| Issue | PC | NDP | Liberal | Green | New Blue | Ontario Party |
| Budget | Eliminate the deficit in the 2027–2028 fiscal year | | Lower the deficit to $5 billion by 2025-2026 Present a balanced budget in the 2026-2027 fiscal year | Lower the deficit steadily from $20 billion in 2022–23 to $6 billion in 2025-26 | | |
| Business subsidies | | Provide all mining tax revenue to northern Indigenous communities Raise business taxes by an unspecified amount Subsidize 2SLGBTQIA+, Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs, including the restoration of the Indigenous Culture Fund Fund art projects dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion Create a small business recovery grant Lift the cap on the Risk Management Program Provide a loan guarantee to young farmers Provide another round of Tourism Recovery Program payments | Guarantee loans to small businesses Reimburse businesses for costs up to $200 a day for workers to take up to ten paid sick days | | Eliminate Torstar's online gambling licence (NorthStar Gaming) | |
| COVID-19 | | Add COVID-19 vaccination to the immunization schedule for schools Launch a public inquiry into Ontario's response to COVID-19 Require at least three vaccine doses for vaccine passports Give the Chief Medical Officer of Health the authority to override government decisions | Add COVID-19 vaccination to the immunization schedule for schools Launch a public inquiry into Ontario's response to COVID-19 | Launch a public inquiry into Ontario's response to COVID-19 | Eliminate all COVID-19 restrictions and mandates Prohibit the use of COVID-19 vaccine passports by businesses Expand early treatment for COVID-19 | Eliminate all COVID-19 restrictions and mandates Prohibit the use of COVID-19 vaccine passports by businesses Outlaw the ability for the provincial government to impose lockdowns |
| Education | Invest $14 billion to build more schools Expand three-year college degrees Spend $42.5 million to expand medical education Cover tuition and other costs for nursing graduates who commit to work in rural and underserved areas | End academic streaming Hire 20,000 more teachers Hire more custodians and school maintenance staff Reduce Grade 4 to Grade 8 class sizes to 24 Reduce kindergarten class sizes to 26 Prioritize Ontario based authors and publishers in schools Eliminate EQAO testing Scrap mandatory online high school courses Convert all OSAP loans to grants Double the Rural and Northern Education Fund Increase funding for special education Increase the number of high school trades and shop classes Forgive student loan interest | End academic streaming Spend $10 billion building and repairing schools Hire 10,000 more teachers Hire 5,000 more special education workers Cap class sizes at 20 students for all grades Restore Grade 13 as an option for secondary school students for a minimum of 4 years Eliminate EQAO tests and replace with new assessment strategy Double current OSAP funding Continue the tuition freeze Eliminate interest on provincial student loans Cover tuition costs for medical and nursing students working in a rural or remote communities Provide free tuition for all ECE programs | Expand nursing schools by 7% every year Reduce Grade 4 to Grade 8 class sizes to 24 Reduce kindergarten class sizes to 26 Introduce a school lunch program | Create a school voucher program Remove Critical Race Theory from the curriculum Remove gender theory from the curriculum | Create a school voucher program Remove Critical Race Theory from the curriculum Remove gender theory from the curriculum Allow the creation of charter schools Make it illegal for teachers to promote partisan political positions in the classroom Allow parents to opt their children out of certain school lessons Require universities to maintain free speech on campus Require universities to hire ideologically diverse educators Lower tuition fees for degrees with high labour market demand |
| Elections | | Replace the electoral system with Mixed Member Proportional Reduce annual political donation limits to $1600 Ban protests that incite racist, homophobic, transphobic or xenophobic hate | Introduce ranked ballots for the next provincial election followed by an independent review Allow municipalities the usage of ranked ballot voting systems for elections Explore potential changes such as lowering the voting age, voting on weekends and expanded advanced voting | Create citizens assembly on electoral reform with mandate to provide binding recommendation to ensure that every vote counts Allow municipalities the usage of ranked ballot voting systems for elections Limit total contribution for municipal elections to $1000 for all candidates, combined Reduce donation limits for provincial political parties, candidates, and constituency associations to $1000 per year Restore Auditor General oversight of government advertising Require a five-year gap before MPPs and government advisors can register as lobbyists | Eliminate subsidies to political parties | Establish a process for voters to recall their MPP if they fail to represent them |
| Energy and Environment | Create a new provincial park Subsidize the manufacturing of electric vehicles | Create a cap-and-trade system Ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 Create a $10,000 tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicles Ban the conversion of any agricultural land into development Expand the Greenbelt Plant one billion trees by 2030 Ban non-medical single-use plastics by 2024 Upgrade public school buildings to make them carbon neutral | Create five new provincial parks Ban new natural gas plants Plant 100 million trees per year until 2030 Protect 30% of Ontario's land and expand the Greenbelt Ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 Create a $8,000 tax credit for the purchase or lease of electric vehicles and $1,500 for respective charging equipment Eliminate connection fees for rooftop solar charging panels Restrict some single-use plastics Provide grants and interest-free loans to retrofit homes and buildings | Reduce electricity subsidies by $20 billion over 10 years Eliminate gas-powered power plants Oppose the building of new nuclear power plants or uranium mines Protect 30% of Ontario's land and double the size of the Greenbelt | | Ban the dumping of untreated waste into bodies of water Fund municipal governments to upgrade sewage treatment |
| Healthcare | Build new hospitals in Niagara Falls; Windsor-Essex Build 3,000 new hospital beds in 2022-2023 Provide publicly funded prescriptions to low-income seniors Provide publicly funded dental care to low-income seniors Offer incentive payments of up to $5,000 over the next two years to nurses who stay in the job | Repeal Bill 124 Establish provincial standards for home-care services and providers Build 30,000 mental health supportive housing spaces over ten years Provide publicly funded prescriptions to all residents Provide publicly funded dental care to all residents Increase hospital funding Add additional funding to clear the surgical backlog Eliminate all user fees in healthcare Collect race-based data on health care Hire 22,000 more nurses Hire 300 more physicians in Northern Ontario Stop mergers of public health units Provide $400 per month to informal caregivers Publicly fund contraception | Repeal Bill 124 Build 3,000 new hospital beds Hire 100,000 new health care workers Introduce a Portable Benefits Plan for those without or lacking in their employer benefits; provides drug, dental, vision, and mental health coverage Build 15,000 mental health supportive housing spaces Fully fund clinical costs for hospices Build new hospitals in Windsor, South Niagara, Markdale, Moosonee, Moose Factory Island, Innisfil, Whitby and Ottawa | Build 60,000 mental health supportive housing spaces Increase mental health funding Provide publicly funded prescriptions Provide publicly funded dental care Create a dedicated crisis response line for mental health Cover mental health therapy through public funding | Work on clearing the backlog of procedures | Do not fire healthcare workers who refuse to participate in abortion or assisted-suicide End the prohibition on private health facilities and insurance Prohibit sex-change surgeries for minors Require parental consent for medical treatment for children |
| Housing | Use MZOs to approve the construction of more housing supply | Implement rent control Subsidize rent for low-income households End exclusionary zoning Restore in-person hearings at the Landlord and Tenant Board | Implement rent control Implement a ban on foreign buyers for at least four years Fund the construction of 138,000 public housing units, of which 22,000 will be dedicated to off-reserve indigenous residents Ban the use of MZOs | Implement rent control including vacancy control Fund the construction of 100,000 public housing units Restore 260,000 community housing units Provide portable housing benefits to 311,000 people End blind bidding Require home inspections at the seller's expense | | |
| Indigenous | | Create an indigenous curriculum Boost funding for Indigenous language education Support more Indigenous representation on boards Clean up the English-Wabigoon River system Establish a provincial strategy to address the suicide crisis among Indigenous youth Commission a monument that recognizes the victims of the residential school system Establish the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a statutory holiday Strengthen fire protection | Mandate the inclusion of residential schools into the curriculum | Reform child welfare and protection services by ensuring Indigenous communities are served by Indigenous-led providers Wortk with NCTR to identify, collect, and provide copies of all records relevant to the history and legacy of the residential school system in Ontario Make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday Restore funding for the Indigenous curriculum program Develop a mandatory curriculum on colonialism and residential schools, treaties, and Indigenous histories and experiences | | |
| Law Enforcement | | Expand supervised drug consumption sites Ban carding | Expand supervised drug consumption sites Hire more police officers from underrepresented demographics Require police training in anti-racism, cultural sensitivity, and mental health | Expand supervised drug consumption sites | | |
| Long-term care | Build 30,000 long-term care beds over six years Create a standardized survey of long-term care residents | Phase out for-profit long-term care homes Build 50,000 long-term care beds Hire 10,000 more PSWs Raise pay for PSWs by at least $5 per hour | Phase out for-profit long-term care homes Build 30,000 long-term care beds over six years; redevelop an additional 28,000 existing spaces | Phase out for-profit long-term care homes | | |
| Regulation | Raise the minimum wage to $15.50/h Abolish the Ontario College of Trades Approve the construction of oil and gas pipelines | Raise the minimum wage to $20/h over 5 years Ban licensed sport shooters from owning handguns Provide ten publicly funded sick days for all workers Increase the number of jobs covered under Employment Standards and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act Implement price controls on gasoline Require automobile insurance businesses to charge the same premiums in all regions of Ontario Ban the issuing of payday loans Require the hiring of more women and racial minorities Implement UNDRIP Require mandatory anti-oppression and anti-bias training for all public employees and politicians Subject all government programs and regulations to a gender-based analysis | Raise the minimum wage to $16/h and implement regional living wages Ban licensed sport shooters from owning handguns Provide ten paid sick days for all workers | Raise the minimum wage each year by $1, starting at $16 in 2022, with a top-up in cities where the cost of living is higher Increase the number of provincially-legislated paid sick days from three to ten, and provide small businesses financial support to fund the program Ban employers from requiring a sick note from a medical practitioner when an employee is ill | Prohibit lobbyists from being involved in political parties Make it illegal to conduct fraud in internal political party votes | Reduce immigration levels to match housing supply levels Prohibit foreigners from buying houses Repeal Bill 163 |
| Social assistance | Increase ODSP payments by 5% | Increase ODSP payments by 20% Increase OW payments by 20% Conduct a basic income pilot project | Increase ODSP payments by 20% Increase OW payments by 10% Increase Old Age Security by $1,000 per year Bring back the basic income pilot | Increase ODSP payments by 100% | | |
| Taxation | Remove license plate sticker requirements and their respective fees Reduce gasoline taxes by 5.7 cents per litre for six months starting on July 1, 2022 Reduce fuel taxes by 5.3 cents per litre starting on July 1, 2022 Increase the Non-Resident Speculation Tax and extend its reach beyond the GTHA Extend qualification for the LIFT tax credit to $50,000 Create an Ontario Seniors Care at Home Tax Credit | Freeze taxes for low and middle income families Create a tax on housing speculation Introduce an annual vacancy tax on residential property Maintain the Non-Resident Speculation Tax at 20% Raise taxes on upper income workers by an unspecified amount Create a filming tax-credit Extend the Staycation tax credit | Remove the provincial sales tax from prepared meals under $20 (increase from $4) Increase the corporate tax rate by 1% on corporations with a profit above $1 billion Increase the income tax rate by 2% on income over $500,000 Introduce a 5% tax on vacant homes for non-Canadian owners; 2% for Canadian owners Introduce a ‘use it or lose it’ tax on developers sitting on land ready for development Create a $75 tax credit for each winter tire installed Increase the eligibility for the Low-Income Individuals and Families (LIFT) tax credit from $38,000 to $50,000 Rebate Northern municipalities 5% of the provincial mining tax Suspend corporate income tax collection for small businesses for 2022 and 2023 | Add a 1% surtax onto the income taxes of the top 10% earners Introduce a 20% multiple homes speculation tax on third and additional properties | Reduce the Harmonized Sales Tax from 13% to 10% Remove the carbon tax Reduce taxes on gasoline | Eliminate the PST on gasoline and diesel |
| Transportation | Restore the Northlander service to Northern Ontario Build Highway 413 Build the Bradford Bypass highway Build new Highway 7 between Guelph and Kitchener Rebuild Highway 101 through Timmins Widen Highway 401 between Hespeler Road and Townline Road in Cambridge, between Whitby and Port Hope, and in Eastern Ontario Widen Highway 17 to four lanes from Arnprior to Renfrew Widen Highway 417 to eight lanes from Highway 416 to Maitland Avenue Build Highway 6 Morriston Bypass, and complete interchanges on the Hanlon Expressway Expand Highway 3 between Windsor and Leamington Extend GO Transit trains to Bowmanville Extend GO Transit trains to London Build the Ontario Line Subway, Scarborough Subway Extension, Yonge North Subway Extension and Eglinton Crosstown West Extension Build a second Garden City Skyway twin bridge | Restore passenger rail service to Northern Ontario Cancel the construction of Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass Require transit projects to make Canadian-made vehicles Remove tolls on Highway 407 for commercial drivers Pursue penalty fees from 407 ETR for failing to meet a minimum standard of traffic in 2020 and 2021 Designate Highways 11 and 17 as Class 1 highways Four-lane Highway 69, Highway 11/17, Highway 3; the Morriston bypass Move ahead with the Thunder Bay Expressway Interchange Project Expand Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph Fund two-way all-day GO Transit to Kitchener-Waterloo Extend the Hurontario LRT to downtown Brampton Fund 50% of municipal transit costs | Restore the Northlander service to Northern Ontario within two years Cancel the construction of Highway 413 Reassess the proposed Bradford Bypass' environmental impact Reduce all transit fares in Ontario to $1 per ride Cut the cost for monthly passes to $40 per month Make public transit publicly funded for veterans Widen Highway 401 at targeted bottlenecks, including from Milton to Mississauga and between Pickering and Bowmanville Build a new Highway 7 between Guelph and Kitchener Expand Highway 3 between Windsor and Leamington Complete the four-laning of Highway 69 and Highway 11/17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon by 2025 Build the Ontario Line Subway, Scarborough Subway Extension, Yonge North Subway Extension and Eglinton Crosstown West Extension Fund two-way all-day GO Transit to Milton Extend GO Transit trains to Bowmanville | Cancel the construction of Highway 413 Cut transit fares by 50% for at least 3 months Fund 50% of municipal transit operating expenses Expand GO Transit services | | |
| Unions | | Allow contractors to unionize Allow any workplace to unionize when 55% of workers endorse unionization Ban strikebreakers Allow students to unionize | Allow contractors to unionize | | | |
