Vote for the Green Party! The Green Party wants to wipe out university and college tuition fees, expand Canada's rail and urban transit systems and halt the use of fossil fuels by mid-century. The party's 44-page election platform, released by party leader Elizabeth May in Vancouver today, makes big — and expensive — promises to help students, seniors and small business. It focuses heavily on planks to tackle climate change and wean the national economy off the oilsands. Accusing the Conservative government of "serial vandalism" of Canada's public policy, May said she would work to clean up the environment, reform criminal justice and overhaul immigration and refugee practices. May predicted a minority government after the Oct. 19 election, but said she does not want to join any formal coalition. She said the best way for Canadians to effect positive public policy change is to elect more Green MPs. "Someone with a strong corps of Greens encourages the Liberals and New Democrats to form a coalition — I think that would be very healthy," she said. "We would like to sit in opposition in a responsible Parliament, which means our job is to hold government accountable." May said she would not bring down a government if it pursued key policies, from democratic reform and refugee policy to repealing anti-terror legislation. End subsidies to fossil fuel industry New jobs in the petroleum industry should be created by refining product here rather than shipping it raw to other countries, according to the Green plan. Its climate and energy strategy would end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $1 billion, and introduce a fee-and-dividend system that would put a price on carbon and share the returns with every Canadian over the age of 18. May also wants to overhaul Canada's tax system by increasing the corporate tax rate back to its 2009 level of 19 per cent, eliminating credits for the wealthy and penalizing pollution and waste. A budget overview included in the document forecasts that Green initiatives would shift spending priorities and cuts, but come to roughly the same bottom line as current Conservative projections until 2019-20. The document does not included detailed accounting for major planks. Costing predicts $13.1 billion surplus by 2019-20 The costing projects a $1.9 billion surplus this fiscal year, which would gradually climb to a $13.1-billion surplus in four years. The Greens would spend $6.4 billion on municipal infrastructure, implement a national pharmacare program and cover dental costs for low-income youth. To ease the financial student burden, the Green plan would have tuition-free education by 2020, beginning with lower-income Canadians. It would also eliminate any existing or future debt above $10,000, abolish interest on student loans and boost funding for bursaries. On the democratic and governance front, the plan would slash the budget and "excessive powers" of the Prime Minister's Office and repeal the government's anti-terror laws. May blasted the "low cunning and cheap tricks" playing out on the campaign, and said Canadians are sick of being "conned." "This election reminds me of a seedy sideshow, a carnie sideshow," she said. "And what we want to offer Canadians is the real deal." Other platform planks: Create federally funded $1-billion-a-year green technology commercialization grants for entrepreneurs to accelerate emerging technologies. Abolish tuition fees and implement a debt-forgiveness program for student debt above $10,000. Invest $600 million in 2016-17 in Via Rail, rising to $764 million by 2020; strengthen rail safety rules; re-route tracks for freight and rail away from populated areas. Create a Council of Canadian Governments to bring together federal, provincial-territorial, municipal and First Nations, Métis and Inuit leader to develop policy. The rapid phase-out of coal-fired generation plants in Canada. Housing plan with affordable, predictable home care support. A guaranteed livable income to ensure no Canadian lives in poverty. Reverse decision to reduce home delivery of Canada Post. Restore $117 million in funding to CBC/Radio-Canada, invest an extra $168 million and $315 million each year after. Partner with First Nations for sustainable resource development. Refocus Canada's defence policy on peacekeeping; border, northern, and coast guard patrols; rescue missions. Reopen Veterans Affairs offices across Canada, reverse $200 million cut to services Shift government-supported research away from biotechnology and energy intensive farming toward organic and sustainable food production. Share this story http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/ca...form-1.3220976 |
they want to eliminate cars... you posted this on revscene money also grows on trees and cutting funding from things never has an impact |
Call me ignorant but I'll spoil my vote before I vote Green in any election this lifetime. |
Voting for Green would be spoiling your vote... All I know it I want Harper out of the government so I'm voting Liberal which will hopefully give us the best chance of getting that fucken idiot out of office!! |
95% of the people who "want Harper out" have never once been effected by his policies, nor do they even know any of them. Change for the sake of change! I'm sure Trudeau will look very strong against the likes of Putin etc..lol |
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All I hear from NDP and Liberals is they are throwing money at the mass but no plan as to where is the money going to come from. Seems like they are operating like Translink. Just keep on building and wasting money but no plan as to how to make money or control spending to balance the books. |
I like Elizabeth May. She is far too optimistic about her campaign platforms, as many are not feasible in the short term, however, she is the only one who seems to be talking about what she plans to do instead of just sewering the other politicians. She is charismatic to people that see through the bullshit, which isn't the average voter. I wish she was leading a party that had more realistic platforms. My support for free post secondary is absolutely endless, even though at my age I'll likely not be taking advantage of it. The most despicable things in this country are the conservatives environmental policies, and what people are stuck paying for tuition to better themselves, often being funnelled into courses with no hope of job prospects. When it becomes wasting the government's money for someones education instead of their own, only then will more responsibility be taken by education institutions to put people into courses/programs that will actually get them into the positions they want/need to fill. |
I find it comical that the platform of the green party recognizes that refining fossil fuels is something that is better done here than shipping the raw resource elsewhere. Yet tell any bandwagon "environmentalist" that you are gonna erect a dirty disgusting refinery, and they will kick and scream, and yell foul like a complete moron. Worse than that stupid "environmentalist" some bullshit fear mongering "news" outlet like Vancity buzz is going to print some crap story with retardedly skewed facts and then the whole population will go crazy over something which is actually nothing. (queue the example of that Nestle bottling station) And this is why the elected parties fail so often, because when they try to do the right thing, you all get skewed the wrong direction by the news, and lobby them and protest about BS, and then in order to keep your vote, they end up reverting back to the same incorrect way we have been doing things for the last 10 years. This is all because you are all stupid, and you don't know jack shit about fuck all. |
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We are a resource based economy, and embracing that to an extent is important. What needs to be done is to make these resources work for us more than we are at the moment. Selling mass amounts of fossil fuels to the U.S. and buying it back after its been refined is wasteful. It could have provided so many jobs/so much more money if we were able to do these things ourselves. I don't know fuck all about oil admittedly, so I don't know what that would take, but I do know food. We have the same problem with our fishing industry. We sell mass amounts of shit to the U.S. and China, let them process it and buy it back. Meanwhile we are stuck paying 40+ dollars a kilo for pacific halibut. I'd love to see a manufacturing/processing industry resurgence in Canada, and with our low dollar maybe it will be possible? |
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http://www.revscene.net/forums/70063...ccess-vpn.html Harper has been a pain in the ass for business not just for me but for other people I know. Also looking tough? I donj't think anyone is going to be scared of this guy. http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topvideo/2015/...ia_image_1.jpg You should ask Patrick Brazeau how tough Trudeau is. http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/t...arge.promo.jpg If you own a cell phone Harpers policies have affected you. So Hondaracer most Canadians have been affected by Harper. |
You are what you smoke. The green party's definitely been havin' too much of themselves with this. |
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Lol Green Party "We believe in Science" "We support homeopathy" Mmmhhhmmmm.... |
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The posts on this thread are turning from green party related discussion to "get Harper and the Tories out of office!" :fuckthatshit: Let's make sure our votes put the "Pee Party" out of office. :lawl: |
LOL Green Party... I might be convinced by free post secondary if I were still 18 myself but I've already graduated (twice!) so...nope. I'd love to see where they think all this money will come from if they won't build pipelines or whatever. |
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and from the platform 4.7 Healthier people ? healthier health care | Green Party of Canada "5. Provide funds to expand provincial health insurance to cover proven alternative therapies that are less expensive and invasive" It's about half way down the page. Yes, "proven" alternative therapies... I would love to see the approved therapy list. Spoiler! |
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Regardless of whether or not the bill came from a dipper/con/etc. if it's from the Surrey-by-the-Sea riding you can assume some lefty wing nut hippie conjured it up... After reading your posts I'm often left wondering exactly what grade you were in when you decided to hang up the gloves. Edit: Just read about Dr. Lunney.. he's a full blown chiro kook, "subluxations" lol... if you've never read the basic theory for chiropractors, it's literally 50% science at best. |
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He's somewhere between I would say, clearly he is religiously aligned with the right sided morons of the Tea Party but then in terms of health and wellness full blown lefty. Def. an idiot though. We as a nation suck at vetting candidates.. imagine before the age of the internet how many retarded goons were elected that did tons of stupid shit. I watched that boxing match years ago lol Also met Justin at the airport in Calgary, I wouldn't be crushed if the libs end up in power. |
I just wanted all students to feel confident about investing them self to school and having a light debt on their shoulders. I have never voted before, and by having almost 40k student debt by the next year. This is surely something I want. |
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