Government promises

Develop a North American clean energy and environment agreement.

Undertake a review of Canada Post to make sure it provides high-quality service at a reasonable price.

Improve the use of evidence in program evaluation.

Make government data available digitally.

Undertake a full review of the Canadian grain transportation system to help farmers get their product to market.

Restore the long-form census.

Reinforce Statistics Canada's independence.

Create a Chief Science Officer.

Re-insert scientific considerations into the heart of decision-making and investment choices.

Respond to the Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding physician-assisted death.

Review the government litigation strategy and end appeals or positions that are not consistent with our commitments, the Charter or our values.

Ensure that the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is transparent, inclusive and accountable to Canadians.

Add gender identity as a prohibited ground for discrimination under the *Canadian Human Rights Act* and add it to the list of characteristics of identifiable groups protected by the hate speech provisions of the *Criminal Code*.

Ratify the Paris agreement and develop a Pan-Canadian framework for combating climate change.

Make admission to National Parks free for all in 2017 and, afterwards, free for children under 18 and new citizens.

Expand Learn to Camp programs.

Work with Ontario to enhance the country's first urban National Park: Rouge National Urban Park.

Refocus Canada's development assistance on helping the most vulnerable and supporting fragile states.

Create a new policy and funding framework to ensure that Canada's aid empowers people and supports broad-based, sustainable growth in the developing world.

Double the number of entry applications for parents and grandparents of immigrants to 10,000 a year.

Give additional points under the Express Entry system to applicants who have Canadian siblings.

Increase the maximum age for dependents from 19 to 22 to allow more families to stay together and bring their children to Canada.

Bring forward a proposal regarding permanent residency for new spouses entering Canada.

Restore the Interim Federal Health Program that provides health benefits to refugees.

Facilitate the temporary entry of low risk travellers and lift the visa requirement for Mexico.

Repeal provisions in the *Citizenship Act* that give the government the right to strip citizenship from dual nationals.

Make it easier for international students to stay in Canada after their studies.

Restore funding to support federal ocean science and monitoring programs.

Act on recommendations of the Cohen Commission on restoring sockeye salmon stocks in the Fraser River.

Re-open the Maritime Rescue Sub-centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the Kitsilano Coast Guard Base in Vancouver.

Sign new Health Accord with the provinces and territories.

Promote the celebration of Canada 150.

Restore and increase funding for CBC/Radio-Canada.

Ensure that the appointment process to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors is merit-based and independent.

Double investment in the Canada Council for the Arts.

Increase funding for Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board.

Restore PromArt and Trade Routes international cultural promotion programs.

Increase funding to "Young Canada Works" to help prepare the next generation working in the heritage sector.

Develop a multi-year Official Languages plan to support English and French linguistic minorities.

Restore a modern Court Challenges Program.

Lead preparations for the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics.

Create greater links between our elite athletes and young Canadians to promote health and achievement among youth.

Ensure that the government's senior appointments are merit-based and demonstrate gender parity.

Help injured Veterans by re-establishing lifelong pensions and insuring that they all have access to financial advice and support.

Expand access to the Permanent Impairment Allowance to better support Veterans.

Provide injured veterans with 90% of their pre-release salary, and index this benefit to inflation.

Create a Veterans Education Benefit that supports the education costs of Canadian Forces Veterans after completion of service.

Re-open the nine Veterans Affairs service offices recently closed.

Support families who are providing care and support to Veterans living with physical and/or mental health issues.

End the time limit for surviving spouses applying for vocational rehabilitation and assistance services.

Increase the Veteran survivor's pension amount from 50% to 70%.

Double funding to the Last Post Fund to ensure that all veterans receive a dignified burial.

Restore funding to provinces and territories to support Heavy Urban Search and Rescue teams.

Work with Parliamentarians to reform Question Period so that all ministers, including the Prime Minister, are held to greater account.

Promote free votes and limit the circumstances in which Liberal Members of Parliament will be required to vote with the government.

End the improper use of omnibus bills and prorogation.

Make government accounting and financial reporting more consistent, transparent and understandable to Canadians.

Improve reporting to Parliament.

Ensure that the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is properly funded and independent of the government.

Strengthen Parliamentary committees so that they can better scrutinize legislation.

Invest in an Agri-Food Investment Fund to attract investment and create good, well-paying jobs in food processing.

Assess whether current farm income safety nets meet the needs of Canadian farmers.

Help the agriculture sector adjust to climate change and better address water and soil conservation issues.

Maintain current National Defence spending levels, including current planned increases.

Conduct an open and transparent defence strategy review.

Repeal the recent changes made to the Employment Insurance (EI) system that have been punitive to unemployed workers.

Reduce Employment Insurance (EI) premiums.

Eliminate Employment Insurance (EI) discrimination against immigrants, younger workers and parents re-entering the workforce.

Reduce the wait time for new Employment Insurance (EI) recipients from two weeks to one week.

Develop a framework to fund training facilities delivered in partnership with labour unions.

Change the Repayment Assistance Plan so that graduates are required to repay only once they earn at least $25,000 per year.

Collaborate with provinces and territories on the Canada Student Loans Program, and compensate provinces and territories that do not participate in it.

Amend the *Canada Labour Code* to allow workers to formally request flexible work arrangements.

Prepare for the North American Leaders Summit in Canada.

Ensure a close link between foreign, defence, development and trade policy.

Increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) by 10%.

Implement the middle class tax cut.

Cut taxes for small businesses.

Cancel income splitting, while retaining income splitting of pensions for seniors.

Enhance the Canada Pension Plan to provide more income security to retired Canadians.

Create the Canada Infrastructure Bank.

Develop proposals to limit Exploration Expenses tax deduction to unsuccessful projects.

Restore the tax credit for labour-sponsored funds.

Introduce a tax benefit to help teachers and early childhood educators with the cost of school supplies.

Enhance the Northern Residents Deduction to help with the high cost of living.

Repeal the *Federal Balanced Budget Act*.

Sign and ratify the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

Establish the Invest in Canada Agency.

Implement an Infrastructure Strategy that improves public transit.

Implement an Infrastructure Strategy that improves social infrastructure.

Establish bilateral agreements with provinces and territories on infrastructure investments.

Develop a non-partisan, merit-based process to advise the Prime Minister on Senate appointments.

Make the Commissioner of Canada Elections more independent.

Bring forward options to create an independent commissioner to organize political party leaders' debates.

Review limits that political and third parties can spend during elections, and propose measures to control spending between elections.

Conduct a review of tax expenditures.

Legalize and strictly regulate cannabis.

Raise awareness on concussion treatment.

Develop a suicide prevention strategy for Canadian Armed Forces personnel and Veterans.

Create a committee of Parliamentarians to review national security.