Thread by @Historian_Matt

This #elxn43 vote FOR the #NDP that will ACTUALLY deliver progressive policies, like:
1) Reducing Wealth inequality:
✅Wealth Tax on richest 0.1% (net worth of $20 million +)
✅End subsidies for fossil fuel/big telecom corps
✅Tax reform to close #TaxGap + stop tax evasion

1) Reducing Wealth inequality (continued)
✅Increase corporate tax rate to 18%
✅Increase inclusion rate on capital gains to 75%
✅Federal foreign buyer's tax on real estate
✅Increase federal minimum wage to $15/hour
✅Mandatory Pension-insurance program
✅Ban unpaid internships

2) A Green New Deal including:
✅300,000 green jobs
✅Paying to re-train workers in fossil-fuel industries
✅Subsidizing FREE public transit
✅Banning single-use plastics
✅Subsidies to retrofit homes for energy efficiency
✅Meeting Paris climate targets
✅Carbon-neutral by 2050

3) Affordability:
✅Increase EI rates to 60%
✅New parental leave benefit at higher rate
✅National childcare plan to fund provincial programs
✅Price-cap on phone + internet plans
✅Building 500,000 affordable homes
✅Universal pharmacare
✅Ending interest on student loans

4) Meaningful reconciliation:
✅Enshrine the UNDRIP into law
✅Implement all recommendations of the TRC
✅Fully implement Jordan’s Principle
✅Co-develop First Nations, Métis, & Inuit housing strategies
✅Lift all drinking-water advisories by 2021
✅Close health/education gap