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Summary:
Specific areas for consideration in policy and platform
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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
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