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- The same as “Leap Manifesto” and any other trendy branding
- “Green” cement (could be part of a Green New Deal-retrofit)
- Green New Deal needs to prioritize social and economic wellbeing rather than just “wealth”
- NGOs building the Green New Deal are often NDP backers (motivations, partisan attitudes)
- Town halls across Canada
- Feedback: It is at 20,000 feet — need to bring it down to earth
- Unionized - after 2001 NDP was decimated
- Greens 12%
- Citizens started to organize — save our services
- A lot of Greens showed up
- Morphed from non-partisan to NDP machine
- If the Greens are in there we are going to compete with the NDP for people
- NDP have thrown their weight behind it
- We are the Green New Deal
- Need green organizers to run in and must champion the GND
- The GND - Elizabeth is supporting
- History of the GND
- 1929 is original New Deal - about getting people back to work
- Built the highways dams, parks
- Fiscal responsible
- WWll was part of the recovery
- Social security 1935
- Separated banks from savings
- The GND need to be framed around work to transition our economy
- The GND - what is it?
- FDR’s new deal-roads/dams
- Stimulus spending
- Try to build for future
- Green New Deal is great marketing term
- Recent high school students don’t know the history of what the “New Deal” is, only taught in Canadian history
- Need to measure the success of progress of a potential Green New Deal
- Holistic sustainability measures need to drive a Green New Deal
- New Green Deal concept
- Good that it's a visionary beacon, we need this first then trails
- May represent an overshoot of what we need
- Sunrise Movement (in the USA)
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