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scared of and stressed out by the election—and rightful
trying to navigate all the parties and their platforms. Don’
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New Democratic Party
(led by Jagmeet Singh)

Campaign Focus:

The NDP’s platform focuses on education, health care,
and environmental issues. They promise to reduce

e tuition fees and student load interests and eventually
move up to free education. They also say if elected
they want to expand health coverage starting with
universal healthcare by 2020, but no formal plan has
been introduced. In terms of climate care, they want

- > to reduce single-use plastics and power Canada with
I carbon-free electricity by 2030. They also propose to
° abandon the pipeline project Trudeau has started.

Controversy:

Some have accused Singh to be associated with a Sikh

  

Green Party
(led by Elizabeth May)

 
     
 

Campaign focus:
Elizabeth May and her Green Party have a consistent focus on the
environment throughout their platform.

A few of the goals they list on their website include: reducing
carbon emissions by 60 percent in 2030, terminating the Trans
Mountain pipeline, “reviewing federal policy to align with the UN
Sustainable Development Goals,” and “increasing contributions to
the Green Climate Fund and Global Environment Facility.” Other
non-environmental goals include making sex work legal, lowering the
voting age to 16, and enacting Pharmacare for all by 2020.

What the haters say:

According to Global News, the Green Party’s budget has earned a
failing grade from a team of expert economists at the University of
Washington. The experts explain that there are “serious gaps” in
both the Green Party’s spending plan of government money and in
transparency.

An example of their high budget is highlighted by the fact that
their universal Pharmacare would cost $26.7 billion in the first
year—compared to the $10 billion NDP candidate Jagmeet Singh has
pledged to spend. May says that Pharmacare does end up being quite a
cost—and later states that “[the Green Party has] never been slavishly
addicted to balanced budgets.”

Controversies:

In recent weeks, if you were to look at the Green Party’s homepage,
you would’ve seen an image of Elizabeth May smiling while holding a
reusable cup and a reusable straw.

According to the National Post, the photo was photoshopped—
May was originally holding a plastic cup and a plastic straw. The
instance is certainly silly, yet it highlights the important issue of a
political leader’s ability to manipulate their image to fit what the voters
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in 2015 he attended a rally where the speakers called a
for a separate Sikh nation known as Khalistan and
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