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RSS FeedsTories would take over and expand Toronto´s subways, election plan reveals
(The Star Golf)

 
 

25 november 2017 02:33:32

 
Tories would take over and expand Toronto´s subways, election plan reveals
(The Star Golf)
 


A Progressive Conservative government would take over and expand TTC subway lines, invest $1.9 billion in mental health services and slash middle-class income taxes by 22.5 per cent, the Star has learned.PC Leader Patrick Brown will unveil his party’s ambitious spring election plan — dubbed People’s Guarantee — in a speech to 1,500 PC delegates Saturday at the Toronto Congress Centre.A new childcare tax benefit that will allow parents to write off more of their daycare expenses is being heralded to help families pay for soaring costs.Sources say the 80-page platform would have the provincial government assume financial responsibility for the Toronto Transit Commission’s subway network, leaving the buses and streetcar lines to the city, if the Conservatives topple Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals on June 7.Tories believe the uploading promise — similar to one made by former PC leader Tim Hudak in the 2014 election — will be more popular with voters now that the subway extends into Vaughan and has become more of a regional transportation utility.With direct provincial control, a PC administration could expedite the TTC’s planned downtown relief line along Carlaw Ave., ensure completion of the controversial Scarborough subway and extend the Yonge line to Richmond Hill.Brown will announce an additional $1.9 billion for mental health initiatives over the next decade to match the federal funding announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in March.There would be more money for autism services, an expansion of subsidized dental care for senior citizens and a promise of 15,000 new long-term care home beds.In a salvo at Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals, in power since 2003, there will be a new Stephen Harper-influenced provincial accountability act to improve conflict-of-interest rules and boost transparency and oversight at Queen’s Park.Because the Tories believe the Liberals are concealing a budget defi ...


 
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