Green+Party

Party Leader- Elizabeth May

Leader Message- The Green Party faces the major threats of our time – the climate crisis, economic instability, increasing militarism and a growing gap between rich and poor – with clear-eyed realism. It offers practical solutions – down-to-earth policies. We want to engage Canadians in the positive changes essential to providing a livable world to our children.

The modern green movement started in Canada and around the world in the 1960s when the counter-culture movement launched the first mass rejection of consumer culture. Four decades later, the 60s values of peace, love and understanding have become the founding Green Party values of non-violence, social justice and ecological thinking.

The Green Party supports national childcare plans, income splitting for families, charter rights for clean air and water, support for family farms and flex hours forworking parents. For the environment the Green Party supports no more grey-industry bail-outs, Lower Payroll and income taxes, higher taxes on polluting industries, and turning Blue Collar jobs into Green Collar jobs. For Democracy The Green Party supports bringing power to your local MP, bringing Transparacy to the government, and connecting policy with Canadian interests.

Deputy Leaders are appointed by Elizabeth May to help promote the Green Party across the country. When our government is at its best, it represents all of us and brings us together to accomplish things we cannot accomplish alone.It should deal creatively and constructively with issues and spend taxpayers’ money the smart way. We believe we must stop designing our communities around the car and start designing them around families and children. Canadians should be proud of their government and trust that it is acting in their best interests. The Harper government has clearly laid out its priorities with the latest slashing of environmental budgets. Gone is funding for climate change, air pollution, wildlife and toxic waste clean-up – instead the government is proceeding with funding corporate tax cuts, tar sands subsidies, fighter jets and new prisons. We support: How this affects you is that we are trying to make your world a better place with clean air and clean water for your children.Let's focus less on war and more on our earth.The Green Party’s down-to-earth solutions will work in Canada because they have worked around the world Nearly one million Canadians voted Green in the 2008 federal election.The Green Party is different from other parties in another important way.That they are environmentally minded and want the best this world. http://greenparty.ca
 * [|Adriane Carr]
 * [|Georges Laraque]
 * no more grey-industry bail-outs
 * income-splitting for families
 * lower payroll and income taxes
 * higher taxes on polluting industries
 * turn blue collar work into green collar jobs