NDP leader Andrea Horwath has released her party’s platform for northern Ontario.
Health care plays a prominent role.
It includes hiring 300 more doctors, including one hundred specialists and 40 mental health practitioners.
“You have not gotten your fair share on so many fronts, and we’re here to say you can get your fair share with the government that pays attention to your needs,” says Horwath.
Horwath is also promising to deal with the opioid crisis with investments in treatment programs and revamping the Northern Ontario Travel Grant program.
Other components include creating more training and job opportunities in the trades, mining and film and television sector.
An NDP government would also make high-speed Internet available across the north by 2025.
Ontario Liberal leader Stephen Del Duca has released his full campaign platform.
It’s labelled A Place to Grow.
He says it tackles the province’s affordability crisis and will help families get ahead.
“Our message to the people of Ontario is that this plan will give them the relief that they deserve. And the choice on June 2 will be theirs,” says Del Duca.
The Liberal plan is fully costed.
Del Duca says it also paves a way for Ontario’s budget to be balanced by the 2026-27 fiscal year.
Green Party leader Mike Schreiner wants to give first-time homebuyers a level playing field.
Schreiner says if elected premier, he will put the brakes on wealthy speculators and corporations, which he says are driving up the costs of homes across the province.
“We will bring in a multiple homes speculation tax and a vacant home speculation tax. The clampdown on the rampant speculation happening in the housing market,” says Schreiner.
Schreiner will also make home inspections mandatory at the seller’s expense.
Ontario PC leader Doug Ford is promising to increase the Ontario Disability Support Program by five per cent,
It will then be followed by annual increases tied to inflation.
Ford is also pledging an enhancement to a credit program geared toward low-income individuals and families.
