Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 12, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page 1 b4 Winnipeg free press sunday october 12, 2008 perspective Winnipeg repress. Com tory Liberal nip Green. No new taxes no new subsidies no new bailouts and no deficits. Modest investments in certain Industry sectors. Reduce greenhouse Gas emissions to three per cent below 1990 Levels by 2020. Mandatory Caps on Industrial pollution per unit of production. Incentives and investments to encourage Green technologies Energy efficiency. Continue training afghan police and army before a 2011 troop withdrawal. Rebuild the Dahla dam repair schools train teachers promote better governance. Stiff punishment for criminals. Crackdown on serious youth crime allowing judges to impose life sentences publish names. Abolish conditional sentences House arrest for 30 offences. Minimum prison terms for drug crimes. Cut tax on diesel and Jet fuel from four cents a litre to two cents. Modest tax benefits for seniors firs time Home buyers apprentices parents with kids in the arts and people with disabled spouses. Improve aboriginals education programs. Address the wrongs of the residential schools Era for aboriginals attending similar schools not covered by the Indian residential schools settlement agreement. Push for better housing for first nations and inuit in the North. Set aside $ 500 million Over the next four years to implement an agricultural flexibility program. Ensure Western Canadian Farmers can choose whether to sell Grain on the open Market or through the Canadian wheat Board. Invest $ 50 million in Strong Slaughter capacity in various regions to support beef and Dairy industries. Produce economic and fiscal update immediately assess Canadas regulatory framework. Call premiers meeting. Billions for manufacturers infrastructure and research. Host of tax Breaks for Green technology and tax increases for polluters. Reduce greenhouse Gas emissions by 20 to 25 per cent below 1990 Levels by 2020. Carbon tax on Fossil fuels for Consumers and Industry mandatory Cap and Trade system in subsequent years. Green incentives and investments. Pull troops out of Kandahar by 2011, and focus on development and diplomacy. Spend $ 60 million to help soldiers with Post traumatic stress. Create $ 40 million fund to combat guns and gangs. Ban military assault rifles like one used at Mont realms Dawson College. Work with u. S. To reduce illegal gun smuggling. Introduce Law against cube bullying. Impose tax of $ 10 per tonne of greenhouse Gas emissions growing to $ 40 per tonne in four years. Cut Bottom three income tax rates lower corporate tax rate by one per cent and offer tax credits to Low income earners. Bring Back the Kelowna Accord and fulfil the commitments within other accords and agreements. Work to renew the Metis nations partnership in confederation. Introduce a new regional flexibility fund to help regions improve crop insurance and environment programs. Support the promotion of local Farmers markets and the branding of Canadian foods. Roll Back corporate tax cuts and pour resulting billions into retraining programs and incentives to manufacture Green cars and other products. Reduce greenhouse Gas emissions by 25 per cent below 1990 Levels by 2020. Introduce regulations for Cap an Trade system with absolute reductions in emissions from Industry. New dedicated Public transit fund Green jobs strategy. Withdraw troops from Kandahar and focus on a diplomatic solution to the War. Focus the military on disaster Relief and peacekeeping. Empower municipalities provinces to ban handguns. Tackle gun smuggling. Add 2,500 new police officers nationwide. Decriminalize marijuana. Raise corporate tax rate Back to last years level and cancel future corporate tax cuts promised by tories. Non taxable child Benefit of up to $ 416 a month for children under 18. Invest $ 5 billion Over five years to improve the Standard of living in first nations Metis and inuit communities. Legally recognize the legitimacy and jurisdiction of indigenous governments. Ban the use of terminator seeds. Limit meat packers ownership of cattle by adding new provisions to the Competition act. Renegotiate Naftal. Set up Green venture capital funds. Force Ottawa to buy Canadian. Base economic policy on environment and Well being. Reduce greenhouse Gas emissions by 30 per cent below 1990 Levels by 2020. Carbon tax on Fossil fuels for Consumers and Industry mandatory Caps for Industry on Carbo Exchange Market. Green incentives and investments. Restore Canadas peacekeeping role help build a United nations reaction Force. Shift the Afghanistan Mission from nato to in control. Legalize and tax marijuana. Promote restorative Justice where offenders make reparation to victims and Community. Impose Carbon tax of $ 50 per tonne of greenhouse Gas emissions. Raise get Back to six per cent and invest funds in infrastructure and Public transit. Support the restoration of the $ 5.1 billion commitment of the Kelowna Accord. Set up task forces to address aboriginals treatment in the Justice system and to investigate and address the disappearance of aboriginal women. Shift government supported research away from biotechnology and Energy intensive farming and towards organic food production. Work to ban planting promotion and experimentation with genetically engineered crops Economy environment defence Law and order taxes aboriginals agriculture Federal election guide issues s Tephen harpers platform of promises was As much about what he wont do introduce a Carbon tax As it was about what he will do. Harper was the last Leader to release a comprehensive platform and at 44 pages it was the smallest one produced. His most talked about pledges included one to scrap the youth criminal Justice act in favour of stiffer penalties for teen criminals As Young As 14 and no longer keep their names from the Public. His Promise to slash the diesel tax in half also stood out partly because of the contrast it made to the liberals plan to introduce a Carbon tax. T he Liberal platform was not just about one thing but that does not mean anybody really knows anything except one thing about it. That of course is the Green shift Stephane Dionys plan to tax Carbon emitting products and offset the Impact on your Wallet by cutting your income taxes and introducing a Bunch of new tax credits to help the poor the disabled and the industries most affected by the Carbon tax such As fisheries and trucking. Down the Road the liberals plan to introduce a Cap and Trade system in conjunction with the provinces. The Liberal platform was also sprinkled with a Bunch of promises to put Back things the conservatives scrapped including the Kelowna Accord and the $ 3 billion annual budget surplus Cushion to prevent deficits. J ack Layton made one thing emphatically Clear throughout the election corporations will Bear the Brunt of an nip government As the nip platform sets out to cancel $ 50 billion in tax cuts for corporations go after Banks and credit card companies for gouging Consumers with unacceptably High fees and interest rates and take on cellphone companies for overcharging Consumers to talk and text. The nip plans to shift the $ 50 billion from corporate tax cuts into spending for Green Job training a National Day care program training More doctors and nurses and eliminating poverty in Canada within 12 years. The nip also dismisses a Carbon tax in favour of a Cap and Trade system. E Lizabeth May and the Green party ensured the liberals we rent the Only ones at the table with a Carbon tax plan. The Green Carbon tax was also heavier hitting at $ 50 a tonne compared to the $ 40 per tonne offered by the liberals. Overall the Green platform is heavy on programs to address health issues and the environment such As the High Cost of pharmaceuticals protecting the Public health care system and Banning or limiting the use of chemicals known to cause illnesses such As cancer. One of the More controversial promises made was to end Federal assistance to Seal Hunters in Atlantic Canada. F a 04_ oct 12 08. Ind 1 10/ 11/ 08 6 13 10 pm ;