GreenerPolitics

by Mark MacGillivray

This is the hottest election campaign I’ve ever been a part of.  The Ontario Greens have hot policies backed up by a solid political organization.  The stories we are presenting are catching the imagination of the media who, if it were up to them, would love Green Party Leader Frank De Jong in the Leader’s Debate.

The tone of these articles are emblematic of how the Greens are being treated in this campaign: seriously with equal treatment compared to the big three.
Greens release election platform

by Michele Henry, Toronto Star

Taxing water and pollution instead of income, encouraging “walkable” communities linked by transit and meshing Roman Catholic schools with the public system together form the basis of Ontario’s Green Party election platform.

Frank de Jong, provincial leader, introduced his party’s priorities in front of Queen’s Park today, saying eco issues are the only ones that matter.

“The issues that are being discussed in this election are all green issues, whether we’re talking about smog or electricity or nuclear power or preventive health care or agriculture or transportation,” he said.

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Scrubbers, cigarettes and six new holidays
Ontario election campaign, Day 4, Canadian Press

TORONTO (CP) — Climate change, coal-fired electricity and last year’s whopping Christmas raise for Ontario politicians were all on the campaign-trail agenda Thursday as the province’s political hopefuls completed a fourth day of campaigning for next month’s election.

The governing Liberals dismissed a Progressive Conservative plan for power-plant smokestack scrubbers as the coal-fired equivalent of a filtered cigarette, while the NDP promised a $10-an-hour minimum wage and a massive pay cut for politicians.

But if there was anything to get voters talking Thursday, it was the campaign platform released by the Green party, which includes six - count ‘em, six - new statutory holidays.

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