About the Policy

The Guiding Principles for all of Trillium Party of Ontario’s (TPO) Policy Statements are founded in the following mandates:

·         All Stakeholders (Voting Citizens and their immediate family) will be prioritized in its creation.
·         Input by the Stakeholders will be considered in ALL policy.
·         Policy will always be open for review in order to reflect current real world realities.
·         Common sense will be the principle sounding board for ALL policy.
 
There are Three Primary Areas of policy considerations--   Health Care, Education and Policing.
​​Health Care:
The Trillium Party believes the World's finest Healthcare should be available to every one of its Stakeholders.  This can be accomplished by having more acceptance of foreign medical credentials. The Trillium Party suggests that we create an “equivalency” scale for foreign credentials.  Followed by a residency program that is completed IN ONTARIO, rather than the United States to upgrade to a Canadian equivalent status.

We also believe an electronic “Healthcare Statement” should be issued monthly indicating what was paid on their behalf by the taxpayers to each of the individuals that month for healthcare. The statement will offer some alternatives that could have been utilized such as walk in clinics or family physicians rather than for example using a hospital. The Trillium Party of Ontario has an ardent belief that the vast proportion of citizens of Ontario are responsible and will make better choices given accurate information.
The Trillium Party believes that there should be a tax benefit for active health club and sports club memberships. 
Education:
The Trillium Party believes that education up to secondary education is a “right” to be enjoyed by all Stakeholders in Ontario. We also believe every student should be supplied with ALL the educational tools (books, notebooks, writing instruments, computers etc) required to participate and excel in graduating to grade twelve.

The Trillium Party of Ontario believes the Public and the Separate school boards should in general be administrated by the same governing body. This will not interfere with a separate curriculum for each of the Public School Board and the Catholic system which they currently practice.
The Trillium Party of Ontario believes a much more generous scholarship program should be implemented. A program that involves a sliding scale of awards that directly reflects a students learning abilities and individual efforts.
Eliminate the policy of social promotion in Ontario’s schools. Students will be expected to meet standards in order to be promoted to the next grade.  
Initiate a more streamlined approach to acquiring a trade or a hands on profession. The Trillium Party believes that with a new approach young people could be “up and running” as contributing fully qualified tradesmen by their 21st birthday.
The Trillium Party of Ontario does not believe the Ontario Educational system or its employees should be considered “co-parents” of children in school.  We believe one of the most valuable privileges and responsibilities a parent has is to instill a moral code that reflects their values and ideals. As always Respect, Courtesy and Responsibility are an ideal foundation to work from.
Policing Principles:
The Trillium Party believes: -- The Political system in Ontario is based on the principle of separation of powers-- authority is distributed among several branches (executive, legislative and judicial) — an attempt to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a small group of people.  In such a system, the executive does not pass laws (the role of the legislature) or interpret them (the role of the judiciary). Instead, the executive enforces the law as written by the legislature and interpreted by the judiciary. The executive can be the source of certain types of law, such as a decree or executive order. Executive bureaucracies are commonly the source of regulations.
It is for this reason the Trillium Party believes an individual who is currently employed by a police force, military organization, or other type of Executive office responsible for the enforcement of laws made by a legislative body, should not be allowed to run for a publicly elected position.

The Trillium party of Ontario believes Police officers should be respected and admired. These two qualities cannot and should not be legislated. We believe respect and admiration for the police has been eroded because police have been moving from their core duties of protecting and serving the public and are being perceived more as a form of revenue generators for their governing bodies. The Trillium Party believes that sufficient funding should be provided to police forces to fight serious crime.
Strengthen the Auditor General’s Office:
Currently, the auditor general’s office spends too much of its resources reviewing reports and updates provided by government departments and agencies to ensure accounting accuracy, rather than performing more important value-for-money audits and seeking out fraud.  Increase resources to the auditor general’s office and focus on value for money audits.
Establish a Wastebuster Program protected by  WHISTLEBLOWER LEGISLATION:
The Trillium Party would institute a wastebuster program where any Ontarian, but especially public sector workers, would be encouraged to advise government of where tax dollars are being misspent.
Often it is front-line workers who not only know the system best, but are the ones most frustrated by mismanagement and waste.  This website and hotline would serve as a means of empowering these workers to identify wasteful spending, redundant programs, and unnecessary projects and consultants, anonymously.  It is imperative that tips provided under this program be protected by Whistleblower legislation so government employees are protected, rather than the governing party.
The Trillium Party believes a REWARD INCENTIVE should be applied that is based on a percentage of saved monies upon implementation of a suggested program by any citizen of Ontario.
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.​Compensation, Pension and Severance Packages:
Establish an independent agency to determine the compensation, pension, and severance packages of elected governmental officials.  We have to make sure that severance packages are in line with the private sector and get away from the “golden parachute” packages that seem to be the case now.
Implement full disclosure of all financial expenditures of public funds.  Require organizations that receive public funding from the Provincial Government to disclose annually the positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid over a certain level in a calendar year. This would apply to the Provincial Government, municipalities, hospitals, school boards, universities, colleges and other public sector employers who receive significant funding from the provincial government.
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