Lower costs
Life is too expensive for families. We have a plan to lower your costs.
A Manitoba NDP Government Will:
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Lower taxes and bills:
- Freeze hydro rates for one year to make life more affordable for Manitoba families and small businesses
- Ban surge pricing to save you money on your Hydro bill
- Cut the gas tax to save you 14 cents a litre at the pump every time you gas up
- Offer a broad middle-class tax cut
- Create an Affordable Home Energy Program to cover the costs for 5,000 homes to convert to geothermal energy
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Make life more affordable:
- Provide universal access to free prescription birth control
- Bring in real $10/day childcare all year, with flexible hours
- Implement a universal school nutrition program in every school
- Restore funding to international student health coverage, which the PCs cut
- Stop the PCs interference in MPI and put the interests of ratepayers first
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Increase affordable housing:
- Build more social and affordable housing
- Bring in a Ministerial approval process to ensure better oversight over affordable non-profit housing and stop what happened at Lion’s place from happening again
- Invest in upkeep and maintenance of Manitoba Housing properties so we can reduce the waitlist for proper housing all across the province
- End chronic homelessness by connecting people with housing and mental health supports
- Bring in stronger rent control and increase the renter's tax credit to $700
- Take the PST off new rental builds to create more affordable housing and grow the economy