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Resilience is local and made in Canada

In rebuilding our economy, we want to see jobs in every community taking advantage of expanding opportunities in re-localizing.

In staying close to home during the pandemic, it’s been much easier to see the strength of our communities and the areas that need reinforcement. Local food, public transit, green spaces – these are systems and institutions that carry our communities forward through crises. Canadians want more food security and energy security. With the proper investment post-COVID, especially for municipalities, we can rely on these necessities for years to come. 

  • Safe, affordable housing is a human right. We must protect this right by:
    • Ensuring the policy of “housing first” is utilized. 
    • Building more affordable housing.
    • Increasing funding for cooperative and supportive housing.
    • Encouraging provinces to continue the eviction freeze until the end of the pandemic. 
    • Demanding a rent freeze post-pandemic, by extending what is already in place and not allowing rent to be hiked for at least a year.
    • Ensuring all housing in Indigenous communities is built following principles laid out in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
  • We must increase people’s confidence in their communities by:
    • Supporting small local businesses.
    • Investing heavily in affordable, green public transit and healthy transportation that suits the region’s needs.
    • Supporting municipal investment in new wastewater infrastructure.
    • Encouraging continued pedestrian usage of streets, fewer cars, green travel and bike lanes.
  • Encourage Canadians at all levels to embrace a “grow local” mentality by:
    • Reinforcing local food supply chains such as farmers’ markets.
    • Encouraging individuals to source locally or grow and make their own food, like the victory gardens of WWI and WWII.
    • Providing funding to agriculture and farmers, especially small and ecological farms.
    • Supporting local food production and tackling the huge problems we saw with Cargill and our current corporate controlled and centralized food processing system. 
    • Move away from the massive, monopolistic and unsustainable industrial livestock model. Re-localize food production and processing capacity
  • Partner with municipalities for relief funding distribution, allying with organizations like the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
  • Develop urban partnerships with all orders of government to re-energize our urban cores across the country. 
  • It is evident funding should be spent on strengthening communities, not police departments. We call for race-based and gender-based data on all policing action taken during the pandemic. We also support municipalities and provinces reorganizing their budgets to put money into community developed and community led support systems.
  • Proudly made in Canada
    • Make public investments provide returns to the public. No public money for public-private partnerships (P3s).
    • Increase in-Canada manufacturing of essentials (such as medical PPEs) by implementing an import substitution strategy to reduce dependence on global supply chains. 
    • Do more value-added and secondary manufacturing in Canada to put an end to such practices as shipping raw logs offshore to be sold back to Canadians as furniture.
    • Support local and within-Canada tourism. 
    • Support employment in the arts, particularly in the infrastructure and tax policy that support film and television production.
    • Invest in high-speed rail starting with Windsor-Quebec and Edmonton-Calgary. 
    • We also saw the benefit of fewer cars on the road — now is the time for green infrastructure to keep it that way. 
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