Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) candidates in the 2003 Ontario provincial election

The Communist Party of Canada - Ontario ran six candidates in the 2003 provincial election in Ontario, Canada.

Candidates

• Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale: Howard Cukoff
• Hamilton East: Bob Mann
• Ottawa Centre: Stuart Ryan
• Parkdale—High Park: Karin Larsen
• Scarborough Centre: Elizabeth Rowley
• York West: Christopher Black

Party platform

The CPC-O's 2003 election platform, entitled "A People's Agenda for Ontario", endorsed such policies as:

• the outlawing of private hospitals and clinics
• rejecting proposed public funding for private schools
• affordable housing, increased minimum wage and pensions, a shorter work week
• voluntary retirement at age 60
• progressive tax reform including increased corporate taxation
• implementing the Walkerton Report and Kyoto Accord, and prohibiting the sale of water
• 100,000 units of affordable housing over five years
• rent controls and rent reductions
• implementing the Romanow Report and expanding public health insurance
• investing $20 billion in public education over five years, and banning user fees
• the abolition of university tuition fees
• implementing the day care program currently used in Quebec
• transferring 50% of gas and road-use taxes to municipalities, and ending toll roads
• eliminating the provincial sales tax
• public automobile insurance
• cutting the work week to 32 hours, with 40 hours pay
• increasing the minimum wage to $12 an hour
• pay equity and employment equity
• a Labour Bill of Rights
• developing solar and wind energy
• equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians
• proportional representation in elections.