Scott Brison and the Liberal Party of Canada are fighting for your family. A future Liberal government will make changes to address the economic pressures on Canadian families through investments in invest in Health care, Pensions and Learning, through:
- A Family Care Plan to enhance care for our parents, our grandparents and our sick loved ones, and to help reduce the pressure on hundreds of thousands of struggling Canadian families;
- A Stronger Public Pension Plan to help working families save for retirement. Liberals want to strengthen the base Canada Pension Plan by increasing benefits gradually over time, and give families the option to top-up their savings with a new Supplemental CPP; and
- A Pan-Canadian Learning Strategy spanning early childhood development and care, aboriginal education, workforce literacy, language training for New Canadians, and access to higher education and training to build the best-educated, most skilled workforce in the world.
Liberals are fighting for a strong economy. A future Liberal government will take a balanced and credible fiscal approach to tackling the Conservatives’ record deficit and restoring Canada’s fiscal health including:
- Cancelling Harper’s additional corporate tax breaks and restoring rates to 2010 levels. Canada already has the second lowest corporate tax rates in the G7 and 25% lower than the U.S. Canadian families deserve a break, not the largest corporations;
- Making better choices instead of spending billions on stealth fighter jets and US-style mega prisons;
- Deficit reduction by committing to a deficit to GDP target of 1% within the first two years of a Liberal government and further decline every year thereafter until the budget is balanced;
- Fiscal prudence by restoring a reserve as a buffer to achieve targets; and,
- Spending restraint by finding targeted, sustainable savings in partnership with the public service and proposing new programs in the Liberal platform only if they can be financed without adding to the deficit.
Liberals are fighting to restore Canada’s leadership in the world, through:
- An Environment and Clean Energy Plan that takes real action on climate change, creates jobs by investing in renewable energy production, promotes energy efficiency, and helps companies to develop and manufacture new clean energy products and materials. We will also protect our future by preserving our oceans, lakes and coastal communities;
- A Global Networks Strategy that creates Global Network Agreements with China and India to collaborate in research and education, energy and sustainability, transportation, food security, health, immigration, culture and tourism; and
- A rebalancing of Canada’s foreign policy objectives along the three Ds: Development, Defence and Diplomacy.
Liberals are fighting to bring Canadians together. Liberals want to build bridges between communities and renew our democracy through:
- The Rural Canada Matters strategy to boost rural communities with better access to broadband internet, doctors and nurses, emergency services, and postal services;
- A National Food Policy to promote healthy living, safe food, sustainable farm incomes, environmental farmland stewardship and international leadership; and
- An Open Government Initiative to create a new level of accountability for government spending and to spur innovation and economic growth.
