Solving the Housing Crisis
- Unlocking 3.87 million new homes.
- Creating a new Canadian Renters’ Bill of Rights so that renters can bargain fairly.
- Establishing the Tenant Protection Fund to better protect tenants against unfair rising rent payments, renovictions, or bad landlords.
- Making sure renters get credit for on-time rent payments to help them qualify for their first mortgage.
- Launching Canada Builds: a partnership with provinces and territories to build more rental housing across the country.
- Making it easier for builders to build apartments across Canada through the Apartment Construction Loan Program and removing the GST from new rental housing.
- Streamlining foreign credential recognition in the construction sector to help skilled trades workers build more homes.
- Incentivizing Canada’s educational institutions to build more student housing.
Lowering the Cost of Living
- Stabilizing the costs of groceries by strengthening competition in the grocery sector.
- Building more $10-a-day child care spaces.
- Launching a new National School Food Program to support 400,000 more kids every year.
- Cracking down on junk fees to make prices fairer and help middle-class Canadians keep more of their money in their pockets.
- Enhancing free and affordable banking options and capping certain fees at $10.
- Building on progress to strengthen the right to repair, so Canadians can repair their broken appliances and devices—and at a fair price.
and Growing an Economy that Works for All Canadians
- Making the ultra-wealthy pay a little bit more so we can invest in affordable housing, deliver better public health care, and grow the middle class.
- Securing Canada’s AI advantage to help Canadian researchers, start-ups, and businesses access remain competitive.
- Launching the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program to unlock access to capital for Indigenous communities.
- Boosting supports for Canadian businesses to purchase the equipment they need to boost productivity and compete in the economy of tomorrow.
- Providing further tax relief to secure the future of Canadian small businesses and create good jobs for generations to come.
- Helping increase access to mental health services for young Canadians through the new Youth Mental Health Fund.
- Delivering the Canada Disability Benefit to increase the financial well-being of over 600,000 persons with disabilities.