The #NDP platform #ReadyForBetter dropped this week, and there are some powerful climate policies that I'm excited to run on.
The party has been listening to big ideas coming out of the climate movement and it shows.
A 🧵...
The party has been listening to big ideas coming out of the climate movement and it shows.
A 🧵...
The Civilian Climate Corp could fix youth unemployment with jobs jobs jobs:
🌊 restoring wetlands, coasts & other habitats
🌲 planting millions of trees
🏞️ healing the land and storing carbon
Indigenous leadership & knowledge is key to the success of any land-based program.
🌊 restoring wetlands, coasts & other habitats
🌲 planting millions of trees
🏞️ healing the land and storing carbon
Indigenous leadership & knowledge is key to the success of any land-based program.
Legislating multi-year carbon budgets - both sectoral & national - is absolutely necessary to bend the curve on emissions.
The Trudeau Liberals - when they're not doling out💰💰💰 to Big Oil - relies on market incentives. Totally not working. Time for hard caps.
The Trudeau Liberals - when they're not doling out💰💰💰 to Big Oil - relies on market incentives. Totally not working. Time for hard caps.
Electrify federal vehicle fleet by 2025/Public inter-city bus system/Fare-free transit.
This could spark a giant wave of good manufacturing jobs, slash transportation emissions and re-connect communities.
Shout out to @GreenJobsOshawa and @DeliverComPower for laying the ground.
This could spark a giant wave of good manufacturing jobs, slash transportation emissions and re-connect communities.
Shout out to @GreenJobsOshawa and @DeliverComPower for laying the ground.
Climate mandates for Bank of Canada, Export Development Canada, and public pension funds.
K, wonk alert! But this is huge. Massive fossil fuel subsidies flow through these agencies - our CPP is invested in toxic US fracking plays!
De-carbonizing public finance = 🧡🧡🧡
K, wonk alert! But this is huge. Massive fossil fuel subsidies flow through these agencies - our CPP is invested in toxic US fracking plays!
De-carbonizing public finance = 🧡🧡🧡
Of course, there are elements of the platform I wish went even further.
As I shut my window to keep the wildfire smoke out, and lock the heatwave in, I want even faster, deeper targets.
And new crown corporations will be necessary: the market ain't gonna fix this.
As I shut my window to keep the wildfire smoke out, and lock the heatwave in, I want even faster, deeper targets.
And new crown corporations will be necessary: the market ain't gonna fix this.
When the costing comes, I hope it signals a level of public investment that would kickstart “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” (IPCC 2018). In less than a decade.
That's the spirit of a #GreenNewDeal and it's there in the platform!
That's the spirit of a #GreenNewDeal and it's there in the platform!
Time to confront all our emergencies with solutions that are big enough to actually solve them, while leaving no one behind.
That's a key message of the climate justice movement.
And for me, the fact that the #NDP is connecting to that energy is a very big deal.
End of 🧵.
That's a key message of the climate justice movement.
And for me, the fact that the #NDP is connecting to that energy is a very big deal.
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