- Implement a new Premier's Council on Aging and Seniors Issues to identify opportunities to improve seniors' services, examine how to improve housing options and homecare, consider the issue of mandatory retirement, and make recommendations on how to improve seniors' independence and quality of living.
- Increase the earnings exemption for persons with disabilities - this follows our earlier move to bring in the single largest rate increase in history for persons with disabilities on income assistance.
- Ensure women and children escaping violent and abusive relationships have more 24/7 access to safe housing through a $37 million investment over the next three.
- Task Force on Homelessness to continue developing new strategies to tackle homelessness, drug addictions and mental illness.
- Funding for adult community living services to increase by $91 million over the next three years.
- Offer new respite support for families caring for children and adults with developmental disabilities.
- Work with the federal government on plans to make $650 million available for childcare over the next five years.
- Form a special Provincial Congress on Public Safety to meet in the fall to review crime prevention, treatment, legislation and by-laws, policing, prosecution, courts, and corrections.
- Invest $122 million in new funding for 215 new police officers over the next three years.
- $76 million (through 2007) to strengthen early childhood development programs - including for early diagnostic screening of children for hearing, sight and dental problems.
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