| Issue | Liberal | PC | NDP |
| Budget | Standing by its last budget's assertion of six consecutive deficits, with a return to balance in 2024–25 | Conduct a value-for-money audit of the government's spending Conduct an independent commission of inquiry into the previous government's spending Centralize government purchasing Increase the Risk Management Program limit by $50 million annually Eliminate the Jobs and Prosperity fund | There will be five consecutive deficits of between $5 billion and $2 billion. |
| Child care | Publicly-funded child care for all Ontarians aged two-and-a-half to junior kindergarten age, regardless of income | Fund a sliding scale of tax rebates, providing up to $6,750 per child under 15 and giving low-income families as much as 75% of their child-care costs | Income-based scale for child care, providing publicly-funded child care for families earning under $40,000 annually and public funding to reduce the cost of childcare to an average of $12 per day cost for those making over $40,000 |
| Education | Modernize the curriculum and assessment of schools, from kindergarten to grade 12 $3 billion in capital grants over 10 years to post-secondary institutions | Replace the present curricula for sex education Return to traditional mathematics education Ban cell phones in all primary and secondary school classrooms Limit funding to postsecondary institutions that do not respect free speech Make mathematics training mandatory in teachers’ college Increase funding for children with autism by $38 million | $16 billion in spending over 10 years on infrastructure and repairs at Ontario's schools Cap kindergarten class sizes at 26 students Abolish standardized EQAO testing Give OSAP-qualified students non-repayable grants instead of loans Remove interest from existing student loans and apply interest that has already been paid to the loan principal |
| Environment | Proceed with April 2018 announcement to spend $1.7 billion over three years towards retrofitting homes for energy efficiency | Hire more conservation officers Create an emissions-reduction fund to subsidize new technologies that reduce emissions Increase funding for cleaning up garbage | Divert at least 25% of cap-and-trade revenue to help northern, rural and low-income Ontarians adapt to a lower-carbon lifestyle Spend $50 million on a home-efficiency retrofit program |
| Healthcare | Create 30,000 new long-term care beds by 2028 Create a publicly-funded universal pharmacare program for seniors Hire 400 new mental health workers in schools | Create 30,000 new long-term care beds by 2028 Increase funding for mental health Increase funding for autism treatment by $125 million per year | Create a publicly-funded universal pharmacare program for everyone that covers approximately 125 medications Create 40,000 new long-term care beds by 2028 Create 2,000 new hospital beds Hire 4,500 new nurses |
| Electricity | Standing by its 2017 plan to defer rate increases through current borrowing Will proceed to sell the Province's remaining 60% interest in Hydro One | Cut rates by 12%, over and above the Liberals' current 25% reduction Fire the CEO and Board of Hydro One Cancel energy contracts that are in the pre-construction stage | Return Hydro One to 100% public ownership Reduce rates by 30% End time-of-use pricing |
| Regulation | Increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour in 2019 End geographic price variations in car insurance rates | Keep the minimum wage at $14 per hour Allow the sale of beer and wine in corner stores, grocery stores, and box stores Reduce the minimum price of beer from $1.25 to $1 | Increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour in 2019 Allow illegal immigrants to access all government services and do not enforce federal immigration laws against them Impose price controls on gasoline |
| Taxation | Proceed with last budget's simplification of rate structure for personal income tax Raise taxes on cigarettes by $4 per carton Increase taxes on people making over $95,000 per year | Reduce middle-class income tax rates by 20% Eliminate income tax entirely for minimum-wage earners Repeal the present cap and trade program Challenge the federal carbon tax in court Reduce the small business income tax rate by 8.7% Reduce gasoline taxes by 10¢ per litre Reduce diesel taxes by 10.3¢ per litre Reduce the corporate income tax rate from 11.5% to 10.5% Reduce aviation fuel taxes for Northern Ontario flights Exempt the Royal Canadian Legion from being charged property tax | Raise corporate tax rate from 11.5% to 13% Raise income taxes on people earning over $220,000 by 1% Raise income taxes on people earning over $300,000 by 2% |
| Transportation | Fund $79 billion for various public-transit projects over 14 years Build a Toronto-to-Windsor high-speed rail line Fund an expansion of light rail O-Train in Ottawa | $5 billion in extra funding for new subways in Toronto Upload ownership and construction of subway lines from the municipal government to the provincial government Build the Relief Line subway line Build the Yonge Extension subway line Build future crosstown expansions underground Expand all-day two-way GO service Bowmanville and Kitchener Finish construction of the Niagara GO Expansion Restore operations of the Northlander in Northern Ontario Fund an expansion of light rail O-Train in Ottawa Ensure that the Scarborough Subway Extension to the Scarborough Town Centre will have three stops Build the Sheppard Loop with the Scarborough Subway Extension | Cover 50% of the operating costs of municipal transit services Build the Relief Line in Toronto Restore operations of the Northlander in Northern Ontario Bring in two-way all-day service on GO Transit's Kitchener line Construct the LRT line in Hamilton Electrify the existing GO lines and the Union Pearson Express Remove tolls on the Highway 412 and prevent tolls for the Highway 418 |
