Million Jobs Act
• Ontario citizens want jobs, an opportunity to earn a higher income, but Ontario is currently in a job and debt crisis. In fact over 500,000 citizens of Ontario are unemployed.
• Under the current government, too many Ontario citizens are going to work with the possibility that this could be their last day of their job.
• The Progressive Conservatives are brought forward the Million Jobs Act to combat the job crisis. This act will create 1 million jobs throughout the province, but in order to create a million, 10% or 100,000 jobs will have to be cut.
• It consists of 5 main elements that will help create jobs in the province.
o Produce more jobs and increase take-home pay through lower taxes and less debt
o Ensure affordable energy that will create jobs, not eliminate them
o Train more skilled workers to meet the demand in trades, and help young people find good jobs
o Increase trade with our neighbours
o End the bureaucratic runaround that inhibits job creation
• Ontario citizens want jobs, an opportunity to earn a higher income, but Ontario is currently in a job and debt crisis. In fact over 500,000 citizens of Ontario are unemployed.
• Under the current government, too many Ontario citizens are going to work with the possibility that this could be their last day of their job.
• The Progressive Conservatives are brought forward the Million Jobs Act to combat the job crisis. This act will create 1 million jobs throughout the province, but in order to create a million, 10% or 100,000 jobs will have to be cut.
• It consists of 5 main elements that will help create jobs in the province.
o Produce more jobs and increase take-home pay through lower taxes and less debt
o Ensure affordable energy that will create jobs, not eliminate them
o Train more skilled workers to meet the demand in trades, and help young people find good jobs
o Increase trade with our neighbours
o End the bureaucratic runaround that inhibits job creation
Education
• The Progressive Conservatives are committed to improving the current education system in Ontario by making it more economical and ensuring students have the proper skills that will need to succeed in work and life.
• In order to improve the education system the following changes have been proposed.
o Enhance students’ skills in critical thinking, problem-solving and information management.
o Set new advanced goal for test scores in reading, writing and math; add a new standardized test in Science in Grade 8.
o Address ongoing issues for students in Applied courses and make sure those students are getting the skills they need to go on to work after graduating.
o Expand access to High Skills Majors in secondary school.
o Revise the Education Act to include a more complete and detailed definition of teachers’ jobs.
o Give more autonomy to principals to decide on class sizes, supervision of students and recognition of teachers’ participation in extracurricular activities; and eliminate many superintendent positions.
o Give school boards and principals the right to “recognize and reward” teachers’ supervision of activities before and after school.
o Cut 10,000 support staff (educational assistants, library technicians, school secretaries, custodians, psychologists and social workers, child and youth workers etc.).
o Increase allowable class sizes from 20 to 23 students in primary grades, 24.5 to 26 in junior and intermediate grades, and from 22 to 26 in high school.
o Delay the implementation of the final two years of all-day kindergarten, and consider less expensive models, including 20 children per class with one teacher or one early childhood educator (ECE) as opposed 26 children with both a full-time teacher and a full-time ECE as it is now. For senior kindergarten the platform proposes one full-time ECE with one half-time teacher.
o Change funding policy so that boards (particularly in high growth suburban areas) are able to build new schools where and when they need them, instead of waiting until all their schools are over-full.
o Make it easier for organizations (and businesses) to rent school space after hours – to increase the revenue stream and ensure that school buildings are used more effectively.
o Have school boards in rural areas with low enrollment share school buildings.
• The Progressive Conservatives are committed to improving the current education system in Ontario by making it more economical and ensuring students have the proper skills that will need to succeed in work and life.
• In order to improve the education system the following changes have been proposed.
o Enhance students’ skills in critical thinking, problem-solving and information management.
o Set new advanced goal for test scores in reading, writing and math; add a new standardized test in Science in Grade 8.
o Address ongoing issues for students in Applied courses and make sure those students are getting the skills they need to go on to work after graduating.
o Expand access to High Skills Majors in secondary school.
o Revise the Education Act to include a more complete and detailed definition of teachers’ jobs.
o Give more autonomy to principals to decide on class sizes, supervision of students and recognition of teachers’ participation in extracurricular activities; and eliminate many superintendent positions.
o Give school boards and principals the right to “recognize and reward” teachers’ supervision of activities before and after school.
o Cut 10,000 support staff (educational assistants, library technicians, school secretaries, custodians, psychologists and social workers, child and youth workers etc.).
o Increase allowable class sizes from 20 to 23 students in primary grades, 24.5 to 26 in junior and intermediate grades, and from 22 to 26 in high school.
o Delay the implementation of the final two years of all-day kindergarten, and consider less expensive models, including 20 children per class with one teacher or one early childhood educator (ECE) as opposed 26 children with both a full-time teacher and a full-time ECE as it is now. For senior kindergarten the platform proposes one full-time ECE with one half-time teacher.
o Change funding policy so that boards (particularly in high growth suburban areas) are able to build new schools where and when they need them, instead of waiting until all their schools are over-full.
o Make it easier for organizations (and businesses) to rent school space after hours – to increase the revenue stream and ensure that school buildings are used more effectively.
o Have school boards in rural areas with low enrollment share school buildings.
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