Election Watch - 2004

 

Question #4 of 8:

What is your party’s alternative energy platform?  What ideas do you think are most applicable to the Dufferin-Caledon Riding?

 

Ted Alexander, Green Party of Canada

The core of our economic policy is the green tax shift whereby taxes are shifted away from sustainable, clean sources of energy (for example, wind generation) and onto unsustainable, polluting sources (fossil fuels and nuclear). We have no specific targets except a long-term goal of complete sustainable and clean power generation.

In addition, we would shift any existing subsidies away [from] fossil fuel and nuclear power industries.

Murray Calder, Liberal Party of Canada

We are investing $1 billion over the next seven years in environmental technologies. The Liberal government is committed to funding alternate energy sources including wind, solar, hydrogen and biofuels. As Chair of National Liberal Rural Caucus, I lobbied successfully for a fuel ethanol program. Ethanol provides a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels that can be used in the automobile engines of today, and it also creates a market for waste agricultural and forestry products, thereby benefiting the rural economy.

Ursula Ellis, Christian Heritage Party *

Rita Laundry, New Democratic Party **

David Tilson, Conservative Party of Canada ***

 

   * Declined our request to respond

 ** Unable to respond due to family illness

*** Deferred response to web site

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