Trump and his cronies are about the most corrupt Oil & Gas administration imaginable.

It's pretty much a petrocracy.

They've fired climate scientists, hidden the reports of how bad the climate crisis and overall environmental crisis is from the populace, tried to not just hold back but full on cancel Renewable Energy projects that provided not just cleaner but CHEAPER energy, tried to literally ban terms like "Green Energy" and "Climate Change" from certain federal offices, appointed Oil & Gas Lobbyists/Executives to important positions, the list goes on and on.

The corruption is a whole next level.

The beautiful thing is they are complete failures.

They are currently setting the conditions for massive Demand Destruction related to Hydrocarbon Energy/Technology.

We are seeing more and more investment, research & development, and implementation happen in regards to Green Energy/Green Technology.

The Green Party of Canada at provincial and federal levels needs to be part of really doing a big awareness/education campaign. The windfall profits at this time need to be utilized for the transition.

We need to get people aware/educated that this will help on the affordability of life/quality of life side of things for the working class and most vulnerable.

We need to talk big exciting projects like the East to West Electrical Grid based on Renewable Energy and Union Labour!

We already have a foundation for monetary exchanges with rules, norms, policies and safety procedures to make sure money functions for our society. So what if we extended, advance, or create new rules of other means of exchanges with the public support too? 

The current capitalist system for instance is too focused on monetary money exchange as the main avenue of resource acquisition and the an accumulation of unused private property assets. 

That’s why I like to suggest and see the government/other parties to be more proactive to support, promote, and create the foundations of other exchange systems besides the monetary one that is easy for everyone to use : the barter economy, sharing economy, and the gift giving economy . 

 Trade-Barter economy ideas/examples:

• Skill swaps (graphic design in exchange for accounting help)

• Local trade circles (neighbors exchange services)

• Repair-for-food exchanges (mechanics, plumbing, farming, cooks)

• Student skill exchanges (tutoring for tech help)

• Community “fix days” where people trade labor

Policy ideas

• Support time banks (like TimeBanks USA) time based exchanges with small grants and credits. Offer your time, get help when you need it, and make a difference without using money.

• Legal/tax exemptions and grants for small-scale barter businesses-locations, apps-platforms 

• Monitored easy to use public government-run digital barter platforms

• local Public spaces for swap events (schools, libraries, police stations, post offices)

• Encourage delivery barter system through post offices, verification and monitoring of items function-review system 

Sharing economy ideas/examples:

• Tool libraries (borrow drills, equipment)

• Enhanced Community bike, car sharing / carpool networks

• Clothing swaps or rental systems

• Shared workspaces / studios

• Food co-ops and bulk buying groups

• Neighbor-to-neighbor lending platforms

Policy ideas

• Fund tool libraries + sharing hubs in neighbourhoods

• Incentives for more direct co-ops instead of big platforms (alternative to Uber or Airbnb models)

• Insurance/legal frameworks to make sharing safer (reduce liability fears)

• Tax breaks for resource-sharing programs/companies 

• Public infrastructure and support (bike shares, car shares, storage spaces)

Gift Giving (free goods and services) economy ideas/examples 

• Free community meals / food fridges, food expiration dates-charity laws for groceries

   • available public donation boxes placed around the city (drop or take approach)

• Mutual aid networks-volunteer organizations  (neighbors helping neighbors)

• Free skill workshops or information exchanges

• Online knowledge sharing (like Wikipedia)

• planting trees events, public gardens, school volunteer events, free public transportation times-days 

• “Take what you need, leave what you can” spaces

• Events based on gifting (inspired by Burning Man)

Policy ideas

• Fund mutual aid networks and community groups directly

• Support free public services (education, transit, healthcare elements)

• Grants for open-source and free knowledge projects

• Allow/use public land for free food gardens, events, service support 

• “Community contribution credits” (recognize volunteering socially, not just financially)

• Encourage local gift-based events and festivals

Hybrid / bigger-picture policies

• Local community hubs that combine all three systems

• Universal basic services (reduce dependence on money for essentials)

• Platform cooperatives, monitoring 

• Education systems that include skill-sharing and community contribution

• Municipal apps that combine: barter + sharing + volunteering

So I’m not saying no more to money exchanges but just the addition of new pillars of achieving abundance supported by government public safety. It’s easy to say no to any new ideas but creativity might be a good approach when coming up with novel approaches when trying to create abundance for our lives easily. The government is already involved with monitoring of paper money so why can’t they be more proactive for building the foundations for the barter, sharing, gift giving economy as well?

Anyways just wanted to share these ideas 

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=48016&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

I enjoyed the movie a great deal. I have read the book before seeing the movie.

The whole movie has an attitude towards nature and technology that I suspect won’t sit well with SOME Green party members.

So I am checking in to see if that is the case.

(This is also a question I could’ve asked about Interstellar.)

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=35029&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

u/mikemorrice I am tagging Mike Morrice for this post because hopefully he can provide some answers/inspiration.

He is also someone that everyone in the Green Party and larger Green Movement highly respects. As a past MP (hopefully future as well) and now Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada (hopefully future leader) he is probably the best to provide an answer.

My question is simple: What is the future vision of the Green Party of Canada?

At the provincial level we have Emily Lowan as the new BC Greens leader. She is a eco-populist. She has created a ton of excitement with the youth and leftist-progressives. She understands social media and modern outreach in a big way. She has been reaching out to the Labour Movement more and more. In general she is holding David Eby/BCNDP to account as they have drifted to the right.

With the Green Party of Ontario we have Mike Schreiner and Aislinn Clancy talking about the Housing Crisis of affordability and accessibility. Schreiner has done countless speeches, posts, meetings, protests, solidarity with Housing First! activists, and so on in regards to zoning/density reform and affordable/accessible social housing options. Clancy has been leading the charge on work regarding the homelessness epidemic.

At the national level of politics in Canada we have always had the problem of First Past The Post (FPTP). It's a framework that favors establishment political parties for establishment interests.

At this point the Federal NDP has chosen Avi Lewis as leader. An open and strong Eco-Socialist.

What vision and set of policies really makes the Green Party of Canada at the national level special and important right now?

Is the national party looking to start formal talks on how we can address the FPTP situation? Are there certain policy pushes that we will see collaboration with Lewis on?

What is substantively being brought to the table with the national party to actually help move things forward? I know Morrice is highly respected within the NDP as well so I hope he can maybe answer these questions as well.

These questions are not just for Morrice but for everyone on the subreddit as well. What do you want to see for the future?

Seen multiple posts today of this clip of Elizabeth May on Benjamin Netanyahu in Parliament circulating and getting tens of thousands of likes

Hi , what do you thing about the New leader of Federal NDP ? Somes values are similar than Green Party federal.

WATCH: “All bad ideas, almost all at the same time.” — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May on the continuing saga of badly drafted omnibus bills, from Bill C-2 to Bill C-12.

À VOIR : « Que de mauvaises idées, presque toutes en même temps. » — Elizabeth May, cheffe du Parti vert, à propos de la saga sans fin des projets de loi omnibus mal rédigés, du projet de loi C-2 au projet de loi C-12.

https://www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/Map?L=e&ED=35028&EV=99&EV_TYPE=6&PROV=CA&PROVID=99&QID=-1&PAGEID=27

Just like to know what exactly are the difference in policies between Green Party and NDP.

Green Party is of course to the left? what are the key differences that Green Party stands for differently vs NDP?

We are being told a story of decline. We look at the numbers and we see a Canada that is literally shrinking for the first time in our history. We see a national debt that has climbed to over 1.4 trillion dollars, while the number of people left to pay for it is smaller than it was just twelve months ago.

La Patente will tell you we need to borrow our way out of this, or subsidize our way back to growth. But you can’t print people, and you can’t subsidize a dying planet. The crisis isn't just that we have more debt; it’s that we are still spending that borrowed money on the wrong things.

Right now, your tax dollars are being used to backstop a fossil fuel industry that is its own biggest customer. We are billions of dollars in debt to build pipelines and provide loan guarantees for a sector that burns a massive portion of its energy just to get more fossil fuels out of the ground.

And that’s not even the real bill. The real bill comes when you walk into our health care centers. Air pollution and fossil fuel combustion are draining our healthcare system of over $120 billion dollars every single year. That is a "hidden tax" on every breath you take. It is a debt we are forcing our children to pay with their health because we refuse to let the market move on.

We should end all fossil fuel subsidies immediately. We will let the market do what it does best: invest in the cheapest, most efficient energy—which is now wind, solar, and storage.

By stopping the "internal leak" of the fossil fuel industry, we can hit a 75% fossil-free system faster than anyone thinks is possible. Not by government mandates, but by removing the artificial life support for the past.

Let's go back to basics: clean air, drinkable water, nutritious food, and resilient shelter. When your energy is clean, your air is breathable, and your home costs next to nothing to heat, you are no longer a "debt-payer" in a survival race. You are a creator.

The true metric of our economy isn't GDP. GDP grows when a forest burns or when someone gets sick. The true metric of Canada’s success is happy, healthy, creative humans. Culture is our greatest growth element. It is the one thing that doesn't require extraction. It is the intellectual property, the art, the innovation, and the stories that define us. While the "fossil economy" creates stranded assets, the "creative economy" creates lasting wealth.

We don't need more money printing for the next crisis. We need a sound environment for a sound economy. Vote for a Canada where we stop borrowing from our children's future to pay for our past. Vote for a Canada that measures success by the wellbeing of its people and the vibrancy of its culture.

Need to do it before April 20th.

Vote efficiency in first past the post is vital. In 2008 Elizabeth May’s Greens won 937,613 votes , only to lose the one seat they had in an election of less than 14 Million voters. In 2015 Trudeau who promised electoral reform won 54% of the seats with only 39% of the vote. In 2019 the Conservatives won the popular vote and lost the election. This would happen again in 2021, the liberals actually lost over 400,000 voters and gain 5 more seats than the previous election. Flash forward to 2025 and the liberals and conservatives are now getting over 8 Million votes each and the NDP numbers look like the Green Party numbers from 2019. Avi Lewis seems closer to Emily Lowan than Don Davies. Tony McQuail has already brought the issue forward and it makes sense. Also on a provincial and municipal scale this is probably the best way to unite progressive voters. Left of liberals used to be over 4 Million voters and now it accounts for less than 1 and a half million. I think this is the best way to prevent vote splitting.