Government promises

Conclude negotiations and implement agreements for a Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system.

Reduce fees for regulated child care by 50 per cent on average by the end of 2022 everywhere outside of Quebec.

Reduce regulated child care fees to $10 a day on average by the end of fiscal year 2025-2026 everywhere outside Quebec.

Build 250,000 new high-quality child care spaces and hire 40,000 more early childhood educators by the end of fiscal year 2025-2026.

Introduce federal child care legislation to strengthen and protect a high-quality Canada-wide child care system.

Establish a National Advisory Council on Early Learning and Child Care.

Advance work with provinces and territories to reduce fees for families for before and after school care.

Ensure the Federal Secretariat on Early Learning and Child Care is fully resourced and operational by early 2023.

Work with Indigenous partners to ensure that Indigenous children have access to a culturally appropriate Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care system that meets the needs of Indigenous families wherever they live, including creating 3,300 new child care spaces.

Work with Indigenous partners to support before and after school care for First Nations children on reserve.

Advance implementation of the Community Services Recovery Fund.

Advance the Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy, including fully implementing the Social Finance Fund and launching the Social Innovation Advisory Council.

Continue leading implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Provide seniors with a single point of access to government services and benefits.

Develop and implement a modern, resilient, secure and reliable services and benefit delivery system.

Implement the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative.

Ensure the voices and needs of children are represented in the Government's agenda.

Deliver Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy.

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

Reduce Employment Insurance (EI) premiums.

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

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.

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

Provide more generous and flexible leave for caregivers.

Set transparent service standards for the delivery of Employment Insurance (EI) benefits.

Cancel the increase in age of eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) from 65 to 67.

Provide support to maintain rent-geared-to-income subsidies in existing social housing.

Invest in Housing First to reduce homelessness.

Review prices in high-priced housing markets and consider all policy tools that could keep home ownership within reach for more Canadians.

Bring forward a proposal to prevent mortgage fraud.

Use the best data available to make decisions on housing.

Provide more flexible parental leave.

Make sure the Infrastructure Bank supports the construction of new, affordable rental housing.