Cost of Living

• Bloc QuébécoisBLOC

  Supports a federal old-age security increase for 65-74 year-olds (Quebec demographic priority) and unconditional health transfers Quebec can use to address provincial cost pressures.

• Conservative Party of CanadaCONSERVATIVE

  Promises to balance budgets, cut income tax, axe industrial carbon pricing, and remove the GST on new homes. Argues structural inflation pressures need supply-side responses.

• Green Party of CanadaGREEN

  Supports a Guaranteed Livable Income, federal rent controls, excess-profits tax, and addressing housing costs as the dominant affordability driver.

• Liberal Party of CanadaLIBERAL

  Ended the consumer carbon fuel charge in 2025 and increased the rebate. Has expanded the Grocery Rebate, dental benefit, and is rolling out cardiovascular and mental-health pharmacare expansion through Bill C-18B.

• New Democratic PartyNDP

  Calls for an excess-profits tax on grocery oligopolies and banks, expanded GST rebate, federal rent controls, and dental plus pharmacare expansion.

Bills affecting this issue

• C-3Federal45-1Royal assent

  An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025)

  Raises the Canada Pension Plan survivor benefit.

• C-63Federal44-1Second reading

  An Act to enact the Online Harms Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act and An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts

• C-52Federal44-1Second reading

  An Act to enact the Air Transportation Accountability Act and to amend the Canada Transportation Act and the Canada Marine Act