Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca released his party's fully costed platform this morning.
Del Duca says he is confident a Ontario Liberal government would balance the books by the year 26-27.
“I think we are definitely on a path to be able to balance by the final budget before the next election, so fiscal 2026/27. I feel confident that we will be able to do that.”
Del Duca also took a swipe at the NDP for failing to cost their platform....and the Progressive Conservatives for their recent budget.
“I just don’t believe it’s responsible enough to put out a platform and let weeks go by with no numbers. And I think it’s unconscionable that the Ford Conservatives, after everything we’ve been through, put out a budget that contained no discernible or coherent plan.”
He says a Liberal government will also work to make life better for workers.
“We will deliver paid sick leave and we’re going to deliver a real living wage and we’ll put workers and their families at the centre of the decisions that we are going to make.”
Rent control, eliminating corporate taxes for small businesses for two years and a raise to disability and social assistance benefits are all issues outlined on Del Duca’s platform. It also included things like an eight per cent tax cut on prepared food and guaranteed access to a doctor or nurse practitioner within 24 hours.
He adds they would also create the Ontario Home Builders Corporation.
“That’s why the Ontario Home Building Corporation will be vested with an unprecedented amount of capital money, $15 billion dollars over ten years, as a lending authority or a builder. And every single home that the home building corporation sells will only be sold to first time home buyers in this province.”
Del Duca says the plan will give Ontarians relief from the affordability crisis and more.
“Relief in housing, yes. But also relief in all the other fundamental areas as those building blocks that we count on, the building blocks that made Ontario the best province in the greatest country in the world, the building blocks of healthcare, transit, environmental sustainability.”
The plan also calls for building a four day work week, building 1.5 million homes, and introducing province wide rent control.
“We are well past the point where half measures and being kind of grudging about this will work. That’s why we will take decisive action to deliver on rent control everywhere in Ontario, and also prioritize for first time home buyers for every single unit of housing that is sold by our new Ontario Home Building Corporation.”
The plan also includes a ban on handguns and tax increases for the super rich.