Principles and Policy

The Green Party of Canada considers it is essential that Canadian voters know exactly where we stand on the issues important to them. Our policies and election platform are founded on the 10 Key Values of our party and developed in an open and transparent process accessible to all party members.

Our platform presents a positive vision of the future. Our social programs focus on increasing our quality of life. Our economic policy lays the foundations for long-term, sustainable wealth. Our foreign policy makes principled stands on international issues.

The Green Party is committed to:

• Restoring democracy in Canada by implementing a proportional representation voting system.

• Making wise investments for better health, better education and clean energy.

• Ending subsidies that result in more pollution and increased health risks.

• Creating "green collar" jobs for Canadians.

• Opposing an Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense system on Canadian soil.

Jim Harris: "If 25 years ago I had said that the majority of Canadians would be drinking bottled water today, you would have laughed. If I were to say now that we may have to breathe bottled air in 25 years if we don't fundamentally change the way our society works, would you laugh? And if we can't breathe the air, does it really matter whether the government of the day is right or left?"