以下是保守党在本届省选中所立下的五个最重要的承诺。接下来让我们拭目以待，福特是否能兑现这些承诺，如何去兑现吧：
减税
道格福特最重要的承诺，就是为中产阶层减税，从而令民众更加富裕。具体来说则包括：为年收入在$42,960至$85,923的人降低所得税(income tax)20%。减少汽油税，从而令油价降低10分等等。
福特表示，会给本省的企业降税11.5%至10.5%，从而让它们更具竞争力，而且能够雇佣更多的工人。
So far, Ford has promised:
- Ford, who has pledged to scrap the Liberals’ planned minimum wage hike from $14 to $15 next year, would introduce an income tax credit for workers earning minimum wage so that anyone making less than $28,000 a year would pay no income tax.
- Cut corporate tax rates from 11.5 to 10.5 per cent in an effort to attract new businesses to Ontario
- Use a tax rebate program to cover up to $6,750 for childcare costs—lower-income families would receive 75 per cent of child-care costs back
- May abolish the 15 per cent non-resident buyer tax on real estate introduced last year
- Cut middle-class income taxes by 20 per cent for those earning $42,960 to $85,923 annually, but Ford unclear how it will be paid for
- Cut gasoline taxes by 10 cents a litre by ending the 4.3 cent a litre carbon tax along with a 5.7-cent reduction in the province’s fuel tax
- Cut the small business tax rate from 3.5 per cent to 3.2 per cent
Sources: Global News, Ontario PC,
Globe And Mail,
Toronto Star,
Maclean’s, CBC News
教育
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
Doug Ford has said he wants to “
review the curriculum in all core subject areas thoroughly“:
- “Scrap Kathleen Wynne’s ideological sex-ed curriculum and replace it with one that is age-appropriate, and only after real consultation with parents occurs”
- “Scrap discovery math, and replace it with proven methods of teaching.”
- Expand the mandate of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario to include a complaints and investigations process to evaluate violations of free speech
Sources: Doug Ford press release,
Toronto Star, Doug Ford Tweets, David Hains Tweet
降低电费
福特承诺，当选后将省民的平均电费降低12%，并解雇第一电力公司(Hydro One)的CEO、年薪620万元的Mayo Schmidt。
Doug Ford has said he’d
fire the CEO of Hydro One. Since the utility’s privatization, however, that power no longer rests with the provincial government. Other highlights:
Sources: CBC News; Toronto Star, Doug Ford’s official Twitter account; Global News
升级公交系统
具体包括：向多伦多地铁系统投资50亿，用来维护和新建线路。延长GTA范围内的GO Train线路，并扩张至大瀑布地区。
Doug Ford laid out his infrastructure promises which include:
- Commit $5-billion more funds for subways, relief lines, a two-way GO Transit to Niagara Falls as part of existing plan to build a regional transportation system
- Open the question of Hamilton’s $1.3 billion LRT project to a vote, noting that even if voters reject the LRT, Hamilton would receive the money for other infrastructure projects
- Develop new transportation infrastructure to open access to the Ring of Fire mining project in Northern Ontario’s James Bay lowlands
- Cut aviation fuel taxes on interprovincial flights to and from Northern Ontario, which Ford says will cost $11 million per year
Sources: Ontario PC, CityNews, Global News; CBC News
医疗护理
这项承诺包括：在未来5年间增加1.5万个长期护理的床位(long-term care beds)，10年内增加至3万。
On the health care front, Ford and the Ontario PCs’ platform has promised to:
- Add 15,000 new long-term care beds over the next five years and 30,000 new beds over the next 10 years
- Put an end to “hallway medicine” (when hospital overcrowding leads to patients being treated outside of more private rooms), although Ford hasn’t provided specifics as to how
- Spend $1.9 billion over the next decade on mental health and addiction support, estimated at approximately $190 million per year for a decade, with costs shared with federal government,
- Encourage more doctors to move to northern Ontario by cutting their provincial taxes down to as low as zero per cent
- Opposed to planned safe-injection sites for Ontario, particularly “in neighbourhoods”
- Increasing autism funding by an additional $38 million to a total of $100 million over five years mandate
- Spend $98 million a year to provide dental care to low-income seniors
Sources: Ontario PC, CityNews, Global News; CBC News
