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Income splitting for seniors is a key tenant of the Conservative plan and will impact your retired
members .
New Democratic Party http://www.ndp.ca/platform
Highlights for the construction industry
NDP committed about a billion per year over twenty years for transit and more after the NDPs first four
years in office for generalized infrastructure funding.
The NDP oppose the TPP.
Highlights for Building Trades families
The NDP proosed $15/day federal childcare program in lieu of the CCCB payment currently in place. It
unclear how this proposal will end up affecting middle class budgets or financial situations.
Announced an additional 1.8 billion for seniors health care and long term care facilities
The NDP announced a federal minimum wage which affects only a small percentage of workers. Only
workers federally regulated will benefit. For example, telecom, banking, transportation (ect)
Liberal Party of Canada https://www.liberal.ca/files/2015/10/New-plan-for-a-strong-middleclass.pdf
Highlights for the construction industry
A significant and large infrastructure package was announced mid -way through the campaign. This
announcement has the potential to impact work hours in Canadas major urban centres and beyond.
The more than $120billion package is a reasonable size of investment given the infrastructure deficit in
our country.
The Liberals support the TPP with some reservation about reviewing the full text of the agreement to
ensure the interests of middle class workers are represented.
The Liberals announced $25 million for union training centres and the reinvestment of training
equipment this program comes from our (and affiliate) advocacy efforts with the Liberal Party
The Liberals also announced a Liberal government would continue to support the provinces in skills
training delivery with renewed labour market agreements with roughly $750 million being dedicated
from the EI fund. There was no discussion about the Canada Job Grant recently announced by the
Government of Canada
Highlights for Building Trades families
Significant changes to the Income Tax Act have been promised by the Liberal campaign. The below
Liberal plan is supposedly revenue neutral to the government and benefits Canadians in lower income
tax brackets.
The
below provides information on the changes to the Child Care Tax Benefit and comes from
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/helping-families/ . The difference from the Conservative benefit is
that the Liberal benefit is not taxable. It is important to remember this in an income tested benefit and
each family will be adjudicated based on household income.