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| ACCESS TO INFORMATION |
| Amend the Access to Information Act so that all government data is made open by default in digital formats. |
| Create a central, no-fee portal for personal information requests. |
| Create a common, quarterly, and more detailed parliamentary expense report. |
| Eliminate all fees associated with the Access to Information process except for the initial $5 filing fee. |
| Ensure that the Access to Information law applies to the Prime Minister’s and Ministers’ Offices, as well as administrative institutions that support Parliament and the courts. |
| Expand open data initiatives and make government data available digitally so that Canadians can easily use it. |
| Release key information that informs decision-making and devote a fixed percentage of program funds to experimenting with new approaches to existing problems. |
| ELECTIONS |
| Ban partisan government ads. |
| End first-past-the-post voting system and explore alternative electoral reform options. |
| Ensure that all Canadians have a right to vote, no matter where they live. |
| Establish an independent commission to organize leaders’ debates. |
| Increase election fraud penalties. |
| Provide Elections Canada with the resources it needs to investigate voter fraud and suppression, illegal financing, and other matters that threaten the integrity of the electoral process. |
| Restore the independence of the Commissioner of Canada Elections so that they are accountable to Parliament and not the government of the day. |
| Restore the voter identification card as an acceptable form of identification. |
| Review the limits on how much political parties can spend during elections, and ensure that spending between elections is subject to limits. |
| Scrap Bill C-50 (Citizen Voting Act). |
| FOREIGN AFFAIRS |
| Normalize relations with Iran. |
| PARLIAMENT |
| Change the House of Commons Standing Orders to end practice of using inappropriate omnibus bills to reduce scrutiny of legislative measures. |
| Do not use prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances. |
| Empower the Speaker to challenge and sanction Members during Question Period, and allow more time for questions and answers. |
| For members of the Liberal Caucus, all votes will be free votes except those that implement the Liberal platform, traditional confidence matters, and those that address the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
| Introduce a Prime Minister’s Question Period. |
| Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries may not be, or stand in for, voting members on committees. |
| Parliamentary committees will be given more resources to acquire independent, expert analysis of proposed legislation. |
| SCIENCE |
| Bring in tougher regulations to eliminate trans fats and to reduce salt in processed foods. |
| Consolidate government science so that it is easily available to the public at-large through a central portal. |
| Create the post of Chief Science Officer. |
| End MSM blood donation ban. |
| Improve food labels to give more information on added sugars and artificial dyes in processed foods. |
| Introduce new restrictions on the commercial marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children, similar to those in Québec. |
| Introduce plain packaging requirements for tobacco products, similar to those in Australia and the United Kingdom. |
| Revoke rules and regulations that muzzle government scientists and allow them to speak freely about their work, with only limited and publicly stated exceptions. |
| Work with the professional medical community and relevant stakeholders to establish professional protocols in relation to decriminalizing medically-assisted death. |
| SENATE |
| Create a new, non-partisan, merit-based process to advise the Prime Minister on Senate appointments. |
| SERVICE QUALITY |
| Create individualized secure accounts for those who want to access all of their government benefits and review key documents. |
| Create new performance standards for services offered by the federal government, including streamlining applications, reducing wait times, and money-back guarantees. |
| Stop the plan to end Canada Post door-to-door mail delivery and restore mail service. |
| STATSCAN |
| Immediately restore the mandatory long-form census. |
| Make Statistics Canada fully independent. |
| WOMEN AND YOUTH |
| Create a Prime Minister’s Youth Advisory Council, consisting of young Canadians aged 16-24, to provide non-partisan advice to the Prime Minister on issues the country is facing. |
| Ensure gender-based impact analysis in Cabinet decision-making. |
| Include an equal number of women and men in the Cabinet. |
| Register young Canadians to vote as a part of their high school or CEGEP curriculum. |
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