In a speech delivered to a room full of supporters during an Ontario NDP policy convention in Hamilton on Sunday morning, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Canadians must have the “courage to dream.”
The party released a 109-page platform on Sunday, titled “A New Deal for People”
The commitments aren’t fully costed, nor are there firm timelines on many of the more ambitious promises, but the party plans to use revenue from increasing taxes on the wealthy and by closing tax loopholes to pay for massive commitments in health care, affordable housing and fighting climate change.
The NDP is promising to enact universal pharmacare in 2020 and to go several steps further. The party aims to publicly fund dental care, vision care, mental health care and hearing care within 10 years, according to officials who briefed reporters on Sunday, although it has no estimates of how much that might cost.
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