PC Leadership Race: policy summary II

I decided it was time to update my policy summary.

(The order is alphabetical)

Christine Elliott
• A flat tax
• Increase maximum work week from 48 hours to 60 hours
• Freeze the minimum wage
• Double tax credit for charitable donations
• Review bail system and prevent repeat offenders
• Give more resources to combating illicit tobacco smuggling
• Policies to combat gang violence
• Opt out of federal EI program
• Build a law school in the north
• Ensure access to affordable broadband in the north
• Improve access to legal counsel in the north
•Consider Musoka part of northern Ontario

Randy Hillier
• Re-opening the spring bear hunt
• Repeal the pit bull ban
• Opening competition for the Beer Store
• Abolishing the Ontario Human Rights Commission
• Reverse pesticide ban
• Allow freedom of conscience for professionals
• Change the apprentice to journeyman ratio from 1:3 to 1:1
• Allow competition for the WSIB
• Require a supervised democratic vote of all employees before a company is unionized.
• Senate elections in Ontario
• Allow municipalities to determine property assessment
• Hold referendum to de-amalgamate cities
•Build new highways along vacant corridors around Toronto
•Replace street cars with more busses
•Extend hwy 400 and build hwy 448
•Create a Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs
•Increase the value of farm land by amending the restrictions on farm severances
•Remove the red tape that obstructs local consumers from purchasing local food
•Farm property tax assessments and PST tax exemptions will be based on gross farm receipts – not a membership in a farm association.
•Harmonize provincial and federal farm regulations
•Exempt bio-diesel production from excise and sales tax

Tim Hudak
• An immediate one-year payroll tax holiday on new hires
• Suspending the Land Transfer Tax for one-year on all new and resale home purchases
• Cancelling the Harmonized Sales Tax
• 2 000 dollar rebate for people that turn in 10 year old cars and buy new cars
• Wage freeze for non-unionized government employees
• Increasing the small business tax threshold
• Scrapping corporate welfare programs
• Freeze minimum wage
• Appoint a minister in charge of cutting ‘red tape’
• Allow new companies to defer taxes for one year
• Seizure of property of those suspected of committing a crime
• Introduction of family savings account
•Allow income splitting for families with pre-school aged children
•Enhanced use of phonics
•Highschool exit exams
•Make economic and financial literacy a mandatory part of the high school curriculum
•Eliminate unfair pressure on teachers to make sure students pass even if the student is unwilling or unable to complete the work
•Toughen enforcement on graffiti
•Increase penalties for defacing private and public property
•Expanding capacity at Ontario medical schools
•Promoting flexible retirement alternatives for aging doctors
•Improving recognition for foreign credentials for internationally trained doctors whose training meets or exceeds Ontario’s standards
•Increase the incentives and make it easier for those studying medicine abroad to return to Ontario to practice in their home province
•Focused infrastructure investments to fill the gaping holes in northern roads, bridges, internet and cellular service
•Targeted funds for northern colleges and universities
•Using Crown land as an economic development tool that encourages residential, tourism and industrial development
•Working with municipalities, the private sector and First Nations to facilitate economic partnerships
•Ensuring reliable and affordable energy is available to attract and retain investment in Northern Ontario

Frank Klees
• Supports Senate elections
• Opposed to liberalizing liquor laws
• Opposed to the HST
• A reduction in business taxes and the creation of tax incentive zones to attract new industries and create jobs
• A tax credit against corporate income taxes for new manufacturing jobs
tax amnesty on severance payments
• Propose the implementation of reliable broadband communication networks to assist northern communities
• Ministries of Tourism and Natural Resources be designated as priorities in order to improve destination marketing
• No faith-based private school funding
• A 4-year Ontario income tax holiday for graduates from universities, colleges and trade schools
• Help children with disabilities and specifically autism
• Enhance anti-bullying strategies in schools
• Private delivery public payment for health care
• Issuance of receipts outlining a description of the services provided and the cost to provide those services
• Creation of a council that will provide a second opinion on health issues
• E-health record system
• $200 million for youth mental health services, as recommended by the McMurtry-Curling • Report, “Roots of Youth Violence.”
• I will propose to review long-term care facilities
• Eliminating local health integration networks
• Creation of a ministry of long term planning
• Development of a trans-Ontario high-speed rail link connecting east, west, north and south
• Stable, predictable and reliable funding for transportation infrastructure projects
• Reach out to minority groups
• An energy policy that embraces renewable energy as an important component of Ontario’s overall energy supply
• pursue affordable and sustainable energy that will allow renewable generators to be a part of a balanced mix of electricity generation through a competitive process