Promise tracker: What the Ontario PCs pitched during the election campaign

A running list of election promises announced by the Progressive Conservatives, NDP, Liberals and Greens in Ontario since late March.

May 21

• Build 1.5 million homes over 10 years.

May 20

• Invest $1 billion over three years to get more people into the skilled trades.

May 13

• Continue to accelerate five electricity transmission lines to southwestern Ontario.

May 12

• Build an 18-kilometre highway between Kitchener and Guelph.

May 9

• Increase disability support payment rates by five per cent and introduce legislation to tie annual increases to inflation.

May 8

• Continue with plan to restore northern passenger rail service. Rebuild Highway 101 through Timmins.

May 7

• Continue with work to build road infrastructure to the Ring of Fire.

May 6

• Expand GO train service to Bowmanville.

May 4

• Build Highway 413 across Halton, Peel and York regions.

April 28

• Spend $158.8 billion over 10 years for highways, transit and hospitals, with $20 billion promised this year alone. Highway projects include Highway 413 and the Bradford Bypass, widening Highway 401 east from Pickering, and improving the QEW Skyway. Hospital investments include $1 billion each for projects at the Scarborough Health Network and Unity Health. Transit projects include continuing Ontario Line work, a Sheppard subway extension, the Eglinton Crosstown West extension to the airport, weekday GO trips between London and Union Station, and passenger rail service to northeastern Ontario.
• Balance the budget in 2027-28.
• Implement a new Ontario Seniors Care at Home tax credit that would refund up to 25 per cent of eligible expenses up to $6,000, for a maximum credit of $1,500.
• Enhance the Low-Income Individuals and Families Tax Credit, boosting the maximum benefit from $850 to $875 and allowing people making up to $50,000 to qualify, up from a limit of $38,000.
• Move some provincial agencies out of Toronto in a bid to save on real estate costs and bring jobs to other regions.
• Make film and television productions distributed exclusively online eligible for a credit. Scrap a rule that limited tax credits to books with more than 500 hard copy editions published.
• Invest an additional $114.4 million over three years in a Skilled Trades Strategy. Provide an additional $268.5 over three years to Employment Ontario.

April 27

• Invest an additional $15.1 million over three years to improve and expand the Immigrant Nominee Program.

April 26

• Move the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board head office from Toronto to London, Ont.

April 25

• Invest an additional $1 billion in home care over three years.

April 20

• Introduce a legislative amendment to raise compensation for workers injured on the job.