Originally posted by: Number1
The coalition is coming so let see what the NDP has in mind for Canada.
The socialist agenda:
- Slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050
- Raise $2.5-billion a year in carbon auctions and reinvest the money in public transit and other green initiatives
- Halt new tar sands development until carbon emissions are capped and protected areas set aside
- Meet 35 per cent of Canada's energy needs by 2020 with renewable energy, including biomass, wind power and renewable fuels
- $600-million for industry innovation fund to help businesses reduce energy use
- New clean water act that includes ban on fresh water exports, minimum of secondary water treatment in municipalities, and a $10-million safe water fund to address issues of emerging pollutants
- Reestablish national minimum wage at $10 an hour and index it to inflation
- $750-million a year job fund to train workers for "green-collar" jobs, which includes installing and maintaining energy efficient and renewable energy technology
- Appoint job protection commissioner to probe major layoffs and shutdowns
- Lower the small business tax rate to 10 per cent from 11 per cent
- Outlaw use of replacement workers in strikes or lockouts
- A new monthly cheque of up to $400 that would replace three existing child benefits, including the Conservatives' $100-a-month cheque. A family with two children and an income of $75,000 would take in an extra $2,140 a year
- Eliminate poverty in Canada by 2020 by setting firm targets, establishing a poverty elimination office within HRDC, and economic measures such as national minimum wage and new child benefit
- National child care program calling for 150,000 new child care spaces in the first year, growing to 220,000 spaces annually in the fourth year
- $1-billion national home-care program for seniors
$1-billion a year on a new catastrophic drug plan
- $200-million a year to increase training spaces and expand Canada's medical schools by 50 per cent
- Establish mental health crisis response centres
- Dedicate one per cent of Health Canada budget to physical fitness and amateur sports promotion
- $1,000-a-year grant to all undergraduate or equivalent students who qualify for student loans
- Broaden eligibility for EI benefits to Canadians engaged in full-time training and retraining programs
- $4-billion for transit over four years
- Invest one cent of GST in infrastructure by 2011
- Dedicate one per cent of federal spending to affordable housing within 10 years
- Ban ATM fees for institutions regulated under the Bank Act
- Limit interest rates and fees by "fringe banks," including on pay day loans, tax refund advances and cheque cashing
- Cap interest rates on credit card to 5 percentage points over prime
- Mandatory labelling of farmed fish, genetically engineered food
- Enable cities and provinces to ban handguns
- 2,500 new police officer positions
- Federally funded permanent youth gang diversion strategy
- Set national standards for use of Tasers
- Repeal use of security certificates
Source:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com.../BNStory/politics/home
I almost forgot.
Defense
-the immediate and unconditional surrender and retreat of all Canadian forces from Afghanistan.
-more social programs with the "peace dividends" realized with the withdrawal of our forces from Afghanistan.
Once they are done, you won't recognize the country if we still have a country. I mean come on. Read these and ask yourself, is this what we really want for Canada?
NO and we overwhelmingly votes against those policies.
But now its all back on thanks to the three stooges.
Not to worry, will just have to deal with them come election time if we still have a country by then.
What a bunch.