Communist Party of Canada - 2011 Election Platform

2011 Election Platform

As outlined in its campaign for the 2011 federal election, the party advocates "fundamental change to end corporate control, and open the door to socialism and working class power" including the following goals and policies:

• Labour and trade union rights including full employment, higher minimum wage, 36 hour work week with no loss in pay and services.
• The creation of a "Bill of Rights for Labour" protecting the right to organize, strike and collective bargain.
• Progressive taxation including eliminating taxes on incomes below $36,000 and restoring the capital gains tax
• Electoral reform, abolishing the Canadian Senate, enacting MMP, lowering voting age to 16, implementing the right of recall for MPs.
• Expand public ownership and reverse privatization such as ending P3 programs.
• Nationalize energy and natural resources and shift emphasis from fossil and nuclear sources to renewable energy.
• An independent Canadian foreign policy based on peace and disarmament, ending involvement in Afghanistan and Libya and withdrawing from NATO and NORAD.
• Preserve and expand public health care
• Affordable, accessible, quality, public, child care
• Emergency Environmental reforms and immediate action to reverse climate change
• Withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
• Expanding public housing and banning evictions and foreclosures due to unemployment.
• Repeal state security legislation like the no-fly list; put the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Security Intelligence Service under democratic, civilian and community control, abolish racial profiling
• A new constitution for Canada recognizing sovereignty and self-determination for Aboriginal Peoples and Quebec, up to and including the right to separation
• Legislate pay equity and support equity in hiring practices
• Reduce then eliminate tuition fees for post-secondary education;
• Democratic immigration reform, no one is illegal.
• Support food sovereignty, family and organic farming.

The Communist Party also presents a more detailed programmatic document, "Canada's Future is Socialism," (2001) which outlines the Parties perspective on Canada today and the road to a socialist and ultimately communist society.