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Society & Government platforms

Here's what the candidates in Scarborough North, and their parties, are promising.

Arts and culture

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Arts and culture.
We don't have any PC policies on Arts and culture.

ONDP

  • Strongly support Ontario Creates and Ontario Arts Council programmes

    "And we will strongly support Ontario Creates and Ontario Arts Council programs to ensure people throughout the arts and culture sector have the support and respect they need." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Grow and promote francophone book publishing, film and television, live performance, and cultural festivals

    "We will also partner with Ontario’s francophone community to grow and promote book publishing, film and television, live performance, and cultural festivals in French — a key thread in the tapestry of our province." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Budgets

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Liberal

  • Try to save 2.5% annually

    "Undertake an ambitious Saving Annually through Value and Efficiency (SAVE) process that will aim to achieve 2.5% of annual savings and value enhancement for Ontario taxpayers." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create an Office of Cost Control to oversee major public sector procurement projects and spending at both the municipal and provincial level

    "Create an Office of Cost Control which will have the responsibility for oversight on all major public sector procurement projects and spending at both the municipal and provincial level, including reviewing the significant overspending on recent transportation projects. We will also leverage the best available Canadian innovation, technology and artificial intelligence (AI), cut down on outsourcing, improve efficiency and project delivery, and better focus the province on what it can do best." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any PC policies on Budgets.
We don't have any ONDP policies on Budgets.

Disabilities

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Liberal

  • Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program benefits and index it to inflation

    "Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index it to inflation so that Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any PC policies on Disabilities.

ONDP

  • Double social assistance rates for ODSP and OW

    "We will double social assistance rates for ODSP and OW to get people out of deep poverty and boost the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit program to help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Elections and democratic engagement

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Elections and democratic engagement.
We don't have any PC policies on Elections and democratic engagement.

ONDP

  • Replace first-past-the-post with a mixed-member proportional voting system

    "We will reform our voting system to make it fair and more inclusive, replacing first-past-the-post with a mixed-member proportional voting system where every vote counts. We will consult with the public, civil society and other political parties to design a made-in-Ontario voting system that reflects the needs of our communities." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Government favouritism and conflicts of interest

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Liberal

  • Investigate the previous government's deals

    ""Lead an across-government effort to spend taxpayers’ money wisely and invest the savings back into economic stimulus and health care.

    Investigate all of Doug Ford’s giveaways, handouts, and sweetheart deals for his rich friends, including the:

    $1.9 billion spent on speeding up the sale of booze by multinational corporations, big grocers, and foreign retail giants

    $100 million deal with Elon Musk (noted Donald Trump insider) and Starlink Snap closure of the Ontario Science Centre on land primed for development

    $2 billion sell-off of Ontario Place to a foreign-owned spa

    Sweetheart deal to open ServiceOntario outlets in private American-owned stores $8 billion Greenbelt giveaway to his friends and donors, an issue that is currently being investigated by the RCMP

    Dozens of crony patronage appointments at public institutions like the LCBO, Ontario Power Generation, the Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee and more

    MZO’s Doug Ford gave to his rich buddies"

    Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any PC policies on Government favouritism and conflicts of interest.

ONDP

  • Strengthen lobbying rules and the Members Integrity Act

    "The Ontario NDP will strengthen lobbying rules and the Members Integrity Act, ensuring decisions are made in the public’s best interest— not for profit-driven political friends." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Indigenous reconciliation

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Indigenous reconciliation.
We don't have any PC policies on Indigenous reconciliation.

ONDP

  • Establish government-to-government relationships with First Nations
  • Formalise a commitment to a tripartite consultation process on any proposed resource extraction plan impacting First Nations territories

    "And we’ll formalize our commitment to a tripartite consultation process between First Nations rights holders, the provincial government, and resource industries on any proposed plan impacting First Nations territories." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Sign resource revenue agreements to share revenues equitably with First Nations, with First Nations receiving 100% of mining tax revenues

    "An NDP government will ensure, through resource revenue agreements that revenues are equitably shared and flow to First Nations, including 100% of mining tax revenues." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Any policies impacting First Nations will be guided by the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, as a matter of law

    "Any policies impacting First Nations will be guided by the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), as a matter of law, across government." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Support First Nations knowledge keepers, Indigenous language programmes, and land-based educational initiatives
  • Make Truth and Reconciliation Day a statutory provincial holiday
  • Work to fulfill Ontario's outstanding obligations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations

    "We’ll work to fulfill Ontario’s obligations to the outstanding Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations, and we’ll make Truth and Reconciliation Day a statutory provincial holiday." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Infrastructure

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Liberal

  • Prioritise infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, roads, and public transit

PC

  • Standardise road building technical standards across the province
  • Centralise all government capital projects and contracting under Infrastructure Ontario, accountable to the Ministry of Infrastructure
  • Start a Pothole Prevention Fund to support municipalities with road maintenance funds

    "Launch the Pothole Prevention Fund, which will support municipalities with road maintenance funds to help make Ontario roads safer and prevent accidents and vehicle damage that can occur from potholes." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Take responsible for municipal building approvals for provincially-led or funded schools, hospitals, care homes, courthouses, etc.

    "[...] uploading municipal building approvals for provincially-led and/or provincially-funded schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, courthouses, union training centres and other critical infrastructure projects." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Invest another $5B in housing, long-term care, energy, transportation, and municipal infrastructure projects

    "Providing another $5 billion for the Building Ontario Fund, for a total of $8 billion, to invest in housing, long-term care, energy, transportation and municipal infrastructure projects." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

ONDP

  • Provide consistent formula-based funding to municipalities to maintain, snow-clear, and repair infrastructure

    "We will provide adequate, predictable and consistent formula-based provincial funding to ensure that municipalities are able to maintain, snow-clear and repair their roads, bridges and other infrastructure, with additional support for small and Northern municipalities that must look after large areas with small tax bases." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

Intimate partner violence

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Intimate partner violence.
We don't have any PC policies on Intimate partner violence.

ONDP

  • Recognise intimate partner violence as an epidemic

    "We will recognize Intimate Partner Violence as an epidemic, and ensure survivors have the support they need to get on their feet, including emergency shelters." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Restore the full Victims Compensation Fund
  • Direct Ministries to coordinate improved access to services for survivors

Justice system

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Liberal

  • Create Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders accused of violent crimes of drug offences

    "Train more officers to get crime and drugs off our streets and launch special Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders involved with illegal drug and fentanyl trafficking, firearm offences, robberies, home invasion, carjacking and auto-theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

PC

  • Focus the judicial selection criteria and process to select judges and justices of the peace who are tougher on defendants

    "Reducing criminal court backlogs and ensuring justice for victims by continuing to invest $30 million to hire over 190 new criminal prosecutors and appointing new judges and justices of the peace . A re-elected PC government will also focus the judicial selection criteria and process to select judges and justices of the peace that uphold the Criminal Code and are tough on crime." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Mandate upfront payment of bail bond deposits

    "Making bail payment real and effective by mandating upfront payment of bail bond deposits." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Build more jails

    "Building more jails so that we have enough capacity to keep dangerous criminals off our streets and behind bars, where they belong ." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Expand the use of GPS monitoring bracelets for people granted bail, and charge defendants a fee to offset the cost of GPS monitoring

    "Expanding the use of GPS monitoring bracelets for people granted bail and requiring offenders to pay a fee to offset the cost of administering the GPS Monitoring Program to improve community safety and save taxpayers millions of dollars each year." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Increase access to addictions treatment units in jails, including as a condition to probation

    "Increasing access to addictions treatment units in jails, including as a condition of probation, to help people exit the vicious cycle of crime and addiction and keep communities safe." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Expand the use and scope of practice for opioid antagonists and partial agonists medications in correctional and community settings

    "Expanding the use and scope of practice for opioid antagonists and partial agonists medications in correctional and community settings to combat long-term addiction and dependence by increasing access to medications that block the effects of opioids." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP

  • Hire and increase pay to court staff to increase the hours courtrooms are open
  • Build new courthouses in under-served regions

    "Completing courtroom repairs, considering reopening shuttered courthouses, and building new courthouses in regions where there is not enough existing infrastructure." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Fund Legal Aid Ontario

    "Funding Legal Aid Ontario so more Ontarians can access procedural assistance, legal information and legal advice." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Complete courtroom repairs and consider reopening shuttered courthouses

Ontario's Greenbelt

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We don't have any PC policies on Ontario's Greenbelt.

ONDP

  • Focus urban growth within pre-2022 urban boundaries to protect the Greenbelt and prime farmland, and keep infrastructure costs down

    "We will protect the Greenbelt, and Ontario’s prime farmland, by focusing growth sustainably and cost-effectively within the pre-2022 urban boundaries, keeping infrastructure costs down in the process." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Parks and greenspace

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Parks and greenspace.

PC

  • Open a new all-season provincial park near the Town of Bracebridge

    "A re-elected Ontario PC government will open the first new, all-season provincial park in 40 years to focus on building stronger and healthier communities by expanding recreational opportunities for families to enjoy . The Bigwind Lake Provincial Park, located near the Town of Bracebridge, will offer facilities and recreational activities including swimming, hiking, cross- country skiing, and add around 250 new campsites to the Ontario Parks system." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

We don't have any ONDP policies on Parks and greenspace.

Public safety

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Liberal

  • Train more police officers

    "Train more officers to get crime and drugs off our streets and launch special Bail Courts for high-risk and repeat offenders involved with illegal drug and fentanyl trafficking, firearm offences, robberies, home invasion, carjacking and auto-theft." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Offer a rebate for equipment that deters crime with $500 for homes, $5K for small businesses, and $10K for religious/cultural institutions

    "Safeguard communities and assist policy to monitor and catch criminals by introducing the SAFE Rebate (Supporting Access to Funding for Equipment) that offers up to $500 rebate for homes, $5,000 rebate for small businesses and $10,000 rebate for religious/cultural institutions to purchase safety equipment that deters auto-theft, robberies and other criminal activities." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Ban hate-motivated activities and protests that intimidate or incite violence within 100 metres of social infrastructure, with $100K fines

    "Ban organizing or participating in hate-motivated activities or protests that incite violence or intimidation within 100 metres of the property line of any vulnerable social infrastructure (ex. place of worship, school, childcare centre, or hospital) anywhere in the province, and impose a maximum fine of $100,000 for each violation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Hire 300 more special constables for the TTC, OC Transpo, Metrolinks, and other major transit providers

    "Hire an additional 300 special constables for TTC, OC Transpo, Metrolinx and other major transit service providers across the province." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

PC

  • Invest more than $70M to help police dismantle organised crime networks
  • Eliminate tuition fees for Basic Constable Training
  • Invest $1B for a new and renovated Ontario Police College and Ontario Provincial Police Academy

    "Continue supporting our brave men and women in policing by graduating an additional 550 police officers each year for a total 2,080 annually, eliminating tuition fees for Basic Constable Training to incentivize new recruits and investing $1 billion for a new and renovated Ontario Police College and Ontario Provincial Police Academy to help improve and expand police training in our province." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Set stiffer penalties for auto thieves

    "Cracking down on auto theft by investing more than $70 million in new measures to help police dismantle organized crime networks, along with stiffer penalties for auto thieves, including a life-time driver’s license ban for repeat offenders and the strongest penalties in Canada for VIN fraud, including up to $100,000 in fines and six months in jail, alongside strengthened measures and technology at Service Ontario to eliminate all transactions involving stolen vehicles." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Invest $38M to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organisations implement security measures

    "$38 million to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organizations implement measures to ensure their community spaces remain safe and secure, such as hiring security staff, surveillance cameras, security assessments, cybersecurity and building repairs." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

  • Expand the Sex Offender Registry to include more types of offenses, and name and shame people on it

    "Expanding and strengthening the Sex Offender Registry to include more types of offenses, such as human trafficking, to hold more criminals to account by naming and shaming those that are convicted of these heinous crimes. This is on top of the enhancements to Christopher’s Law that our PC government passed making it illegal for sex offenders to change their names and hide their identities." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

We don't have any ONDP policies on Public safety.

Racism

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Liberal

  • Ban hate-motivated activities and protests that intimidate or incite violence within 100 metres of social infrastructure, with $100K fines

    "Ban organizing or participating in hate-motivated activities or protests that incite violence or intimidation within 100 metres of the property line of any vulnerable social infrastructure (ex. place of worship, school, childcare centre, or hospital) anywhere in the province, and impose a maximum fine of $100,000 for each violation." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

PC

  • Invest $38M to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organisations implement security measures

    "$38 million to extend the Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant to help faith-based and cultural organizations implement measures to ensure their community spaces remain safe and secure, such as hiring security staff, surveillance cameras, security assessments, cybersecurity and building repairs." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP

  • Re-establish the Anti-Racism Secretariat

    "We will re-establish the Anti-Racism Secretariat to support communities to stamp out hate. The Secretariat will coordinate collection across government to ensure programs and services meet our equity goals." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create anti-racism councils to advocate on behalf of racialised communities

    "We will create Anti- Racism Councils to advocate on behalf of racialized communities and provide information, advice and recommendations to the government, through the minister, on all ethnocultural matters, including anti-racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and education, human rights, immigration, settlement and cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Sports and recreation

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We don't have any Liberal policies on Sports and recreation.

PC

  • Add $300M to the Community Sport and Recreation Fund to build sports facilities and community infrastructure

    "Increasing the Community Sport and Recreation Fund by $300 million to help build more rinks, arenas, sports centres and other community infrastructure." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

We don't have any ONDP policies on Sports and recreation.

US border

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We don't have any Liberal policies on US border.

PC

  • Invest $50M to expand the OPP's Joint-Air Support Unit with two more H-135 helicopters to support border patrols

    "Investing $50 million to expand the Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) Joint-Air Support Unit with two additional H-135 helicopters to support the Niagara Regional Police and the Windsor Police Service with increased patrols, security and enforcement at key border entry points for the province. The Joint-Air Support Unit was created by the PC government through a $134 million investment in last year’s budget, with new police helicopters to help police in Ottawa, Toronto, Durham, Halton and Peel fight auto theft and combat organized crime." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

We don't have any ONDP policies on US border.