If people do not have the option of voting GREEN how can they make their concerns / issues heard?
Does the Lloydminster Sk constituency want the option to Vote Green?! (Including communities from Pierceland to Marshall, Onion Lake to Paradise Hill, and all those in and around the area)
Not familiar with the Green Party of Saskatchewan? - Check out their principals and policies below.
The best part for the average person (at any age) is that they value your grassroots input and work from and for the community.
Green Party of Saskatchewan Statement of Principles
Ecological Wisdom
Human societies must operate with the understanding that we are part of nature, not separate from nature. We must maintain an ecological balance and live within the ecological and resource limits of our communities and our planet. We support a sustainable society that utilizes resources in such a way that future generations will benefit and not suffer from the practices of our generation. To this end we must practice agriculture which replenishes the soil, move to an energy efficient economy and live in ways that respect the integrity of natural systems.
Social and Economic Justice
We believe in the right of every person of working age to socially useful and environmentally sustainable work, access for every person to free education and health care, as well as adequate food, clothing and shelter.
Participatory Democracy
All citizens must be able to directly participate as equals in the environmental, economic and political decisions that affect their lives.
Personal, Social and Global Responsibility
We believe individuals should act to improve the well being of themselves and their communities, and at the same time, enhance ecological balance and social harmony. We seek to join with people and organizations around the world to foster peace, economic justice and the health of the planet.
Community Based Economics
We recognize it is essential to create a vibrant and sustainable economic system, one that can create jobs and provide a decent standard of living for all people while maintaining a healthy ecological balance. A successful economic system will offer meaningful work with dignity, while paying a living wage which reflects the real value of a person's work. Local communities must develop an economy that assures protection of the environment and worker's rights, broad citizen participation in planning, and enhancement of our quality of life. We support cooperatives and public enterprises that distribute resources and control to more people through democratic participation.
Cooperation and Mutual Aid
We believe in the concept of a cooperative rather than competitive human society. While both these elements exist in Nature (including human nature), our industrial society has placed far too much emphasis on competition. A change in outlook away from competition and towards cooperation and mutual aid must take place both at the personal, social and global levels.
Respect for Diversity
We believe in honouring the cultural, spiritual, racial and sexual diversity that exists in human societies. We also believe in respecting the diversity that is found in Nature, by striving to protect, restore and enhance the biological diversity on which healthy Nature and all future life depends.
Peace and Non-Violence
Regardless of differences, we recognize the inherent value of all life. The Green Party of Saskatchewan commits itself to the establishment of a demilitarized society, based on mutual cooperation and nonviolent conflict resolution amongst all people and nations.
Decentralization
We must return power and responsibility to individuals, communities and regions. We must encourage the flourishing of regionally based culture, rather than a dominant monoculture. We must have a decentralized democratic society with our political, economic and social institutions locating power on the smallest scale that is efficient and practical. We must reconcile the need for community and regional self-determination with the need for appropriate centralized regulation in certain matters.
Gender Equity
We value women and men equally. We therefore support active and equal involvement of women in politics and encourage women in politics to assume positions of power.
Human societies must operate with the understanding that we are part of nature, not separate from nature. We must maintain an ecological balance and live within the ecological and resource limits of our communities and our planet. We support a sustainable society that utilizes resources in such a way that future generations will benefit and not suffer from the practices of our generation. To this end we must practice agriculture which replenishes the soil, move to an energy efficient economy and live in ways that respect the integrity of natural systems.
Social and Economic Justice
We believe in the right of every person of working age to socially useful and environmentally sustainable work, access for every person to free education and health care, as well as adequate food, clothing and shelter.
Participatory Democracy
All citizens must be able to directly participate as equals in the environmental, economic and political decisions that affect their lives.
Personal, Social and Global Responsibility
We believe individuals should act to improve the well being of themselves and their communities, and at the same time, enhance ecological balance and social harmony. We seek to join with people and organizations around the world to foster peace, economic justice and the health of the planet.
Community Based Economics
We recognize it is essential to create a vibrant and sustainable economic system, one that can create jobs and provide a decent standard of living for all people while maintaining a healthy ecological balance. A successful economic system will offer meaningful work with dignity, while paying a living wage which reflects the real value of a person's work. Local communities must develop an economy that assures protection of the environment and worker's rights, broad citizen participation in planning, and enhancement of our quality of life. We support cooperatives and public enterprises that distribute resources and control to more people through democratic participation.
Cooperation and Mutual Aid
We believe in the concept of a cooperative rather than competitive human society. While both these elements exist in Nature (including human nature), our industrial society has placed far too much emphasis on competition. A change in outlook away from competition and towards cooperation and mutual aid must take place both at the personal, social and global levels.
Respect for Diversity
We believe in honouring the cultural, spiritual, racial and sexual diversity that exists in human societies. We also believe in respecting the diversity that is found in Nature, by striving to protect, restore and enhance the biological diversity on which healthy Nature and all future life depends.
Peace and Non-Violence
Regardless of differences, we recognize the inherent value of all life. The Green Party of Saskatchewan commits itself to the establishment of a demilitarized society, based on mutual cooperation and nonviolent conflict resolution amongst all people and nations.
Decentralization
We must return power and responsibility to individuals, communities and regions. We must encourage the flourishing of regionally based culture, rather than a dominant monoculture. We must have a decentralized democratic society with our political, economic and social institutions locating power on the smallest scale that is efficient and practical. We must reconcile the need for community and regional self-determination with the need for appropriate centralized regulation in certain matters.
Gender Equity
We value women and men equally. We therefore support active and equal involvement of women in politics and encourage women in politics to assume positions of power.
Green Party of Saskatchewan Policy
A New Energy Policy
A GPS government, acting for Saskatchewan people, will gain control of our oil and gas reserves, oppose nuclear power, uranium mining and refining, and phase out electrical power from burning coal.
Climate Change
A GPS government will support the Kyoto Protocol through energy conservation, demand management, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and small hydro.
Agriculture and Food
A GPS government will support ecological agriculture, marketing boards, co-ops, food security, and local processing and distribution.A GPS government will end subsidies to corporate agribusiness and support a move to organic agriculture.
Electoral Reform
A GPS government will Introduce proportional representation, limit campaign contributions to individuals, and limit size of individual contributions to political parties.
Taxation for Social Justice
A GPS government will re-introduce a progressive tax system based on ability to pay, increase resource royalties, restore grants to municipalities, reduce property taxes, and move to eliminate user fees for public services.
A New and Different Health Policy
A GPS government will follow policies based on prevention of illness, support for the five principles of Medicare, and the right of all to healthy food, clean water, clean air, good housing and a just standard of living
A New Approach to Resource Development
A GPS government will place an emphasis on local and Canadian ownership and control, sustainable development, sharing with Aboriginal communities, and ending subsidies to large transnational corporations.
Education Policy
A GPS government will restore provincial funding to school districts, support and fund pre-school programs, restore funding to post- secondary institutions, and reduce tuition for higher education to levels of the past, the lowest in Canada.
A GPS government, acting for Saskatchewan people, will gain control of our oil and gas reserves, oppose nuclear power, uranium mining and refining, and phase out electrical power from burning coal.
Climate Change
A GPS government will support the Kyoto Protocol through energy conservation, demand management, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and small hydro.
Agriculture and Food
A GPS government will support ecological agriculture, marketing boards, co-ops, food security, and local processing and distribution.A GPS government will end subsidies to corporate agribusiness and support a move to organic agriculture.
Electoral Reform
A GPS government will Introduce proportional representation, limit campaign contributions to individuals, and limit size of individual contributions to political parties.
Taxation for Social Justice
A GPS government will re-introduce a progressive tax system based on ability to pay, increase resource royalties, restore grants to municipalities, reduce property taxes, and move to eliminate user fees for public services.
A New and Different Health Policy
A GPS government will follow policies based on prevention of illness, support for the five principles of Medicare, and the right of all to healthy food, clean water, clean air, good housing and a just standard of living
A New Approach to Resource Development
A GPS government will place an emphasis on local and Canadian ownership and control, sustainable development, sharing with Aboriginal communities, and ending subsidies to large transnational corporations.
Education Policy
A GPS government will restore provincial funding to school districts, support and fund pre-school programs, restore funding to post- secondary institutions, and reduce tuition for higher education to levels of the past, the lowest in Canada.
You can find more information at the Green Party of Saskatchewan Website
http://saskgreen.ca/
