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Election Commitment Tracker

Stay updated on the latest from the federal election campaign trail

We know that as a business owner, you are busy and keeping track of policy announcements from all the parties can be overwhelming. During the campaign period, we’re sifting through party commitments relevant to Calgary's business community, so you can stay updated on the latest from the federal election campaign trail – without the heavy lifting.  

Updates from the campaign trail

Click through the drop down lists below to see what each major party has announced in the campaign so far.

Announced: March 30 - April 5

  • Will introduce a private members bill forcing the federal government to pass the preliminary texts of any free trade agreements through the House of Commons prior to ratification
  • Will introduce a primate members bill to send a Quebec delegation - nominated by the Province - to any international trade negotiations
  • Take advantage of cuts impacting American federal employees by recruiting 'American scientific minds'
  • Reduce 'flipping' in the real estate market by forcing property owners to maintain possession of their property for two-years prior to relisting for sale

Announced: pre-writ drop – March 29

  • No announcements

Announced: April 6 - 12

  • Cut 25% of all federal government red-tape within two years. Pass a law that requires two regulations be cut for every one added, and ensure $2 in administrative costs are saved for every $1 added
  • Create a "one stop shop" for regulatory approvals called the Rapid Resource Project Office to handle all approvals across all orders of government. Provide a hard time limit of one year for regulatory approvals, with a target of six months.
  • Extend drug addiction recovery programs, and open 50,000 new recovery beds.
  • Remove federal funding for safe opioid supply centers and ensure that any remaining safe supply or safe consumption sites cannot operate within 500 meters of schools, daycares, playgrounds, parks or seniors homes
  • Create a task force to review tax rules and close tax loopholes, direct the CRA to investigate offshore tax havens, expose multinational corporations that take advantage of off shore tax havens and financial reward whistleblowers for information on offshore tax avoidance
  • Repeal Bill C-75, Bill C-5, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the Criminal Code, introducing minimum sentences for human trafficking, importing or exporting ten or more illegal firearms, and trafficking, producing or exporting more than 40mg of fentanyl
  • Introduce a "Three Strikes and You're Out" law, wherein criminals who are convicted of three serious offences will receive a minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life and will be designated as dangerous offenders
  • Allow working seniors to earn up to $34,000 tax free, and allow seniors to keep growing their savings in RRSPs until age 73 (currently age 71)
  • Approve Phase 2 of LNG Canada and accelerate at least 9 additional projects
  • Enhance northern export infrastructure by upgrading the Port of Churchill
  • Train 350,000 new apprentices in 5 years by expanding the Union Training and Innovation Program and restoring $4000 apprenticeship grants
  • Introduce mandatory municipality housing targets, municipalities must increase housing construction by 15% per year, if a municipality misses this target federal funds will be withheld. Cities must pre-approve high-density housing near trans stations
  • Sell of 15% of federal buildings to be converted to affordable housing

Announced: March 30 - April 5

  • Create a "Canada First" National Energy Corridor to fast-track approvals for transmissions lines, railways, pipelines, and other critical infrastructure projects across Canada in a pre-approved transport corridor entirely within Canada
  • Introduce a reinvestment tax cut, under which no capital gains tax would be applied on the sale of assets if the proceeds from the sale were reinvested in Canada. (Pilot program to run 2025 - 2026)
  • Expand the tax write off that trades workers can claim for work related travel
  • Repeal the Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap, the Industrial Price on Carbon, Bill C-69 (the Impact Assessment Act) and Bill C-48 (the Tanker Ban)
  • Establish the Canadian Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (CIOC), led by Indigenous peoples to offer loan guarantees to Indigenous communities
  • Reverse plans to continue increasing the federal beer, wine and spirits tax and bring the tax down to 2017 levels

Announced: pre-writ drop – March 29

  • Introduce a budgetary "pay-as-you-go" system, where any new government expenditure would need to be offset by equivalent savings elsewhere, to prevent escalating deficits and debt 
  • Repeal Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act 
  • Increase domestic energy production by supporting projects like the Energy East pipeline and reducing regulatory barriers to develop Canada's natural resources
  • Repeal the entire carbon pricing law for consumers and big industry; expand eligibility” for the clean technology and clean manufacturing tax credits; and “reward” businesses that made products with emissions lower than the world average.
  • Create “shovel-ready zones” with pre-approved permits for major resource or energy projects. 
  • Prioritize an agreement on one standard set of trucking rules to get goods moving east-west  
  • Create a Blue Seal Professional Licensing Standard recognized in each province 
  • Double the size of the 1st Patrol Group of the Canadian Rangers, from 2,000 to 4,000 Rangers 
  • Acquire two additional polar icebreakers for the Royal Canadian Navy 
  • Build at least one permanent Arctic military base within two years 
  • Expand training halls and provide direct grants and faster access to employment insurance for apprentices in licensed trades  
  • Hire more front-line officers and expanding police training 
  • End hard drug programs and ban hard drugs and government-funded drug consumption sites located near families and schools, aiming to reduce community harm and disorder 
  • Enhance the Security Infrastructure Program by doubling its funding, simplifying the application process, and broadening eligible expenses to protect communities at risk 
  • Create an Anti-Hate Crime Task Force to coordinate the protection of faith communities and prosecute offenders committing hate crimes 
  • Cut the GST on new homes up to $1.3 million 
  • Incentivize municipalities to free up land, speed up permits and cut development charges to build 15% more homes each year 
  • Cut income tax by 15%, dropping the tax rate on the lowest income tax bracket from 15% to 12.75% 
  • Increase the annual TFSA contribution rate by $5000.00, so long as investments are made in Canada

Announced: pre-writ drop – March 29

  • Restore the federal corporate income tax-rate to 28% and eliminate two-thirds of targeted federal corporate subsidies
  • Raise the Basic Personal Amount from $15,705 to $40,000

Announced: April 13 - 19

  • Create a Defense Procurement Agency and change existing procurement procedures to support Canada's defense industry
  • Provide sector specific, mid-career training and upskilling benefits up to $15,000 per worker in priority sectors such as manufacturing, construction, health care and artificial intelligence

Announced: April 6 - 12

  • Work to establish international standards for voluntary carbon markets
  • Cover costs (up to $8000) for apprenticeship training, double funding supports for union-led training programs, and set aside $20-million in capital funding for colleges to expand training spaces in apprenticeship programs
  • Extend the Labour Mobility Tax deduction for workers who travel farther from home for work

Announced: March 30 - April 5

  • Create a new federal entity - Build Canada Homes - which will have three key functions: building affordable housing at scale (including on public land), catalyzing a new housing industry, and providing financing to affordable homebuilders, with a target to produce 500,000 housing units per year
  • Transfer all affordable housing programming (such as the Affordable Housing Fund and the Federal Lands Initiative) from CMHC to BCH. Wherever possible, BCH will also acquire additional land and offer leases so we can add to Canada’s affordable housing stock
  • Will maintain protections for supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs
  • Will top up the agriculture and food processing insurance program with $200-million
  • Increase funding for programs to subsidize the purchase of 'eco-friendly' farm equipment

Announced: pre-writ drop – March 29

  • Announced a first mile-fund, support for critical industries to get product to existing trade infrastructure 
  • Announced a one window approval process to harmonize across provincial and federal regulatory approval processes 
  • Will create a $5-billion "Trade Diversification Fund", used to build new infrastructure such as ports, rail roads and airports used to sell Canadian goods to countries other than the United States.
  • Expand the Canadian Armed Forces’ presence in the Arctic and turn to Australia’s over-the-horizon radar tech to monitor threats from adversaries 
  • Provide $253 million in new funding for Indigenous reconciliation initiatives in the North 
  • Maintain capital gains inclusion rate at one-half 
  • Double the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program and make it available beyond resource sector 
  • Deploy a $2-billion "Strategic Response Fund" which will be used to protect the jobs of workers impact by tariffs and "fortify the entire Canadian Auto Supply Chain" 
  • Eliminate GST for first-time homebuyers on homes sold at or under $1 million
  • To address the impacts of tariffs, allow Canadian businesses to defer income tax and GST & HST payments to boost their liquidity 
  • Waive the one-week waiting period for employment insurance for those who lose their jobs as a result of U.S. tariffs

Announced: April 6 - 12

  • Overhaul Canada's bankruptcy and insolvency laws to ensure workers are protected
  • Restrict the use of offshore tax havens by ending tax agreements with known havens such as Bermuda, and require corporations to prove a legitimate business need for offshore accounts
  • Launch a review of the tax code to close loopholes that allow corporations to avoid taxation
  • Plan to build 3 million homes in Canada by 2030, support this plan with a $16-billion national housing strategy.
  • Ban fixed term leases, renovictions, demovictions, and other practices aimed at pushing people out of their homes and driving up rents. Ban rent price fixing and collusion by corporate landlords including the use of shared data platforms and coordinated pricing tools.
  • Require cities to allow more multi-unit homes in all neighborhoods, require more housing near public transit and support Canadian industry through federal housing programs
  • Bring in a permanent ban on foreign homebuyers, including barring purchases from numbered companies and corporate proxies
  • Expand the current anti-flipping tax from 1 year to 5 year

Announced: March 30 - April 5

  • Provide a mechanism by which the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation can provide low-interest, public backed mortgages
  • End the Consumer Carbon Tax
  • Maintain both the federal industrial price on carbon and the Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap
  • Eliminate any subsidies for oil and gas companies
  • Introduce a Carbon Border Adjustment system
  • Support retrofit programs for 3.3 million homes across the country - including free retrofits for 2.3 million low-income households. Retrofits would involve energy efficient investments such as heat pumps
  • Deploy a national public infrastructure and procurement strategy to: use 100 per cent Canada steel in all federally funded projects, ban U.S. companies from federal procurement so long as the tariff situation persists, prioritize Canadian unionized firms in public project bidding, and increase Canadian content requirements for all federally funded projects
  • Restrict offshore tax havens by requiring corporations to prove a legitimate need for offshoring accounts.
  • Launch a review of the tax code to close loopholes

Announced: pre-writ drop – March 29

  • Cancel Canada’s F-35 contracts and build jets in Canada 
  • Train 100,000 more people including newcomers and workers displaced by trade war in skilled trades and improve working conditions 
  • Use project Labour Agreements, or Community Benefits Agreements to support good jobs and improve the impacts for communities 
  • Set aside 100% of suitable federal crown land to build over 100,000 rent-controlled homes by 2035 
  • Redesign and double the Public Land Acquisition Fund, investing $1 billion over 5 years into acquiring more public land to build more rent-controlled homes 
  • Finance new construction – with a new Community Housing Bank to partner with non-profit developers, co-ops, and Indigenous communities 
  • Speed up approvals on lands owned by the federal government to build homes faster 
  • Remove GST on essentials such as children's clothes and diapers 
  • Raise the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors 
  • Double the Canada Disability Benefit for low-income individuals
  • Ban 'corporate landlords' from buying existing affordable housing rental buildings and cease providing these landlords with low-interest federal loans and mortgage loan insurance.
  • Increase the rental protection fund.  
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