Hi Joe; Even though I am on the Green Party executive I am considering voting for Jack Layton in this federal election because he has a better report card on environmental issues than Jim Harris of the Green Party.
Terry Dyck >From: Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: [Biofuel] Green party to exempt biofuels from taxation >Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:40:24 -0500 > >As some of you may be aware, our federal government in Canada was >recently kicked out of the house due to non confidence. The green party >just released it's platform announcing that they have a plan to increase >tax on dino fuels and exempt biofuels from these increases. As well >taxes on industries and products which are environmentally unsound will >help raise funds to create 'green collar' jobs. >Here is a link to the platform: > >http://www.greenparty.ca/article34.html~&MMN_position=51:22:40.html > >I am just wondering if any of my countrymen on this list have been in >touch with your local green candidate to discuss their stance on home BD >production in your local community? The party leader is comming to town >this week and I have booked a meeting with him to discuss the issue. I >agree with the recent discussions advocating to "lie low in tall grass" >and I do not intend to reveal too much in this meeting but I see it as >an excellent opportunity to test the waters and see just how realistic >Jim Harris is on the issues surrounding energy. Obviously he is not >receiving campaign funding from that sector so it will be easy for him >to make fantastic claims but I want to see how much thought he has >actually put into the subject. > >Joe > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
