Toronto Star

Here’s a rundown of Ford’s election promises

VowsVV to cut income tax, scrap cap- and- trade and take over subway plans

- JENNIFER PAGLIARO STAFF REPORTER

The people have spoken: Doug Ford’s Ontario PC Party has won enough seats to form a majority government.

Now comes the actual governing part.

Each of parties’ platforms were laid out, some in more detail than others, during the campaign and the key planks were ww hammered out in de- bates and at doors across the province.

Now that voters have awarded them leadership at Queen’s Park, here is what the winning ww party promised all Ontarians:

On taxes: Scrap cap- andtrade and challenge any carbon tax imposed by the federal aa government in court; cut income taxes by 20 per cent for those earning between $ 43,000 and $ 86,000; provide a 75 per cent tax credit for child care costs; and lower gasoline gg taxes by 10 cents per litre;

On jobs: Freeze the minimum m wage at $ 14 per hour and provide an income tax credit for minimum- wage earners;

On health care: Create 15,000 new long- term care beds over the next five years and aa another 15,000 in 10 years to address hospitals that are over capacity and provide free dental care for low- income seniors;

On education: Repeal the new sex- ed curriculum and restore the old program until it can be replaced with new lesson plans after consultati­on with parents;

On transit: Take ownership of Toronto’s subway system and build a three- stop Scarboroug­h subway, the Sheppard and Yonge North subway ww extensions and a down- town relief line;

On hydro: Lower rates by 12 per cent; get rid of Hydro One president and CEO Mayo Schmidt; and cut executive salaries.

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