TORONTO -- A list of highlights from the Ontario New Democrat's election platform announced on Monday:

  • Create a province-wide dental care program with a first-year price tag of $670 million
  • Extend dental care to seniors without retirement benefits and people on social assistance
  • Implement universal pharmacare by 2020, with a projected annual budget of $475 million
  • Establish affordable child care scaled to income, with the average cost projected at $12 per day
  • Add 202,000 licensed child-care spaces and increase wages for early childhood educators
  • Boost hospital funding with a projected injection of $916 million in the first year
  • Create 2,000 hospital beds immediately and spend at least $19 billion over 10 years to reduce "hallway medicine" and cut wait times
  • Create 40,000 more long-term care beds by 2028
  • Boost home care funding by $300 million and increase personal support service hours to eliminate waiting lists
  • Cover the cost of drugs and medication for Ontario residents undergoing gender transition procedures
  • Establish a government ministry dedicated solely to mental health and addictions
  • Declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency and take measures to combat it, with a focus on harm reduction
  • Spend $16 billion to repair schools
  • Cap kindergarten class sizes at 26 students
  • Scrap standardized tests provided by the Education Quality Association of Ontario
  • Change all provincial loans for first-year post-secondary students to grants that do not need to be repaid
  • Deprivatize Hydro One and cut hydro bills by 30 per cent
  • Build 65,000 new affordable housing units and 30,000 supportive housing units over the next 10 years
  • Commit to fully implementing the Access for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, ensuring disabled residents don't need to reapply for various support programs once they turn 18, and increase Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program rates by a minimum of five per cent
  • Ban "pink taxes" that see women pay more than men for similar products and services
  • Maintain the carbon cap and trade market
  • Clean up mercury contamination in the waterways near Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations
  • Mandate that employers offer three weeks paid vacation, up from two
  • Increase the minimum wage to $15 and ensure it keeps up with inflation
  • Invest $180 billion in infrastructure
  • Improve health care for Indigenous communities
  • Expand the number of manufacturing and automotive sector jobs in the province