Where do Canada’s political parties stand on the issues that matter to older adults? We’ve reviewed platforms, announcements and statements to find out.
Below you will find information from each political party based on their platforms, announcements and statements as they relate to our key advocacy issues. Don’t worry if you don’t see information from each party yet — it means we are waiting for action and need you to be part of our campaign today to tell parties what is most important to older adults. We will update this information throughout the remainder of the campaign with new and relevant information — so keep checking the Canada Votes 2025 page!
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Retirement income security
Promoting positive and healthy aging
Minister for seniors (older persons)
Health care
Veteran well-being
Retirement income security
The political parties and their platforms are listed alphabetically. Here’s what the parties are promising on retirement income security:
Bloc Québécois
- Re-introduce Bill C-319 to raise Old Age Security (OAS) for people aged 65-74.
- Increase the threshold to allow more people to receive Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS).
- Improve the purchasing power of retirees as a means of supporting economic activity in the regions through the purchasing power of the most vulnerable.
- Introduce a tax credit for experienced workers.
- Protect defined benefit pensions.
- Double the GST credit for quarters when inflation exceeds Bank of Canada target and pay the credit out monthly.
Source: Le Bloc Québécois persiste pour les retraités du Québec.
Source: Plateforme politique -2025-
Conservative Party of Canada
- Allow working seniors to earn up to $34,000 tax free — $10,000 more than now.
- Allow seniors the option of keeping savings growing in RRSPs until age 73, up from 71.
- Protect OAS, GIS and CPP by keeping the retirement age at 65.
Source: Lower Taxes, Secure Retirement for Our Seniors.
Green Party of Canada
- Introduce a guaranteed livable income, so no one lives in poverty.
Source: Caring for Canadians.
Liberal Party of Canada
- Protect retirement savings by reducing the minimum amount that must be withdrawn from a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) by 25 per cent for one year.
- Increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement by five per cent for one year, providing up to $652 more to low-income seniors, tax-free.
- Amend the Public Service Superannuation Act to expand early retirement eligibility, also known as “25 and out” for frontline employees, including firefighters, paramedics, correctional service employees, border services officers, Parliamentary protection officers, and search and rescue.
- Get Canadians the benefits they deserve by delivering automatic tax filing, starting with low-income households and seniors.
Source: Mark Carney’s Liberals to deliver urgent support to protect Canadian retirees in this global crisis.
Source: Canada Strong.
New Democratic Party
- Lift all seniors out of poverty by raising the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS).
- Double the Canada Disability Benefit, helping low-income people with disabilities live with dignity.
- Reverse the capital gains tax cut.
- Permanently remove the GST from essentials like grocery store meals, plus monthly bills including cell, internet and heating bills.
Promoting positive and healthy aging
The political parties and their platforms are listed alphabetically. Here’s what the parties are promising on promoting positive and healthy aging:
Bloc Québécois
- Increase in and automatic granting of a tax credit for home care.
- Unconditionally fund public transit projects selected by Quebec and the municipalities.
- Require the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to provide mortgages to seniors’ residences with fewer than 50 units.
- Make it easier for seniors to stay in their home communities.
Source: Le Bloc Québécois persiste pour les retraités du Québec.
Source: Faisons travailler des Québécois pour l’avenir des transports.
Source: Plateforme politique -2025-
Conservative Party of Canada
- Remove the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on purchases of all new Canadian-manufactured vehicles.
- Make the caregiver tax credit refundable.
- Streamline and simplify the Disability Tax Credit, including renaming the certificate and making eligibility automatic for related programs.
- Build 2.3 million homes over the next five years.
- Establish a 60-day standard that CMHC executives must meet for approving or rejecting affordable housing financing applications.
- Remove onerous CMHC program eligibility requirements to make it easier for homebuilders to access the benefits of affordable housing funding.
- Preserve existing dental care coverage and honour existing deals with provinces and territories on child care and pharmacare.
Source: Poilievre To Axe GST on Canadian-Made Cars.
Source: Plan for Change
Green Party of Canada
- Expand paid leave to elder care, miscarriage and other family needs.
- Triple the amount of social housing in Canada by building 1.2 million permanently affordable homes (non-market rental or cooperative) over seven years.
- Mandate CMHC to establish five regional prefab/modular housing plants to mass-produce affordable housing
Source: Caring for Canadians.
Source: The Green Party Unveils Bold Plan to Address the Housing Crisis.
Liberal Party of Canada
- Expand dental coverage to Canadians aged 18-64.
- Double the pace of construction over the next decade to almost 500,000 new homes a year.
- Facilitate the conversion of existing structures into affordable housing units.
- Continue to advance the National Caregiving Strategy.
- Review and reform the process to apply for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC)
Source: Mark Carney’s Liberals take action to make life more affordable.
Source: Mark Carney’s Liberals unveil Canada’s most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War.
Source: Canada Strong.
New Democratic Party
- Introduce emergency price caps on basic grocery items.
- Three million new homes, including non-market and affordable housing by 2030.
- Ban fixed-term leases, renovictions, demovictions, and other landlord practices aimed at pushing people out of their homes and driving up rents.
- Ban rent price-fixing and collusion by corporate landlords, including the use of shared data platforms and coordinated pricing tools.
- Recognize the right of tenant unions to negotiate with landlords.
- Create the new $8 billion Canadian Homes Transfer over four years, which will include:
- Requiring cities to allow more multi-unit homes in all neighbourhoods.
- Require more housing near public transit routes.
- Committing to 20 per cent non-market housing in every neighbourhood.
- Creating a Communities First Fund, which includes:
- National rent control rules.
- Implementing a renters’ bill of rights.
Source: Singh: NDP Will Build 3 Million Homes by 2030—and Make Housing Affordable Again.
Source: NDP to end landlord money grabs and bring in national rent control.
Source: Singh: We’ll cap grocery prices and make food more affordable for Canadians.
Minister for seniors (older persons)
The political parties and their platforms are listed alphabetically. Here’s what the parties are promising on a minister of seniors (older persons):
Bloc Québécois
Conservative Party of Canada
Green Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
New Democratic Party
Health care
The political parties and their platforms are listed alphabetically. Here’s what the parties are promising on health care:
Bloc Québécois
Conservative Party of Canada
- Work with provinces to create nationally recognized licences for doctors, nurses, early childhood educators and other professions.
- Add 15,000 doctors by 2030.
- Bring home Canadian students studying medicine abroad by expanding residency spots.
- Rapidly recognize U.S.-board certified professionals to bring more qualified physicians to meet Canadians’ health-care needs.
Source: Plan for Change
Green Party of Canada
- Provide stable, long-term funding to provinces and territories.
- Train and hire more health-care workers to improve access and cut wait times.
- Expand home care and community care.
- Invest in public health care instead of allowing for-profit corporations to deliver more services.
- Introduce a new primary care health act to guarantee every Canadian access to a family doctor, nurse practitioner, or community health team.
- Fully integrate mental health services into public health care as an insured benefit.
- Implement universal pharmacare to cover all prescription medication.
- Expand the Canadian Dental Care Plan to all eligible Canadians.
- Enforce and enhance the Canada Health Act to ensure all new federal health dollars go to public, not-for-profit care.
- Invest in healthcare worker training and fair compensation, including streamlined credential recognition for internationally trained professionals.
Source: More Health Care
Source: Green Party of Canada Unveils Bold Plan to Expand Universal Public Healthcare.
Liberal Party of Canada
- Add thousands of new doctors to Canada’s health care system
- Address labour mobility issues and implement pan-Canadian licensure so that health workers can be employed anywhere in Canada.
- Work with provincial and territorial partners to streamline credential recognition for internationally trained doctors and nurses.
- Increase medical school and residency spaces, build new medical schools and expand residency positions, especially for family medicine.
- Build hospitals, clinics and more by investing $4 billion to construct and renovate community health care infrastructure. This will also support investments in public long-term care; improve access to team-based care, including mental health care services; and provide funding for expensive machinery like MRIs.
- Significantly reduce wait times for life-saving medications.
- Ensure Canadians can securely access their health-care data.
Source: Canada Strong.
New Democratic Party
- Connect all Canadians with family doctors and primary care by 2030.
- Help tackle the doctor shortage, increase Canada Health Transfers by an additional one per cent for provinces that commit to action and publicly report on their progress.
- Make full enforcement of public health-care standards a condition of federal health funding.
- Actively recruit qualified nurses from the United States and fast-track their credentials so they can help fill urgent gaps in Canada’s public health-care system—especially in underserved communities.
- Introduce universal pharmacare, starting with essential medicines, building to full coverage by the end of four years.
Source: Singh pledges federal action to give every Canadian access to a family doctor by 2030.
Source: Singh: Public health care is ours—and we’re not giving it up.
Source: NDP Plan for Better Health Care: More Nurses, Safer Workplaces, No Cuts or Private Agencies.
Source: Singh: The Ultra-Rich Should Pay Their Share—So We Can Protect Health Care and Lower Costs for You.
Source: Singh: Universal healthcare isn’t complete until pharmacare is delivered.
Source: Made for People. Built for Canada.
Veteran well-being
The political parties and their platforms are listed alphabetically. Here’s what the parties are promising on veteran well-being:
Bloc Québécois
Conservative Party of Canada
- Automatically approve disability applications if they are not processed within 16 weeks.
- Give veterans full control over their medical records.
- Let military doctors assess injuries using one standardized system.
- Ensure post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) service dogs are available to veterans who need them, with a consistent national standard for support.
- Make available the Education and Training Benefit (ETB) to veterans immediately upon receiving their release date.
- Expand Helmets to Hardhats Canada to connect veterans with skilled trades and construction careers.
- For veterans transitioning to the private sector:
- Provide veterans the documentation they need to have their skills recognized by civilian employers upon release through a red-seal system.
- Ensure veterans get post-secondary course credits for skills and knowledge they gained while serving in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), such as credit for courses on leadership if they already have a background in leadership positions.
- Review and remove the pulling back of military pensions for veterans who get jobs, ensuring their new income is on top of their pension, not in place of it.
- Honour our veterans with ceremonies, recognition, made-in-Canada documentaries to tell the story of Canadians’ contributions to winning the World Wars, and new national monuments for those who served in Afghanistan and the Second World War.
Source: Conservatives Announce Plan to Put Canada’s Veterans First.
Source: Plan for Change.
Green Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
- Improve health services and support for women veterans’ health by launching a health research study on the experience of women veterans to ensure proper data is collected so that its service delivery can capture the increase of women veterans transitioning to civilian life and ultimately improve their health outcomes.
- Modernize and streamline the benefits system, to deliver faster decisions, shorter wait times and less paperwork so that veterans and their families get the support they need sooner and more easily.
- Make it easier for veterans to get jobs by working with provinces and territories to streamline the recognition of military trade credentials in the civilian world, so that qualified veterans do not needlessly retrain once they leave the military.
- Make it easier to maintain a security clearance when necessary, after retirement so veterans can continue contributing to the protection of Canadian sovereignty.
- Expand recognition of service by reviewing the designation of certain military missions, including in the Persian Gulf, so that veterans’ sacrifices in conflict zones are properly recognized.
- Expand culturally relevant services for Indigenous veterans in consultation with First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples. Indigenous peoples put up their hands to join Canada’s military at particularly high rates.
- Preserve the National Field of Honour through work with the Last Post Fund to assume ownership of the National Field of Honour in Montreal, so that it remains an appropriate and respectful final resting place for veterans.
Source: Canada Strong.
New Democratic Party