Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP are on your side with a plan for Northern Ontario

SUDBURY - Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles announced her plan to deliver more for the North. She was joined by NDP candidates Jamie West (Sudbury), France Gélinas (Nickel Belt), John Vanthof (Timiskaming-Cochrane), David Timeriski (Algoma-Manitoulin), and Jim Ronholm (Parry Sound-Muskoka).

“After seven long years of Doug Ford, life in Northern Ontario is more expensive than ever. It’s harder to find a home you can afford, to see a family doctor in your community, or to pay for the basics like your grocery bills.

“As Premier, I will invest in Northern Ontario and listen to your communities. We will hire doctors in Northern communities, so you don’t have to leave your community to get care. We will invest in making Northern highways safe and well-maintained so you can get home to your loved ones safely. We will put more money back in your pocket every month for groceries.
“Doug Ford has failed the North. I will be a Premier who is always on your side.”

Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP will:

• Put more money in your pocket with a monthly grocery rebate program that will give families up to $122 to pay for groceries.
• Hire at least 350 more doctors for the North, including 200 family doctors, and double residency positions at NOSM University so you can get the health care you need, when and where you need it. We will make sure you can get care in your language by investing in Francophone health care services.
• Make Northern highways safer by widening Highway 11, 1, and 69 while building the Cochrane Bypass, taking back responsibility for maintaining connecting link highways, and making sure truck drivers are properly trained for Northern road conditions.
• Build permanently affordable homes in Northern Ontario as a part of the plan to build 300,000 deeply affordable non-profit and co-op units across the province, with new support for a For-Indigenous, By-Indigenous Housing Strategy.
• Invest in Francophone education, starting with proper funding for French school boards and French immersion programs as well as French-language child-care programs.
• Make sure school buses in the North are reliable so your child can get to and from school safely.

Read the full plan here.