This section will be updated following the release of each party’s platform. Parties are listed alphabetically.

See the BQ platform here (summary available in English, full platform in French only)

Full Conservative Platform. See it here

Full Green Platform - See it here

Health
Tackling climate change also leads to a cleaner environment. To reduce other threats to Canadians’ health, and improve treatment when it’s needed, we will:

• Work to reduce cigarette smoking through education and taxes.
• Limit the commercialization of genetically modified crops and impose labeling of GMO products.
• Protect our universal, single-payer public health care system and ensure it works well at disease prevention and treatment.
• Promote physical activity and healthy eating, and reduced exposure to contaminants.
• Work to develop national goals for prenatal care.
• Rebuild hospital capacity and make smarter use of it by increasing long-term-care facilities, as well as post-surgery recuperation outside of hospital, with access to nursing.

Liberals release full campaign platform. See it here:

Drugs

• Invest $900 million to create a new plan for catastrophic drug coverage for Canadians living with serious illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, and arthritis.
• Will work with the provincial and territorial governments to determine the level of catastrophic drug coverage that should be provided as a national minimum. Will directly compensate those provinces that are already providing that level of coverage.

HHR

• Promise to invest $420 million to create a Doctors and Nurses Fund to help ensure all Canadians have access to a medical professional.
• The Doctors and Nurses Fund will be used to:
      o increase the capacity to train and graduate doctors, nurses and medical technicians;
      o remove bottlenecks that currently slow the process of licensing new health care professionals;
      o provide financial support to assist foreign-trained health professionals in obtaining their Canadian qualifications more quickly; and
      o reward medical students choosing needed specialties such as family medicine, rural medicine, and geriatrics.
• To help under-serviced communities attract more doctors and nurses, a Liberal government will forgive $10,000 per year of student debt of health care professionals who agree to set up practice in an under-serviced community for a minimum of five years.

Full NDP Platform. See it here

HHR

• $200-million a year for five years ($1 billion total), increasing the number of medical students by 1,200 annually and the number of nursing students by 6,000 a year.
• Forgive student loans to young doctors who spend the first decade of their careers in family medicine.
• Take measures to more easily recognize the credentials of foreign-trained doctors.