{"id":11924,"date":"2018-04-16T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:44:35","slug":"ndp-releases-fully-costed-election-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/ndp-releases-fully-costed-election-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP releases fully costed election platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Apr 16, 2018 @ 13:40<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With Andrea Horwath as premier, all Ontarians will have better health care and a more affordable life with pharmacare, dental care, more affordable education and free or low-cost childcare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath released her vision for Ontario on Monday with a fully costed platform in advance of the June election.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cNow is the time for change for the better,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cThis platform promises something completely different from the last couple decades of governments in Ontario. It lays out changes that put people at the heart of every decision.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath\u2019s platform lays out major shifts in health care, seniors care, child care, education, transit, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cFor years, we\u2019ve switched between Liberals and Conservatives, and where has that gotten everyday Ontario families? Our hospitals are overcrowded and health care wait times are painfully long. Our children\u2019s schools are crumbling and everyday costs for families have gone up while most people\u2019s paycheques have not.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Let\u2019s stop settling for that. We can do better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Drug and dental coverage for everyone<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">The NDP\u2019s Pharmacare for Everyone plan will give every Ontarian prescription drug coverage regardless of age, income or job status<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">With Horwath\u2019s Dental Care for Everyone plan, everyone in Ontario will have dental care benefits either through a workplace plan, or by using their health card<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">$12-a-day, available and affordable childcare<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath\u2019s plan makes not-for-profit child carefree for those who earn less than $40,000, and an average $12 per day for all other families, based on income<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">202,000 new not-for-profit child care spaces will be added over four years<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ending hallway medicine and long wait times<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath will add 2,000 new hospital beds immediately<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hospital funding will rise 5.3 percent every year \u2013 a $916-million investment in the first year \u2013 with per-hospital funding meeting or exceeding inflation and taking into account growing populations and the unique needs of the region around each hospital \u2013 such as an aging community<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Arbitrary caps on surgeries will be lifted<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Front-line staff layoffs will stop<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath\u2019s government will spend $19 billion over 10 years on hospital capital expansion<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_SectionopenerCxSpLast\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fixing long-term care<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">40,000 long-term care beds will be added, including 15,000 over the next five years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath will set a minimum standard to ensure every resident in long-term care is offered four hours of hands-on care every day<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">A find-and-fix public inquiry will address problems risking the safety, dignity, and health of long-term care residents<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Outside of long-term care, seniors will have more support to age in place through major home care improvements and a new property-tax deferral program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Overhauling mental health care<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">An investment of nearly $2.4 billion will add 2,600 new mental health care workers, including 400 new mental health care workers to provide support in every high school<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath will build 30,000 new supportive housing units<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_SectionopenerCxSpLast\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cutting hydro bills 30 percent<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath and the NDP have committed to a plan to bring Hydro One back into public hands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Other changes include scrapping mandatory time-of-use billing and ending unfair delivery charges<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Relieving student debt<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Any student that qualifies for a provincial student loan will now receive a non-repayable grant, instead<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath\u2019s government will stop charging interest on all outstanding loans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Any interest already paid on an outstanding loan will be retroactively applied to the remaining principle<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath will create 27,000 paid work-integrated learning jobs like co-ops and apprenticeships to help students get the experience they need to land their first good job<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Easing the housing crisis<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">65,000 new affordable homes will be added<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">The province will fund one-third of the costs to repair crumbling social housing units<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Horwath will add new mechanisms to crack down on above-guideline increases and renovictions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">A new Housing Speculation Tax will crack down on speculators who don\u2019t pay tax in Ontario \u2013 speculation that&#8217;s making housing unaffordable for too many people<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Protecting middle class families by having the wealthiest and most profitable corporations pay their share<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">People earning less that $220,000 will see no tax or fee increases<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">Income earned above $220,000 will have one percentage point of personal income tax added and incomes above $300,000 will have two percentage points of personal income tax added<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">A luxury tax will be added to vehicles that cost more than $90,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The NDP platform\u2019s economic and fiscal assumptions, as well its individual expense and revenue measures, have been independently reviewed and found to be reasonable by Kevin Page, CEO of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy. Page is also Canada\u2019s former Parliamentary Budget Officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The full platform is available at <a id=\"LPlnk500922\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariondp.ca\/platform\">ontariondp.ca\/changeforthebetter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 16, 2018 @ 13:40 With Andrea Horwath as premier, all Ontarians will have better health care and a more affordable life with pharmacare, dental care, more affordable education and free or low-cost childcare. \u00a0 Horwath released her vision for Ontario on Monday with a fully costed platform in advance of the June election.\u00a0\u201cNow is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-andrea-horwath"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 04:19:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11925,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions\/11925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}