Promises made on key issues in the 2025 Ontario election

An statement betwixt U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau means 25 per cent tariffs are paused for astatine slightest 30 days from Feb. 3 for the 2 countries to scope a deal.

The Progressive Conservatives person promised to support and widen an electrical conveyance manufacturing subsidy agreed during their past word successful government. The committedness could person disappeared aft the U.S. walked distant from its program but, if re-elected, the PCs said they would proceed up to $14 cardinal successful incentives for electrical conveyance and artillery manufacturing plants.

The PCs are besides promising to walk $38 cardinal connected “action centres” to assistance radical modulation into different jobs if determination are layoffs arsenic a effect of U.S. tariffs connected Canadian goods.

The enactment has besides announced different $40 cardinal for “trade-impacted communities,” wealth acceptable speech for municipalities peculiarly reliant connected U.S. commercialized and harmed astir by tariffs.

If elected and if tariffs hit, the PCs are promising to defer provincially administered taxes connected Ontario businesses by six months, a measurement the enactment pegs astatine $10 billion. It has besides promised a further $3 cardinal successful payroll taxation and premier alleviation for tiny businesses.

The enactment would besides summation the wholesale LCBO discount from 10 to 15 per cent to prevention bars and restaurants wealth — costing a PC authorities $120 million.

Another $300 cardinal would beryllium spent by a re-elected Ford authorities to grow a taxation recognition for home Ontario manufacturing. Separately, $600 cardinal would spell to the Invest Ontario Fund to pull manufacturing and beingness subject technology

The Liberals person promised to make a “fight tariff fund” if elected, which would springiness Ontario businesses little involvement rates and enactment to destruct interprovincial commercialized barriers.

The enactment said it would besides connection a $150,000 bonus for Canadian nurses and doctors moving successful the U.S. to determination to Ontario.

The Ontario NDP said it would “partner” with unions and employers to support jobs and enactment to find caller proviso chains successful industries that trust heavy connected the U.S. The enactment besides said it would “support” the car sector.

The NDP said it would motorboat a Buy Ontario run and nonstop authorities agencies to procure locally. The enactment would besides make a task unit connected the system and enactment section farming by removing the headdress from Ontario’s Risk Management Program.

The NDP besides said it would instrumentality a federal-provincial income enactment program. The enactment has not enactment a terms tag connected immoderate of its tariff effect promises.

The Ontario Greens person promised to make a tariff task unit to tackle the issue. The enactment said it would besides make an concern taxation recognition and a Buy Ontario strategy.

The Greens besides said they would make a Protect Ontario Fund to enactment businesses disproportionately impacted by tariffs and enactment to diversify Ontario’s commercialized partners.