Affordability & Housing
Childcare
Liberal's promises
Home construction and supply
Liberal's promises
"catalyzing the housing industry by providing over $25 billion in financing to innovative prefabricated home builders in Canada, including those using Canadian technologies and resources like mass timber and softwood lumber, to build faster, smarter, more affordably, and more sustainably;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"BCH will also catalyze the housing industry and create higher-paying jobs by providing $25 billion in debt financing and $1 billion in equity financing to innovative Canadian prefabricated home builders. Prefabricated and modular housing can reduce construction times by up to 50 per cent, costs by up to 20 per cent, and emissions by up to 22 per cent compared to traditional construction methods." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16
"cutting municipal development charges in half for multi-unit residential housing while working with provinces and territories to keep municipalities whole;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will cut municipal development charges in half for multi-unit residential housing and work with provinces and territories to make up the lost revenue for municipalities for a period of five years. For a two-bedroom apartment in Toronto, the cost savings from this measure would be approximately $40,000." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"publicly report on municipalities’ progress to speed up permitting and approval timelines and implement other commitments under the Housing Accelerator Fund;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"leverage pre-approved, standardized housing designs across all public lands and encourage its adoption as-of-right across the country;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Homelessness
Liberal's promise
"We will immediately develop homelessness reduction targets with every province and territory to inform Housing First investments, improve access to treatment, and end encampments community by community." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Public and affordable housing
Liberal's promises
"BCH will also provide $10 billion in low-cost financing and capital to affordable home builders. $4 billion will go towards long-term fixed-rate financing for affordable housing builders. $6 billion will go towards rapidly building deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, Indigenous housing, and shelters. BCH will direct $2 billion of this amount to build new student and seniors housing, in partnership with provinces and territories. We will immediately develop homelessness reduction targets with every province and territory to inform Housing First investments, improve access to treatment, and end encampments community by community." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Renting and rental housing
Liberal's promises
"We will reintroduce a tax incentive which, when originally introduced in the 1970s, spurred tens of thousands of rental housing across the country. Known as the Multiple Unit Rental Building (MURB) cost allowance, this policy helped produce nearly 200,000 units in seven years (1974-81)." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will facilitate the conversion of existing structures into affordable housing units by reducing the tax liability for private owners of multi-purpose rental when they sell their building to a non-profit operator, land trust, or non-profit acquisition fund - so long as the proceeds are reinvested in building new purpose-built rental housing." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Tax measures and rebates
Liberal's promise
"This middle-class tax cut will save two-income families up to $825 a year, by reducing the marginal tax rate on the lowest tax bracket by 1 percentage point. More than 22 million Canadians will benefit directly from this tax cut, and middle- and low-income Canadians will benefit the most." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Inter-provincial business and trade
Liberal's promises
"We will inject $5 billion into a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund, to build the infrastructure that will help diversify our trade partners, create good jobs and drive economic growth. This fund will accelerate nation-building projects at ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways. This will build one Canadian economy and diversify our trade away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Authorize Canadian ports to cooperate instead of compete, in order to maximize efficiencies by leveraging comparative advantages." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
International trade
Liberal's promises
"We will inject $5 billion into a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund, to build the infrastructure that will help diversify our trade partners, create good jobs and drive economic growth. This fund will accelerate nation-building projects at ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways. This will build one Canadian economy and diversify our trade away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Authorize Canadian ports to cooperate instead of compete, in order to maximize efficiencies by leveraging comparative advantages." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Manufacturing
Liberal's promises
"Create a $2 billion Strategic Response Fund to boost our auto sector’s competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, support workers to upskill their expertise in the industry, and build a fortified Canadian supply chain – from raw materials to finished vehicles." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Build an “All-in-Canada” network for auto manufacturing component parts. With this network, we will work with industry to build more car parts in Canada, limit those parts crossing the border during production, and attract investment into our own industry." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Leverage government funding to prioritize and procure Canadian-built vehicles, catalyzing domestic investment to grow the Canadian auto industry." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Sovereignty, Foreign Relations, & the United States
National defence
Liberal's promises
"Expand the capabilities of the Navy with new submarines and additional heavy icebreakers to defend the North." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will expand the reach and abilities of the Canadian Coast Guard and integrate them into our NATO defence capabilities. Our Coast Guard carries out important work, but we need to update their mission to face changing realities to protect our sovereignty and counter criminal activity, like the trafficking of illicit drugs. That’s why we will give the Canadian Coast Guard a new mandate—and the right equipment—to conduct maritime surveillance operations to secure our coasts." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will end the chronic lapsing of defence spending, through the creation of a defence capital account that ensures that even when the timing of an investment changes, every dollar assigned to Canada’s defence will remain for that purpose." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will modernize our procurement legislation to ensure our Forces can buy the equipment that they need, when they need it—which is now. We can also swiftly surpass our existing defence spending targets and bolster our capabilities by investing in dual purpose infrastructure—whether housing, cybersecurity, or satellite technology—that delivers immediate benefits for both our Forces and the public." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Creating a first-in-class drone capability that will build and deploy aquatic and airborne uncrewed vehicles to defend our arctic, our undersea infrastructure, our borders, and our allies. This new capability will be matched with an industrial strategy that builds and perfects these technologies so that Canadian companies benefit from Canadian procurements." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
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Biography
Steve Black was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario. He attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario where he studied Mining Engineering. These studies led him to Timmins to work at Kidd Mine. He currently resides in Timmins with his partner Madison Killins and their 3 kids; Jenna, Connor and Harlow.
Steve Black has served multiple terms in municipal politics. From 2010 to 2014 he was a councillor for the City of Timmins. He then went on to run for Mayor in 2014 and became the youngest person elected as Mayor in the history of Timmins.
In 2018, he returned to the local mining industry where he worked as Project Manager for Kidd Mine’s Mine 5 Expansion Project. In 2022, Steve accepted a position at Dumas Contracting Ltd where he continues to work as Manager of Business Development, Marketing & Community Relations. He also returned to municipal politics in 2022 in the role of City Councillor for Timmins.
Throughout his municipal career, Steve has held many leadership positions on community boards including the Timmins Police Service Board, Cochrane District Social Services Board (responsible for EMS, housing, childcare, and Ontario Works programs in the region), Timmins Economic Development Corporation, Porcupine Health Unit, Timmins and District Hospital, Mattagami Region Conservation Authority, and Timmins Downtown BIA.
Steve hopes his past experience and leadership roles allow him to support communities across the Kapuskasing-Timmins-Muskegowuk Riding. He hopes to take his experience in municipal politics and within the mining sector to Parliament to serve the people of Kapsukasing-Timmins-Mushkegowuk under the Liberal Party of Canada.