Canadians headed to the polls Monday after one of the shortest election campaigns ever.

Earlier that, the leaders of each political party travelled declension-to-coast-to-coast in an try to entreatment to voters, detailing their plans to revive the economic system following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here's a expect at what each political party had promised on the major issues affecting the economy, business and your money.

CHILD Intendance

Sustaining national child intendance will exist the large question: Old Newfoundland and Labrador premier

Dwight Brawl, sometime premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, talks about the state of COVID-19 in Eastern Canada and the delay of reopening the Atlantic chimera. He also gives insight on the federal government'southward plan to create a national child care programme and says the most important cistron will be addressing the sustainability of this program while making certain it concluding for future generations.

Conservatives

  • Fleck all Liberal government kid-care funding deals in favour of a refundable tax credit of betwixt $4,560 and $half-dozen,000

Liberals

  • l per cent reduction in average fees for early learning and child intendance by end of side by side twelvemonth
  • Reduce child intendance fees to $10 per solar day on average within next five years – everywhere exterior of Que.
  • Invest upwardly to $30 billion over the adjacent 5 years – minimum of $9.2 billion per twelvemonth – to brand Canada-wide child care system "a reality"

NDP

  • Pledging $10-a-twenty-four hour period universal child care

Greens

  • Dedicate boosted resource to making universal, affordable, early learning and child-care organisation "a reality"


CORPORATE TAXES

Conservatives

  • Brand foreign tech companies pay "fair share of taxes," including sales taxation and digital services tax representing three per cent of gross revenue in Canada if they don't pay corporate income tax here

Liberals

  • Raise corporate income tax rate by three percentage points – from 15 per cent to xviii per cent – on all earnings over $1 billion at Canada's largest banks and insurers
    • The new taxation would generate $5.3 billion betwixt this fiscal yr and 2026. Some other $5.five billion would be raised over that same time frame from the Canada Recovery Dividend (a stillhoped-for defined temporary levy on those big financial institutions).

NDP

  • A temporary fifteen per cent tax on large companies that enjoyed windfall profits during the pandemic
  • A 3-indicate hike to put the corporate tax rate at xviii per cent
  • Pledge to make internet giants "pay their fair share"

Greens

  • Apply corporate tax on transnational e-commerce companies doing business organization in Canada by requiring foreign vendor to register, collect and remit taxes where product or service is consumed
  • Implement financial transactions revenue enhancement of 0.5 per cent in finance sector equally French republic has done since 2012
  • Increase federal corporate tax rate from fifteen to 21 per cent, bringing it into line with federal rate in the U.South.
  • Accuse v per cent surtax on commercial depository financial institution profits

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Conservatives

  • Eliminate Bill C-69
  • Repeal C-48
  • Get Trans Mountain expansion congenital
  • Promote "mutually beneficial conversations" between Indigenous communities and resource project proponents, providing $10 one thousand thousand per year to organizations involved
  • Invest $1.5 billion to support N.L.'s offshore oil industry
  • Introduce zero-emission vehicle mandate based on B.C.'south, requiring 30 per cent of light duty vehicles sold to be zero emissions past 2030
  • Invest a billion dollars in edifice out electrical vehicle manufacturing in Canada

Liberals

  • Invest $1 billion over 10 years to "restore and protect" large lakes and river systems
  • Establish a Canada Water Agency in 2022 to coordinate federal freshwater efforts
  • Modernize Canada Water Deed to reflect today's freshwater realities to include Ethnic water rights and address climate change
  • Invest $37.v million over six years to back up freshwater research at the International Institute for Sustainable Developments Experimental Lakes Area
  • Ensure oil and gas sector reduces emissions to achieve net-zero by 2050
  • Require oil and gas companies to reduce methane emissions by at least 75 per cent beneath 2012 levels by 2030
  • Accelerate G20 delivery to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies from 2025 to 2023
  • Help Canadians amend free energy efficiency of their homes
    • Provide grants of up to $5,000 for home retrofits and interest-complimentary loans up to $forty,000 for deep retrofits
  • Invest $700 million to add 50,000 new electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen stations
  • Implement regulated sales requirement that at least l per cent of all new calorie-free-duty vehicle sales be goose egg emissions vehicles in 2030
  • Develop investment taxation credit of up to thirty per cent for a range of clean technologies including low carbon and cyberspace-zero technologies
  • Eliminate flow through shares for oil, gas and coal projects to assist promote clean growth and Canada'south transition to net-cipher economy

NDP

  • Setting target of reducing emissions by at least 50 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030
  • Fix target of net carbon-costless electricity by 2030, moving to 100 per cent not-emitting electricity by 2040
  • Ensure prices at the pumps are fair by creating a watchdog to investigate gouging complaints

Bloc Québécois

  • Modify the net-cipher emissions police force to include clear reduction targets
  • Demand a climate examination for every new federal policy
  • Terminate subsidies for fossil fuels
  • Pass up every new project related to the transportation of oil across provinces
  • Innovate new net-nothing emission police force to force automakers to conduct a minimum corporeality of EVs in their fleet to brand them attainable to consumers
  • Move 100 per cent of the federal vehicle fleet to net-goose egg emission vehicles
  • Oppose any new nuclear projects, including new reactors
  • Put an end to the Trans Mountain pipeline and oppose any future oil sand project

Greens

  • Ensure reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 60 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, with "clear enforceable targets and timelines" starting in 2023
  • Achieve cyberspace zero emissions "as rapidly equally possible," aiming to exist net negative in 2050
  • Cancel all new pipeline projects, starting with the Trans Mountain expansion
  • Cancel all new oil exploration projects
  • Cease leasing of federal lands for fossil fuel product, retire existing licences
  • Ban fracking
  • End all subsidies to fossil fuel sector
  • Phase out existing oil and gas operations
  • Require federal public investment funds (including Canada Pension Plan Investment Board) to divest from fossil fuels
  • Increase carbon taxes by $25 per tonne each year beginning in 2022 and up to 2030
  • Ensure that 100 per cent of Canadian electricity is produced from renewable sources past 2030
  • Ban the sale of all internal combustion engine passenger vehicles past 2030
  • Implement a Carbon Lath Aligning, which will "ensure Canadian companies paying carbon taxes are non placed at a competitive disadvantage with strange companies located in countries with no such taxes"
  • Develop programs to encourage retirement of existing gas-powered vehicles
  • Ban further development of nuclear power in Canada
  • Stop export of U.Southward. coal from Canadian ports
  • Include Indigenous Peoples in economic development within the marine and freshwater realms
  • Finalize ban on unmarried-employ plastics by end of 2021
    • Expand listing to include "other harmful long-lived plastics," such as polystyrene

People's Party of Canada

  • Repeal Bills C-48 and C-69
  • Approve pipeline projects using "a streamlined procedure"
  • Find a private buyer for Trans Mount
  • Reassert federal jurisdiction over pipeline construction
  • "Possibly" revive cancelled projects and keep Line five operating by working with manufacture and American partners

Financial Programme

Conservatives

  • $51.3 billion in new spending over five years
  • $319.7 billion expected cumulative budget deficit over 5 years
  • Pledging to balance the budget over the side by side decade
  • Says jobs plan will consequence in lower unemployment rate and thus higher taxation acquirement and a "responsible" wind-down of emergency spending

Liberals

  • $78 billion in new spending over five years
  • $25.5 billion in new revenue over 5 years
  • $336 billion expected cumulative budget deficit over five years
  • Introduce a $1-billion proof of vaccination fund that will be available to provinces and territories that implement a proof-of-vaccine requirement for non-essential businesses and public spaces
  • Immediately invest $six billion – on top of $4 billion already committed – to support the elimination of health organisation waitlists

NDP

  • $214.5 billion in new spending over five years
  • $166.3 billion in new revenue over five years
  • $314 billion expected cumulative budget deficit over v years
  • Will motion to balance the budget "when it is prudent to practice so"
  • Says long-run finances will be fiscally sustainable based on Parliamentary Budget Officer's measures

Bloc Québécois

  • Phone call for an increase of the Canada Wellness Transfer coverage from 22 to 35 per cent of the provinces' total health costs
  • Create a new tax on the wealthy
  • Innovate a unique taxation filing system managed past the province of Quebec

Greens

  • Institutionalize federal transfers to municipalities through the cosmos of a municipal fund
  • Allocate i per cent of GST to housing and other municipal infrastructure on ongoing basis

People's Party of Canada

  • Get rid of the deficit in four years and cutting personal income taxes, corporate taxes and go rid of the personal upper-case letter gains tax subsequently the deficit has been eliminated
  • Stage out all COVID spending programs and reverse new programs announced by the Trudeau authorities
  • Review the equalization formula and reduce payments to provinces, making sure that "just the provinces with the greatest needs benefit from it"


HOUSING

Nosotros must have responsible housing policy to have responsible clearing policy: CAPREIT CEO

Mark Kenney, president and CEO of Canadian Flat Backdrop Existent Manor Investment Trust, discusses earnings for the latest quarter and his strategy for the remainder of the yr. When looking at the upcoming federal election he says for there to exist responsible immigration policy, we must have housing policies and that needs to come from all levels of government.

Conservatives

  • Aim to have one meg homes built across the country in the next iii years
  • Ban foreign investors non living in or moving to Canada from buying homes for a two-year menstruum, encourage foreign investment in affordable purpose-built rental housing
  • Encourage new market in 7-to-10-year mortgages to "provide stability" for get-go-fourth dimension homebuyers and lenders
  • Will not tax Canadians' capital gains on the sale of their master residence
  • Conform mortgage stress test to "stop discriminating" confronting small-scale business owners, contractors and other not-permanent employees, including coincidental workers

Liberals

  • Commit $one billion in loans and grants towards rent-to-own program
    • Plan volition include landlord committing to charging lower-than-market rate to renter and commit to buying in a v-year term or less
  • Introduce tax-free First Home Savings Account, which allows Canadians under 40 to save up to $xl,000 toward their kickoff home with no requirement to repay it
  • Give Canadians option of deferred mortgage loan equally alternative to shared equity model and reduce monthly mortgage costs
  • Increment insured mortgage cutting-off from $1 1000000 to $1.25 million and index this to inflation
  • Double the Outset-Home Buyers Tax Credit from $5,000 to $10,000
  • Reduce monthly mortgage costs by reducing price charged past Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation on mortgage insurance by 25 per cent. Liberal Party says this will salve "a typical person" $6,100.
  • "Build, preserve or repair" 1.4 million homes in the next four years
    • Invest $four billion in a new fund to grow the annual housing supply in the state'south largest cities every year
    • Create target of 100,000 new middle grade homes past 2024-25
  • Ban blind behest
  • Ban new foreign ownership for the next two years
  • Expand the upcoming tax on vacant housing
  • Implement anti-flipping revenue enhancement on residential properties, requiring backdrop to be held for at least 12 months
  • Halt then-called renovictions by "deterring" unfair rent increases
  • Will not introduce a upper-case letter gains taxation on the auction of primary residences

NDP

  • Introduce 30-yr terms on mortgages insured by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
  • Pledging 500,000 "quality, affordable" housing units within 10 years
  • 20 per cent tax on homes purchased by strange buyers
  • Waive federal portion of GST/HST on construction of new affordable rental units
  • Double homebuyer's tax credit to $1,500 and scroll it into a rebate and so coin is received when moving in, not at tax fourth dimension
  • Open borrowing restrictions to let people to purchase a habitation with friends and roommates
  • Give families in need of housing up to $5,000 per twelvemonth to pay for rent
  • Make home inspections mandatory when selling a abode

Bloc Québécois

  • Invest one per cent of the Federal government's annual revenue into social housing
  • Convert all unused federal properties in affordable social housing to fight the housing crunch
  • Innovate a new tax on real estate speculation

Greens

  • Appoint a housing advocate to ensure activeness inside infrastructure of the federal government
  • Strengthen regulations in order to limit foreign investment and put an end to "predatory practices" in residential real estate
  • Refocus the core mandate of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation towards supporting development of affordable non-profit and branch housing
  • Maintain moratorium on evictions until pandemic is over and for "reasonable time thereafter," in cooperation with provincial governments
  • Raise "empty abode" taxation for foreign and corporate residential holding owners
  • Assess role of real manor investment trusts in Canada's housing market
  • Invest in structure of fifty,000 supportive housing units over 10 years
  • Build minimum of 300,000 units of "deeply affordable non-market, co-op and non-turn a profit housing" over a decade
  • Crave that housing developments receiving federal funding ensure 30 per cent of all units be "deeply affordable and/or available to people with disabilities and special needs"
  • Allocate funding towards urban Indigenous housing providers

People'due south Party of Canada

  • Reduce "excessive demand" for housing by reducing immigration quotas, from nearly 400,000 planned past the Liberals, downwards to 100,000-150,000 per year
  • Terminate funding social housing
  • Privatize or dismantle the CMHC


JOBS AND ECONOMY

Impending quaternary moving ridge to be 'biggest issue' on campaign trail: Peter MacKay

Peter MacKay, strategic advisor at Deloitte Canada and former government minister of foreign diplomacy and national defence, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss what we can expect on the entrada trail. He says, "There are a number of bug that could pop up, the mail service-COVID economy discussion I expect to be very prevalent for all parties."

Conservatives

  • Restore i million jobs lost due to the pandemic within a year
  • Pay up to fifty per cent of new hires' salaries for vi months following the stop of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
    • All companies in Canada volition exist eligible for this subsidy regardless of revenue loss
    • Employment baseline for counting internet new hires volition be the company's average employment in April, May and June 2021
  • Launch Super EI that temporarily provides 75 per cent of salary instead of 55 per cent when a province goes into recession – EI will return to normal levels once recession is over, equally evidenced by three months of job gains
  • Expand EI benefits for seriously sick workers from 26 to 52 weeks
  • Require gig economic system companies to make contributions equivalent to CPP and EI premiums
    • Pay total 10.2 per cent of taxable income for CPP either by making CPP contribution on behalf of worker to the CRA or deposit contribution in proposed Employee Savings Account so worker tin can pay CPP premiums at tax year-end
    • Pay equivalent of EI premiums of 4 per cent of taxable income into a locked-in Employee Savings Business relationship
  • Decline mergers that substantially reduce competition and pb to layoffs and higher prices
  • Invest $250 meg over 2 years to provide grants to organizations including employers, apprenticeship training commitment agents, unions, post-secondary institutions, and community organizations
  • Provide low interest loans of up to $10,000 to people who want to upgrade their skills
  • Require federally regulated employers with more 1,000 employees or $100 million in annual revenue to include worker representation on boards of directors
  • Appoint a minister responsible for red tape reduction
  • Increase maximum penalty for price-fixing from $24 million to $100 million and introduce criminal penalties for executives convicted of price-fixing, including jail time
  • Double the Canada Workers Benefit to a maximum of $two,800 for individuals or $5,000 for families, paying it as a quarterly direct eolith rather than tax refund at year-end

Liberals

  • Extend the Canada Recovery Hiring Program to March 31, 2022
  • Provide $three.2 billion to provinces and territories to hire 7,500 new family doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners
  • Reform economic immigration programs to help temporary foreign workers and old international students
  • Plant system to help Canadian companies rent temporary strange workers to fill labour shortages
  • Provide the country'due south tourism industry with temporary wage and rent support of upwardly to 75 per cent of their expenses to help them get through the wintertime months
  • Extend COVID-related insurance coverage for media production stoppages to support 150,000 jobs
  • Provide all federally regulated workers with ten days of paid sick get out, awaiting amendments to Canada Labour Code
  • Invest $two billion to create jobs for fossil fuel workers in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Require financial institutions to offer flexible repayment options, including mandatory option for half dozen-month deferral of mortgage payments in "qualifying circumstances"
  • Establish single independent ombudsperson for handling consumer complaints involving banks
  • Crack downwards on predatory lenders by lowering criminal rate of interest
  • Invest $200 million over next four years to found nation-wide agency to investigate fiscal crimes and enforce federal constabulary in this area
  • Tabular array legislation to ensure that every business and organization that decides to crave proof of COVID-nineteen vaccination from employees and customers tin can do and so without fear of legal claiming

NDP

  • Says more than one million jobs will be created in first mandate
  • $twenty minimum wage
  • Sees enhancements to EI program, including making the program available to anyone who quits their task to get back to school, provide child care, or protect health of immunocompromised family members
  • Vowing to "build towards" a guaranteed livable income for all Canadians
  • Make CEOs who received federal subsidies intended for protecting workers' jobs pay that coin dorsum
  • Modernize Investment Canada Act to tighten review of takeovers past foreign entities
  • Require large employers to spend at least 1 per cent of payroll on training for their employees annually

Bloc Québécois

  • Suspend the CRB, while making sure it can be reactivated if necessary and remain active for heavily impacted sectors
  • Introduce a national reform of the employment insurance which volition protect workers, including freelance and seasonal workers
  • Hire more than workers for long-term cares

Greens

  • Replace every high paying fossil fuel sector job with a high paying green sector job through wage insurance, retraining programs and early retirement plans
  • Supercede one-third of Canada's food imports with domestic production, bringing $15 billion back into economy
  • Fund forestry-based manufacturing facilities in rural Canada to create jobs and keep profits
  • Build high-speed rail in Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City triangle and Calgary-Edmonton corridor
  • Create "comprehensive and equitable" guaranteed livable income for every person in Canada
    • Payment would be ready at "livable" level for unlike regions
  • Implement free education for all by getting rid of post-secondary education tuition, which would toll approximately $ten.2 billion annually
  • Abolish all federally held educatee loan debt
  • Create incentives for employers to hire newcomers and refugee claimants
  • Protect supply management systems while assuasive small scale production for local markets outside this system
  • Reduce interest rates to municipalities on loans for infrastructure projects
  • Fully fund universal pharmacare program
    • Create bulk drug purchasing agency and reduce drug patent protection periods
    • Launch national pharmacare in 2022

People's Party of Canada

  • Says it would set the Bank of Canada's inflation target at zero per cent instead of two per cent to "preserve Canadians' purchasing power"

PERSONAL FINANCE/TAXES

Nosotros can expect the liberals to introduce college taxes on elevation i%: CIBC's Jamie Golombek

Jamie Golombek, managing director of tax and manor planning at CIBC Wealth Advisory Service joins BNN Bloomberg to talk over fundamental thoughts on what revenue enhancement policies could look similar later the federal election. He says, "I personally don't run across capital gains on principal residence policy changing."

Conservatives

  • Implement calendar month-long GST holiday this fall with all purchases made at retail stores being taxation-free for the calendar month
  • Order Competition Bureau to investigate depository financial institution fees and require more than transparency for investment management fees

Liberals

  • Introduce new EI benefit for cocky-employed Canadians that would last for upwardly to 26 weeks
  • Innovate EI Career Insurance Benefit available to those who accept worked continuously for aforementioned employer for five or more years and are laid off when concern closes
    • Kicks in after EI ends, providing additional 20 per cent of insured earnings in start yr post-obit layoff and actress ten per cent in 2nd year
  • Create minimum tax rule and so anybody who earns enough to authorize for top bracket pays at to the lowest degree 15 per cent each yr, removing their ability to "artificially pay no tax through excessive use of deductions and credits"

NDP

  • Hike the uppercase gains tax inclusion charge per unit to 75 per cent (from 50 per cent)
  • Ane per cent taxation on households with fortunes topping $10 million
  • An income tax hike of two points to 35 per cent for the highest subclass – currently $216,511 and in a higher place
  • Implement luxury appurtenances revenue enhancement on yachts and individual jets

Greens

  • Exempt new and used electrical and zero-emission vehicles from federal sales
  • Apply i per cent tax on net (family unit) wealth above $20 million
  • Close stock options tax loopholes that benefit the wealthy
  • Close uppercase gains tax loopholes
  • Focus CRA on identifying people who hide "vast wealth"
  • Plant arm's length Federal Revenue enhancement Committee to clarify system for "fairness and accessibility"
    • Includes recommending an appropriate way to taxation cryptocurrencies

RETIREMENT AND SENIORS

Conservatives

  • Prevent executives from paying themselves bonuses while managing a company going through restructuring if pension plan is not fully funded
  • Devote $3 billion of infrastructure funding over the next iii years to renovate long-term intendance homes across the country

Liberals

  • Permanently increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $500 annually for single seniors and $750 for senior couples
  • Double Home Accessibility Taxation Credit, providing up to an additional $1,500 to make seniors' homes more accessible
  • Innovate Multigenerational Domicile Renovation tax credit to back up families looking to add secondary unit to their homes
  • Boost Old Historic period Security by 10 per cent next yr for seniors 75 years of historic period and older

NDP

  • Guaranteed livable income for seniors and Canadians with disabilities
  • Take profit out of long-term care past removing control from large corporations and banning whatsoever new for-profit care homes

Bloc Québécois

  • Provide a long-term increase of the indexable erstwhile age pension of $110 per month for all people in a higher place 65
  • Suggest an increase of the monthly alimony
  • Repeal dispositions preventing seniors whose marriage or partnership occurred afterwards 60 from receiving their spouse's pension when they laissez passer
  • Implement new measures to promote the work of depression-income seniors without penalties

Greens

  • Require alimony sponsor in event that Actuarial Valuation solvency ratio falls below prescribed threshold to obtain letter of the alphabet of credit to return to 100 per cent solvency or abide past restrictions on corporate cash management
  • Amend insolvency legislation to extend super-priority to unfunded pension liability to amend protect pensions of all Canadians whose companies file for bankruptcy under the CCAA

SMALL BUSINESS

Cutting small business aid at this phase is like 'telling them to go broke': Ontario Sleeping accommodation CEO

BNN Bloomberg speaks with Rocco Rossi, president and CEO of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, about the hurdles Ontario businesses go on to face despite the start of the next footstep in reopening the province. He is calling on the government to expand grants rather than loans to reduce the debt load small and medium-sized businesses now have on the books.

Conservatives

  • Provide a five per cent investment revenue enhancement credit for any capital investment made in 2022 and 2023, with the commencement $25,000 to be refundable for small business
  • Provide a 25 per cent tax credit on amounts of up to $100,000 that Canadians personally invest in a small business concern over the next 2 years
  • Provide loans of up to $200,000 to help small and medium businesses in hospitality, retail and tourism, with upward to 25 per cent forgiven
  • Provide 50 per cent rebate for nutrient and non-alcoholic drinks purchased for dine-in from Monday to Wednesday for i month once it's safe to do so
  • Launch 15 per cent revenue enhancement credit for vacation expenses of upward to $one,000 per person for Canadians to travel within the country in 2022

Liberals

  • Increase maximum loan amount from $350,000 to $500,000
    • Extend loan coverage from 10 to fifteen years for equipment and leasehold improvements
  • Introduce a tax credit for small businesses to help with investing in amend ventilation. Claims will cover 25 per cent of eligible expenses up to $ten,000 per location and a maximum of $50,000 per company

NDP

  • Vows to continue wage and rent subsidies until small businesses can fully reopen
  • Implement hiring bonus to cover the employer's portion of EI and CPP benefits for new and rehired staff
  • Cap credit card merchant fees at i per cent

Greens

  • Extend wage and rent subsidies until pandemic-related restrictions are fully lifted
  • Hold minor business tax rate at no more than than nine per cent
  • Eliminate duplicative tax filings and red tape to reduce paperwork burden

Technology

Trudeau's Bill C-10 is an overbroad attain, goes across what must exist regulated: Michael Geist

Michael Geist, Canada research chair in cyberspace and east-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, joins BNN Bloomberg to hash out the Liberal political party passing a bill to regulate social media and streaming giants. He argues Bill C-10 remains enormously problematic and the process of passing it in at near midnight speaks volumes.

Conservatives

  • Cutting income tax rate in half on new patented technologies adult in Canada
  • Connect every Canadian with high-speed internet by 2025
  • Require that Huawei equipment non be used to protect national security
  • Allow foreign telecoms to operate in Canada and then long every bit Canadian companies are granted reciprocal access
  • Introduce use of flow-through shares for tech companies to avoid the cost and complication of listing on an exchange
  • Exempt Canadian-controlled kickoff-ups headquartered and with at least 2/3 of their employees in Canada from the current plan to tax stock options

Liberals

  • Introduce legislation that would require digital platforms that generate revenues from publication of news to share a portion with Canadian news outlets

NDP

  • Price cap on cellphone and internet bills
  • Expand cell coverage and deliver broadband internet to every Canadian community, declaring high-speed internet an essential service

Greens

  • Suspension upwardly telecom monopolies through changes to CRTC regulation

Merchandise

Conservatives

  • Pursue Canada-Commonwealth of australia-New Zealand-U.k. agreement that could include costless trade and menstruum of capital investment between the partners

Liberals

  • Launch new Asia-Pacific strategy to "deepen diplomatic, economic, and defence partnerships in the region
    • Negotiate new bilateral merchandise agreements
    • Expand foreign investment promotion and protection agreements (FIPAs)

NDP

  • Support fair trade that "broadens opportunity" in all parts of the country
  • Defend Canadian workers in trade negotiations, protect supply management and stand up up against unfair tariffs
  • "Practice more to defend" Canadian workers and communities from unfair trading practices

People's Party of Canada

  • "Put force per unit area" on provinces to get rid of internal barriers and appoint a minister of internal merchandise, making it a priority to "liberalize trade and labour mobility between province and territories"

Greens

  • Shift direction of international trade away from "free trade" to "fair trade"
  • Cease all federal back up to Canadian exporters of arms and fossil fuels, with exception of potential necessary sales of peacekeeping equipment in cooperation with the United Nations