Government promises

Crack down on tax evaders.

Modernize the National Energy Board.

Modernize procurement practices.

Establish new performance standards for government services and measure and report on performance.

Strengthen oversight on government advertising.

Bargain in good faith with Canada's public sector unions.

Reinforce railway safety.

Formalize a moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic on British Columbia's North Coast.

Develop and implement an Innovation Agenda.

Implement a new Trade and Investment Strategy

Prepare the auto sector for the potential participation of Canada in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Increase high-speed broadband coverage, including in rural communities, and keep Canada at the leading edge of the digital economy.

Establish new Canada Research Chairs in sustainable technologies.

Strengthen support for fundamental research to support new discoveries.

Align business support programs across governments.

Increase tourism and strengthen the Canadian brand abroad by developing a new federal Tourism Strategy.

Reduce the administrative burden on small business.

Toughen criminal laws in cases of domestic assault, with the goal of keeping survivors and children safe.

Ensure tax measures are efficient and encourage innovation, trade and the growth of Canadian businesses.

Improve protection and stewardship of our freshwater resources.

Enhance protection of Canada's endangered species.

Work with provinces and territories to set stronger air quality standards.

Review Canada's environmental assessment processes.

Develop Canada's National Parks system, as well as manage and expand National Wildlife Areas and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries.

Develop Parks Canada services so that more Canadians can experience our National Parks.

Protect our National Parks by limiting development within them and help local eco-tourism industries.

Examine the implications of climate change on Arctic marine ecosystems.

Support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations in September 2015.

Support the full range of reproductive health services and close the gap in the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Initiative.

Support innovative, evidence-based approaches to development assistance.

Provide assistance to countries that are vulnerable to the destabilizing effects of climate change.

Improve client service delivery and immigration, refugees and citizenship application processing times.

Establish an expert human rights panel to help determine designated countries of origin and provide a right to appeal refugee decisions for citizens from these countries.

Ensure the Royal Canadian Navy is able to operate as a true maritime force.

Use good scientific evidence and traditional Indigenous knowledge when making decisions affecting fish stocks and ecosystem management.

Increase rates of vaccination.

Introduce plain packaging requirements for tobacco products.

Raise the quality of the Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) applied to Cabinet proposals.

Improve career and vocational assistance for Veterans.

Deliver a higher standard of service and care, and ensure that a "one veteran, one standard" approach is upheld.

Create two centres of excellence in Veterans' care, including one specialized in mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Ensure that surviving spouses of Veterans receive appropriate benefits by eliminating the marriage after 60 clawback.

Strengthen controls on handguns and assault weapons, and examine a full ban of both.

Develop a plan to better predict, prepare for, and respond to weather-related emergencies and natural disasters.

Ensure strong and effective gender and culturally sensitive training policies for federal front-line law enforcement officers.

Move forward on a toll-free replacement for the Champlain Bridge.

Ensure that Agents of Parliament are properly funded and accountable only to Parliament.

Disclose the expenses of all Parliamentarians in detail each quarter.

Examine ways to make the House of Commons more family-friendly for Members of Parliament.

Develop a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food.

Invest in agricultural research to support discovery science and innovation.

Renew the focus on surveillance and control of Canadian territory, and approaches, particularly for our Arctic regions.

Improve the Employment Insurance (EI) system that currently leaves too many unemployed workers with no safety net.

Improve Canadians' access to good quality job training.

Rationalize and expand the intergovernmental agreements that support skills training.

Increase take up rates of Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP) and the Canada Learning Bond (CLB) by making registration easier.

Increase annual support to the Post-Secondary Student Support Program.

Increase our investment in the Youth Employment Strategy and improve the strategy's impact.

Develop or expand Pre-Apprenticeship Training Programs.

Respond to the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Youth Employment.

Implement a modern Fair Wages Policy.

Determine an appropriate apprenticeship target for federal infrastructure projects.

Create more co-op placements for students in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and business programs.

Accede to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).

Develop and implement a Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Create a housing strategy.

Negotiate and sign modernized agreements with Israel and Chile.

Improve support to companies looking to export and help communities looking to attract investments.

Reduce administrative burden for investors and companies associated with international trade.

Undertake a review of laws and policies to ensure the Crown is fulfilling its obligations and commitments to the recognition and implementation of Indigenous peoples' rights.

Implement an Infrastructure Strategy that improves green infrastructure.

Invest in transportation infrastructure that helps get goods to market.

Incorporate Aboriginal and treaty rights, residential schools and Indigenous contributions into school curricula.

Work with the Métis Nation to advance reconciliation and renew the relationship.

Allow charities to do their work free from political harassment, and modernize the rules governing the charitable and not-for-profit sectors.

Make strategic investments in the clean technology sector.

Enhance Canada's tax measures to generate and attract more clean technology investments.

Launch an open and transparent competition to replace the CF-18 fighter aircraft.

Ensure that all federal services are delivered in compliance with the *Official Languages Act*.

Improve access to information to enhance the openness of government.

Improve marine safety.

Review the changes to the *Fisheries Act* and *Navigable Waters Protection Act*.

Promote economic development and create jobs for Indigenous peoples.

Improve services to Indigenous people and those with mental illness throughout the criminal justice system.

Repeal problematic elements of Bill C-51 to balance security with rights and freedoms.

Phase out inefficient fossil fuel industry subsidies over the medium-term.

Increase the proportion of Canada's marine and coastal areas that are protected to five percent by 2017, and ten percent by 2020.

Work on development financing issues.

Develop and implement a Youth Service Program.

Update and expand the Nutrition North program.

Develop a coordinated national action plan on post-traumatic stress disorder.

Co-develop an Indigenous Languages Act.

Expand the network of shelters and transition houses for those fleeing domestic violence.

Renew Canada's commitment to United Nations peace operations.

Renew and improve the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy.

Develop a Social Innovation and Social Finance strategy.

Establish a new fiscal relationship with First Nations communities and lift the 2% cap.

Develop a National Disabilities Act.

Ensure any unspent infrastructure funds are transferred to municipalities.

Ensure that the Canada Revenue Agency proactively contacts those who are entitled to, but are not receiving, tax benefits.