Re-Elect Doly Begum

Welcome to our campaign website!

Scarborough Southwest is an example of the best that Canada can be: a thriving community of people from all corners of the world living and working together. Our diversity and harmony are truly our strength.

It is an honour to represent our interests at Queen's Park.

But there is much more to do.

Ontario is a very wealthy province, but our per capita spending on our vital public services is the lowest in Canada. There is very harmful wealth and income inequality in Ontario.

This must change.

From creating the sustainable economy of tomorrow to ensuring our children are safe and healthy to improving our healthcare system, I know that we can achieve much more when we work together.

I hope you join me to help build the Scarborough and the Ontario we all know is possible.

Yours truly, serving you,

Public healthcare

We will ensure every Ontarian has a family doctor, with our Family Health Guarantee. Adding 3500 more doctors to the primary care system, hiring more nurses, health care workers and support staff and investing in publicly funded, publicly delivered health care.
We will establish universal mental healthcare and increase community mental health services funding. We will follow the advice of experts and use evidence-based strategies to address the opioid epidemic.
We will train and hire more nurses to ensure safe nurse-patient ratios, better care and an end to the reliance on for-profit private nursing agencies that are costing hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars.

Fixing Schools

We will invest in our next generation with a new, needs-based funding formula. In consultation with school boards and education workers, we'll review and fix school funding, so it meets the needs of kids.

We will fix schools with an additional $830 million per year to clear the repair backlog within 10 years, giving students a high quality, nurturing learning environment.

We will hire more staff in schools. Supporting additional dedicated teachers, educational assistants, child and youth workers, ECEs, custodial and skilled trades workers to make sure students get the one-on-one attention they need in well-maintained schools.

Respecting Workers

We'll make it easier to join a union and collect the bigger pay cheques that come with it, by returning to a simple card certification system.

We will double Ontario's Career Ready Program so Ontario colleges and universities can create additional work-integrated learning opportunities. We'd create thousands of new, paid co-op and internship opportunities for young people.

We will support pathways into the skilled trades, from shop classes to those seeking a career change later in life, with continued investment in the Skills Development Fund and workers' training centres across the province.

Building Homes

We will get Ontario back to building with Homes Ontario, the largest homebuilding program in generations. 300,000 permanently affordable homes from grants, low-cost public funding and fast-tracked approvals.

We will create 60,000 new supportive housing units province-wide, allowing people living in encampments or the shelter system to move into a safe, permanent home, while connecting them to mental health care, addiction treatment and other ongoing supports.

We will protect renters by immediately introducing real rent control and cracking down on unethical landlords and bad faith evictions.

Fighting Against Rising Costs

We will provide a Monthly Grocery Rebate to alleviate the cost of essential groceries. Cracking down on price fixing and enforcing price transparency, we will keep food prices fair.

We will bring in real rent control, also known as vacancy control, to protect tenants and maintain our existing supply of affordable homes.

We will create a universal School Food Program so that every child, from Kenora to Windsor is set up to succeed, saving families money every day. We will support local farms by using fresh food prepared and grown right here in Ontario.

Defending Ontario Jobs

We will defend Ontario families, jobs, businesses and our economy. Partnering with Ontario industries and unions to protect the jobs and pensions, especially in our auto, steel, forestry and agricultural sectors.

We will accelerate housing and infrastructure that can start immediately. Fast tracking building housing of all types and sizes and reprioritizing critical transit projects like Line 2 in Toronto and GO transit expansion.

We will buy Canadian and build Canadian. We will work to improve interprovincial cooperation and remove barriers to interprovincial trade; strengthening our economic resilience, creating jobs, building homes, and stimulating more investment in our economy.