WHERE WE STAND ON THE ISSUES

In brief, the Green Party advocates to :

Stimulate a Green Economy

• Decrease income and payroll taxes
• Direct business with clear signals of environmental and societal objectives
• Remove non-sustainable corporate subsidies
• Reinvigorate our supply of skilled workers
• Venture Capital Fund to support viable local green business start-ups
• Use tax-shifting and tax credits to increase energy efficiency
• Remove income taxes from lowest categories

Address Climate Change and Protect our Environment

• Vigorously reduce carbon emissions
• Create market conditions that favour renewable energy source use
• Retrofit buildings for energy conservation
• Support bio-fuels from waste, not food
• Increase energy efficiency
• Protect our natural resources

Enhance Transportation and Infrastructure

• Make transit passes tax-deductible to encourage workers and businesses to use public transport
• Reduce highway gridlock with a regional light rail transit system

Ensure Healthcare and Illness Prevention

• Guarantee universal public health care and prevent further privatization
• Promote preventative healthcare by addressing the causes of illness and disease
• Ensure care is provided in the communities where seniors and their families live

Achieve Social Justice

• Introduce the Guaranteed Livable Income and make poverty in Canada history
• Make water a human right

Other Important Issues

• Forgive 50% of student loans upon graduation
• Rebalance our role in Afghanistan
• Ensure our cultural sovereignty
• Build consensus and bridge partisan divides in Ottawa
• Implement universal child care
• Oppose Bill C-61 on copyright law
• Increase local food production
• Enhance organic agriculture and research