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OTTAWA 鈥� Some key elements of the agreement between the Liberals and NDP that would keep Justin Trudeau鈥檚 government in power until 2025:

The NDP will not move a vote of non-confidence, nor vote for a non-confidence motion during the term of the arrangement;

Parties agree on the importance of parliamentary scrutiny and the work done by MPs at committees;

Meetings of party leaders at least once per quarter, as well as regular meetings of House leaders and whips, and a monthly 鈥渟tock-take鈥� meeting of an oversight group;

Parties agree to identify priority bills to expedite through the House of Commons, including by extending sitting hours to allow for additional speakers, if needed;

Parties agree to prioritize:

Health initiatives including a new dental-care program for low-income Canadians that would begin with those under 12 this year, then expand to others in phases by 2025;

Progress on a universal national pharmacare program by passing a sa国际传媒 Pharmacare Act by the end of next year and then having the National Drug Agency develop a national formulary of essential medicines and bulk-purchasing plan by the end of the agreement;

Efforts with the provinces and territories to determine how to provide more primary care doctors and nurses, mental health support, aging-at-home programs and better data;

A Safe Long-Term Care Act to ensure seniors are guaranteed care, no matter where they live;

Economic measures including extension of the Rapid Housing Initiative for an additional year;

Re-focusing the Rental Construction Financing Initiative on affordable units;

Launching a Housing Accelerator Fund;

Implementing a Homebuyer鈥檚 Bill of Rights;

A $500 one-time top-up to sa国际传媒 Housing Benefit in 2022, which would be renewed in coming years if cost of living challenges remain;

Introducing an Early Learning and Child Care Act by the end of the year, ensuring that child-care agreements have long-term protected funding that prioritizes non-profit and public spaces;

Efforts on climate change including measures to achieve significant emissions reductions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels;

Continuing to identify ways to further accelerate the trajectory to achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050;

Creation of the Clean Jobs Training Centre;

Moving forward with Just Transition legislation, guided by feedback from workers, unions, Indigenous Peoples, communities, and provinces and territories;

A plan to phase-out public financing of the fossil fuel sector, including from Crown corporations, including early moves this year;

Moving forward in 2022 on home energy efficiency programs that both enhance energy affordability for Canadians and reduce emissions;

Initiatives for workers, ensuring the planned 10 days of paid sick leave for all federally regulated workers starts as soon as possible;

Introducing legislation by the end of next year to prohibit use of replacement workers when a union employer in a federally regulated industry has locked out employees or is in a strike;

Efforts to foster reconciliation including a significant additional investment in Indigenous housing this year;

Accelerating implementation of the Federal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People with Indigenous partners;

Creating a standing Federal-Provincial-Territorial table on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People to facilitate and co-ordinate this work;

Providing the necessary supports for First Nations, Inuit and M茅tis communities who wish to continue to undertake the work of burial searches at the former sites of residential schools;

Fair taxation measures including changes for financial institutions that have made strong profits during the pandemic;

A publicly accessible beneficial ownership registry by the end of 2023;

Pro-democracy measures including work with Elections sa国际传媒 to explore ways to expand the ability for people to vote, such as an expanded 鈥淓lection Day鈥� of three days of voting, allowing people to vote at any polling place within their electoral district, improving the mail-in ballot process to ensure voters are not disenfranchised;

Ensuring Quebec鈥檚 number of seats in the House of Commons remains constant. 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 22, 2022.

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