You can support the DC Provincial Green Party by making a financial contribution.

Each year, you may contribute up to $1,240 to a Provincial association like the Dufferin-Caledon Provincial Green Party and receive a tax credit. The following table gives examples of what your contribution will cost after available tax credits.

Full details on provincial political contribution can be found on the Elections Ontario website.

Give us your two cents!

We want your opinion to guide us into fall 2011 Provincial election. We also need money to run a winning campaign. You can help us with both by making a contribution with some cents.

Listed below are nine policy issues. As you make your contribution, please select the one or two most important issues to you and put those numbers as the cent digits in your contribution (e.g., contribute $100.12 to let us know issues 1 and 2 are most important to you).

We will use your opinions to help guide us in our campaign in 2011. Together we can bring important local issues onto the provincial political agenda.

1. AGGREGATE EXTRACTION Increase tonnage fees to compensate municipalities for direct costs and loss of quality of life. Minimize pits by reducing the demand for aggregate with recycling and reduced urban sprawl.

2. AGRICULTURE Invest in infrastructure to promote local food and provide farmers with fair share of food dollars. Alternate Land Use Services to pay farmers for ecological value.

3. ECONOMIC REFORM Stop the HST so Ontario protects its ability to use tax policy to manage the economy. Reduce income and corporate taxes by shifting taxes to non-renewable resource consumption. Cradle to grave stewardship of products.

4. EDUCATION Single publicly funded education system that treats all students fairly and equally. Emphasize health promotion and environmental literacy.

5. ELECTORAL REFORM Proportional representation. Preferential voting to enable voters to pick a second choice. Eliminate political donations from corporations and unions.

6. ENERGY Reduce total energy demand with conservation and efficient planning. Transition to renewable energy. Phase out nuclear power.

7. GREEN SPACE, LAND USE AND URBAN PLANNING Recognize the limits to growth in population. Permit growth only where it improves the quality of life and the sustainable economy of the community.

8. HEALTH PROMOTION Ensure Ontario can maintain universal affordable health care with “a greater emphasis on prevention and wellness as part of an overall strategy to improve the delivery of primary care in Canada, … making Canadians the world’s healthiest people” (Roy Romanow, 2002 in The Future of Health Care in Canada).

9. WATER Limit extraction to sustainable quantities. Change provincial policies to recognize water as people’s shared resource.