The Toronto Star: Meanwhile, in Toronto on Friday, the NDP’s Cheri DiNovo (Parkdale-High Park) and Michael Prue (Beaches-East York) released the party’s platform on housing and fighting poverty. It includes $1.1 billion over 10 years to create 54,500 affordable housing units, a housing benefit for low-income individuals and families, and an emergency dental care program.
“Other parties may be happy to sit on their hands, but New Democrats are fighting to protect our most vulnerable Ontarians,” Prue told reporters.
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The Ontario NDP also pledged to raise the minimum wage to $11/hr and peg it to inflation, freeze transit fares, and freeze tuition and remove the provincial portion of the interest on student loans.
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