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	<button class="readMore">Read about the other parties</button><script type="text/html" id="Liberal">	<h3>How will the Liberals help graduates find entry level jobs?</h3><p>We’re aware of the increasing challenges students face. The unemployment rate [... in] the general Montreal area is 11 per cent. If you’re a youth, it gets up to 26, 27 per cent. So these are huge challenges for this generation [...] not based on the quality of the students, based on the job market and the recession we’re in. [This] is extremely important, and it’s a big issue to tackle as a politician.</p><p>Our undertaking [is] to invest over a billion dollars over three years, to create 40,000 jobs per year. It’s multiple times the undertaking of any party that has offered a solution. Those will be jobs working through Employment Canada, [and] summer jobs—a component 5,000 of which per year will be green jobs with Parks Canada. The other initiative [...] is [investing] several hundred million dollars [to make] sure that the most needy students can have up to $3,000 in bursaries. We also have initiatives for making sure that employers start hiring students. Forgiveness of employment insurance [and] no requirement to pay employment insurance for people between 18 to 25. </p><p>For the number of people looking for a post-secondary education, which is key in this economy, key in this city—my riding has some of the foremost institutions in Canada, and perhaps arguably the world—those are game changers for the most needy in society. </p><p>	For the workforce generally, we’ve seen the cutting of funds through our provincial-federal agreements for skills training [....] So we’ve agreed to increase funding to [...] $750 million. Five hundred million dollars through provincial-federal work agreements, $200 million for base skills, and $50 million for indigenous initiatives.</p><p>The first pillar is our undertaking to invest $60 billion over 10 years in infrastructure in three aspects—bricks and mortar infrastructure; social housing, which is a huge issue in this area; and what we call green infrastructure, which would attempt to remedy some of the problems Montreal is having today with its wastewater, for example. </p><h3>How will the Liberals help students facing debt upon graduation?</h3><p>[We’ve proposed] a requirement [that graduates] pay only when [they] make over $25,000 [....] I don’t understand why students are seen more negatively than some corporations in terms of their ability to get rid of debt. I think we have to have more faith in our students. Let’s be clear, someone earning under $25,000 is not making a tremendous amount of money. We hope to be able to do better, but those are the platform elements on the table and we hope that will make the difference. </p><h3>What are your priorities in your riding? </h3><p>Ville-Marie- Le Sud-Ouest-Île-des-Soeurs [is] a vast riding with many disparities. It’s the hotbed for all the issues around gentrification - massive gaps in revenue for the very wealthy that are living on the new residences on the Lachine Canal, and old [residents] that are being pushed out. </p><p>The biggest immediate challenge is making sure that money is getting into the pockets of people that need it the most. We have an envelope of $20 billion over 10 years that will go directly into social housing. Little Burgundy faces some of the highest density levels of social housing [...] of close to 40 per cent. We’re going to do a full inventory of federal lands to see where we can build more social housing, because there’s a 2,000-person wait list. That will be a game-changer for people in this riding. As a federal representative, obviously, acknowledging the problem is important, but [so is] the ability to work with your provincial counterpart, your municipal counterpart [...] to make sure the agreements we’ve signed with them are implemented</p><p>There’s the Champlain Bridge [...] it’s a multi-billion dollar infrastructure project, it needs to be done right [...]—it’s Canada’s busiest bridge. The point to take away from all of this is that if you’re not a candidate that knows the riding, if Montreal’s not in your heart, and you’re not willing to work like a dog, you have no business being a candidate federally. </p>	</script><script type="text/html" id="NDP">	<h3>How will the NDP help graduates find entry level jobs?</h3><p> We [...] want to work very closely with municipalities, industry, [and] band councils in order to have a certain number of jobs reserved for students or young people coming on to the job market [....] We also are going to be specifically investing in infrastructure [... and will] reserve a portion of those jobs for students, as apprentices or other young professionals entering the market having anything to do with the infrastructure programs and projects that will be going on [....] We additionally want to put an end to unpaid internships. The NDP is the only party that put forward legislation during the last parliament in order to put an end to the abusive practice of unpaid internships.</p><h3>How will the NDP help students facing debt upon graduation?</h3><p>What we are committing to is eliminating interest on student loans at least as a start [....] I understand the huge and daunting reality that students face, and I would even say it might have been easier 20 or 30 years ago to pay it off. We didn’t have as many unpaid internships as are available today.</p><h3>What is the NDP’s plan for the economy? </h3><p> The general backdrop to the NDP’s plan when it comes to the economy [...] is to switch the focus from [subsidies for] the oil and gas sector to [creating winning conditions for] small and medium sized businesses. The way we’re going to do that is by reducing the tax rate [on small businesses] from 11 to nine percent, and by providing tax refunds or incentives when it comes to innovation, research and technology, and the purchase of equipment.</p><p> A part of our focus [...] also includes green technologies. The NDP wants Canada to be a leader when it comes to green technologies. Our vision is to have small and medium sized businesses, and especially the green technologies sector, thrive and prosper. </p><h3>How does the NDP plan to balance the federal budget while maintaining and increasing social programs? </h3><p>[With] social programs, it’s a matter of reallocating the resources that already exist [... and having] different priorities. When you’re not subsidizing the oil and gas sector you’ll be putting the money to places where it should go [....] You don’t need to run the country into a $10 billion deficit when you do already have the revenue coming from a myriad of different sources, you just need to have the right priorities, which the NDP has. </p><h3>What are your priorities in your riding? </h3><p>Montreal [...] needs to have its economy kick started. That’s priority number one, we need more jobs and you can only have more jobs when you have a prosperous economy.</p><p>It’s not easy to make a living or to make ends meet for anyone, especially youth, [so] what the NDP wants to do is [...] render more accessible public transportation [....] We’re going to be investing $1.3 billion a year for 20 years [....] Montreal’s share would be a portion of that but I’d fight to get as much as possible. What we want to do is to have [an] environmentally clean public transportation system [that’s] cheaper or more accessible. Service fees charged by banks, [we want] to lower those, so we just want to make the daily experience of students and anyone else who’s not making hundreds of thousands of dollars, easier. </p><h3>What should students know before election day? </h3><p>The NDP wants to see more people come out and vote. We understand that fewer students, proportionally speaking, come out to vote. This is why it’s all the more important. We need to inform ourselves more about civil society sooner rather than later so we get into the habit of voting. </p>	</script><script type="text/html" id="Conservative">	<h3>How will the Conservatives help graduates find entry level jobs?</h3><p>We in the Conservative Party [believe] in entrepreneurship. Being an entrepreneur myself in the knowledge-based economy, I see a lot of value-added jobs there. When deciding on a career profile, students, in my opinion, should think about where their passion lies. Being an entrepreneur is about value creation. You can start a for-profit - or a non-profit if this suits you best; the path is the same. It is about offering a product or service that can be of value to somebody. To differentiate, you will have to be very good at what you do. This is easier to achieve when you study in a field for which you have a passion. This way, you will happily put in the energy and the hours to make you excel.</p><h3>How will the Conservatives help students facing debt upon graduation?</h3><p>As for student debt, we have the lowest tuition fees in North America here. It would make sense when embarking [on] a study program to think about making a cost-benefit analysis. See it as an investment. An investment can be a sound one even if it requires a substantial amount to do it. The reverse is also true; an investment can be of a lower grade even if the amount invested is low because the future earning power mirrors it.</p>	</script><script type="text/html" id="Bloc"><h3>How will the Bloc help graduates find entry level jobs?</h3><p>We want to lower the taxes for small businesses; lowering the taxes will make sure that they can afford hiring additional people on their teams. Small businesses, they represent 80 per cent of the jobs here [....] For big corporations, with over 200 employees, we want to raise taxes, but there’s also a tax credit that we’re bringing in for research and job creation [....] We want to encourage the big corporations to move forward and to generate more activity in Montreal: that means green technologies, That means transportation, aeronautics, you name it [....] In the end, you need more job opportunities. </p><h3>How will the Bloc help students facing debt upon graduation?</h3><p>As I said, the one plan is free tuition, so there’s no more student debt problem to have there. I think that you also have to take some part of responsibility as a student, and that might mean a summer job, that might mean just doing your part. We do have subsidies in our budget to make it easier for companies to hire students during summer, to make sure that they can pay for an internship.</p><h3>How will you address the quality of education in Quebec?</h3><p>We are not spending our money right. We are spending our money on F-35 planes, which are going to cost $900 million or more per plane, when one plane is the cost of free tuition [....] It’s not going to create any jobs in Quebec, because those planes are going to be built in the United States and the boats are being constructed in Vancouver and Halifax, [and] we’re paying for 25 per cent of the bill [....] We’re basically just wasting money when we could invest in our universities [....] It’s easy to see how we’re underfunded [...] because the Conservatives did go with successive cuts in the budgets for research [....] You cut student services [...] and the students are the first ones to pay for that. We want to take the money back and invest it where it counts. </p><h3>What are your main environmental concerns?</h3>We suffer from [low] oil prices. When the oil price goes up, the jobs in the manufacturing industry are cut almost immediately. We’ve lost 34,000 jobs in Quebec due to the barrel price from Alberta, and now the Conservatives, NDP, and the Liberals, they want to go forward with the energies pipeline, which we oppose firmly [....] Quebec says no [to the pipeline], and it’s going to go through anyway. Why? Why should we be the ones taking risks with our rivers considering there’s no tangible return for us? [...] It’s the first time in history that Quebec has the possibility [...] to stop the significant increase in oil production. </p><h3>What is your stance on the platform of Quebec independence?</h3><p>There’s that myth that the Bloc is only there to demonstrate that Canada cannot work [....] We’re not here to disrupt the Federal government’s work, we’ve never done so [....] When Harper decided not to sign Kyoto, Quebec was ready to do it, and we wanted to do it, but we were not allowed. [We’re] basically saying we should have the right and the legitimacy to negotiate our own economical or environmental treaties with the other nations of the world.</p>	</script><script type="text/html" id="Green"><h3>How will the Green Party help students facing debt upon graduation?</h3><p>Education is not a privilege but a right. We cannot continue having the youngest adults in our society being saddled with incredible debt at 25 to 30 years old. I cannot imagine me at 25 starting my life with $50 or $60,000 of debt. </p><p>We are proposing a cap on existing student debt [of] up to $10,000 dollars maximum. That existing debt will [also] be payed back interest free. We all know that people [who] live in provinces also pay general taxes, so part of our provincial taxes goes to federal government. What we’re proposing is just to give back federal income tax with a program aimed at making tuition free. This of course will free, hopefully, provincial money to also invest in post-secondary education.</p><h3>How will the Green Party help graduates find entry level jobs?</h3><p>Of course the biggest challenge for a young graduate is getting an entry-level job, or at least getting the entry level experience, and this is why the Green Party of Canada is going to propose the creation of what’s called a Youth Core, which is essentially a program offering young graduates [an] entry-level job in the domain of environmental resource and environmental management. If you look in Quebec, information technologies provide […] an economy that’s $10 billion, versus the mining and forestry sector which is around three billion dollars. By investing in the green sector and providing paid internships—we are of the belief that students shouldn’t work for nothing—our objective is to create 160,000 positions over four years for young graduates [through the] Youth Core. </p><h3>How does the Green Party plan to balance the federal budget?</h3><p>We will raise corporate taxes from 15 per cent to—depending on the sector—17 to 19 per cent, of the big corporations. This [revenue] will be reinvested in the Youth Core approach that will create thousands of jobs. There may be some displacement from the oil and gas sector because we will remove the $1 billion plus subsidy we give to resources in the extraction sector. We’re also proposing a carbon fee of $30 per ton of carbon produced. That will produce a $22 billion income revenue.</p><h3>What is your stance on Bills C-51 and C-24?</h3><p>They should be repealed. A clause-by-clause analysis that the Green Party has done shows clearly, ironically, that C-51 might make Canada less safe because it gives extraordinary powers to CSIS. C-24 creates two classes of citizens. If Canada wants to be an open country to immigration, having C-24 hanging over people is just not a way to attract qualified immigrants that want to work in Canada.</p><h3>What challenges do you foresee?</h3><p>Clearly, there [are] challenges. We have less money, less volunteers, less signs, less organization than the big parties. But there is, on the other side, some good news because we are not going to be forming the government, we know this, and this permits us to propose innovative ideas. Ideally, the Green Party of Canada wants the other parties to steal our program and to steal our good ideas. If it’s a minority government, a Liberal minority or an NDP minority, we might be working with that party in collaboration and hopefully some of these ideas will be stolen and will be implemented, and that’s how we hope the Green Party can make change happen. </p>	</script><script type="text/html" id="Communist"> <h3>Stance on education</h3><p>“We believe education is a fundamental privilege, not a right. We advocate the abolition of tuition fees and a cancellation of student debts. We want to shift from loans to grants.” </p><p>The Communist Party of Canada (CPC) strictly opposes the corporatization of education, which they see as the increasing influence corporations have on the content of education as a result of the corporation's ability to fund the schools either directly or indirectly. By reversing the separation of tuition costs, the CPC believes that they can reverse the corporatization of post-secondary tuition and slowly reduce, and eventually eliminate tuition fees for all Canadian students.</p><h3>Stance on military research</h3><p>The CPC supports reducing government investment in the military by 75 per cent and transforming military jobs into civilian jobs. The funds that currently go into military research at McGill “can be used for renewable energy and urban design. There’s a number of things that are socially necessary that can certainly take the place of militarized research.” The CPC supports the nationalization of the pharmaceutical industry as a concrete means of both building up a job market for students in the sciences. “[We need a] shift in focus of research towards funding reasonable programs. Absolutely our science and technology base needs to grow.” </p><h3>Stance on the job market</h3><p>“B.S. [unpaid internships are] a form of free labour.” The CPC fully supports ending unpaid internships in private industries, claiming that major corporations undoubtedly have the funds to support interns. If CEOs of such corporations didn’t hoard the funds made by these businesses, they would be able to not only pay their interns a fair wage—the CPC supports a $20/hr minimum wage—but also provide benefits to their employees. The CPC also strongly supports ending the wage gap, claiming that it “hurts men and women,” because when corporations can justify paying women less than men, they can also justify lowering the overall pay for their male workers.</p><h3>Stance on Bill C-51, immigration, and the refugee crisis</h3><p>“C-51 we oppose because it’s obviously a piece of anti-democratic legislation.” The CPC claims that C-51 allows the RCMP to get away with racialized police tactics, among other illegal forms of policing minorities and recent immigrants. “We call for a democratic immigration policy, if you look even over the past ten years of the Harper government there’s been a significant shift in immigration [away from democracy….] Canada is a big country with a small population, we can take a lot more people than any party is considering.” The CPC is in support of drastically increasing the number of refugees that Canada is willing to accept. “For international students who decide they want to make Canada their permanent home, that should be an option they can pursue without obstacles.” However, the CPC recognizes that the “brain drain from the third world is a concern” and supports expanding student visas so that “even if [students] only study temporarily in this country [...] they can use their skills and education [that they learn in Canada] to help their home countries.”</p><h3>Problems the party is facing</h3>“[We’re struggling still with the] residual impact of anti-Communism, which harkens back to the Cold War and McCarthyism [....] There’s this idea that we don’t reflect Canadian values, but who’s deciding what Canadian values are? Is it Harper? [...] We’re the second oldest party in Canada [initially forming as the Socialist Party in 1904]. We reflect in our ranks the values of the working class, women, aboriginals.”</p><h3>Stance on effectiveness without a strong parliamentary leadership</h3><p>“The Supreme Court determined that it’s not just the parties in parliament that play an important role in the development of this country [....] Even though we have not elected many people [...] the very fact that we’re speaking out and raising issues that none of the other parties are talking about is important [...] whether or not we get in direct power we are still speaking out.” Throughout the history of the CPC, many of their members have been instrumental in enacting change in Canada, including Dr. Norman Bethune, who was one of the earliest advocates for Medicare in Canada.</p>	</script><script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">	$('.profileImg').on('click', function(){	var self = this;	$(this).addClass('active');	var remove = $('.profileImg').not(this);	var timer;	timer = window.setInterval(function(){	if(!remove.length){	$(self).closest('ul').addClass('active');	content = $('#' + $(self).data('target')).html();	$('.content').html(content);	$('.content').addClass('active');	window.clearInterval(timer);	return;	}	var target = Math.floor(Math.random() * remove.length); $(remove[target]).addClass('inactive');	remove.splice(target, 1);	}, 100);	});	$('.readMore').on('click', function(){	var self = this;	$(self).closest('ul').removeClass('active');	$('.content').removeClass('active'); $('.profileImg').removeClass('active');	var remove = $('.profileImg').not(this);	var timer;	timer = window.setInterval(function(){	if(!remove.length){	window.clearInterval(timer);	return;	}	var target = Math.floor(Math.random() * remove.length);	$(remove[target]).removeClass('inactive');	remove.splice(target, 1);	}, 100);	});	</script>
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