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TORONTO — The word profit appears often in the Ontario NDP’s election platform, and not in a nice way.

From daycare to home care, nursing homes to winter road maintenance, the party promises to devote government funding solely to not-for-profit providers of public services, signalling a sweeping shift in how government programs are delivered.

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The NDP has drawn much attention for its pledge to buy back the privatized half of Hydro One, but that’s just one way the party aims to diminish the role of private business in the public sector.

With less than a week until the June 7 election, polls indicate it is in a tight race for government with the Progressive Conservatives.

As well as largely barring profit-making companies from offering taxpayer-funded services, the NDP is vowing to end the private-public P3 projects often used to build hospitals and other infrastructure, and launch the biggest expansion “ever seen” of non-profit community health centres, an alternative to private doctor’s offices.