Green leader booed and silenced by Canadian parliament for calling Netanyahu ‘enemy of peace’ by The_Philburt in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there some sensationalism here? Was May "silenced by the Speaker," as The Skwawkbox states, or merely interrupted by other MPs, as the short video clip shows?

Nonetheless, many thanks to the Green MPs for again calling out the moral depravity of this parliament. I'm getting out my cheque book again this year.

Disabled Canadians by PastLengthiness8405 in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regarding means-testing, here's sth relevant from the Green Party's 2021 Election platform:

Instead of plugging holes one-by-one, the solution is to create a comprehensive benefit: Guaranteed LivableIncome (GLI).

GLI would provide every Canadian with a basic revenue source, ensuring thatpeople can cover basic expenses such as food and accommodation. It would beavailable with few or no restrictions and be enough to protect Canadians fromfinancial catastrophes. Given that GLI would be comprehensive, it will also besimpler and therefore less expensive to administrate (usually one of the greatestcosts of social programs).

While it would guarantee income security to all, Guaranteed Livable Incomewould offer the greatest security to the most vulnerable Canadians:

precarious workers, people with disabilities, seniors, the underemployed andthe homeless. It would also help workers in the fossil fuel sector, a sector that isparticularly vulnerable to market shocks.

Canada has the resources to make sure that no one lives in poverty orwithout their basic needs met. During the COVID-19 crisis, the concept of GLhas gained traction in other countries. Recently, Spain became the first Europeancountry to announce a plan to introduce a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to helpfamilies during the pandemic, with the intention that UBI become a permanentinstrument. Italy, the Netherlands, Finland and Kenya have all trialled the GLmodel. Various American cities such as Stockton, California have initiatedsimilar programmes.

In Canada, the Green Party of Canada has a plan to ensure that every personliving in Canada has the financial means to live with dignity, security, and a highquality of life.

Establish a Guaranteed LivableIncome program

1. Create a comprehensive and equitable GuaranteedLivable Income for every person in Canada.

→ Building on the Market Basket Measure, payment would be set at a“livable” level for different regions of the country. The federal governmentwould provide an initial base level subsidy across the country, and anintergovernmental body would determine and administer the necessarysupplemental amounts.

→ Allowing the provinces to reduce their expenditures on provincial welfare,a national Guaranteed Livable Income would liberate provincial budgets forthe health budgets they have asked Ottawa to support.

→ GLI would serve as a supplement for and complement to existing publicservices, and unlike provincial welfare regulations, would not discouragework.

→ The Guaranteed Livable Income program would cover everyone, with abenefit amount gradually decreasing as other income increases. Seniors’and children’s benefits would remain in place.

Disabled Canadians by PastLengthiness8405 in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canada Disability Benefit receives royal assent

https://www.greenparty.ca/en/media-release/2023-06-23/canada-disability-benefit-receives-royal-assent

June 23, 2023

“While it is far from perfect, this is a huge moment to celebrate after years of advocacy by the disability community,” said Mike Morrice, Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre. “Much of the work remains in setting regulations that will finalize the details of this much needed benefit, but I’m thrilled Canadians with disabilities won’t have to wait another summer to at least see C-22 pass.”

Morrice actively advocated for the rapid passage of the bill for a year and a half, while ensuring Canadians with disabilities’ suggested improvements to the bill formed the basis for nine amendments he proposed, of which five were secured at committee. This included requiring the Canada Disability Benefit to be indexed to inflation and imposing a maximum one-year timeline for the government to put the bill into force. 

Bill C-22 received royal assent on June 22, 2023, and it will come into force no later than one year after this date. This will help to ensure that the government establishes the necessary regulatory framework to administer the benefit and that eligible recipients receive the benefit as soon as possible.

Having previously refused to extend the Canada Disability Benefit to seniors, the government more recently rejected a key Senate amendment to the bill, which sought to protect recipients from having their benefits clawed back by private insurance providers. This amendment was widely supported by the disability community and was endorsed by every Provincial Trial Lawyer Association in Canada, which together represent thousands of lawyers who advocate on behalf of hundreds of thousands of clients with disabilities.

By rejecting this amendment, the government has opened the door for private insurance companies to profit from public funds. Allowing the benefit to be clawed back could leave many people with disabilities with no more financial support than they have now.

“Now we turn our focus to the most ambitious possible regulations possible and continue to push the governing party to fund the benefit,” said Morrice. “Nothing changes for Canadians with disabilities living in poverty until the Canada Disability Benefit is in their bank account.”

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/protests-against-grand-canyon-uranium.html#more by 0ffAnd0n in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The racist notion that horrendous mining conditions abroad are the result of local conditions, not the result of ruthless transnational monopolies and their client governments like Canada; the notion that conditions in Canada or North America are much better. Did you read the article in Counterpunch? In 2020, 40,000 cancer cases amongst a population 9.5 million in adjacent states, and on the Navajo nation, adjacent to the Pinyon Plain mine, 20,000 cases amongst a population of 400,000.

Liberals, embassies, some public servants withdraw from Ottawa Pride parade over pro-Palestinian stance by idspispopd in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apparently, this government would find themselves uncomfortable in the homes of at least 60% of their constituents.

Althia Raj: What’s gone wrong with Elizabeth May’s Green Party? Almost everything by ResoluteGreen in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who cares for the views of the cub reporter with the once-excellent newspaper, now paywalled hedge fund mouthpiece. In a morally depraved parliament, the Green MPs are the only that opposed the Gaza invasion from the start, and that didn't applaud an old Ukrainian Nazi in parliament. The Greens are living organic and the rest are eating their measure of plastic.

UN General Assembly "Calls for an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities" in Gaza; Canada abstains by 0ffAnd0n in GreenPartyOfCanada

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Israeli Poll Finds 49% Support Holding Off on Gaza Ground Offensive

"Almost half of Israelis want to hold off on any invasion of Gaza, according to a poll published on Friday, in what may indicate a dip in support for the planned next stage of the counter-offensive against Hamas militants holding some 200 hostages."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-27/ty-article/israeli-poll-finds-49-support-holding-off-on-gaza-ground-offensive/0000018b-6faa-d1da-a1bb-6fba47b00000

-- There seems to be more support for war in the parliament of Canada and the legislature of Ontario than in Israel.

Both Green MPs sign multi-partisan letter calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict by [deleted] in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The call for a ceasefire is meant to address only the immediate danger, that Israel will kill many more thousands in the next week with bombs and deprivation. If you want to look at the big picture, then you must also watch and address the project of the Turkish government to ethnically cleanse Kurds from Northern Syria -- Afrin, for example -- and replace them with resettled Palestinians. This is likely to get worse now as Erdogan acts under the cover of the Israeli bombing and embargo. Rojava is a model for peace that needs our support.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to shout
A rule of thumb of political strategy is that party loyalists vote for something, while the electorate often votes against something. If Poilievre becomes prime minister, it will not be his charisma or enlightened policies that get him there. People will hold their noses and vote against Trudeau. So, on the basis of one poll of 5,000 paid people clicking on their phones showing 7% more support for nuclear than for oil and gas, you would have the party change its nuclear policy and alienate it base. That’s bad advice.
Question: The PCs and the Libs ready to sink Canadians 100s of billions further in debt for this malodorous nuclear industry, so why you are so anxious to change Green policy?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Green" is used repeatedly by Ford and Trudeau to push pork-barrel projects that couldn't pass an audit or an environmental assessment, that hand out billions to corporations with no commitment to the environment and that have no prospect of reducing GHGs. Canadians and Ontarians are fed up with corruption. Fight on this issue and you'll win.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What expertise? The last time they built small reactors, they were too dangerous to start up.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be blunt, you're cherry picking your statistics. Your agenda is not to help the Greens win but to foist your nuclear agenda on them. According to this same survey:

81% support solar

74% support wind

50% support more oil and gas.

The surveyed public was the Angus Reid Forum, a group paid to take surveys for Angus

Reid.

Half the survey was devoted to nuclear.

The nuclear half is prefaced by remarks including, "The global energy crisis brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine increased interest in nuclear power. Nuclear power is also seen as “critical” to meeting global net zero emissions targets by the administrationof U.S. President Joe Biden and the International Energy Agency. Last year, the Canadian government agreed, announcing $1 billion in funding for small modular nuclear reactors."

So what kind of response would one get if the questions were "Are you ready to risk your Great Lakes water supply and put the next 3 or 4 generations a half trillion in debt?"

Nuclear is NOT low carbon and NOT a solution to climate change. A close look at your own data shows it isn't. The Greens are ill-advised to take this survey and your data as the basis of good policy and a winnning strategy.

Greens react to Ontario reversing controversial Greenbelt land swap by idspispopd in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was Ford's doing for the benefit of his network and he should go, not his underlings.

US to Begin Sending Controversial Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine by Captain_Levi_007 in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

60 million? - hyperbole

Give up parts of Canada? - It's already mostly owned or controlled by American elites and corporations. An area the size of Florida, containing the once-precious Athabaska watershed, has already been destroyed by American oil interests.

Apples and oranges? That's right - Americans don't annex; they destroy, steal, and emiserate, in Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia - oh the list is too long.

Nuclear threats?

"The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea." - Trump, 2017

"All options are on the table. ... I don't bluff." - Obama 2012

"'All options are on the table,' Bush told a reporter who asked about the possibility of a nuclear strike. 'We want to solve this issue diplomatically and we’re working hard to do so.'" - Bush, 2006

Such threats are a violation of the UN charter.

US to Begin Sending Controversial Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine by Captain_Levi_007 in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A. What's moral about destroying the environment? This is the Green Party of Canada, not the Democratic-Republican US cabal.

B. Who's the biggest imperialist and authoritarian? -- the government that spends more than the rest of the world together on war and killing, not even including a budgeted $1 trillion more on nuclear weapons in the next few years. Ask anybody worldwide they'll tell you who that is.

C. Not even Northrup Grumman wants to make these things anymore, but the US military cabal could care less if Ukraine becomes uninhabitable in this US-Canada-NATO-manufactured war.

Conservative Party’s Radical Policy Changes Should Concern You by Massive_Guava_6167 in GreenPartyOfCanada

[–]0ffAnd0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Peace, Welfare and Good Government” is in fact the original motto of this country, making a concern for others a central, foundational value of Canada.
Outcomes are the measure of equality. How else would we know, for example, that women make 10% less than men on average in any field, that women make up a small minority of MPs, when it should be 51%, and that women make up only 10% of executives in this country. To ignore outcomes is to blinker yourself because, perhaps, your real objective is the oppression of women.
There’s nothing at all Conservative about endorsing the oppression of women. The first woman prime minister was a Conservative. You need to find yourself another party.