More than 100 people confirmed the nomination of Huguette Allen as the next federal Green Party
candidate, Saturday September 26th, in Armstrong. Speaking at the annual Green Garden Party, Ms. Allen said “40 years ago voters wanted medicare & they got it. Today voters want government with a green agenda. We’ve got it & voters can get it, when the next election is called.” Enjoying an old fashioned corn roast with local organic food, Huguette Allen spoke about exciting times in BC with Elizabeth May running in Saanich Gulf Islands. She noted writer William Deverell will soon be in Okanagan-Shuswap on a cross-Canada book tour in support of the greens.Ms. Allen is encouraged to have been elected to the national governing council of the Green Party. She pointed out that the other political parties have become irrelevant by ignoring the biggest challenge on earth. “Only the Green Party’s economic plan addresses the fundamental question: how to live without destroying our nest".
Ms. Allen praised the Green Party plan to tax pollution instead of income. "The Green Plan includes $36 Billion of income tax cuts including income splitting. It reverses the trend to ballooning deficits faster than Harper's give-a-way to badly managed corporations. The Green plan reroutes multi-billion dollar tax payer bail-outs for failing companies like GM, to emerging green industries. Our plan builds on innovation that will create jobs in Canada. Our plan supports family values & social responsibility. It will build sustainable communities that enable us to live within our financial and environmental means, and not burden future generations."
Jim and Diane Duenow, Californians who recently moved to Canada and were active in the Obama campaign, told the audience that electing Greens will depend on grassroots effort. They stated that the time is right for significant change in Canada and encouraged voters to make the link between the urgent environmental & economic issues we face, and voting Green.
Music was provided by harpist Linda Khandro and guitarist Manfred Harper.
2 comments:
This is how the Greens determine a candidate now...by confirming Allen at a BBQ? So much for a proper nomination and democratic process.
The Green party has intrigued many of us lately, and mostly because of its views on income splitting. This would be a very helpful move to value all the ways Canadians contribute to the economy and would affect and benefit about 99% of households. It would level the playing field so that all households earning equal total incomes would pay the same tax on it which is much more reasonable than the current plan where some pay 45% higher tax than the others based on the distribution of who earned what within the home.
But the Green party has other stances i do not like, such as universal funding for daycare kids only and nothing for kids at home. We need to also level that playing field and fund kids period. Then parents could choose sitter, nanny, dad, mom, grandma, dayhome, daycare or whatever the child needed. The Green party would be very wise to be consistent in its grass roots appeal. Income splitting is good. Favoring some care styles over others is not
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