EL NDP submits 30 policies to NDP convention

Part of our work as New Democrats is to envision a better future and, crucially, the policies that will enable us to get there.

One way we do that is to submit policies to the federal NDP convention, where they are discussed by New Democrats from around the country and, if accepted, become part of the official NDP policy platform.

With convention scheduled for April, our policy volunteers spent months compiling, researching, and writing policy proposals to submit. Then these policies were analyzed and debated by Etobicoke-Lakeshore members. And now, we are very proud to announce that our team has submitted thirty policy resolutions to the federal NDP!

We submitted policies on the following subjects:

• Provide paid sick days for all workers in federally regulated industries
• Increase access for "gig" economy workers and migrant workers to join a union
• Classifying gig economy workers as employees
• Protect the rights and collective agreement conditions of essential workers 
• Basic income as modelled on motion M-46
• Providing a health equity allowance for low-income households
• Replace Temporary Foreign Worker Program with a path to permanent residence/citizenship for migrant workers
• Support for greater assistance for refugees
• Accreditation for domestic and international adoption agencies
• More inclusive language regarding gender identity in NDP policies
• Protecting user data from big tech and ensuring rights to privacy through a data union
• Expanding immigration protections to health status
• Converting the Canada Infrastructure Bank to a public entity
• Creating a publicly owned vaccine manufacturing facility
• Free transit for all
• Opposing funding for certain classes of nuclear
• Diverting police funding to community support
• Suspending arms sales until Palestinian rights are restored
• Recognizing Tibetan Buddhist right to determination over traditional religious rituals
• Calling for the freedom and safe return of Tibetan exiles to their ancestral homeland
• Rejecting the IHRA definition of Anti-Semitism
• Returning land to Indigenous nations
• Supporting Mixed Member Proportional Representation
• Democratizing the NDP's electoral platform
• Expanding EDA autonomy
• Supporting the creation of a publicly owned telecom
• Defunding the RCMP
• Setting a maximum wealth cap
• Income supports for low-income candidates
• Demanding climate targets in line with science and milestones beginning in 2025
• Full status for migrants