HERE ARE SOME PLEDGES LEADERS HAVE MADE SINCE AUG. 2

Conservatives

Increase the value of the 15 per cent non-refundable adoption expense tax credit to $20,000 from $15,000 and make it fully refundable.

Add 6,000 people to the ranks of the Canadian Forces reserves at a cost of $163 million over three years and $63.4 million going forward once the target of 30,000 personnel is reached.

Improve the earnings-loss benefit for veterans with service-related disabilities or injuries by letting them earn up to $10,000 in outside work without losing any government funding.

Raise to $35,000 the amount that first-time home buyers can withdraw tax-free from RRSPs to finance a home purchase.

Bring 10,000 additional refugees from Syria and Iraq. Spend $9 million over three years to help the Office of Religious Freedom protect places of worship and religious artifacts targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Create a permanent homerenovation tax credit costing $1.5 billion a year but contingent on a stronger economy. Applies to $5,000 worth of renovation costs, down from $10,000 in 2009.

Increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit, first introduced in 2006 to create incentives to foster skilled trades, to a maximum of $2,500, up from $2,000.

NDP

Create one million childcare spaces over eight years. The party says the cost to parents would be no more than $15 a day.

Spend $250 million over four years to recruit 2,500 new police officers. Commit $100 million a year thereafter to a police recruiting program.

Commit $7 million a year to a Joint Emergency Preparedness Program for disasters such as floods and fires, and earmark an additional $2 million for emergency-training programs.

Invest $30 million over three years in Destination Canada, a Crown corporation responsible for promoting Canada as a tourist destination.

Liberals

Make employment insurance compassionate-care benefits available to anyone caring for a seriously ill family member and make the program more flexible.

Invest $200 million a year to develop clean technologies in forestry, fisheries, mining, energy and farming. Put another $100 million into organizations that promote clean-technology firms.

Lower the federal incometax rate to 20.5 per cent on incomes between $44,700 and $89,401, paying for it by raising taxes on the wealthiest by one per cent. Bring in a new, tax-free child benefit to replace the Conservative party’s universal child benefit.

Add $515 million a year to funding for First Nations education, rising through the mandate to a total of $2.6 billion. Add another $500 million over three years for education infrastructure and $50 million more a year for a program that helps aboriginal students in post-secondary education.

Green party

Legislate a ban on supertankers on British Columbia’s coast and impose a moratorium on drilling for oil and gas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Improve benefits for veterans. Provide any veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder with a service dog if they want one.