Support for the Marginalized 

Disabilities and Complex Care
As a matter of priority within its platform, the party advocates:
– repeal of Bill 124, paying PSWs, nurses and ECEs a fair wage and hiring 33,000 nurses.
– doubling the rates for Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP).

The party advocates:

– expanding care options for people with complex needs, by defining standards of care for common and complex mental health and addiction services to be used across the province, including conducting a needs assessment for acute and community-based mental health and addiction services by region, and make investments in acute care beds as needed; expanding specialist community mental health services and acute care capacity for people with eating disorders; recognizing suicide as a public health priority and invest in evidence-based prevention strategies that support the individual needs of people, including Indigenous and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

– improving the quality of lives of people living with disabilities by doubling Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) rates as a first step to implementing a Basic Income, and tying future increases to inflation; evaluating and improving the Assistive Devices Program to better meet the needs of those requiring assistive tools, including more up-to-date devices, training, and fewer barriers to access; ensuring that new affordable housing stock is accessible, and requiring affordable housing retrofits to meet the same standard; reviewing all Ontario laws for accessibility barriers and ensure that all future funding and policy choices are made through an accessibility lens; and updating, improving, and implementing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act as quickly as possible

– ensuring that the province’s communities are both vibrant and accessible by prioritizing implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), namely implementing as much of the AODA as possible; strengthening Accessibility Standards under the AODA to ensure the standards meet the needs of people with disabilities; enacting comprehensive Education and Health Care Accessibility Standards and strengthening the Employment and Transportation Accessibility Standards under the AODA; revamping the Information and Communications standards to keep up with rapidly changing technology; reviewing and revising  the Design of Public Spaces standards; and substantially strengthening AODA enforcement.

– building accessible homes and businesses, including developing new comprehensive Built Environment accessibility standards by revising the building code for new construction and major renovations; ensuring that new affordable housing stock is accessible, and requiring all affordable housing retrofits to meet the same standards; creating incentives for retrofitting homes and buildings that make them accessible; ensuring that design professionals are provided adequate training in accessibility awareness and inclusive design; substantially improving the accessibility of the Ontario Public Service’s workplaces, services and facilities; and providing clear, in-depth guidelines and delivering more responsive, comprehensive support for AODA implementation to organisations through free, independent technical advice.

Mental Health & Addictions

As a priority within its platform, the party advocates:
– increasing Increase mental health spending to 10% of our health budget to include mental health care under OHIP.
– increasing funding for children’s mental health to reduce wait times to less than 30 days.
– decriminalizing drug use to improve lives, lower costs and treat mental health as a public health issue.
– adding 60,000 permanent supportive housing spaces with wrap-around services, and dedicating 10% of those homes to people with complex care needs.
– increasing the number of consumption and treatment sites throughout the province and expanding the availability of harm reduction programs, including safe supply.
– integrating paid peer support workers with lived experience into the planning and organisation of all substance use programming, and creating a significant role for people with lived experience as part of the Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence.
– declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency to free up funds and provide focused, coordinated government leadership to combat the crisis, including expanding the distribution of naloxone kits and rebooting the Ontario Emergency Opioid Task Force to address the urgency and complexity of the drug poisoning crisis.

Equitable Health Care
To promote better equity in the healthcare system, the party advocates:
– striking a task force to develop policies and initiatives that address the adverse effects of racism, homophobia, and transphobia on peoples’ mental health and the barriers they face to accessing healthcare.
– cultural responsiveness training for all healthcare professionals, including training is trauma-informed and rooted in equity and anti-racism.
– increased core funding for community-based, grassroots mental and physical health supports in racialized, newcomer, and other communities that have traditionally been underserved.
– improving the availability of supports and services in other languages, including French and Indigenous languages, and encouraging service providers and programs to reflect the experiences and perspectives of the populations they serve.
– mandating and funding for the collection and meaningful use of socio-demographic and race-based data to identify and correct inequities in provided care and health outcomes.
– expanding the number of and fully funding women’s health clinics and abortion clinics in Ontario.

Northern and Rural Communities

The party advocates:
– rebalancing the healthcare funding formula to ensure better access in rural and remote areas, investment to increase the number of Indigenous-led health clinics.
– expanding the roles and scope of nurse practitioners as primary health care providers, especially in areas that lack primary care options, using incentives to bring physicians and allied health professionals to Northern and rural communities, and creating opportunities for specialist and subspecialist trainees to undertake electives and core rotations in the North.

Indigenous Peoples

As a matter of priority within its platform, the party advocates:
– implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and acting on the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
– rebalancing the healthcare funding formula to ensure better access in rural and remote areas, investment to increase the number of Indigenous-led health clinics.

The party further states that:
– a key step in acknowledging the role of traditional knowledge and systems in Indigenous life and reconciliation is to implement UNDRIP.
– it advocates acknowledgement of the reality of Indigenous people in Ontario, including the understanding that centuries of colonialism and broken promises have made building trust difficult.
– it wants the province to come to the table with funding for Indigenous-led initiatives in climate leadership, healthcare and housing.

To such ends the party advocates  establishing true nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous peoples, including:
– recognition of First Nations’ right to self-determination and establishment of a co-management stewardship model for the development of provincial resources with fair revenue sharing.
– recognizing and integrating Indigenous laws and legal traditions in the negotiation and implementation processes involving treaties, land claims, and other constructive agreements, and supporting  Indigenous land defenders in asserting their treaty rights and actions taken to confront threats to their traditional lands.
– to address the legacy of colonialism and residential schools, working with with the federal government to implement the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; making the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday; and working with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to identify, collect, and providing copies of all records relevant to the history and legacy of the residential school system in Ontario.
– restoration of funding for the Indigenous curriculum program and working with Indigenous educators and community leaders to develop a mandatory curriculum on colonialism and residential schools, treaties, and Indigenous histories and experiences.
– reform of child welfare and protection services to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in provincial care by ensuring Indigenous communities are served by Indigenous-led providers, and producing annual reports on the number and proportion of Indigenous children who are in care.
– working with the federal government and Indigenous communities to identify and close the gap in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Communities, including increasing the number of Indigenous professionals working in healthcare through training and mentorship opportunities and ensuring their retention in Indigenous communities, particularly in northern and remote communities; increasing the number of Indigenous-led health centres, youth programs crisis support teams, and supporting suicide-prevention training.
– providing properly funded Indigenous-led supports for survivors of residential school trauma.
– publishing annual progress reports and assess long-term trends and indicators in areas such as suicide, mental health, chronic diseases, and availability of appropriate health services to ensure equity in access to care.

Indigenous Housing and Environmental Clean-up
The party advocates:
– funding an Indigenous-led housing strategy, including 22,000 Indigenous-owned and operated permanent homes under an Urban and Rural Indigenous Housing Strategy led by Indigenous communities to create homes for Indigenous peoples living in Ontario.
– supporting community rights to a healthy environment, including working with the federal government to immediately end all boil water advisories; working to repair the damage at Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong; pursuing government commitments to clean up mercury contamination and ensure free, informed and prior consent for Grassy Narrows, Wabaseemoong communities, and all other Indigenous communities for future industrial decisions; providing evidence-based assessments in line with the recommendations from the Mercury Disability Board Expert Panel to ensure fair compensation is received by those who qualify; restoring provincial funding for source water protection and expanding drinking water source protection to Northern, remote and Indigenous communities.
– providing adequate funding and training opportunities for a First Nations Water Authority to own and operate their own water and wastewater utilities to work toward finally ending boil water advisories.
– recognizing and providing $1B in funding for Indigenous-protected and conserved areas, in which Indigenous governments play the primary role in protecting and conserving ecosystems through Indigenous laws, governance and knowledge systems.

Support for the Marginalized

The party’s 2025 platform is prefaced by statements that that:
– growing the provincial economy starts with investing in workers, communities and healthcare, not just the rich.
– it proposes investment in needed roads, hospitals and schools, reducing gridlock, and supporting economic growth and diversification.

Specifically, the party advocates:
– guaranteeing everyone a family doctor in four years, ensuring that mental healthcare is covered under OHIP, and supporting seniors to age with dignity.
– slashing taxes, saving taxpayers thousands annually by permanently cutting income tax for workers and eliminating sales tax (HST) on home heating and hydro bills.
– building more affordable homes by eliminating development charges, restoring the dream of homeownership, and bringing fairness back to the rental market.
– permanently doubling ODSP so Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind.
– clearing the school repair backlog, improving safety at school, and providing education that prepares Ontario for the future.
– accelerating the process to integrate at least 1,200 qualified and experienced internationally trained doctors over the next four years through Practice Ready Ontario.

Indigenous Peoples

Prior to the previous election, the party stated that to advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, it advocated:
– implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action by working with and learning from Indigenous peoples. This includes increasing support for the option to learn First Nations languages and mandating the inclusion of the painful history of Canada’s residential schools across the K-12 curriculum. We’ll also invest in Indigenous-led mental health supports, child care, housing and infrastructure projects.

The party has published no further current statement regarding its policies relating to:
– rural communities.
– immigration & newcomers.

Care for the Disabled

To fight against the rising cost of living, the party advocates:
– doubling social assistance rates for ODSP and OW to get people out of deep poverty.
– boosting the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit program to help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process.

Indigenous Peoples

The party advocates:
– government-to-government relationships with First Nations, ensuring that any policies impacting First Nations will be guided by the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), as a matter of law, across government.
– formalizing the province’s commitment to a tripartite consultation process between First Nations rights holders, the provincial government, and resource industries on any proposed plan impacting First Nations territories.
– ensuring, through resource revenue agreements that revenues are equitably shared and flow to First Nations, including 100% of mining tax revenues.
– support for First Nations knowledge keepers, Indigenous language programs and land-based educational initiatives, that will ensure that they are able to thrive.
– working to fulfill Ontario’s obligations to the outstanding Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, and making Truth and Reconciliation Day a statutory provincial holiday.

Northern & Rural Communities
To address needs of northern and rural communities, the party advocates:
– addressing the Northern health crisis by establishing a Northern Command Centre to hire 350 doctors, including 200 family doctors in Northern Ontario, and doubling residency positions at NOSM University.
– as part of its plan for fighting against rising costs, fast-tracking completion of Northlander Passenger Service and supporting Huron Central and Algoma Central Rail Lines.
– acting to make Northern highways safer, including putting an end to private highway maintenance contracts and bringing snow clearance and highway maintenance back under public control, and returning driver licensing back to the Ministry of Transportation to ensure there is accountability for truck drivers who need increased training to be prepared for Ontario’s snowy winters, especially in Northern Ontario.

As part of its plan to make more new affordable homes available, the party advocates:
– accelerating the expansion of broadband internet infrastructure into  Northern Ontario and end years of delays that, including canceling an existing $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink and replacing it with a Canadian alternative that offers better value and security for Ontario consumers.

Refugees & Newcomers

The party has published no current statement regarding its policies concerning refugees and newcomers.

Prior to the last election, the party stated that to support newcomers, it advocated growing the provincial workforce, particularly in health care, including:
– prioritizing a system to recognize skills and credentials of foreign-educated workers, with a focus on health care.
– creating a new language access strategy, to promote awareness of existing language service options and proclaiming February 22 a Day of Language Access.
– expanding family reunification and nominee programs.

As of 23 February 2025, four days prior to the election it called,  the party has published no comprehensive update or statement of its proposed policies.

Care for the Vulnerable

To help Ontario’s most vulnerable, including low‐income seniors and individuals living with mental health and addictions challenges who are experiencing unstable housing conditions, the party’s 2024 Budget proposes:
– expanding the Ontario Guaranteed Annual Income System (GAINS) program and indexing the GAINS benefit to inflation, to allow about 100,000 more low‐income seniors to receive payments, which is a 50 per cent increase in recipients.
– investing an additional $152 million over three years to support individuals facing unstable housing conditions and dealing with mental health and addictions challenges by funding a suite of supportive housing initiatives designed to bolster support for vulnerable populations, such as: providing rent supplements for up to 10,679 supportive housing units to mitigate the impact of increasing rent costs due to housing market conditions; maintaining 1,137 dedicated supportive housing units with expiring operating agreements, ensuring continued supportive housing for individuals with mental health and addictions challenges that are at risk of homelessness; providing Indwell Community Homes funding for rent supplements and mental health and addictions support services to maintain supportive housing for over 640 individuals; maintaining supportive housing for Salus in Ottawa and the Canadian Mental Health Association in North Bay and District, through investments to repair and renovate buildings, as well as to relocate up to 79 displaced low‐income tenants with mental health and/or addictions needs.

Indigenous Peoples

Prior to its current term in office, the party stated that:
– as a part of the province’s to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, it proposed investing $18.2 million over three years to help address violence against First Nations, Inuit and Métis women and girls, including enabling access to community supports; enhanced resources for First Nations police services for sexual assault, human trafficking and domestic violence investigations; culturally responsive programming to Indigenous women in the correctional system; and building on existing investments to support community safety and provide additional support to end violence against Indigenous women and girls
– it proposed doubling investment in the Indigenous Community Capital Grants Program, to address long‐term infrastructure needs and fast‐track shovel‐ready on‐ and off‐reserve projects.

In its 2024 Budget, the party states that:
– it proposes to invest $7.3 million through the Skills Development Fund to support Indigenous workers across Northern Ontario. The investment will fund eight innovative training projects that will help prepare 1,700 workers for in‐demand jobs in critical sectors such as forestry, construction and health care. One of the projects, led by Ironworkers Local 759, will support 100 workers and job seekers to upgrade their skills for well‐paying jobs in the construction sector. The other seven projects are led by various organizations across Northern Ontario and will help prepare job seekers for in‐demand jobs across a number of industries.

Northern, Rural, & Agricultural Communities

Prior to its current term in office, the party advocated:
– investing in expanded broadband internet access;
– increasing local infrastructure funding
– expanding natural gas distribution to rural communities by enabling private sector participation and use the up to $100 million in savings to invest in cellular and broadband expansion
– ending bureaucratic review of the Ring of Fire project, to allow it to proceed
– to stimulate growth in the North moving forward with revenue sharing from mining, forestry, and aggregates
– ensuring that hunting and fishing revenues go toward their stated purpose of conservation
– cutting the aviation fuel tax for the North, to help compensate for the cost of living
– restoring passenger rail service in the North

In its 2024 budget, the party:
– proposes allocations of more than $190.2 billion over 10 years for highways, transit, broadband, housing-enabling and other infrastructure, including an initial $3 billion to its new Building Onatario Fund, to support building of critical infrastructure projects in priority areas across the province, including long-term care homes, energy infrastructure, affordable housing, and transportation; and that the fund is also exploring opportunities to support large-scale projects in the postsecondary student housing, long-term care, energy generation, and municipal infrastructure sectors.
– as part of the $190.2 billion allocation, it proposes doubling its annual investment to nearly $2 billion over five years to fund asset management for 425 small, rural, and Northern communities, to help build and repair infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water and wasewater infrastructure.
– proposes allocations ot restore the original Northlander rail passenger service cancelled in 2012.  To that end it has purchased three new trainsets and is beginning station and track improvements.

Northern, Rural, & Indigenous Health Care
The party’s 2024 budget states that:
– the party proposes investing $50 million over three years to enhance and stabilize health care capacity within Northern and rural communities, introducing long‐term solutions encompassing education, recruitment, retention, scope of practice and care models to provide residents of Northern Ontario and those in remote areas with improved access to health care services; and supporting expansion of existing rural generalist pathways for physicians and funding additional supports and upskilling for other health care workers.
– to enhance the health and well-being of Indigenous and Northern communities through culturally-responsive and safe care, it proposes to allocate $60 million over three years to maintain mental health and addictions services, including clinical supports, community mental health and well‐being initiatives, and opioid programming; $15 million over three years to support the ongoing delivery of Indigenous public health programs, including vaccination initiatives to improve health outcomes; $11 million over three years to enhance early detection and management of foot complications arising from diabetes for Indigenous communities; and $8 million over three years to strengthen prevention initiatives in Indigenous communities, targeting diabetes, smoking and chronic diseases.