Party Platforms

Conservative

The Conservatives promise to cut the lowest income tax bracket from 15 to 12.75 per cent. This would save a person making $57,000 about $900 per year.

The Conservatives are also promising to allow Canadians to save an additional $5,000 in their Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) if that money is invested into Canadian companies.

In addition, the Conservatives say they would allow Canadians to defer capital gains tax if they reinvest those earnings in Canada.

The party also says it would crack down on offshore tax loopholes with a “Bring It Home” tax task force.

Liberal

The Liberals promise to cut the lowest income tax bracket by one per cent. This would save a dual-income family up to $825 per year.

The Liberals also promise to leave the capital gains inclusion rate unchanged, ditching the previous Liberal government’s plan to raise it above gains of $250,000.

NDP

The NDP platform promises to reinstate the capital gains tax and crack down on tax havens. It says the wealth tax on people with more than $10 million in holdings would raise $22.7 billion this fiscal year.

The NDP are promising to raise the basic personal amount to $19,500 for anyone earning less than $177,882. They say the move would save workers about $505.

The NDP also say they would permanently remove the GST from essentials like grocery store meals, diapers and strollers, as well as from monthly bills such as cell, internet and heating bills.

In addition, they would double the Canada Disability Benefit.

Green

The Green Party promises to raise the Basic Personal Amount to $40,000 for Canadians earning $100,000 or less and eliminate federal income taxes for low income Canadians.

The party also plans to increase the corporate tax rate from 14 per cent to 21 per cent for businesses with profits over $100 million, and to introduce a 15-per-cent excess profit tax for large corporations on profits exceeding 120 per cent of their average profits over the previous four years.

Along with this, the party promises to add a 0.2-per-cent Financial Transactions Tax on trades involving stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies.

The Greens would also introduce a graded net wealth tax on those with more than $10 million; limit the ability to deduct past losses from capital gains; boost luxury taxes; and end agreements with tax havens.

Conservative

The Conservative platform forecasts $100 billion in deficits over the next four years. It also includes $75 billion in tax cuts over that period, along with new revenues.

While new program spending would total $34 billion, that would be offset in part through $56 billion in spending cuts.

Much of the new revenue projected by the party is associated with growth. They say a plan to build 2.3 million homes would generate $12.8 billion in new revenue for the government.

The Conservatives say they would reduce the deficit this fiscal year from $46.8 billion to $31.3 billion through spending cuts and increased revenues. The party anticipates $20 billion in revenue from counter-tariffs on the U.S. to help make that happen.

Liberal

The Liberal platform promises $35.2 billion in new spending over the next year and $129 billion over the next four years.

It would increase the deficit this fiscal year from $46.8 billion to $62 billion. That includes an anticipated $20 billion in revenue from Canada's counter-tariffs.

Leader Mark Carney has pledged to separate the budget into operating and capital streams, and balance the operating side by 2028-2029. However, there would still be a $48 billion deficit on the capital side for that fiscal year.

NDP

The NDP platform forecasts a net increase to the federal deficit of $48 billion over four years. That includes large offsets from a proposed new tax on the "super rich," which the party believes would bring in more than $22 billion a year.

The party's proposed wealth tax would bring in around $25 billion a year within three years.

Conservative

The Conservatives are promising to build 2.3 million homes over the next five years.

They promise to eliminate the federal GST on new homes up to $1.3 million to save homebuyers up to $65,000.

The Conservatives also say they would encourage cities to lower development charges, which drive up the cost of new housing. To help do so, they would reimburse cities at 50 per cent for every dollar they cut in development charges, up to a maximum of $25,000 per home.

The party says these measures combined could cut housing taxes by $100,000 for the average home in high-priced markets.

In order to encourage municipalities to approve more homes, the party would tie federal infrastructure dollars to a target of increasing home approvals by 15 per cent.

They would also sell off 15 per cent of federally owned properties for developers to build more housing.

Liberal

The Liberals are vowing to build nearly 500,000 homes per year and to create a new agency to oversee affordable housing construction, including on public lands.

The Liberals are also promising to eliminate the GST for first-time homebuyers on homes at or under $1 million, saving them up to $50,000, and to provide $25 billion in financing for builders of prefabricated homes.

NDP

An NDP government would spend $16 billion over four years to build three million homes by 2030 by incentivizing cities to build higher density and providing them funding for expanded infrastructure.

The party would implement a national rent control plan to protect tenants from unfair rent increases.

The NDP promises to invest $1 billion over five years to acquire more public land for rent-controlled home construction through the Public Land Acquisition Fund.

The party is also promising to get the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to offer low-interest, public-backed mortgages to individuals.

The NDP promises to retrofit 3.3 million homes by cutting supports for big oil and gas companies. They say 2.3 million low-income households would get free energy-saving retrofits like heat pumps, air sealing and fresh insulation. The plan would cost $1.5 billion annually over 10 years. The party would also offer $300 million per year to expand the Canada Green Homes Initiative to allow another one million homes to retrofit with low-cost loans.

Additionally, the party would ban corporations from buying affordable rental buildings and strengthen protections for renters.

They would also ban foreign buyers from purchasing homes in Canada.

Green

The Greens say they would build 1.2 million permanently affordable homes within seven years. They would also restore the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) mandate to directly finance and develop non-market housing.

The Greens say they would eliminate the GST on non-market housing construction materials and expand green retrofitting programs.

A permanent ban on foreign ownership of residential real estate would also be part of the Green plan.

Additionally, the party would strengthen rent control and tenant protections.

Conservative

Any extra revenue generated from expanded trade with the United States following a new trade agreement will go into the Canadian Armed Forces. The Conservatives have also promised to speed up approvals for military veterans’ disability applications.

The Conservatives are promising to cut red tape and boost support for veterans. They would ensure veterans' disability applications are automatically approved if they're not processed within four months.

Liberal

The Liberals promise to commit more than $18 billion of spending on national defence, putting Canada on track to “exceed our NATO target by the year 2030.”

Expenditures include new submarines and additional icebreakers for the Royal Canadian Navy, and the purchase of “Canadian-made airborne early warning and control aircraft.”

The Liberals also promise to boost salaries for members of the armed forces in an effort to bolster recruitment efforts, and to expand Canada’s presence in the Arctic.

They would set up a separate defence procurement agency tasked solely with streamlining military purchases.

NDP

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the party would cancel Canada's F-35 contract and build jets domestically instead. The NDP say they would also bolster Canada's Arctic with new defence spending, building marine search and research stations, increasing pay for soldiers and building northern community infrastructure.

Green

The Greens would expand Arctic and coastal security patrols, and add resources for border security.

The party says it would also stabilize capital investment in the military to ensure consistent training and modern equipment.

Conservative

The Conservatives say they will honour all health transfer agreements with provinces and won’t cut pharmacare or dental care programs if elected.

A “Blue Seal” program would provide national credentials for foreign-trained medical professionals in order to add 15,000 doctors by 2030.

The Conservatives would maintain access to medical assistance in dying, but won't expand it to include advance directives.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has also promised he would never introduce any laws that would limit a woman’s right to choose when it comes to abortion.

When it comes to the opioid crisis, the Conservatives say they would defund safe supply programs and sue opioid manufacturers so that they can spend $250 million per year, over four years, to fund addiction recovery programs. The party says its plan would provide treatment for 50,000 people and program funding would be tied to the length of time that participants stay drug-free.

Liberal

The Liberals promise to spend $5.4 billion over four years on health care, $4 billion of which will be spent on infrastructure including new hospitals, clinics and renovating community health care infrastructure.

A Carney-led government promises to also add “thousands of new doctors to Canada’s health care system” by increasing medical school and residency spaces while also building new medical schools.

The Liberals also pledge to work with provinces and territories to streamline the credential recognition system for internally trained doctors and nurses “so that qualified health care professionals already living here can contribute to our health care system.”

A proposed in vitro fertilization program would offer Canadians up to $20,000 for an IVF treatment cycle, at a cost of around $103 million a year.

NDP

The NDP platform promises $7 billion over four years on mental-health coverage, and $1 billion this coming year to provide each Canadian with a family doctor. That would scale up to $4 billion in three years.

An NDP government would establish a complete public pharmacare system within four years, starting with an expansion with "100 of the most prescribed medications," including pain medications and antibiotics, at a cost of roughly $3.5 billion.

The party promised to hire 35,000 nurses by 2030, and ensure all Canadians have access to a family doctor by 2030 by offering an additional one per cent in Canada Health Transfer funding to provinces that guarantee such access.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh also promises to crack down on "cash-for-care" clinics that charge Canadians for basic services and to ban American firms from buying up Canadian health-care assets.

Green

The Green Party would increase federal health transfers and pass a new law ensuring that every Canadian has access to a family doctor.

The party says it would hire 7,500 new family doctors, nurses, and nurse practitioners over five years and train 50,000 personal support workers.

The Greens say they would also implement universal pharmacare, expand the Canadian Dental Care Plan to all eligible Canadians, and make mental health services fully insured under the Canada Health Act.

The party would also expand funding for supervised consumption sites and completely decriminalize drug possession for personal use.

Conservative

The Conservatives say they would allow working seniors to earn up to $34,000 tax free. They would also allow seniors to keep growing their savings in RRSPs until age 73, up from 71. They would keep the retirement age set at 65.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promises to protect seniors from fraud by levelling fines of up to $5 million to banks and telecoms that don't do enough to prevent it.

Liberal

The Liberals have proposed increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) by five per cent and reducing the minimum Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs) withdrawal amount by 25 per cent, each for one year, to help seniors protect their retirement savings while markets adjust to U.S. tariffs

NDP

The NDP are promising to “lift all seniors out of poverty” by raising the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS).

Green

The Green Party would create a national seniors strategy to improve health care, housing, and support services for seniors “so they can live with dignity.”

The Greens would make tax filing automatic for seniors who don’t regularly file, so they don’t miss out on benefits; build more long-term care beds in community-run, non-profit facilities; pass laws to prevent elder abuse; and make transit more affordable and accessible for seniors.

Conservative

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he supports targeted, reciprocal tariffs as a short-term response, but that there needs to be a long-term response that leaves Canada less dependent on the U.S.

He says there are several “red lines” he would not cross in negotiations with the U.S., including Canada’s borders, security, resources, farmers (including supply managed farmers), fresh water, sovereignty, Canadian laws and currency, culture, official languages, resources and indigenous rights.

The Conservatives would also allow Canadians to save an additional $5,000 in their Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) if that money is invested into Canadian companies as part of a strategy to bolster investment in the country.

Liberal

The Liberal platform says it expects to generate $20 billion in revenue from Canada’s tariff response.

The Liberals would create a $2 billion fund to bolster the auto sector, and a $5 billion fund to diversify trade corridors with Canada’s partners outside of the U.S.

The party would also waive the one-week waiting period for employment insurance for those who lose their jobs to U.S. tariffs and temporarily allow Canadian businesses to defer income tax as well as GST and HST payments.

NDP

The NDP are promising to waive the GST on vehicles made in Canada. They would also make sure that the federal government only purchase Canadian-made vehicles for services like the RCMP and Canada Post, and prevent any manufacturing equipment from being removed from Canadian factories.

Additionally, the NDP promise to introduce an “emergency price cap” on basic food items as part of the tariff response.

The party would also give all money collected from counter-tariffs to workers and communities hit the hardest by the U.S. trade war. The NDP is also pledging a rebate for zero-emissions vehicles, that doubles for Canadian-made cars and exempts any made by Tesla.

Green

The Greens would lower the Employment Insurance (EI) eligibility threshold to 12 weeks and extend the EI benefit period to 50 weeks.

The party would also establish an EI Emergency Response Fund for workers affected by disasters, economic downturns, or industry shutdowns.

The Greens would establish strategic reserves of Canadian resources to protect against U.S. trade disruptions and stabilize domestic markets; ban the export of unprocessed resources, such as oil, minerals, timber and seafood; and apply an export tax on key resources the U.S. relies on, such as oil, gas, uranium and potash.

The party would cancel government contracts with U.S. companies tied to President Donald Trump’s corporate allies.

Conservative

The Conservatives are promising a “responsible federalism” that treats the provinces as partners. They are promising to protect Quebec’s autonomy, language and culture if elected.

Poilievre says he'd work with the provinces to create a single office that would coordinate resource project approvals across all levels of government.

Liberal

Carney promises that in order to speed up major natural resource projects, he would sign agreements within six months of taking office with willing provinces and Indigenous governments that would recognize energy project assessments from their jurisdictions

NDP

An NDP government would offer an additional one per cent in Canada Health Transfer funding to provinces that guarantee access to a family doctor.

An $8-billion “Communities First Fund” would offer provinces access to funding to expand the water and sewage infrastructure needed to support housing.

Green

The Green Party promises to work with provinces and Indigenous governments to implement a Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI).

Conservative

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to create a "pre-approved" energy corridor entirely within Canada to fast-track approvals for infrastructure projects. He says the move would help get hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Canadian energy to markets outside the U.S.

Poilievre says he'd "set a deadline" to approve all federal permits for mining in northwestern Ontario's Ring of Fire region within six months. He says that a Conservative government would also commit $1 billion over three years to building a road network to link the mining sites to Ontario's highway network and First Nations communities in the area.

Liberal

The Liberals have promised to speed up major natural resource project approvals with an eye to making Canada an "energy superpower" while turning away from U.S. energy imports.

Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney says the party would diversify Canadian trade. He says his government would also invest $5 billion in a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund to build the infrastructure that would help diversify Canada's trade and create jobs.

NDP

The NDP has pledged a “major” infrastructure program called Build Canada that would mandate only Canadian steel be used for federally funded construction.

The party also says it would ban U.S. companies from all federal procurement contracts and projects that could be completed by Canadian workers, until American tariffs are lifted.

Leader Jagmeet Singh says he’s not entirely opposed to new pipelines, but that the NDP would prioritize an East-West electricity grid.

Green

The Green Party would ban on all new pipeline and oil and gas development projects, as well as new nuclear development. Instead, they say they would invest in renewable energy to transform Canada into a global leader of clean energy.

The Greens would connect regional power grids to create a national grid powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity.

The party is promising a nationwide energy efficiency retrofit program to lower emissions from buildings, homes, and industrial facilities.

When it comes to transportation, the Greens say they are committed to building high-speed rail in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec and Calgary-Edmonton corridors and reaching zero-carbon public ground transportation across Canada by 2040.

Conservative

The Conservatives have promised to decrease taxes on the lowest income bracket, plus cut the GST from new homes sold under $1.3 million and Canadian-made vehicles.

The party says it would also end automatic annual tax increases on alcohol.

Liberal

The Liberals say they would decrease taxes on the lowest income bracket, and cut the GST from all homes up to $1 million for first-time buyers.

The party also promises to cancel a planned hike to the capital gains inclusion rate.

To help seniors over the next year, Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney has pledged to temporarily boost to the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and lower the minimum amount that must be withdrawn from Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs).

For additional relief this summer, the Liberals proposed a “Canada strong” pass to make camping and other activities cheaper for families.

NDP

The NDP has pledged to raise the basic personal income amount exempted from taxes, and remove the GST from “essentials” such as phone bills, internet bills, home heating and children’s clothes.

The party says it would also introduce emergency price caps on basic food items like pasta, frozen vegetables and infant formula, and implement a mandatory grocery code of conduct to regulate prices going forward.

To help tenants, the NDP has proposed a national rent control policy, and promised to ban corporations from buying up affordable rental buildings.

Green

The Green Party promises to raise the federal minimum wage to $21 per hour and index it to inflation.

Conservative

The Conservatives are promising mandatory life sentences for large-scale fentanyl trafficking, five or more counts of human trafficking, or of importing or exporting 10 or more illegal firearms.

“Three Strikes, You're Out Law” would lock up offenders for 10 years without parole, bail or house arrest following a third conviction for a serious offence.

The party would also use the notwithstanding clause to allow consecutive life sentences for people convicted of multiple murders, overriding a Supreme Court ruling that found them to be unconstitutional.

Poilievre is promising to crack down on homeless encampments and tent cities if elected. He would amend the Criminal Code to give police the power to charge individuals “when they violate the right to be safe in public spaces or discourage the public from using, moving through, or otherwise accessing public spaces by setting up temporary structures, including tents.”

A Conservative government would make it clear in law that police are allowed to dismantle encampments, while also making sure encampment residents are connected with appropriate services, such as housing, addiction treatment and mental health services.

They would give judges the power to order people charged for illegally occupying public spaces and simple possession of illegal drugs to attend mandatory drug treatment programs.

Liberal

The Liberals are promising an “efficient gun-buyback program” for assault-style firearms, as well as legislation that would automatically revoke gun licenses for those convicted of violent offences, particularly intimate partner violence.

They would hire 1,000 more RCMP personnel, train 1,000 more CBSA officers, and boost funding to the Public Prosecution Services of Canada.

The Liberal plan would also tighten bail laws for violent and organized crime, home invasions, car theft, and human trafficking, especially for repeat offenders.

To address the rising tide of hate crime, the Liberals would introduce legislation to make it a criminal offence to willfully obstruct access to any place of worship, schools, or community centres; and to willfully intimidate or threaten those attending services at those locations.

NDP

The NDP say they would launch a national inquiry into systemic violence and racism against Indigenous people within Canadian institutions, and work to end systemic discrimination in the justice system, focusing instead on community justice programs and healing and restorative justice rather than incarceration.

They would also develop a First Nations Justice and Policing strategy and declare First Nations policing an essential service, with long term, sufficient funding.

Green

The Green Party would amend the Criminal Code to direct prosecutors to use restorative justice instead of trials.

They would also limit incarceration strictly to cases necessary for public safety and require judges to explicitly consider systemic racism in sentencing.

They would boost funding to community-based mental health services and treatment options to reduce incarceration of individuals with mental illness.

Conservative

Expand eligibility for the Clean Technology and Clean Manufacturing Investment Tax Credits (ITCs) so that industries who make products with lower emissions than the world average will be rewarded.

Liberal

The Liberals would make national parks and historic sites available for free this summer, as many Canadians ditch plans to travel to the U.S.

They are promising to create at least 10 new national parks and marine conservation areas, as well as 15 new urban parks.

They would also invest $100 million in a "strategic water security technology fund" to advance Canadian research and development, artificial intelligence, monitoring and data tools.

NDP

The NDP says it will launch an ambitious retrofit program to deliver free energy efficiency upgrades to millions of low-income households, including apartment buildings. The party says it would retrofit every building in the country by 2050.

Work to double public transit ridership by 2035 by expanding the Canada Public Transit Fund to include operations funding.

Extend federal rebates for new EVs up to $5,000 and double rebates for made-in-Canada EVs up to $10,000.

The party also plans to eliminate the consumer carbon tax and maintain a “robust industrial carbon pricing system” to target big polluters.

Green

The Green Party commits to ensuring that 30 per cent of Canada’s land and waters are protected by 2030, expanding to 50 per cent by 2050.

The party is also promising funding for wildlife corridors, parks, urban biodiversity initiatives, marine protected areas and a clean water strategy.

The party would launch a national green jobs training and apprenticeship program to help workers affected by the transition away from fossil fuels and automation, while investing in recycling and domestic waste management infrastructure.

The Green Party would also tackle plastic waste by signing on to the Global Plastics Treaty and implementing a National Plastics Pollution Strategy, while mandating producer responsibility for plastic waste.

Conservative

The Conservatives say they would crack down on fraud, dramatically reduce the number of temporary foreign workers and foreign students, and limit permanent immigration to a “sustainable rate similar to the levels under the Harper government.”

They say that means keeping the rate of population growth below the rate of housing growth, job growth, and health-care accessibility.

The party says it would also require criminal background checks for individuals entering Canada on a student permit, and that they would expand and speed up removals for any criminal activity on a visitor permit.

Liberal

The Liberal platform acknowledges that over the past few years, the federal government let immigration levels grow “at a rapid and unsustainable pace,” with housing and social infrastructure unable to keep up.

The party says it would return immigration to sustainable levels by capping the total number of temporary workers and international students to less than five per cent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027, from a past high of 7.3 per cent.

The Liberals says they would stabilize permanent resident admissions at less than one per cent of Canada’s population annually beyond 2027 “with a focus on attracting top global talent.”

Green

In its platform, the Green Party says it was wrong for the Liberals to set an immigration target of 500,000 newcomers per year and the country should learn from the mistake. The Greens say immigration targets must be “thoughtful, transparent, and aligned with Canada’s real capacity and long-term planning — for both temporary and permanent immigration.”

The Greens say immigration could support population renewal and climate resilience in areas that have been depopulated.