The Issues in Point Form

I gleaned this off the Canoe website.

(CP) - Having trouble keeping track of all of the promises that have been made in this marathon campaign? Here's a handy list:

TAXES

Bloc Quebecois

Axe GST on books, children's articles.

Conservatives

Cut GST to five per cent.

Eliminate capital-gains tax on money reinvested within six months.

Double, to $2,000, non-taxable pension income.

$250 million in tax credits for new day-care centres.

Scrap capital gains tax on fishing assets.

Raise small-business tax threshold to $400,000.

Cut small-business tax threshold to 11 per cent.

$1,200 annual child-care allowance.

Up to $500 tax break to parents for child's sports fees.

Tax incentives for builders to create affordable housing.

Greens

No corporate tax cuts.

$17.5 billion in tax cuts for lower-income Canadians, small and medium-sized businesses.

Liberals

Cut income taxes.

Raise lifetime capital gains tax exemption to $750,000.

Eliminate capital gains tax on charitable gifts of ecologically sensitive land and on publicly traded shares to public charities.

New Democratic Party

No tax cuts, no tax increases.

$1,000 increase in child tax credit over four years.

Raise gas transfer tax to cities to five cents a litre.

HEALTH

Liberals

Wait-times guarantee.

Hire 1,000 more family doctors.

Mobility fund to transport patients on long wait lists for treatment elsewhere in Canada.

National cancer strategy.

New mental-health commission.

Conservatives

Wait-times guarantee.

No private, parallel system.

National cancer strategy.

Speed up accreditation of foreign doctors.

Greens

End private health care.

Press for a national cancer strategy.

New Democratic Party

No public money for private care.

Billion-dollar-a-year prescription drug plan.

SOCIAL

Bloc Quebecois

Ban ammunition belts for automatic guns.

Conservatives

Free Commons vote on same-sex marriage.

Independent prosecutor, federal crimes.

National seniors council to advise government.

Halve $975 immigrant landing fee, further reduce it to $100 within mandate.

Full judicial inquiry into Air India bombing.

Shut down the federal gun registry.

Raise the age of sexual consent to 16.

Allow 14 year olds to be tried in adult court for serious crimes or repeat offences.

End conditional sentences (house arrest) for serious crimes.

Hire 1,000 new RCMP officers.

Greens

Let corporations pool pension funds.

Liberals

$11 billion to provinces over 11 years for day care.

Ban handguns.

$325 millions for RCMP anti-gang squad, community safety.

Eliminate $975 immigrant landing fee.

Two months of EI benefits for unpaid caregivers who leave work to care for a sick relative.

Lower interest costs on reverse mortgages.

$100 million over five years for a registered disabilities savings plan.

Eliminate Ottawa's power to override Charter of Rights.

A $25-million "heroes fund" for the families of public-safety workers killed in the line of duty.

$180-million endowment for high-tech innovation research.

New Democratic Party

Federal appointments on merit.

$1 billion home-care plan.

40,000 long-term care spaces over four years.

$1.8 billion for day care in first year, $250 million a year for next three years.

Worker charter of rights.

Push settlement aboriginal land claims, residential schools abuse.

Try youths as young as 16 charged with firearms offences as adults.

$200 million improving witness protection programs.

$200 million over four years for victims of violence and $400 million for at-risk youth.

ENVIRONMENT

Conservatives

Bring in clean air act.

Require average five per cent renewable fuel content by 2010.

Abandon Kyoto greenhouse-gas targets and set new made-in-Canada standards.

Greens

End federal seal hunt support.

Halt oil, gas subsidies.

Add environmental rights to Charter of Rights.

Ban the use of cosmetic pesticides.

Liberals

$1 billion over 10 years to clean up the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

Weather study centre for Newfoundland and Labrador.

New Democratic Party

Cut greenhouse gases by 25 per cent by 2050.

Bring in clean air act.

DEFENCE

Conservatives

$1.8 billion more for defence by 2010.

New 650-member airborne battalion.

Double the size of the DART.

Buy at least three heavy-lift planes.

Three new armed naval heavy icebreakers.

Deep-water port near Iqaluit.

Arctic national sensor system to monitor subs, ships.

Recruit 500 more Canadian Rangers.

New Arctic army training centre near Cambridge Bay.

Set up new separate foreign spy agency.

Liberals

An international deal to permanently ban weapons in space.

NDP

Review 2006 NORAD renewal and Canadian Forces' integration with the United States military.

Accelerate location and cleanup of DND chemical dumpsites.

Speed up investigation and compensation related to Agent Orange and Agent Purple.

EDUCATION

Conservatives

Up to $500 tax deduction for trades tools.

$1,000 trades apprenticeship incentive grant.

Apprenticeship job creation tax credit up to $2,000.

Up to $500 tax deduction for text books.

Tax exemption on first $10,000 scholarship, bursary income.

Liberals

Pay half of first and last year's tuition for college and university students to a maximum of $3,000 each year.

New Democratic Party

$4 billion for post-secondary education.

ECONOMY

Conservatives

Voluntary farmer participation, Canadian Wheat Board.

New farm income stabilization program.

Add $500 million a year to farm support programs.

$2 billion in new funding for municipalities while maintaining the "new deal" for cities.

A five-year fund for highways and border infrastructure worth $600 million in its final year.

Liberals

Overhaul farm support system.

New Democratic Party

Aid auto industry.

$250 million to fix border crossings.

Greens

A Well-Being Measurement Act and Canadian Index of Well-Being.

Revenue-neutral tax shift to resource use, pollution and land value levies.

Create jobs in low-emission industries in hard-hit natural resource sectors.

Stronger, more effective anti-trust laws.

Financial support to encourage investment in developing green industries.