Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side to fight against rising costs. We’ll hire doctors, fix schools, build homes, and defend Ontario jobs and incomes.
Defending jobs and tariff-proofing Ontario
With Trump’s tariffs looming, people are worried about losing their jobs, or the cost of everything going up.
While Ford didn’t create this crisis, he has spent seven years failing to deliver on the cost of living, housing, education, healthcare and more. He has left Ontario more vulnerable as a result. We need to make Ontario stronger and more resilient so we can withstand this crisis and any future ones, but first we need to defend jobs and look after people.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan to defend jobs, fight back, and build a more resilient, tariff-proof Ontario.
An Ontario NDP government will:
Defend jobs and people:
- Partner with Ontario employers and unions to protect jobs now;
- Work with trade-exposed industries, like steel, auto and agriculture, to provide direct support to keep plants and farms open, create new supply chains, and find new export markets for their goods in Canada and abroad;
- Support the auto sector to bridge any interruption in production and preserve Canadian auto jobs.
- Promote interprovincial cooperation and break down trade barriers;
- Negotiate a joint federal-provincial income assistance program to support people whose livelihoods are impacted by tariffs;
Fight Back:
- Fight back with a Team Canada approach that doesn’t give into division;
- Launch a Buy Ontario campaign to promote Ontario goods;
- Direct Ontario government-funded agencies to procure locally;
Build a tariff-proof Ontario:
- Create a Premier’s Task Force on the Economy with business, labour and civil society;
- Continue working with trade-exposed industries to creating and maintain new supply chains and new export markets;
- Invest in retraining opportunities in post-secondary and the skilled trades;
- Accelerate infrastructure projects (transit, school repair, home building) to keep people working;
- Support farmers by removing the cap from the Risk Management Program.
Ending chronic homelessness
After seven long years under the Conservatives, Doug Ford’s legacy is encampments in every single town and city in our province. Tents in parks are a stark reminder of how utterly Ford has failed Ontario – on housing, on health care, creating good jobs, and making life more affordable.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan to end homelessness by helping people find a supportive home.
An Ontario NDP government will:
- Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years.
- Upload shelter funding to the province. We will reverse decades of cuts and downloads imposed on cash-strapped municipalities by successive Liberal and Conservative governments, while maintaining locally focused service delivery.
- More housing benefits that help people move out of shelters, into homes. Doug Ford has withheld funding for programs like the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, allowing shelters to overflow. We’ll work with the Federal government to boost the program and help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process.
- Stop people from losing their homes by bringing forward real protections for renters and doubling social assistance rates so people can better keep up with the cost of housing. The best way to end homelessness is help people stay in their homes.
Protecting and supporting renters
After seven long years under the Doug Ford’s Conservatives, rent is more expensive than ever. It’s the biggest expense in people’s budget and the cost is only rising.
Worse, renters everywhere are worried that unfair rent hikes and renovictions could push them out of their homes - and they won’t be able to find a new place that’s affordable.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan to protect renters.
An Ontario NDP government will:
- Bring in real rent control. We’ll close the unfair loophole that exempts units built after 2018. We’ll attach rent control to the unit to stop landlords from jacking up rent between tenants - removing the incentive for landlords to use unethical tactics to squeeze out existing tenants so they can raise the rent on the next one. We’ll end above-guideline rent increases.
- Crack down on renovictions, demovictions and other illegal tactics. We’ll beef up the rules, fix the Landlord and Tenant board and we’ll stop the Conservative and Liberal plan to evict people faster.
- Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right.
- Limit short-term rentals (eg: Airbnb) to one’s primary residence, protecting the supply of long-term rental housing
- Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing, as part of our costed Homes Ontario plan, which sets a goal of 1.5 million new homes in 10 years.
Fixing our schools
Seven long years of Doug Ford and his cuts have left us with overcrowded classrooms, crumbling schools, and less support for our children.
Stronger local schools will help Ontario’s students access more opportunities, find good jobs, start businesses, and contribute to a resilient, more tariff-proof Ontario.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan to fix schools, hire staff, feed kids, and make sure every single student has the tools they need to succeed.
An Ontario NDP government will:
- Fix our schools. Ontario’s schools are saddled with a massive repair backlog left behind by the Liberals, and it has only grown under Ford’s Conservatives. We will invest an additional $830 million a year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years while keeping up with school maintenance needs.
- Hire more staff. Large class sizes, less direct support, it can be hard to learn in Ford’s Ontario. Dedicated teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, custodial and trade workers – they make all the difference helping students get the one-on-one attention they need and maintaining a nurturing learning environment. Having more caring adults in schools makes them safer for everyone.
- Feed students. Kids can’t learn on an empty stomach. Families are facing record high grocery bills, and inflation from tariffs could drive up costs even further. We’ll create a universal School Food Program so that every child in Ontario is set up to succeed.
- Support every learner. We’ll make sure our public education system gives students with disabilities the support they deserve. We’ll end the practice of streaming and make sure we are using data to support more equitable schools. We will review the funding model to focus on student needs and not numbers of students to support vulnerable students. And we’ll make sure students can get to class reliably and on time by fixing Ford’s broken student transportation funding.
- Invest in Francophone education in French school boards and French immersion programs in the English system.
Help with grocery costs
Every week, families are forced to make difficult decisions about what they can afford to put on the dinner table.
Seven long years of Doug Ford have cost you. Grocery bills are higher than ever and Ford isn’t doing nearly enough about it.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side to put more money back in your pocket with a predictable Monthly Grocery Rebate.
The Ontario NDP will:
- Create a Monthly Grocery Rebate: To help families offset the rise in grocery costs, we will provide a recurring monthly grocery rebate based on household income and family size. At a time when people are feeling anxious about their budgets, the Monthly Grocery Rebate will give stable relief to millions of households.
- Stop Price Gouging: We’ll bring transparency to grocery prices by forcing big retailers to publicly post when they raise prices more than two per cent in a week. We’ll crack down on price fixing and other unfair practices by establishing a new watchdog to enforce competition laws and keep food prices fair.
Family doctors for all
You deserve to see a doctor when you need one and to get the care you need close to home. After decades of Conservative and Liberal cuts and underfunding, 2.5 million people can’t find a family doctor.
For people in Northern Ontario, the situation is even more dire.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side to connect every Ontarians with a family doctor.
The Ontario NDP will:
- Recruit and support 3,500 new doctors.
- Cut red tape so doctors spend more time with patients, not paperwork.
- Fast-track solutions in the first 100 days—more family health teams, shorter specialist wait times, and flexible care options.
- Expand healthcare in Northern Ontario by hiring 350 doctors, including 200 family physicians and 150 specialists. We’ll establish a Northern Command Centre to manage capacity across the North.
- Clear the path for 13,000 internationally trained doctors ready to serve Ontarians and we’ll increase residency spots province-wide.
More nurses and better care
After seven years of Doug Ford, more nurses than ever are leaving Ontario’s hospitals and patients are paying the price. Instead of respecting nurses and health care workers, Ford froze their wages and took them to court.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side to create safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and hire more nurses so you can get the care you deserve.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP will:
- Establish and legislate safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios to make sure that patients can get the care they deserve.
- Scale up our nursing workforce, starting with the hiring of at least 15,000 nurses over the next three years to ensure safe staffing ratios.
- End the reliance on private, for-profit nursing agencies that are costing Ontario’s health care system hundreds of millions a year.
NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario and Niagara
After seven long years of Doug Ford, living in cities and towns across Southwestern Ontario is more expensive than ever. Ford has failed to deliver for people – but in this election, we can change that.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan to make life more affordable in Southwestern Ontario and Niagara.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP will:
- Providing a recurring Monthly Grocery Rebate that is based on how much the cost of essential groceries like milk, bread and vegetables have increased under Ford and is tied to income and the number of people in your household.
- Real rent control to protect tenants and keep costs from climbing.
- More doctors and nurses for southwestern Ontario: Right now, 400,000 people don’t have a doctor, and that will rise next year. Everyone deserves access to a doctor.
- Fix schools. Our children deserve safe, well-maintained schools where they can learn and grow without disruption – our plan will clear the backlog province-wide within 10 years.
NDP Plan for Northern Ontario
After seven long years of Doug Ford, life in Northern Ontario is more expensive than ever.
It’s harder to find a home you can afford, to see a family doctor in your community, or to pay for the basics like your grocery bills.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan for the North: to fight rising costs, hire more doctors and make northern highways safer.
Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP will:
- Put more money in your pocket with a monthly grocery rebate program that will give families up to $122 to pay for groceries.
- Hire at least 350 more doctors for the North, including 200 family doctors, and double residency positions at NOSM University so you can get the health care you need, when and where you need it. We will make sure you can get care in your language by investing in Francophone health care services.
- Make Northern highways safer by widening Highway 11, 1, and 69 while building the Cochrane Bypass, taking back responsibility for maintaining connecting link highways, and making sure truck drivers are properly trained for Northern road conditions.
- Build permanently affordable homes in Northern Ontario as a part of the plan to build 300,000 deeply affordable non-profit and co-op units across the province, with new support for a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy.
- Invest in Francophone education, starting with proper funding for French school boards and French immersion programs as well as French-language child-care programs.
Read the plan here in English.
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