational approach to the pandemic, instead of following the recommendations of the World Health Organization.
– repealing vaccine mandates and regular testing for federal civil servants and workers in federally regulated industries.
– repealing vaccine passports for travellers.
– oppose vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, and other authoritarian measures imposed by provincial governments, and supporting individuals and groups that challenge such measures in court.
– supporting emergency provincial measures to protect the most vulnerable, but stopping bail-out of provinces that impose economically destructive lockdowns.
– supporting medical research and development of therapies to treat COVID-19 and other viral diseases.

Culture, Arts, & Tourism

Canadian Identity
In a policy publication presented as current in March 2025, the party states that:
– a nation must be based on a sense of belonging, of participating in a common national project, and sharing the same values. It’s only when these sentiments are widely shared that we can develop the trust and common understanding necessary for our society and institutions to function.
– in the past, immigrants who came to Canada gradually integrated into our society. They did of course keep some aspects of the culture of their country of origin. They became Canadian, but with a distinct flavour. This is a type of multi-culturalism that enriches our society.
– however, over the past decades, the government of Canada has pursued a policy of official multiculturalism that encourages immigrants to keep the values and culture they left behind instead of integrating into Canadian society and adopting Canadian values and culture.
– the current government has pushed this ideology even further into a form of extreme multiculturalism, based on its description of Canada as the first post-national state, with no core identity.
– in a free society, immigrants have the right to cherish and maintain their cultural heritage, but other Canadians would have no obligation to help them preserve it, with government programs and taxpayers’ money.  The vast majority of Canadians rightly expect immigrants to learn about Canadian history and culture, master one of our official languages, and adopt widely shared Canadian values.
– Canada is and has always been a diverse country. We have First Nations and Inuit, two official languages, a multiethnic population, and very different regional cultures. The culture of Cape Breton is very different from that of the Eastern Townships in Quebec, or that of southern Alberta, or Nunavut. All these cultures are intrinsically Canadian. They developed in Canada. They don’t exist anywhere else in the world. They deserve to be nurtured and to survive.
– our distinct values are those of a contemporary Western civilization. They include: democracy; individual rights and freedoms, including freedom of religious belief and freedom to criticize religion; equality between men and women; the equal treatment of all citizens regardless of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation; the rule of law; separation of state and religion; tolerance and pluralism; and loyalty to the wider society instead of to one’s clan or tribe.
– official multiculturalism is based on the idea that there is no unified Canadian society and no distinct Canadian identity to integrate into, and that we are just a collection of ethnic and religious tribes living side by side. If Canadians want to keep their country united, and ensure social cohesion, they must focus on what unites them as Canadians, not what divides them.

The party advocates:
– repealing the Multiculturalism Act and eliminating all funding to promote multiculturalism; emphasizing instead the integration of immigrants into Canadian society.
– substantially lowering the total number of immigrants and refugees Canada accepts every year, from 500,000 to between 100,000 and 150,000.
– ensuring that every candidate for immigration undergoes a face-to-face interview and answers a series of specific questions to assess the extent to which they align with Canadian values and societal norms.

The party has published no stated position concerning its positions on:
– the Role of the Family.
– education & Young Workers.