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Fair taxation and a liveable income
Backgrounder | Tuesday, 23 Jun 2015GPC 2015 platform background paperThe Green Party is deeply concerned about the widening income gap, and the steadily increasing numbers of people trapped in the low-wage economy – workers,...
Federal fiscal transfers with purpose: equalization, housing, childcare, PSE
Backgrounder | Tuesday, 23 Jun 2015GPC platform background paperOur country is diverse in ways that enrich us. Our varied geography and multicultural population create huge advantages. Yet we also have unacceptable levels of...
Invest in workers and workplaces
Backgrounder | Tuesday, 23 Jun 2015GPC 2015 platform backgound paper Change is the only constant in the modern Canadian workplace. Technology and global economic patterns are transforming job markets. To survive in today’s employment...
Retirement security; income security for persons with disabilities; our veterans
Backgrounder | Tuesday, 23 Jun 2015GPC 2015 platform background paper We are living longer. While this is unquestionably good news, a great many of us haven’t saved enough for a longer retirement. A weak economy has caused...
Build the foundations of a dynamic sustainable economy
Backgrounder | Tuesday, 23 Jun 2015GPC 2015 platform background paperThe need for sustainability, energy efficiency, and secure energy supplies is changing the way we think about and do business. The shift to a sustainable...
Elizabeth May and Candidates Celebrate Fathers and Indigenous Cultures – Sunday, June 21
Media Advisory | Sunday, 21 Jun 2015(OTTAWA) - Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich – Gulf Islands), along with Green Party candidates Fran Hunt-Jinnouchi (Cowichan – Malahat – Langford) and Lynne Quarmby...
Green Party Statement on National Aboriginal Day
Statement | Sunday, 21 Jun 2015(OTTAWA) - Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich – Gulf Islands), issued the following statement for National Aboriginal Day: “Today is an opportunity to celebrate the...
Why Pope Francis’s statement is important
Blog | Friday, 19 Jun 2015(OTTAWA) - It is increasingly odd to realize that the voices of the established order, sources of top-down control and out-dated structures, are suddenly allies. My experience for decades was to...
Why Pope Francis’s statement is important
Blog | Friday, 19 Jun 2015It is increasingly odd to realize that the voices of the established order, sources of top-down control and out-dated structures, are suddenly allies. My experience for decades was to deride the...
House of Commons Unanimously Passes Green Party Motion to Table Truth and Reconciliation Report
Media Release | Thursday, 18 Jun 2015“Canadians expect and deserve a Canada that works together…” Elizabeth May. (OTTAWA) - A motion introduced by Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP (Saanich- Gulf Islands), to...