((No his father is a world war 2 vet.))
((Oh, duh. My mistake))
IC: The Green Party Platform:
Reduced payroll and income taxes
Increased taxes on polluters
Income splitting for families
A national childcare plan
Support for family farms
Government transparency
Proportional representation
Regulation and taxation of cannabis
Cutting subsidies for industries that pollute
Subsidy for public transit and environmentally friendly technology
Transfers to municipalities for infrastructure
Access to information
Maintain a competitive corporate tax rate
Mandatory labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods and food ingredients
Maintain the ban on GE wheat and oppose GE alfalfa.
Federal animal welfare reform
Establishment of a National Pharmacare programme
Closing foreign tax loopholes
Significant shift to investment in renewable energy
Expansion of the ecoEnergy retrofit program
Reduce employee and employer contributions to EI and CPP by 1/3
Ending the logging tax credit
Scaling military spending back to 2005 levels, and reorient toward peacekeeping
Our first priority is ensuring the Enviornment Ministry is in the hands of someone who will vigorously enforce pollution standards, and the adoption of a revenue neutral Carbon Tax nationwide (similar to the one currently in effect in British Columbia) complemented by a cap & trade program for CO2 and a Carbon Tarriff to protect responsible Canadian companies from being undercut by high-pollution imports.
