Erik BJORGAN for Parliament

If anyone needed more proof that both Harper and Campbell have similar agenda, they got it this week with the provincial budget and the speech from the throne. What we see in both are accelerated attacks on the environment couched in terms such as “modernizing the regulatory system”.

Both governments fail to address the triple deficit we have: fiscal, ecological and democratic. One wonders what kind of world such men think they are creating for the children. What do they know that we don’t know? Could it be they don’t understand that technology will NOT save us? that humans cannot live on this earth once we will have destroyed all we evolved from?

We’re already seeing many places in the world where you can’t breathe the air and can’t drink the water, yet it seems both these “leaders” are intent on copying the practices that lead to that destruction. Here are budgetary concerns expressed by the Green Party:

• By 2015, CIDA funding will see significant cuts in expected funding of nearly $2 billion.
• No revival of the ecoEnergy Technology Initiative.  Renewables will receive Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance benefits. The 2010 budget augments this only very slightly.
• AECL still gets $300 million in new funding despite its failure to operate Chalk River for secure supply of radio-isotopes.
• No news on pension reform.
• No commitment to Own the Podium.  $22 million/year confirmed for high performance athletics, but it will be left to a later day to announce the program.
• The optimistic assumptions of revenue growth from corporate taxes of nearly 40% over 5 years, with corporate tax rates going down, underpin the climb out of deficit.  These assumptions are questionable.

for more details on the speech from the throne see : http://greenparty.ca/media-release/2010-03-04/harper-budget-delivers-job-killing-tax-fails-confront-canada-s-triple-defic