Windsor West's candidates' promises on Housing & Homelessness

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Housing & Homelessness platforms

Here's what the candidates in Windsor West, and their parties, are promising.

Community services and libraries

We don't have any PC policies on Community services and libraries.

We don't have any ONDP policies on Community services and libraries.

Green

Increase funding for local libraries, community centres, and neighbourhood coalitions

"Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools

"Provide free and low-cost community hubs in schools, including but not limited to covering costs for free evening, weekend, March break, and summer permits for non-profit community organisations" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Give start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens with land gifts and organisational support

"Provide start-up funding for community-owned food markets and increase support for community gardens through land gifts and organisational support to eliminate urban food deserts" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Home construction and supply

PC

Invest $2B more in the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund

"Investing another $2 billion in the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program and the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund to create new opportunities for workers in the construction sector, support municipalities and help build more homes." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19
Invest $50M to support more factory-built homes and innovative home-building technology

"Investing $50 million to support more factory-built homes and innovative home-building technology that will help get thousands of new homes built faster in Ontario using new and more efficient technologies" — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19
Standardise development study requirements across the province

ONDP

Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

"Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will update zoning and planning rules to make it easier and cheaper to build all types of new homes, including legalizing more affordable options like semis, townhomes and fourplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrises near transit as-of-right." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Provide grants and low-cost financing for non-market housing providers

"We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. Homes Ontario will provide grants and low-cost financing to enable more non-market housing providers, like Mel Swart Co-Operative Homes and Welland’s Commonwealth Cooperative, to build on the long history of co-operative housing in the Niagara region. We will speed up the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit or co-op housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20
Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing

"Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing, as part of our costed Homes Ontario plan, which sets a goal of 1.5 million new homes in 10 years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. Homes Ontario will use grants, low-cost public financing, public land, fast-tracked approvals and other supports to enable the construction, acquisition and repair of at least 300,000 permanently affordable homes." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, and keep skilled labour employed during market slowdowns

"Homes Ontario will help create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, while keeping skilled labour employed in periods of market slowdown." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

Build 2 million homes in various forms within urban boundaries over the next 10 years

"Build 2 million homes in a variety of innovative forms within urban bound- aries over the next 10 years" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Allow single-family dwellings to be divided into multiple condominium units

"Allow single family dwellings to be divided into multiple condominium units to create more attainable home ownership opportunities within exist- ing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Require municipalities to permit developments that use pre-approved building designs

"Require municipalities to permit developments with the use of pre-approved building designs (starter home designs to allow for more affordable development)" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Plan for a mix of unit sizes and housing types, based on demographic needs and immigration projections

"Identify and plan for a mix of unit sizes (e.g. one-bedroom, two-bed-room) and housing types (e.g. multi-unit houses, low-rise developments) needed and in what quantity, based on demographic and immigration projections" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Inventivise faster, lower-cost, more labour-efficient construction methods and sustainable materials

"Update building codes and land use planning laws, financial tools, tax powers, and funding programs to incentivise the use of faster, lower-cost, and labour-efficient construction methods and sustainable materials like mass timber, modular factory built homes, etc" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
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Increase financial and legal supports for small-scale builders of missing middle and mid-rise infill homes

"Increase financial and legal supports for small-scale builders of missing middle and mid-rise infill homes. Offer low-cost, long-term fixed-rate financing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Remove development charges on homes, condos, and apartments built under 2,000 sq ft within urban boundaries, and reimburse municipalities

"Make homes affordable for home-buyers by removing development charges on homes, condos and apartment units built under 2,000 sq ft with-in urban boundaries. Implement an Affordable Community Fund to reimburse municipalities for lost revenue" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Prezone for missing middle and mid-rise housing ranging from 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and major streets in large urban centres

"Update provincial planning laws to prezone for missing middle and mid- rise housing ranging from 6-11 storeys on transit corridors and major streets in large urban centres with populations over 100,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Allow fourplexes and four storeys as-of-right within existing urban boundaries, and allow sixplexes in cities with populations over 500,000

"Update the Planning Act, Provincial Planning Statement and other applicable laws and regulations to expand zoning permissions to allow for fourplexes and four storeys as-of-right within existing urban boundaries and sixplexes in cities with populations over 500,000" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Change planning laws to allow various building types along main streets, transit corridors, public lands, and residential neighbourhoods

"Change planning laws to ensure vari- ous building types can be built along main streets, transit stations and cor- ridors, public lands, surplus commer- cial lands, and residential neighbour- hoods to ensure there is a liveable mix of housing in all neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist

"Reverse the Ford government’s changes to the Provincial Planning Statement that encourage sprawl and instead prioritise housing where roads and sewers already exist" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Set uniform provincial standards for urban design and remove onerous rules around floor space index, setbacks, and angular planes

"Set uniform provincial standards for urban design and remove onerous rules around floor space index, setbacks, and angular planes that are barriers to building missing middle and midrise housing" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Require minimum housing densities at transit stations and along transit corridors when agreeing with municipalities to fund transit

"Require minimum housing densities at transit stations and along transit corridors as a requirement in transit funding agreements between the province and municipalities" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Incentivise construction of housing on commercial properties, such as abandoned plazas and warehouses

"Incentivise and remove barriers to the construction of housing on commercial properties, such as abandoned plazas and warehouses" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Run a "Yes, in My Backyard" initiative with municipalities to raise awareness of the benefits of building housing in extant neighbourhoods

"Work collaboratively with municipalities on a province-wide “Yes, in My Backyard” initiative to raise awareness of the benefits of building more housing within existing neighbourhoods" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Encourage municipalities to meaningfully engage with prospective residents, not only current residents, when consulting on new developments

"Encourage municipalities to meaningfully engage with prospective residents, not only current residents, when consulting on new developments to ensure all voices are heard during the planning process" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Explore innovative approaches to planning consultation, including engaging people in community locations like coffee shops or transit stops

"Explore innovative approaches to planning consultation that ensure processes are genuinely inclusive and meaningfully engage all citizens both in-person and online. For example, engaging people in community locations that they frequent such as coffee shops or transit stops, or providing childcare to ensure broader community participation" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Use taxes and incentives to encourage developers to build within existing neighbourhoods in towns and cities
End mandatory minimum parking requirements for all new developments

Home purchases and ownership

PC

Provide a Home Renovation Rebate Program, covering up to 30% oft he cost of everyday home renovation and improvement projects

"Delivering the Home Renovation Rebate Program, which covers up to 30 per cent of the cost of everyday home renovation and improvement projects, including for new windows, doors, insulation, air sealing, battery storage and energy efficient appliances." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

We don't have any ONDP policies on Home purchases and ownership.

Green

Offer zero-interest $25K loans for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence

"Increase housing supply and help new homeowners pay down their mortgage by offering zero-interest loans of $25K for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Remove the Land Transfer Tax for first-time home buyers

"End the Land Transfer Tax for first-time home buyers to make it more afford- able for people to purchase their first home" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Homeless services

PC

Provide $75.5M for programmes that provide long-term stable housing and temporary accommodations for people living in encampments

"Providing municipalities and police with new resources and enforcement tools to address the growing problem of homeless encampments and crack down on illegal drug use in parks and public spaces, including by dedicating $75 .5 million for programs that provide more long-term stable housing and temporary accommodations for those living in encampments." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26
Increase penalties on people living in encampments

"Passing the Safer Municipalities Act, which is supported by mayors across the province, to provide tools to keep public places safe by increasing penalties on people who continually and deliberately trespass on private and public lands in illegal encampments, and specifically banning the consumption of illegal drugs in all public spaces and encampments." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP

Provincially fund homeless shelters, community housing, and homelessness prevention programmes

"Homelessness has tripled since 2016 and is rising faster in Northern Ontario than in southern Ontario. This has imposed an especially high burden on Northern Ontario municipalities, which are left stuck paying the price for provincial policy failures. An Ontario NDP government will upload the costs of community housing, shelters and homelessness prevention programs back to the province where they belong." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will help municipalities address their housing needs. We will upload the cost of housing, emergency shelters, and homelessness prevention programs back to the province, while maintaining locally focused delivery through municipal service managers. We’ll work with municipalities to create incentives for affordable housing in the marketplace, including development charge easements." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

Immediately support people living in encampments with their housing and support needs until permanent housing solutions are built
Resume the homelessness census

"Immediately support people living in encampments with their housing and support needs until permanent housing solutions are built and resume the homelessness census cancelled by the Ford government to ensure we create sustainable, long-term solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Use a Housing First model to ensure stable, permanent housing solutions are the first priority

"Utilise a Housing First model to ensure that stable, permanent housing solutions are the first priority when helping those in need" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Engage with people who have experienced homelessness when developing programmes

"Engage people who have lived experience with homelessness in program development." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Create an inter-ministerial working group to coordinate government investments targeting homelessness

"Create an inter-ministerial working group to ensure government investments targeting homelessness are coordinated, appropriately funded and provide long-term solutions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
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Build a data system for housing indicators that captures underlying trends of people with unmet housing needs

"Build an adequate data system for housing indicators in Ontario that captures the underlying trends of people with unmet housing needs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Deploy temporary and permanent supportive modular housing on provincially-owned land as quickly as possible

"Deploy temporary and permanent supportive modular housing projects on provincially owned land as quickly as possible." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Create tax credits and investment funds to help develop supportive modular housing technologies

"Create tax credits and investment funds to help advance these housing technologies" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Take responsibility for shelter costs

"Upload costs to the province that had previously been unfairly downloaded onto municipalities like community housing, shelters, and transit funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Mandate standards to have safe, accessible, all-gender washrooms in all public spaces
Increase annual funding for women's shelters and culturally-appropriate transitional and supportive housing for women and their families

"Increase annual funding for women’s shelters as well as safe and accessible transitional and supportive housing options for women and their families. Ensure transitional housing is culturally appropriate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Housing prices

We don't have any PC policies on Housing prices.

ONDP

Work with municipalities to incentivise affordably-priced housing, including with development charge easements

"We’ll work with municipalities to create incentives for affordable housing in the marketplace, including development charge easements." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Implement a provincial Luxury Residences Tax on purchasing homes over $3M

"To help pay for services we all rely on, we will implement a provincial Luxury Residences Tax on purchasing homes over $3 million, bringing in an expected 33 million dollars a year in new revenue." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

Implement a 25%-or-more multiple property speculation tax on those who purchase more than two houses

"Implement a multiple property speculation tax on those who purchase more than two houses in Ontario. The tax will begin at 25% on the third home and increase with each additional property owned" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Work with municipalities to implement a province-wide vacant homes tax

"Work with municipalities to implement a province-wide vacant homes tax to make it harder to use vacant homes as a lucrative place to park cash and fix the loopholes" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Implement a provincial anti-flipping tax on quick turnaround sales
Bring in a beneficial ownership registry to prevent nameless companies from trading properties

"Crack down on money laundering and implement a beneficial ownership registry to avoid the practice of nameless companies trading properties" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Reduce multi-residential building property taxes to bring them in-line with rates for single-family homes

Public and affordable housing

We don't have any PC policies on Public and affordable housing.

ONDP

Create 60,000 new supportive housing units

"Create 60,000 new supportive housing units, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental healthcare, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports. This commitment is part of our broader Homes Ontario plan to build hundreds of thousands of permanently affordable in the coming years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20
Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing

"Build or acquire at least 300,000 permanently affordable rental homes in non-profit and co-op housing, as part of our costed Homes Ontario plan, which sets a goal of 1.5 million new homes in 10 years." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. Homes Ontario will use grants, low-cost public financing, public land, fast-tracked approvals and other supports to enable the construction, acquisition and repair of at least 300,000 permanently affordable homes." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy

"We will work with Indigenous housing providers and the federal government to support a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy to deliver affordable, culturally-appropriate housing." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20
Enable the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit, or co-op housing

"We will enable the purchase of existing privately-owned rental units, to be converted to permanently affordable public, non-profit or co-op housing, like Toronto’s Multi-Unit Residential Acquisition (MURA) Program and UK’s Council Homes Acquisition Programme (CHAP)." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Complete renovations and repairs on existing affordable rentals

"We will protect the existing supply of affordable rentals, including completing renovations and repairs." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

Work with non-profits to build 250,000 new affordable non-profit and co-op homes
Work with non-profits to build 60,000 permanent supportive homes with guaranteed funding for mental health, addictions, and other supports
Work with Indigenous housing organisations to develop and fully-fund 22,000 for-Indigenous, by-Indigenous deeply affordable homes
Prioritise and speed up approval processes for projects led by or with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans for them

"Prioritise and speed up the development approval processes for projects led by or in partnership with non-profit housing providers, and provide low-interest loans via a new revolving fund" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Lease all public land suitable for housing to non-profits, co-ops, and community land trusts for permanently affordable housing at no cost
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Remove HST on affordable housing units delivered by non-profits
Work with the federal government to create a capital repair programme to ensure affordable homes stay well-maintained

"Renew 305,000 community housing units and create a new capital repair program, in partnership with the federal government, to ensure homes stay well maintained" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on station surface parking lots

"Work with all levels of government to include affordable housing developments above transit stations and on transit station surface parking lots" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Reinstate the brownfield remediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previous industrial sites

"Reinstate the provincial brownfield re- mediation fund to support municipalities to safely build affordable housing on previously industrial sites" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Give non-profits support and capital to purchase market rental buildings, and introduce preemptive right-to-buy for non-profits

"Give non-profit housing providers the support and access to capital needed to purchase market rental buildings to maintain affordability in perpetuity and introduce pre-emptive right-to- buy for non-profits" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Rental housing

We don't have any PC policies on Rental housing.

ONDP

Work with the federal government to increase funding for the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which assists with rental costs

"More housing benefits that help people move out of shelters, into homes. Doug Ford has withheld funding for programs like the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, allowing shelters to overflow. We’ll work with the Federal government to boost the program and help more people move out of shelters into homes, freeing up shelter beds in the process." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20
Provide more protections for renters

"Stop people from losing their homes by bringing forward real protections for renters and doubling social assistance rates so people can better keep up with the cost of housing." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"Crack down on renovictions, demovictions and other illegal tactics. We’ll beef up the rules, fix the Landlord and Tenant board and we’ll stop the Conservative and Liberal plan to evict people faster." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20
Attach rent control to the unit, so that landlords can't raise rents between tenants

"We’ll attach rent control to the unit to stop landlords from jacking up rent between tenants - removing the incentive for landlords to use unethical tactics to squeeze out existing tenants so they can raise the rent on the next one." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will protect renters by immediately introducing real rent control, also known as vacancy control, so rent control applies to the rental, and not just the tenancy. This will remove the incentive of unethical landlords to use bad faith evictions and renovictions to squeeze out existing tenants so they can charge a higher rent to the next tenant." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Remove the rent control exemption for units built after 2018

"We’ll close the unfair loophole that exempts units built after 2018." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20
Bring in a fairer system of low-interest repair loans for rental units

"We will bring in a fairer system of low interest repair loans so the cost of maintaining buildings isn't borne by tenants, and small landlords are supported with unexpected repair costs." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20
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Allow more housing, including fourplexes and four-storey multiplexes in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors

"Legalize more housing like fourplexes and four-storey multiplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrise apartments along transit corridors as-of-right." — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

"We will update zoning and planning rules to make it easier and cheaper to build all types of new homes, including legalizing more affordable options like semis, townhomes and fourplex apartments in all neighbourhoods, and midrises near transit as-of-right." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Limit short-term rentals like Airbnb to one's primary residence

"Limit short-term rentals (eg: Airbnb) to one’s primary residence, protecting the supply of long-term rental housing" — ontariondp.ca, retrieved 2025-02-20

Green

Restrict short-term rentals to principal residences and cities with low vacancy rates

"Restrict short-term rentals to principal residences and in cities with low vacancy rates so there is more supply available for local renters" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Offer zero-interest $25K loans for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence

"Increase housing supply and help new homeowners pay down their mortgage by offering zero-interest loans of $25K for homeowners to add affordable rental units onto their primary residence" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Support rental replacement bylaws to keep a continued supply of affordable rental stock

"Support rental replacement by-laws province wide to ensure the continued supply of affordable rental stock" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Reinstate rent control on all units

"Reinstate rent controls on all units to • regulate rental increases year-to-year and implement vacancy control to limit rent increases between tenancies" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Tie rent control to the unit to limit rent increases between tenancies
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Extend financial support to 311,000 Ontario households via the portable housing benefit
Place a moratorium on above-guideline rent increases and create a task force to look into their overuse

"Place a moratorium on AGIs and create a Rental Task Force to look into the overuse of above-guideline rent increases" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Update and strengthen sections of the Residential Tenancies Act regarding state of repair for multi-unit buildings

"Update and strengthen sections of the Residential Tenancies Act that deal with the state of repair for multi-unit buildings to ensure tenants have homes that are safe and kept in a good state of repair" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Create a rental registry and strengthen rules and penalties for renovictions and bad faith evictions

"Pass the Keeping People Housed Act to introduce a rental registry and strengthen rules and penalties for renovictions and bad faith evictions." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Cut Landlord and Tenant Board wait-times down to one month and ensure fairness for both sides

"Reform the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) to cut wait times down from one year to one month, and en- sure the process is fair for both land- lords and renters. Strengthen the appointment process by making it more transparent." — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Return to in-person LTB hearings unless otherwise requested by the renter
Improve legal supports and legal aid funding for rental disputes

"Improve legal supports, including access to duty counsel and free information on rights and LTB procedures. Increase legal aid funding" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

Trades

PC

Provide $165M for an initiative to help workers earn a paycheque in the skilled trades while receiving in-class and on-the-job training
"$165 million for a “Learn and Earn” initiative to help workers earn a paycheque in the skilled trades while receiving in-class and on-the-job training . Key initiatives include:
1. $120 million to expand the existing Apprenticeship Development Benefit, including a new On-The-Job Training Support Stream to cover up to $2,500 for dependent care, learning supports and transportation costs .
2. $30 million to expand the existing Apprenticeship Completion Bonus that offers a grant of $2,000 for apprentices who complete either a Red Seal or Non-Red Seal trades certification .
3. $15 million to extend and expand the Tools Grant program to support apprentices with the cost of tools and equipment for their trade by increasing and standardizing the amount eligible to $1,000 for all in-scope trades ."
— Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26
Require all electrical workers to be registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification

"Doug Ford renewed the Ontario PCs’ commitment to enforce compulsory certification in the electrical trade and ensure all electrical workers in Ontario are registered apprentices or have a certificate of qualification." — ontariopc.ca, retrieved 2025-02-19

ONDP

Continue investment into the Skills Development Fund and workers' training centres

"We will support pathways into the skilled trades, from shop classes to those seeking a career change later in life, with continued investment in the Skills Development Fund and workers’ training centres across the province." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22
Create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, and keep skilled labour employed during market slowdowns

"Homes Ontario will help create thousands of new jobs in residential construction, while keeping skilled labour employed in periods of market slowdown." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

Fund colleges appropriately so they can offer programmes for training in the trades
Provide a year of free college tuition and a year-long apprenticeship to 60,000 people to develop skills and experience in the green economy

"Give 60,000 people the skills and experience to work in the green economy through a year of free college tuition plus a year long apprenticeship when they graduate" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22
Retrofit 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045

"Create hundreds of thousands of new jobs by retrofitting 40% of existing homes and workplaces to net zero by 2035, and 100% by 2045" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22