Note: This is a re-issued media release from September 15, 2015.
(OTTAWA) September 15, 2015 – The Green Party of Canada commends the signatories of the Leap Manifesto which is unveiled today in Toronto.
“The Manifesto calls for boldness and decisiveness. I encourage every Canadians to read it and sign it. But don’t just sign it: vote for it. The platform the Green Party unveiled last week offers signatories a chance to vote for what they believe in,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May, running for re-election in Saanich-Gulf Islands.
Table: Extracts from the Leap Manifesto & Green Party Platform
Leap Manifesto | Green Party 2015 Platform |
Opposition to new oil and gas pipelines, fracking, increased tanker traffic. | Opposition to new oil and gas pipelines, fracking, increased tanker traffic. |
A national childcare program. | Ensure high-quality affordable child care. |
A universal basic annual income. | A Guaranteed Livable Income to ensure no Canadian lives in poverty. |
End to fossil fuel subsidies. | End to fossil fuel subsidies. |
A progressive carbon tax | We will place a fee on carbon, and pay the funds it generates directly to every Canadian over age 18 in the form of an annual carbon dividend. |
Invest in our decaying public infrastructure so that it can withstand increasingly frequent extreme weather events. | Canada’s infrastructure deficit is estimated to be upwards of $350-billion. We will work to close this gap by committing $6.4 billion per year, one point of the GST, to municipal infrastructure. We will create a Canadian Infrastructure Bank to provide more robust and innovative financing and investment partnerships for public infrastructure. |
Moving to a far more localized and ecologically-based agricultural system. | We will fund community supported agriculture, farmers’ markets, small-scale farms and producers, and the wineries and microbreweries that Canadians love. |
We call for an end to all trade deals that interfere with our attempts to rebuild local economies, regulate corporations and stop damaging extractive projects. | We will vigorously oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). Greens will also work with Green MPs in governments around the world to open a full-scale global review of all investor-state agreements with the goal of revising and improving all of them to rebalance rights to democracies and reduce global corporate rule. |
Ensure immigration status and full protection for all workers. | Welcome and integrate new Canadians over the long term. The short-term employment focus of the Temporary Foreign Workers Programs both exploits those workers, often denied a route to Canadian citizenship, while denying Canadians those job opportunities. |
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For additional information or to arrange an interview, contact:
Dan Palmer
Press Secretary | Attaché de presse
Green Party of Canada | Parti vert du Canada
dan.palmer@greenparty.ca
mobile: (613) 614-4916