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Canada should expand its UN peacekeeping contributions as an expression of its multilateral values.

Canadian defence spending should prioritise domestic procurement and industrial capability, not only purchasing US equipment.

Canada should increase its military support to Ukraine significantly.

Canada has a special obligation to assert Arctic sovereignty given accelerating climate-driven access to Arctic waters.

NORAD modernisation is essential for Canadian sovereignty and continental defence and should be funded without further delay.

Canada should meet NATO's 2% of GDP defence spending commitment rather than continuing to free-ride on alliance partners.

Canada should establish a national long-term care strategy with legally binding minimum standards and sustained federal funding.

Dental care and vision care should be included in universal public coverage, as they are in most comparable countries.

Canada's mental health system is so severely underfunded that it constitutes a public health emergency.

Private surgical clinics operating alongside the public system violate the Canada Health Act's prohibition on extra-billing.

Federal health transfers to provinces should be substantially increased with accountability strings attached.

A national pharmacare programme covering all Canadians is long overdue and fiscally affordable.

Canada's universal healthcare system is chronically underfunded and requires major new sustained public investment.

Canada should reform its supply management system in dairy and poultry, which imposes significant costs on Canadian consumers.

Generational inequality in housing wealth — where older Canadians hold assets that younger Canadians cannot access — is a defining social challenge.

Canada's recent immigration levels have exceeded housing and infrastructure capacity, requiring better coordination of policy.

The federal minimum wage should rise to $20 an hour and be indexed to living costs.

Canada's temporary foreign worker programmes are being misused by some employers to undercut wages for Canadian workers.

Zoning reform to permit high-density housing near transit should be made mandatory for cities receiving federal infrastructure funding.

The federal government should take a substantially more active role in directly building affordable housing rather than primarily funding provinces.