Take a look at how each of the parties compare on key issues for building food sovereignty in Canada. This document is still being updated as the parties release their platforms.
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Liberals
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Past writings indicate he will stay within a liberal market-based approach to reducing cost of housing.
Create Build Canada Homes, an entity that would act as a developer overseeing the construction of affordable housing.
Eliminate the GST for first-time homebuyers on homes under $1m.
Double non-profit community housing, incl coop housing.
To see more on the Liberal’s proposed plans re housing click here.
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Eliminate the GST on all new homes under $1m.
Sell 15% of federally owned buildings so that land can be used to build affordable homes.
To see more on the CPC’s proposed plans re housing click here.
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Implement national rent control to protect tenants.
Push provinces to ban renovictions.
Invest in the National Indigenous Housing Collaborative Inc.
Build more than 100,000 rent controlled homes over the next 10 years.
Use $1b over 5 years to acquire more public land for rent-controlled home construction.
Require the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to offer low-interest, public-backed mortgages.
Invest more money in the Rental Protection Fund, a federal program that supports community housing projects.
Ban corporate landlords from buying existing affordable rental properties.
To see more on the NDP’s proposed plans re housing click here.
Proposing a federally legislated price cap on basic food items like pasta, frozen vegetables & infant formula.
Remove GST from grocery store items incl. Pre-prepared meals.
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Use covenants to make sure housing built with public money stays affordable forever.
Stop corporations from buying up single family homes.
To see more on the Green’s proposed plans re housing click here.
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Use covenants to make sure housing built with public money stays affordable forever.
Stop corporations from buying up single family homes.
To see more on the Green’s proposed plans re housing click here.
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No policies proposed explicitly targeting food prices. Past writings indicate he will stay within a liberal market-based approach, such as focusing on competition policy.
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Proposing a federally legislated price cap on basic food items like pasta, frozen vegetables & infant formula.
Remove GST from grocery store items incl. Pre-prepared meals.
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Support the skilled trades through an apprenticeship grant, increased access to union-led training initiatives and a new $20 million capital funding stream for colleges to support new training spaces for apprenticeships.
Incentivize the application of AI across our economy to provide better services and create high-paying jobs for Canadians.
Create jobs by investing $5 billion in a Trade Diversification Corridor Fund to build infrastructure.
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Boost training and employment for workers in the skilled trades.
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Proposing income tax cuts that would save individuals $412/yr and families up to $825/yr, for a total cost of $5.9b/yr.
9.6 million of the lowest earners in the country would see no benefit from this tax cut plan because their incomes are already so low that they don’t pay federal income tax, nullifying the efficacy of this proposal as a tool for poverty reduction. Only 14% of those living in poverty would see any benefit.
Carney removes consumer carbon tax, while already sending out a carbon tax rebate to taxpayers for the 2024 fiscal year.
Eliminate the GST for first-time homebuyers on homes under $1m.
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Proposing income tax cuts that would save the average worker $900/year and average family $1800/year, costing the govt $14b annually. Conservatives claiming they will pay for their tax cuts by cutting foreign aid, consultant fees, corporate subsidies, govt waste & reducing bureaucracy.
9.6 million of the lowest earners in the country would see no benefit from this tax cut plan because their incomes are already so low that they don’t pay federal income tax, nullifying the efficacy of this proposal as a tool for poverty reduction. Only 14% of those living in poverty would see any benefit.
Proposing to reduce taxes for seniors working past age of retirement (earn up to $34,000 tax free).
Proposing scrapping consumer carbon tax (see 10. Climate Change below).
Eliminate the GST on all new homes under $1m.
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Claims that social programs cuts will not be used as a mechanism to fund $14b cost resulting from tax cuts outlined above.
Hints at fiscal austerity & limiting the operational budget incl. Federal social spending, federal transfers to provinces for social welfare and services.
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Raise the cap on the Wage Earner Protection Program to cover wages.
Expand the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act’s “super-priority” protections for workers to include post-employment benefits.
Remove barriers to accessing employment insurance by reducing the threshold for qualifying to a universal 360-hour standard.
Extend the duration of benefits to 50 weeks.
Increase the benefit earning to 2/3rds of insurable earnings with a minimum weekly benefit of $450.
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Reduce grocery prices by cracking down on grocery company monopolies and anti-competitive practices.
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Long-term Conservative advisor & campaign manager for Poilievre’s leadership bid, Jenni Byrne, lobbies on behalf of Loblaws.
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Enforce a mandatory grocery code of conduct to regulate prices.
Empower the Competition Bureau to act as watchdogs.
Tax windfall profits from big grocery chains.
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Hold corporations like Loblaws accountable to stop price-gouging in grocery stores.
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Carney aspires to become a “clean energy superpower, supporting projects that project the environment while honouring the rights and prosperity of Indigenous people.”
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Invest in the National Indigenous Housing Collaborative Inc.
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Support strong unions to protect workers’ rights.
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Supportive of building stronger local food systems.
Support for increasing food security.
Bloc
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Increase support for farmers, ranchers and producers to access new markets for their food products with an additional $30 million in the AgriMarketing Program.
Doubling of revenue protection for farmers under AgriStability (to $6 million per farm) in case of significant revenue drop due to tariffs, extreme weather or other shocks. Farmers appreciate this move but fear it is insufficient to compensate for real losses.
Increase support for farmers & ranchers to buy new equipment with a $30 million top up to the Agriculture Clean Technology Program.
Double the loan guarantee limit of Canadian Agricultural Loans program & expand term to 20yrs.
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Support strong unions to protect workers’ rights.
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Remove red tape and gatekeepers to allow businesses to produce more affordable food.
Ensure accurate labelling of ingredients and countries of origin.
Ensure more rigorous safety testing of imported food products.
Support self-sufficiency in national food production, incl. Increased diversification in the types of food and agricultural products produced.
Support supply management and its goal to deliver high quality products to consumers for a fair price with a reasonable return to the producer.
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Supportive of reducing food waste.
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Support for prioritizing purchases of Canadian food products for School Food Program, as much as possible.
Liberals suggesting inclusion of School Food Program in the next budget. Same claim was made in 2019 but has yet to happen.
2021 Liberal platform promised $1 million to provide school meals for 3 million children but no money has been provided yet.
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In December 2023, Poilievre, along with every single Conservative MP in Parliament voted against establishing a National School Food program.
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Support for a National School Food program in the upcoming budget.
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Advocate for a national school food program with procurement policies that support Canadian agriculture.
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Use covenants to make sure housing built with public money stays affordable forever.
Stop corporations from buying up single family homes.
To see more on the Green’s proposed plans re housing click here.
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Use most of collected tariffs for tax cuts, with a small sum set aside for workers hit by trade wars.
Knock down interprovincial barriers to help reduce lost north-south trade with east-west trade and make Canada self-reliant.
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Give money collected from counter-tariffs to workers and communities hit the hardest by the trade wars.
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Advocate for a national school food program with procurement policies that support Canadian agriculture.
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Support tariffs on food imports from countries with weaker environmental and animal welfare protections.
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Repeal consumer carbon tax while keeping in place industrial carbon tax, levied primarily on fossil fuel companies. Proposes replacing the Consumer Carbon Tax with incentives to reward people for greener choices.
Carney hinted at support for new pipelines.
Liberal platform talks of clean energy projects.
Support for Clean Growth Fund, investment tax credits, home energy retrofits and heat pumps, electric vehicle subsidies and investment in EV charging infrastructure.
Carney’s environment minister says cap on pollution from oil & gas sector to be maintained.
Conservatives
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Promises to repeal both the federal consumer carbon tax and standards for pricing GHG emissions from large industrial emitters (or the industrial carbon tax). An analysis by the Canadian Climate Change Institute found that pricing of industrial emissions is expected to be the biggest driver for reducing GHG emissions in Canada between now and 2030, accounting for between 20-48% of all reductions.
Poilievre promises to “clear the way for pipelines [...] north, south, east and west” as part of his commitment to support rapid expansion of oil and gas industry.
Will eliminate the Clean Fuel Regulations (which requires oil companies to reduce the carbon content of the gasoline and diesel they sell), the Clean Electricity Regulation (which mandates a ‘net zero’ electricity system by 2035) and the Electric Vehicle Availability Standards (that phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035).
Opposes proposed cap on pollution from the oil & gas sector.
NDP
NDP
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Supportive of reducing food waste.