Provincial Election 2018

Provincial Election 2018 Needs to Focus on Economic Growth

Party Platforms
The NDP and Green parties have released platform documents. Click on the logo to read those platforms and click on the link below to read the Ontario Chamber's analysis of those platforms compared to the Vote Prosperity platform.

Election Day is June 7, 2018.

The Peterborough Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce released Vote Prosperity, a platform outlining the Ontario business community's priorities for the upcoming 2018 provincial election.

There are four pillars on which the platform is based:

Strengthen business competitiveness: Rising input costs, especially those costs deriving from government regulation and policy, are the most common and acute concern of the business community in Ontario.
Foster Job Creation: A robust labour market consisting of good jobs is essential to prosperity for all Ontarians.
Build Healthy Communities: Building strong communities through adequate and affordable housing, sustainable health care, and good infrastructure also supports business prosperity and growth, which supports those communities.
Improve Government Accountability: Poor implementation of government initiatives can result in resource waste, political frustration and disruption for ordinary citizens.

Allow Ontario businesses to purchase surplus electricity at rates equal to or better than the exported price to other jurisdictions.
Conduct and publish the results of a comprehensive review of the electricity sector, including an objective economic impact analysis assessing the full range of inputs that make up the Global Adjustment (GA), and then pursue cost-reducing measures based on the results.
Regardless of public policy approach chosen, pursue efforts to reduce Ontario’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a manner that effectively mitigates risk to business competitiveness.
Work with federal and local levels of government to establish a publicly available analysis of the cost of doing business (CODB) in Ontario.
Reinstate scheduled reductions in the Corporate Income Tax, standardize the Business Education Tax and reduce the Employer Health Tax.

Μοdernize the apprenticeship system through the journeyperson to apprentice ratio to help alleviate some of the challenges employers face to recruit journeypersons to hire additional apprentices.
Redesign Employment Ontario services for both job-seekers and employers and evaluate the potential of an outcomes-based funding model.
Work with industry and post-secondary institutions to ensure that program offerings remain responsive to the changing labour market dynamics and the regional and sectoral needs of Ontario’s business community.
Allocate resources to focus support on high growth firms and those with high growth potential, by delaying taxation on corporate income growth to overcome Ontario’s scale-up challenge.

Focus on strategic growth policies by ensuring that land use planning and development regulations are aligned, to increase density and create more housing stock.
Build adaptable and resilient infrastructure stock that can address future pressures including climate change and demographic shifts.
Develop a single transportation authority in the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area (GTHA).

Strike a Health Cabinet to improve information-sharing and break down budget silos between Ministries.
Reform the procurement and supply chain processes within the Ontario health care system.

Create a meaningful plan to tackle the debt and move towards balanced or surplus budgets.
Ensure all proposed policy, regulation and legislation has been evaluated against sound, quantitative evidence.
Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of strategic goals and publicly publish these targets to ensure transparency.
Provide appropriate timelines to stakeholders when revising or implementing initiatives that will impact their operations.

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