CANDIDATES | PLATFORM | CONTACT

On Tuesday, October 3 Vote Communist!

OUR CANDIDATES

Cam Scott – Wolseley

Damon Bath – St. Boniface

Andrew Taylor – Notre Dame

Rob Crooks – Fort Rouge

PLATFORM

Defend and Expand Healthcare

Respect the Canada Health Act and oppose the privatization of healthcare
Stop hospital closures
Build the regional hospital in Portage La Prairie now
Ensure public ownership and oversight of all long-term care homes
Reverse the privatization of Medevac and air ambulance services
Expand Medicare to include pharmacare, dental and vision care, long-term care, and mental health care
Provide full healthcare coverage to all Manitoba residents regardless of immigration status
Recognize the opiate and amphetamine crisis as a health issue: focus on treatment and prevention of deaths
Fully fund the Mobile Overdose Prevention Site and build permanent safe injection sites to save lives
Make addiction treatment available on demand and barrier free, no more death and injury while on waitlists
Increase funding to the Mobile Crisis Unit
Increase number of ambulances

Recognize the Right to National Self-Determination

Search the Landfill
Search the grounds of all residential schools with radar technology
Take immediate action to implement the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Take immediate action to fund and improve living conditions, infrastructure, housing, education, healthcare, social services, and other urgent needs, including protection of language and culture, for Indigenous peoples on and off reserve
Stop the seizure of Indigenous children into ‘care’ and work with First Nations to fully implement the recommendations of the 2014 ‘Bringing Our Children Home’ Report
Guarantee the right to public and post-secondary education and to government services in French and Indigenous languages
Honour the treaties and the right of nations to self-determination, including through proper consultation regarding land use, education, health, and all elements of provincial jurisdiction

Create Jobs and Raise Living Standards — End Austerity

Raise the minimum wage to $23
Legislate a 32-hour work week with 40 hours pay
Reverse Bill 16 (Pallister’s anti-union legislation)
Guarantee the right to strike, organize and picket
Remove barriers to employment
Retrofit schools, hospitals, public buildings, and infrastructure with green technology
Expand public services and reverse privatization
Act now to fully implement the Accessibility for Manitobans Act
Remove barriers to accessing Manitoba Supports for Persons with Disabilities
Transform EIA into a guaranteed liveable income without disruption between employment, with immediate, barrier-free registration between work
Legislate a minimum of ten sick days for all workers, including part-time, gig, and contract workers

Fund Real Community Health and Safety, Not More Police

Oppose the construction of any and all new jails
Reallocate the province’s $24 million contribution to the Winnipeg Police Service to real community health and safety initiatives including housing, mental health supports, and food security
Disarm and de-militarize the police
Replace the Police Services Act with a Community Safety Act
Put police under civilian control, including the power to investigate police assaults and murders
Reduce pre-trial detentions and oppose discriminatory bail reforms

Make Housing a Right, Not a Privilege

Build 10,000 units of affordable rent-geared-to-income social housing
Expropriate buildings of landlords who leave their buildings derelict
Follow the Community Vision for Portage Place, including Rent-Geared-to-Income Housing
Roll back rents and legislate real rent control
Ban all Above Guideline Rent Increases (AGIs)
Create and expand municipal land banks
Require landlords to provide heat and air conditioning
Recognize the rights of tenants to organize
Ban eviction or utility cut-offs due to strikes or layoffs

Say No to Privatization: Expand Public Services and Social Programs

Reverse Public-Private Partnerships (P3s)—a windfall for banks and developers, and a disaster for the public
Restore provincial funding and transfers for public services and social programs cut by previous governments
Reverse provincial download of services and funding
Fund services for youth, including amateur sports, recreation and culture
Expand municipal transit systems; make public transit free and accessible
Create a Crown corporation to provide accessible, affordable and frequent public transit between rural communities and across the province
Restore MTS as a Crown corporation under public democratic control, with low-cost service to residential users
Expand fibre optic network across the province, and establish a 5G network for Manitoba
Keep Manitoba Hydro public, and keep rates low
Oppose the privatization of AUTOPAC

Fight for Climate Justice

Sharply reduce fossil fuel use and carbon emissions now, and eliminate them altogether by 2050
Enact legislation to compel corporate compliance, including jail terms for CEOs and public take-overs of offending companies
Develop renewable energy sources—solar, wind, thermal, hydro-electric, etc.—in a publicly owned and democratically controlled energy sector
Pay reparations to communities adversely impacted by Manitoba Hydro projects; reverse the destruction of waterways and shorelines
Develop an east-west power grid connecting western provinces
Fight to close tar sands and guarantee workers’ jobs in renewable energy and value-added manufacturing
Cancel all pipeline projects based on expansion of tar sands extraction and end fracking
Adopt an ecologically sound Critical Minerals Strategy, with robust Indigenous consultation and consideration of future impacts

Stop Corporate Attacks on Family Farmers

Curb the power of agri-business and protect and expand supply management in agriculture
Cap the costs of farm inputs, including machinery, seed and feed, etc.
Raise farm incomes and make bank foreclosures illegal
Legislate stronger labour and minimum wage laws for farm workers
Ban GMO and ‘terminator’ seeds; shift to environmentally sustainable methods of food production
Set price controls on food staples for Northern and Indigenous communities
Increase food safety inspections and ensure Canada’s food sovereignty

Make Education Free and Universally Accessible

Fund public and post-secondary education
Eliminate tuition fees for students in publicly funded colleges and universities
Eliminate corporate intrusions into courses and curricula
Expand liberal arts, labour, Indigenous, and women’s and gender studies
Ban hate speech and protect free speech on campus
Ban military and police recruitment on all campuses and schools
End public financing of private and religious schools

Expand Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Enact equal pay for work of equal value across the public and private sector
Legislate reproductive choice, and universal access to abortion across the province in free-standing clinics
Build a provincial system of universally accessible, affordable, quality public childcare
Stop the attacks on the equality rights of 2SLGBTQI people
Protect and expand access to gender-affirming surgery and HRT

Tax the Corporations and the Rich

Restore a progressive tax system based on ability to pay
Double the corporate tax rate and raise taxes on the wealthy
Collect unpaid and deferred corporate taxes and close tax loopholes
Eliminate taxes on incomes under $40,000
Introduce a wealth and inheritance tax on estates over $1 million
Restore the capital tax and increase the capital gains tax to 100% of the gain
Enact capital controls to prevent capital flight
Axe the provincial sales tax and the HST
Take education off the property tax and cut property taxes by 50%

Fight for Justice and Solidarity, Fight Against Racism and Discrimination

Implement BDS demands in all Manitoban public institutions
Stop the import of Israeli products into Manitoba
Stop the export of Manitoba products to Israel
Address issues of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism and other forms of discrimination, including discrimination against people with disabilities, the poor, and 2SLGBTQI people, through public awareness campaigns

Make Every Vote Count

Enact mixed member proportional representation to make every vote count

CONTACT

Email: manitoba@cpc-pcc.ca