- Remove limitations on funding for research and advocacy activities
in the revised terms and conditions of the Women’s Program at Status of Women
Canada
- Invest in habitat protection and enforcement to ensure a healthy
and stable fishery for generations to come
- Increase the residence portion of the Northern Residents Tax
Deduction that this portion of the tax deduction be indexed in order to keep
pace with inflation based upon a Northern inflation measurement
- Fully reimburse Canadian seniors whose pension incomes have been
negatively affected as a result of an error in calculating the rate of
inflation. While the government has acknowledged the error it made it has so
far refused to take any remedial action
- Remove the two percent limit on social program spending in the
Department of Indian and Northern affairs so programs can be funded according
to need and population growth
- Implement the five recommendations of the veterans’ first motion
as approved by Parliament, notably by eliminating the unfair reduction of
Service Income Security Insurance Plan long term disability benefits from
medically released members of the Canadian Forces
- Establish long term permanent bridging, mentorship and settlement
programs that assist new immigrants in finding good and meaningful employment
- Subject to the jurisdiction of provinces, move toward a full,
universal, cost-effective, regulated, not-for-profit child care program
available to all parents across the country
- Improve the employment insurance system by reducing the required
number of hours for qualifying to 360, by eliminating the two week waiting
period and by basing the insurable payment on the twelve (12) best weeks worked
- Fund the Correctional Service of Canada to provide sufficient
mental health diagnosis and treatment
- Maintain the existing prison farm program, expand it to other
institutions, and add additional similar vocational programs
- Provide financing to ensure that all First Nations and
municipalities meet the Canadian Water Quality Guidelines on drinking water. Equal
fed/municipal/provincial cost sharing
- Reattribute one extra cent of the existing gas tax to fund public
transit in Canada
- Provide extra resources to visa offices overseas and the Refugees
Board to reduce wait times inflicted by a huge back log of family class and
refugees’ applicants
- See to the retroactive payment of $2.6 billion to Quebec as
compensation for their tax harmonization of 1980
- Create a comprehensive strategy to treat and prevent HIV,
tuberculosis, and diabetes in First Nations, Inuit and Metis populations in urban,
rural and remote settings
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