Factbox: The platforms of the major parties in Canada's election

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Sept 20 (Reuters) - Key policy priorities of the main Canadian parties in the Sept. 20 federal election. LIBERALS ECONOMY - Help create more than 1 million jobs by extending a recovery hiring program to enable businesses to take on more workers. Provide aid to the culture and tourism sectors. TAXES - Raise the corporate income tax that the largest banks and insurance companies pay on earnings above C$1 billion by three percentage points to 18%. Create a minimum tax rule to ensure the highest earners pay at least 15% a year, removing their ability to use deductions and credits to pay no tax. read more COVID-19 & HEALTHCARE - Mandate 10 days of paid sick leave. Pledge to train up to 50,000 new personal support workers and guarantee them a minimum wage of C$25 an hour. Hire 7,500 family doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners. New permanent funding to provinces to boost mental healthcare. CHILDCARE - Invest up to C$30 billion over five years to help deliver C$10-a-day childcare everywhere outside the province of Quebec, which already has its own system. HOUSING - Create a rent-to-own program, ban new foreign ownership of homes for two years, institute an anti-flipping tax and improve transparency of bidding processes. Build or renew 1.4 million homes over four years. read more CLIMATE CHANGE - Ensure the oil and gas sector cuts emissions of greenhouse gases to achieve a net-zero level by 2050. Require at least half of all passenger vehicles sold to be zero-emission by 2030, and all to be zero-emission by 2035. CONSERVATIVES ECONOMY - Create 1 million jobs within a year. Pay up to 50% of salaries for new hires for six months. Scrap the Canada Infrastructure Bank. Connect all of Canada to high-speed internet by 2025. TAXES - Tax digital companies 3% of gross revenue in Canada if they don"t pay corporate income tax. Provide a 5% tax credit for any capital investments made in 2022 and 2023. CLIMATE CHANGE - Create a "personal low-carbon savings account" that people pay into every time they buy hydrocarbon fuel and which can be used for later purchases of "sustainable" goods and services. Scrap the current carbon-pricing program. Introduce a tax credit to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture, utilization and storage technology. COVID-19 & HEALTHCARE - Add C$60 billion to healthcare funding transfers to the provinces over 10 years. CHILDCARE - Convert the existing childcare expense deduction into a refundable tax credit covering up to 75% of the cost of childcare for lower-income families. HOUSING - Build 1 million houses over three years. Ban non-resident foreign investors from buying housing for two years. Ease mortgage stress-test rules and boost eligibility for insured mortgages. NEW DEMOCRATS ECONOMY - Create more than 1 million new jobs with the focus on addressing climate change. Ensure no one on unemployment insurance gets less than C$2,000 per month. TAXES - Implement a COVID-19 excess profits tax of 15% on corporate windfall profits during the coronavirus pandemic. Increase top marginal tax rate by two points to 35%. CLIMATE CHANGE - Set target of cutting emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 50% of the 2005 levels by 2030. Eliminate federal fossil fuel subsidies. COVID-19 & HEALTHCARE - Introduce a national drug coverage program and mandated paid sick leave. End private for-profit long-term care. CHILDCARE - Introduce a universal $10-a-day childcare system. HOUSING - Build 500,000 affordable housing units within 10 years. Waive federal portion of taxes on the construction of new affordable housing units. Add a 20% foreign buyer"s tax on home sales.

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