The Homes First Residential Ownership Act, is built around a simple distinction: purpose-built apartment buildings can and should remain part of the rental housing system, but single-family homes, duplexes, townhouses, and other family-scale housing should not be quietly converted into corporate portfolios.
The companion policy proposal, companion to this one, looked at what happens when businesses, public bodies, employers, contractors, institutions, and service providers use camera-capable wearable technology in places where people are asked to expose sensitive information.
If an organization requires you to show sensitive information, it has a duty to protect that information from unnecessary recording, whether by staff, contractors, wearable devices, background software, or nearby third parties.
Privacy cannot depend on whether someone notices a tiny light on a pair of glasses.
This proposal is designed to ensure that Canadians can see when products have been quietly reduced in size, weight, volume, or content; that governments can measure where grocery profit is actually being taken across the entire supply chain; that essential food prices are not personalized through surveillance-based pricing; and that loyalty-program members can see how their data is being collected, shared, and monetized.
Download the PDF A proposal to make governments report job creation honestly: short-term jobs, long-term jobs, and long-term jobs that actually pay enough to live on. Governments love job numbers. A project is announced, a subsidy is justified, a ribbon is cut, and the public is told that hundreds or thousands of jobs will be…
Download the PDF Every job posting asks something of the applicant. It asks for time, attention, employment history, education history, references, contact information, salary expectations, and often enough personal detail to build a profile of a person’s working life. That exchange should come with obligations. If a job is not real, not active, already filled,…
The AI Upload Consent and Data Authority Act is a proposal to create clear rules, visible warnings, meaningful consent, platform accountability, and enforceable consequences before people hand someone else’s work or private documents to systems that may store, share, analyze, or train on them.
The Productive Farmland Protection and Valuation Act is a proposal to protect family farms, support food affordability, reduce speculative pressure on agricultural land, and recognize farmland as food-system infrastructure rather than just another real estate asset.
If politicians receive higher housing, meal, travel, or living allowances because costs have gone up, then the supports people rely on for housing, food, transportation, and daily survival should increase by the same proportion.
Once created, subsidies can become permanent features of the economy without regular proof that they continue to serve the public interest.
The Public Return on Corporate Subsidies Act would require every major corporate subsidy to be reviewed on a four-year cycle to determine whether it is producing a public return greater than its public cost.