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> TABLE 3
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> Empowering Individuals, Families and Communities: Some Reform Options
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> EMPOWERING SENIORS
> 
>   Focus OAS / GIC on those most in need
>   Eliminate mandatory retirement so those who choose to work beyond 65
> can do so
>   Long-term tax relief / reform
>   Registered Personal Security Plans (RPSPs)*
> 
> EMPOWERING FAMILIES
> 
>   Strengthen the capacity of families to care for themselves and
> dependents with tax relief / reform
>   Any child care assistance provided must be neutral to the method of
> child care chosen
>   Stricter enforcement of child support payments including a national
> registry
>   Registered Personal Security Plans (RPSPs)*
> 
> EMPOWERING THE UNEMPLOYED AND JOB CREATORS
> 
>   5-R Jobs Program
>   Convert Unemployment Insurance to true insurance principles:
> short-term assistance for temporary job loss
>   Long-term tax relief / reform
>   Registered Personal Security Plans (RPSPs)*
> 
> EMPOWERING CITIZENS TO MEET EDUCATION NEEDS
> 
>   Transfer of tax points to the provinces with federal equalization to
> ensure equality of basic funding across Canada
>   Annual federal-provincial conferences to define national standards
> and ensure that no one is denied adequate education due to inability
> to pay
>   Income Contingent Student Loan Program
>   Federal-provincial cooperation to facilitate the use of education
> vouchers
>   Registered Personal Security Plans (RPSPs)*
> 
> EMPOWERING CITIZENS TO MEET HEALTH CARE NEEDS
> 
>   Transfer of tax points to the provinces with federal equalization to
> ensure equality of basic funding across Canada
>   Annual federal-provincial negotiations to define national standards
> and core services and to ensure that no one is denied adequate health
> care due to inability to pay
>   Possible application of RPSP
> 
> EMPOWERING THOSE WHO CANNOT HELP THEMSELVES
> 
>   Strengthen the capacity of families to better care for dependents
> with tax relief / reform
>   Basic public assistance for those unable to provide for themselves.
> No public assistance for able-bodied individuals of working age
>   Strengthen helping capacity of non-governmental agencies through
> increased charitable contribution limits
> 
> EMPOWERMENT FOR ABORIGINALS
> 
>   Decentralization of powers, funding, responsibilities of Indian
> Affairs to aboriginal agencies and local aboriginal governments
>   "Self-government" options to be pursued: (a) federally-incorporated
> municipal governments for aboriginals, with special powers regarding
> resource management and individual property rights; (b) community
> trust accounts with democratic safeguards; (c) personal / collective
> opting-out agreements
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> * These options are under consideration for the longer term.
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> [30] These tools are the practical extension of our five principles.
> The Reform Party will continue to consult Canadians as to the
> viability of some of these proposals. As they are longer term
> objectives, many will need modification and further explanation in the
> coming years. In a sense, these proposals are our own "discussion
> paper" in that we have not fully developed the implications of all of
> them, and many are not included in, or necessary to our alternate
> budget plan. Yet we believe that productive discussion should begin
> about these types of long term, financially sustainable, empowering
> mechanisms.
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