Here’s the platform of the Green Party of Canada:

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Read this document on Scribd: GPC platform Notes:

– Money for a Green VC fund for green R&D

– renegotiation of NAFTA

– corporate tax cuts for carbon reductions

– raise the GST to 6%

– combines the Liberal Green Shift carbon tax with NDP/Conservative plans for cap-and-trade. Also has a more intense GHG target than the Conservatives with 30% reduction from 1990 levels rather than Conservative’s absolute carbon reduction of 20% by 2020 from 2006 levels.

– raise taxes on cigarettes

– labeling of GMOs

– Single payer, universal healthcare

– income splitting for everyone

– raise income tax exemption to $20k

– Guaranteed Annual Income

– meet 0.7% GDP pledge for foreign aid

– turn Afghanistan mission over to the UN

From carbon taxes, to income splitting to massive increases in foreign aid, I look forward to the costing of this platform.

There is not one word in this platform on proportional representation as it relates to democratic reform. Has the Green Party dropped this from it’s goals? Was this dropped at their last party convention on policy? Is this just more evidence that PR is a distasteful policy to the Liberal Party and a Red-Green alliance depends on seat sharing and first-past-the-post rather than proportional representation? Is the NDP now the only party that supports PR?