Jobs, Businesses, & Labour platforms

Here's what the candidates in Eglinton—Lawrence, and their parties, are promising.

Inter-provincial business and trade

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PC

  • Remove all remaining party-specific exemptions following a final assessment under the Canada Free Trade Agreement

    "Removing all of Ontario’s remaining party-specific exemptions following a final assessment under the Canada Free Trade Agreement and encouraging all other provinces to follow suit." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Streamline inter-provincial credential recognition for certified professionals and expand exemptions to more occupations

    "Supporting labour mobility across Canada by streamlining credential recognition for certified professionals, expanding existing exemptions to more credentialed occupations and reducing existing labour mobility exceptions." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Sign Regulatory Recognition Agreements to recognise regulatory standards and certifications in other provinces for key industries

    "Fighting red tape that blocks interprovincial trade by recognizing regulatory standards and certifications across Canada with Regulatory Recognition Agreements for key sectors such as trucking. These will ensure that a good or service that is sold or used in one province or territory can be readily sold or used in all provinces and territories by default." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Create a $50M fund to support businesses that make near-term investments to service inter-provincial customers or new markets, or re-shore

    "Investing $50 million to launch the new Ontario Together Trade Fund to support businesses that make near-term investments to service more interprovincial customers, develop new markets and re-shore critical supply chains." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Allow direct-to-consumer inter-provincial sales of alcohol products

    "Immediately enabling direct-to-consumer sales of alcohol products with all willing provinces and territories, which will provide new markets for Ontario wineries, breweries, cideries and distilleries and more choice for Ontario consumers, as well as for producers and consumers across Canada." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Liberal

  • Adopt a policy of mutual recognition of skills and regulated professions with other provinces

    "Work with other provinces to eliminate nonsensical interprovincial trade barriers by adopting a policy of mutual recognition of skills and regulated professions and building a truly Team Canada approach to growth and diversification." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Inter-provincial business and trade.

Labour protections

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We don't have any PC policies on Labour protections.
We don't have any Green policies on Labour protections.

Manufacturing

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PC

  • Continue to invest in the electric vehicle and battery auto pact, even if the US pulls back on its investments

    "Maintaining Ontario’s financial contributions to the electric vehicle and battery auto pact, which has attracted more than $45 billion in global investments in the province, including by Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions in Windsor and Volkswagen in St Thomas. A re-elected PC government would continue to make these investments regardless of any decision by the U.S. on the future of the IRA.

    Advocating that the federal government do the same, whoever is in office." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Invest an additional $1B in the Skills Development Fund

    "Investing an additional $1 billion in the Skills Development Fund, on top of the existing $1.5 billion investment, to urgently expand existing training and employment programs and help workers gain valuable skills for rewarding careers in the skilled trades." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Invest an additional $100M in the Better Jobs Ontario programme to provide skills training

    "Investing an additional $100 million in the Better Jobs Ontario program to help workers access skills training and transition into in-demand jobs, including a fast-track stream for workers in sectors that are vulnerable to trade disruptions." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • If layoffs happen, invest $38M to provide immediate employment transition supports to affected workers

    "Investing $38 million to mobilize action centres in the event of layoffs to provide immediate employment transition supports to affected workers, including job retraining assistance, career counselling and more." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

We don't have any Liberal policies on Manufacturing.
We don't have any Green policies on Manufacturing.

Poverty

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We don't have any PC policies on Poverty.

Liberal

  • Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program benefits and index it to inflation

    "Permanently double the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits and index it to inflation so that Ontario’s most vulnerable are not left behind." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Poverty.

Restaurants and bars

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PC

  • Increase the LCBO wholesale discount from 10% to 15%

    "$120 million to support approximately 18,000 bars and restaurants by increasing the LCBO wholesale discount from 10 per cent to 15 per cent." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

We don't have any Liberal policies on Restaurants and bars.
We don't have any Green policies on Restaurants and bars.

Ship-building

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  • Invest $200M for the Shipbuilding Grant Program

    "Investing $200 million for the Shipbuilding Grant Program under Ontario’s Marine Transportation Strategy to help make Ontario’s shipbuilding industry a full regional partner under the federal government’s National Shipbuilding Strategy and secure Canadian contracts to build, retrofit, and repair Canadian Navy ships in Ontario." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

We don't have any Liberal policies on Ship-building.
We don't have any Green policies on Ship-building.

Startups and small businesses

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PC

  • Create an investment tax credit for companies developing technologies that support national defence

    "Creating a new Defence Security Investment Tax Credit to attract greater investment and job creation in the province and help meet our two per cent of GDP NATO commitment, including by supporting investments in innovative critical technologies such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity to support the future of defence technologies." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Provide $3B in payroll tax and premium relief for small businesses
  • Provide $50M more to Venture Ontario

    "Providing $50 million more to Venture Ontario, the province’s venture capital agency, to make dedicated capital fund investments to support domestic start-ups in strategic technology areas that support our national defence." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Liberal

  • Create a strategy to make Ontario competitive at attracting talent, starting a business, fixed cost affordability, and consumer protection

    "Launch an Ontario Growth Strategy to ensure Ontario becomes a competitive place to attract talent, set up and grow a business, afford fixed costs such as clean energy and rent, and have best-in-class consumer protections." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Reduce small business taxes by 50%

    "Make it easier for small businesses to compete with big box stores by slashing small business taxes by 50%, delivering up to $18,000 of tax relief to the roughly 450,000 businesses that employ almost three million people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Mandate post-secondary institutions to focus on generating intellectual property and commercialising their skills, technologies, and ideas

    "Establish a province-wide policy mandating post-secondary institutions to increase their focus on IP generation and commercialization, and business adoption of skills, technologies, and ideas." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Startups and small businesses.

Trades

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PC

  • Require all electrical workers to be registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification

    "Doug Ford renewed the Ontario PCs’ commitment to enforce compulsory certification in the electrical trade and ensure all electrical workers in Ontario are registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

Liberal

  • Provide opportunities for skilled trades and health care workers through union-led training programmes
  • Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

    "Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Trades.

Trump's Tariffs

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  • Provide a six-month deferral of provincially-administered business taxes

    "$10 billion in cash-flow support for Ontario employers through a six-month deferral of provincially administered taxes on Ontario businesses." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Provide $3B in payroll tax and premium relief for small businesses
  • Increase the LCBO wholesale discount from 10% to 15%

    "$120 million to support approximately 18,000 bars and restaurants by increasing the LCBO wholesale discount from 10 per cent to 15 per cent." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Provide $40M to support municipalities and communities that face major economic disruption from new tariffs

    "$40 million for a new Trade-Impacted Communities Program to support municipalities and communities that face major economic disruption stemming from new tariffs." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Expand the Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit

    "$300 million to expand the Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit to support more businesses that invest in buildings, machinery and equipment that are used for manufacturing and processing in Ontario, including investments to retool and onshore supply chains." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Provide $600M for the Invest Ontario Fund

    "$600 million for the Invest Ontario Fund so Ontario can continue attracting investments that create jobs in key sectors, including advanced manufacturing, life sciences and technology." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

  • Prioritise Ontario steel and forestry products in infrastructure projects and purchase Ontario-made vehicles for government use

    "Leveraging Ontario’s nearly $30 billion in annual provincial procurement, in addition to the $200 billion in Ontario’s plan to build, to prioritize Ontario steel, forestry products and other inputs for provincial infrastructure projects, purchase Ontario-made vehicles for government use and help local innovators access more government procurement opportunities. We will also ask and encourage municipalities to do the same in order to protect Ontario jobs and create new opportunities for Ontario and Canadian workers and businesses through their procurements." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

Liberal

  • Create a new fund to backstop Ontario businesses with lower-than-market interest rates

    "Backstop Ontario businesses with a new Fight Tariffs Fund that gives them access to lower-than-market interest rates (government rates)." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Exclude American companies like Elon Musk's Starlink from government procurement

    "Ensure Ontario taxpayer dollars support local businesses and jobs by excluding American companies like Elon Musk’s Starlink from procurement." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Trump's Tariffs.

Youth unemployment

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We don't have any PC policies on Youth unemployment.

Liberal

  • Provide tax credits for employers who hire young people through paid co-op, internship, and apprenticeship programmes

    "Cut youth unemployment by half by creating 40,000 new paid co-op, internship and apprenticeship positions through tax credits for employers who hire young people." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

We don't have any Green policies on Youth unemployment.