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Two wheels enough for Green Leader

JEFF GRAY

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 6:22 AM EDT 09/10/07

Frank de Jong launched his campaign on his bike ...Read the full article

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  1. Armchair March from Canada writes: I'd like to see some articles about the Green Party of Ontario with some more substance please.
  2. R J from St. Catharines, Canada writes: As someone who uses a bicycle every single day, for transportation, de Jong gets my vote.

    It might be a nice idea from McGuinty about eliminating taxes on bikes and certain helmets, but how am I to believe him? I've never seen him on a bike. plus I hardly ever wear a helmet.
  3. Karina_I (my art at windstream.ca) from Canada writes: I agree with Armchair March - I also want to see more substantial articles about Green Party. After I have ruled out voting for Tory, who plans in my opinion to destroy education system, I am looking into my other options. Green party seems like the best of what we have. I checked their site, their blogs, but would like to see more coverage from professional sources analyzing their platform.
  4. Canada's conscience from Vancouver, Canada writes: Why won't the Ontarians get fair dmocratic debate from this neglected leader?... Go de Jong! And please, more substance. The polls are reading loud and clear with a very small budget. Please, more substance.
  5. Don Adams from Canada writes: The trouble with the Greens is their idealism..... they're as bad, or worse, than the NDP when it comes right down to it. Some good ideas, but under them, as under the NDP, the pendulum would swing too far.

    One thing I would like to see them come out with as policy though, would be that they would ban all current design interior combustion engines sold in vehicles after 2020. Force the manufacturers to put in efficient design diesel engines like the ones available in Europe. eg. de Jong driving a volkswagen that burns vegetable oil. This vehicle only puts out co2 and water vapour, and the co2 is taken care of by the trees that take it in and put out oxygen.

    I policy such as this wouldn't be popular with the oil folks, but, it would be better for Ontarians. It would help create a new industry, bio-diesel, and a spin off from that is a lot of land in Ontario that has been let go to scrub, would be brought back into production growing oil producing plants. Even small acreages could be profitable. But, we'll never have a biodiesel industry, or cleaner emmissions from engines, without politicians stepping in and forcing it on the manufacturers.
  6. D K from Canada writes: Actually, if reporters were actually covering the Green party this would NOT be enviro friendly. What are all the reporters doing, driving their individual cars to get to Green photo ops?
  7. Volunteer Community from Coast to Coast, Canada writes: as Armchair March from Canada writes: I'd like to see some articles about the Green Party of Ontario with some more substance please.

    ok then : Factory Built Straw Bale Home Builder Ben Polley maybe Canada's First Green MPP in Guelph Ontario

    Last Month the Globe & Mail did a Story about assembly line Mattamy Homes
    theglobeandmail.com?query=leitch

    What the GLOBE didn't report on was the Pre Fab Built Straw Bale Home Ben Polley did over 2 Years ago & it was shipped to the Home Show, assembled & then disassembled & then Shipped to www.everdale.org & then re- assembled.

    These Types of Futurists are Needed in Canada & it appears that Green Guelph understands this

    It appears the Liberal MPP who, when a School Board Trustee allowed a 10 room School house & Single family home right in the Heart of Guelph to be Sold Off to the private Sector for the same price of a single family home in the same Neighbourhood is in Political Trouble...

    Harvest Homes: Elegant. Efficient. Ecological.

    Harvest Homes offers a full range of ecological construction and renovation services to clients in Ontario, Canada and Central America....

    www.harvesthomes.ca/

    AN ECOLOGICAL DEMONSTRATION HOME

    http://www.homealive.ca/
  8. Volunteer Community from Coast to Coast, Canada writes: as Armchair March from Canada writes: I'd like to see some articles about the Green Party of Ontario with some more substance please.

    Here's another Ontario missed opportunity as Green Party of Ontario Leader Frank DeJong Sent Info to dalton & months later dalton pretends it's His Own during the Campaign Period...

    as per Globe & Mail story

    theglobeandmail.com?cid=algammostemail

    Ontario's missed opportunity

    Throughout Ontario's provincial election campaign, most of the focus has been on the race between Liberal Leader Dalton McGuinty and Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory...

    Here's a Perfect sample of what Goes on Outside the 416 & 905 area code

    http://www.topix.net/ca/perth-on/2007/09/only-ontario-liberals-will-ban-cosmetic-use-of-pesticides-and-herbicides

    So maybe What Went on in London this Weekend with a Candidates Signs is Unfortunate but True, Issues Wise...

    Liberal Ramal's election signs defaced

    posted by Canoe this weekend

    Hundreds of election signs belonging to a London Liberal candidate were defaced early yesterday, marred by stickers branding him a "liar" in the election's controversial faith-based school funding issue.

    Read the original story
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/OntarioVotes2007/News/Liberal/2007/10/08/4559226-sun.html

    We were in London Last Year when Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada GPC almost Won the Federal Byelection there & indirectly Helped the Liberals to Win...

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