Courtyard café: Policy

Process questions

• Policy vs platform, how do they relate?
• How is membership involved in platform development?
• How do members bring forward legislative suggestions and comments?
• Are the current processes effective?

General comments on principles for being a leader in policy development and implementation

• Policy needs to be forward thinking and address future issues such as technology of the future and associated opportunities
• Cumulative effects of resource extraction need to be incorporated into all decisions
• We need to sell our policies
• Resist focus on “growing economy”
• Simplify policy descriptions so understandable for all
• More public involvement in policy discussion

Specific areas for consideration in policy and platform

• Progressive not regressive taxation
• Flat tax vs income tax
• Step up the language on climate change
• The BC Green Party supports evidence based key stone species protections that will give natural resource decisions through a measurable set of objectives
• Emergency management
  
• Climate emergency