Justin Ling: While everyone focuses on Carney and Poilievre, some of the election’s most interesting ideas are coming from [The Green Party of Canada]
Justin Ling: While everyone focuses on Carney and Poilievre, some of the election’s most interesting ideas are coming from [The Green Party of Canada]
The Green Party have often been cast as a protest vote, or as a refuge for idealists. That is now changing.
Even before the election was called, the Greens unveiled their plan to counter the global and domestic challenges posed by Donald Trump’s chaotic government. It’s chock full of good ideas, including many you wouldn’t normally expect: Improving the east-west energy grid to beef up national energy sovereignty; ramping up domestic artillery production; the stoppage of observing U.S-imposed intellectual property laws; and integrating more closely with the European, Australian, and Ukrainian defence industries.
The Greens have been pushing innovative policy for decades.
They were the first Canadian party that I know of to advocate for a carbon tax in the early 2000s or late 1990s.