1. A new tax-free Child Benefit, up to $6500.00 per child.(the largest social announcement since public healthcare)
2. A Healthcare Accord with the provinces (4 years without one under the Conservative government)
3. Implementing a $500 million National Pharmacare Program Study.
4. A program for vulnerable single Seniors with the potential for a $1750 per month top-up more than Nov. 2015
5. Restored funding for Women's Shelters, Reopened women's shelters closed by the Conservatives
6. Reopened and re-staffed the 9 Veteran’s Affairs Offices + opened 1 additional office to
help with the residual back-up
7. Restored the Veteran’s Lifetime Pension option
8. Allocated $10 billion for new Veteran Affairs spending
9. New $40 billion program for the Provinces to Help the Homeless
10.New program to help with the provinces with the Fentanyl Crisis
11.Lowered the Retirement Age to 65
12.A Working Poor subsidy to help those on assistance transition into the workforce
13.Reopened the English Bay Coastguard
14.Created an extensive plan and funded $1.5 billion to Protect Our Oceans
15 Bought the Kinder Morgan Pipeline to ensure it will be built.
16.Negotiated and signed CETA, an extensive European trade deal
17. Reached agreement for the CPTPP, the largest free trade deal in the world which is estimated to boost Canada’s GDP by 4.2 billion providing access to key Asian markets.
18.Ratified the Paris Accord to ensure Canada does its part to prevent climate change
19.- 67 aboriginal drinking Water Advisories Lifted, and 11 drinking water problems
permanently resolved 463 projects underway or completed in 587 communities!
20.Increased taxes on the wealthiest 1% and Closed Loopholes
21.Lowered taxes for the Middle-Class
22. Kitsilano Coast guard station re-opened.
23. Re-instating the long-form census.
24. More leave time for those who need to access Canada's Compassion Care Benefit in order to care for sick family members.
25. The removal of any regulation that would not allow a government scientist to speak openly of their work to the media
26. Brought in a ban on Trans Fats.
27. Made Statistics Canada fully independent
28. Removed Liberal senators from caucus.
29. Created independent committee to suggest new senators.
30.The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, protecting those afraid of calling 911 in the event of an overdose from facing drug charges of their own.
31. Oct 2016 Limiting Foreign Money into Canadian Real Estate: Closed a loophole in the tax laws that allows non-residents to buy homes in Canada, and then get a tax exemption to avoid paying capital gains when they sell the home by claiming it as a principal residence.
32. Nov 2016 Government grants voting rights for citizens living abroad longer than 5 years. (Harper took away the right to vote from Canadians who were living elsewhere for more than 5 years)
33. Reformed Harper’s E.I. Legislation protecting and helping seasonal workers.
34. Canada’s New Food Guide that has been praised by physicians and scientists the world over
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