What is your Green policy priority?

I didn't like the wording of "Federal subsidies to support free, accessible transit in all urban centres".  I don't think that is a bad idea and improving transit would probably have been my first pick but in my experience the poor quality of transit outside of urban centres is a real problem and shouldn't be excluded from a progressive transit strategy.

I think they should add to the list some more personal everyday items too like requiring all new buildings to get some type of LEEDS certification and programs to get older buldings more environmentally friendly. Also more incentives to build / sell electric cars.

remind wrote:

Shouldn't green be in small letters then?

Yes it should.  In fact the phrase should be environmental policies.  Personally when I see some of the folks using the word green I want to run the other way.

The bit around mining is foolish.  There is mining and then there is mining.  We can not have much of an economy without mining.  Look at what you are typing on and think about what happenes if the metals and minerals involved disappeared.  The trick is to support less damaging mining practices, not to undermine the resource economy.

Set energy intensity targets and GHG reduction targets for all buildings and support that with proper, long term incentives including accelerated depreciation for green buildings. Have renewables incentives that are long lasting and send a meaningful market signal to manufacturers - not ones that disappear every two years a la ecoAction.