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The RPC will legislate the creation of a public food industry sufficient to ensure that every Canadian citizen has safe and reliable access to nutritional, edible, and ethical food that meets all their personal needs.

The RPC will legislate strict new limits on foreign individuals and organizations control of critical Canadian assets.

The RPC will restructure the Canada Research Chair (CRC) programme under Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED) and direct them to focus exclusively on identifying pragmatic research projects directly related to the most urgent and important challenges facing Canadians and humanity. We will also expand the ISED mandate to include developing state-of-the-art national research facilities necessary to support the identified research projects. The ISED will continue to be responsible for coordinating joint projects across universities, private industry, and national labs. To ensure effective cohesion between the groups, the ISED will invest in modernizing collaborative research and data sharing capabilities.

The RPC will legislate free contraceptive products to be made available in pharmacies, schools, and other public facilities.

The RPC will legislate free and ubiquitous access to menstrual products to Canadians that need them.

The RPC will update the Canada Health Act (CHA) to mandate all healthcare services (whether currently covered by provincial programs or otherwise) are to be entirely free at the point of care (aka completely and directly billed to the insurance provider); specifically, this means not requiring patients to pay up-front and receive insurance reimbursement later - which is a major hurdle for many low-cash Canadians, even if they have insurance coverage.