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Federal Green election platform - Tue, Oct 24.200
http://www.green.ca/english/election_platform_2000.htm
(Condensed version of post)
   The platform deals with LETS and alternative progress indicators as proven precursors to monetary reform, both essential to any "green money" scheme. It mentions fair trade and the abrogation of NAFTA and WTO.  And it mentions the 1966 Covenant of Social, Economic, and Cultural rights, in which every member state of the UN committed to guarantee the human right to food and housing.
   Also the 1992 commitment to invoke "polluter pay" and "precautionary" principles in their laws, and to reject transference of harm to environment and human health.  All told, an excellent list of our concerns in Toronto today.
   I hope you will consider voting Green, and eradicating the ideology-driven top-down parties of corrupt mass media delusion from Canadian politics. Our objective in this election is to run a full slate in the Metro Toronto area
(see list of candidates currently at http://www.green.ca/english/ridings/Ridings-Ontario.htm)
and to achieve support equivalent to federal NDP or Tory (6-8%) taking our votes preferably from the CA & Liberal support which we believe to be weak and prone to shift.
Contact Craig Hubley
craig@hubley.com
President - Toronto-Danforth Greens
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Joan Russow, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, is running against Stockwell Day and an NDP candidate in Okanagan-Coquihalla, B.C. (Election is Sept. 11; URL is http://www.voterussow.org
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Green Party Leader to fight Alliance's Day in By-Election - Aug.10.2000
   Joan Russow, leader of Canada's Green party is to take on Alliance chief Stockwell Day in the Okanagan-Coquihalla by-election. She plans to attack Day's horrible policies in regards to health care, the environment and human rights during the British Columbia race.
   The lack of a Liberal or Progressive Conservative challenger in the by-election puts Joan in the forefront.
    Russow told reporters in Ottawa that Day embodies everything she has opposed for the past 40 years. She also said that the Alliance is not a grassroots party but one run through corporate donations like other old-line parties.
   "I want a seat in the House of Commons and I want to show people that B.C. is not a Reform-Canadian Alliance stronghold,'' Russow said.
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