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6 key reasons Jagmeet Singh wants you to vote NDP in the 2025 federal election
<img src="https://www.mtlblog.com/media-library/jagmeet-singh-on-steps-of-ndp-bus-with-supporters.jpg?id=60032094&width=1200&height=400&coordinates=0%2C469%2C0%2C470"/><br/><br/><p>With the <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/tag/federal-election" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">federal election</a> on Monday, April 28, 2025, you might be wondering who to vote for.</p><p>There are a few major reasons why <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/tag/jagmeet-singh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jagmeet Singh</a> wants you to vote NDP.</p><p>Singh and the New Democrats are campaigning on key issues like affordability, climate action, tariffs, and more.</p><p>Here's what you need to know about the NDP's promises if you're trying to decide who to vote for. For the Liberals, Conservatives, Bloc Québécois, PPC and Greens, check out <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/tag/who-to-vote-for" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MTL Blog's election hub</a>.</p><h3>Affordable housing</h3><br/><p>The <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/singh-ndp-will-build-3-million-homes-2030-and-make-housing-affordable-again" target="_blank">NDP promises to make housing more affordable</a> in Canada through the construction of more homes, national rent control, and more.</p><p>Singh's plan will help build three million homes by 2030 by speeding up construction, protecting existing rentals, and training construction workers.</p><p>Those three million homes include non-market (like emergency shelters and social housing) and affordable housing.</p><p>Also, the NDP wants to introduce a $16 billion national housing strategy — made up of the Canadian Homes Transfer and the Communities First Fund — to give cities and provinces tools to build homes faster, protect affordable rentals, and lower costs for families.</p><p>The NDP plans to implement <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-end-landlord-money-grabs-and-bring-national-rent-control" target="_blank">national rent control</a> to stop corporate landlords who profit off people's homes with "unfair and unreasonable" rent increases.</p><p>Singh wants to ban fixed-term leases, renovictions, demovictions, and other landlord practices that push people out of their homes to drive up rent.</p><p>Also, the NDP promises to introduce a Renter's Bill of Rights. It would ensure federal housing incentives only go to provinces and municipalities that take action to implement rent control and bring down housing costs.</p><h3>Better health care</h3><br/><p>The <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-plan-better-health-care-more-nurses-safer-workplaces-no-cuts-or-private-agencies" target="_blank">NDP promises to improve health care</a> in Canada by hiring more nurses, improving working conditions, ending the use of private agencies, and more.</p><p>Singh's plan includes requiring provinces to meet nurse-to-patient ratios, guarantee fair wages, and improve working conditions.</p><p>Also, New Democrats want to recruit qualified nurses from the U.S. and incentivize provinces to fast-track accreditation for internationally educated nurses.</p><p>There will be a new Canadian Health Care Workers Tax Credit that provides $5,000 to nurses and personal support workers.</p><p>Also, the NDP plans to <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/singh-pledges-federal-action-give-every-canadian-access-family-doctor-2030" target="_blank">ensure every Canadian has a family doctor</a> by 2030.</p><p>That will be done by providing funding to provinces that deliver guaranteed access to a family doctor and primary care, hiring qualified, internationally trained doctors already living in Canada, and providing housing for family doctors and primary care teams in the north.</p><p>The NDP also plans to expand primary care through a team-based approach.</p><h3>Fighting climate change</h3><br/><p>The <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/singh-climate-action-protects-you-trumps-trade-war-and-rising-costs" target="_blank">NDP promises to take climate action</a> that protects Canadians by lowering energy bills, creating jobs, and more.</p><p>Singh's plan includes eliminating public subsidies and tax breaks for oil and gas companies and putting that money into a major home retrofit program. The program will:</p><ul><li>retrofit over three million homes with energy-saving upgrades to cut energy bills by up to $4,500 a year<ul><li>including free retrofits for more than two million low-income households and grants or low-interest loans for one million households</li></ul></li><li>support Canadian-made solutions like heat pumps and construction materials to boost local manufacturing.</li><li>create union jobs in installation, auditing, and retrofitting through partnerships with colleges and union training centres</li></ul><p>Also, the NDP wants to end the consumer carbon tax for good but keep the industrial carbon price and the emissions cap in place.</p><p>There will be a new Border Carbon Adjustment to ensure international polluters don't undercut Canadian workers, and clean industries like Canadian steel and cement remain competitive.</p><h3>Affordable grocery prices</h3><br/><p>The <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/singh-well-cap-grocery-prices-and-make-food-more-affordable-canadians" target="_blank">NDP promises to cap grocery prices</a> and make food more affordable in Canada.</p><p>That includes emergency price caps on basic food items like pasta, frozen vegetables, and infant formula to keep the costs of food down and "tariff-proof" Canada's food security.</p><p>Singh also wants to enforce a mandatory Grocery Code of Conduct to regulate pricing practices and prevent wage cuts.</p><p>New Democrats plan to:</p><ul><li>empower the Competition Bureau to act as a grocery price watchdog and crack down on price-fixing</li><li>tax the profits of major grocery retailers like Loblaws, Walmart, Costco, and Empire Foods</li><li>reform Nutrition North so the subsidy goes directly to Northerners instead of corporate chains</li></ul><h3>Tax cuts for the middle class</h3><br/><p>The <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-announces-plan-cut-taxes-working-and-middle-class-families-not-millionaires-and" target="_blank">NDP promises to cut taxes for working and middle-class families</a>.</p><p>Singh wants to "put more money in the pockets of the people who need it most," including working and middle-class Canadians, seniors, and people with disabilities.</p><p>There's a plan to cut taxes for workers and families by raising the basic personal amount to $19,500, which would help people earning $19,500 to $177,882 save $505 a year.</p><p>Also, the NDP wants to permanently remove the GST from essentials like grocery store meals, diapers and strollers, along with monthly bills including cell, internet and heating bills. That will save $448 per year for a family of four.</p><p>New Democrats plan to:</p><ul><li>reverse the capital gains tax cut</li><li>double the Canada Disability Benefit to help low-income people with disabilities</li><li>raise the Guaranteed Income Supplement to lift all seniors out of poverty</li></ul><h3>Taking on Trump's tariffs</h3><br/><p>The <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-leader-jagmeet-singh-announces-plan-protect-canadian-workers-trumps-trade-war" target="_blank">NDP promises to protect Canadian workers from Donald Trump's trade war</a>.</p><p>Singh wants to protect workers, safeguard jobs, protect health care, and ensure Canadian families aren't greatly impacted by attacks from Trump and build a stronger, fairer economy.</p><p>That includes improvements to Employment Insurance, like:</p><ul><li>raising the maximum insurable earnings and increasing the benefit rate above 55% to ensure workers can count on livable benefits that cover the bills</li><li>reducing the threshold for qualifying to a universal 360-hour standard and extending benefits to contractors and self-employed workers</li><li>expanding EI work-sharing programs to help businesses avoid layoffs</li><li>eliminating the one-week waiting period for EI benefits and extending coverage duration to 50 weeks</li></ul><p>New Democrats also want to safeguard jobs through strategic investments, stand up for Canadian workers against corporate green, protect public services from privatization, and defend Canada's sovereignty with a "no trade" clause.</p><p>That plan includes ensuring families don't bear the cost of tariffs by:</p><ul><li>using every dollar collected from retaliatory tariffs to support impacted workers in industries like auto manufacturing, steel, and aluminum</li><li>removing GST from essentials like home heating and Canadian-made vehicles to save families hundreds of dollars annually while boosting domestic industries</li><li>capping grocery prices on essential items and cracking down on price gouging by corporations</li></ul><p>Singh wants to introduce <a href="https://www.ndp.ca/news/jagmeet-singh-launches-canada-victory-bonds-and-plan-build-canadian" target="_blank">Canada Victory Bonds</a>, secure, tax-free savings bonds to help in rebuilding the economy and "resisting Trump's attacks."</p><p>The NDP also has a "Build Canadian, Buy Canadian" plan as a response to tariffs.</p><p class=""><em>Looking for more election information? Here's why federal party leaders want you to vote <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/why-vote-liberal-mark-carney-2025-federal-election">Liberal</a>, <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/why-vote-conservative-pierre-poilievre-2025-federal-election" target="_blank">Conservative</a>, <em><a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/why-vote-blanchet-bloc-quebecois-2025-federal-election" target="_self">Bloc Québécois</a>, <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/ppc-why-vote-maxime-bernier-2025-election" target="_self">PPC</a></em> and <a href="https://www.mtlblog.com/why-vote-green-may-pedneault-2025-federal-election" target="_blank">Green</a>.</em></p><p><em><em><em>This article was originally published on <a href="https://www.narcity.com/why-vote-ndp-jagmeet-singh-2025-federal-election">Narcity</a>.</em></em></em></p>
