Valerie Brooks on Facebook I promise to work towards:
*Electoral Reform
*Equitable taxation system
*Global sustainability / peace
*Incentives to choose emission reducing strategies
*Strengthening local communities to be more self-reliant
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Valerie Brooks
Green candidate for Yorkton—Melville
Affordability & Housing
Tax measures and rebates
Green's promise
Raise the Basic Personal Amount for income tax to $40,000
"Eliminate federal income taxes for low income Canadians and decrease the tax burden on Canadians earning $100,000 or less by raising the Basic Personal Amount to $40,000." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Climate Change & the Environment
Green jobs
Green's promise
Ensure clean economy subsidies serve workers and communities by requiring strong labour, environmental, and transparency conditions on all public funding
"Ensure clean economy subsidies serve workers and communities — not just corporate profits by requiring strong labour, environmental, and transparency conditions on all public funding." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Oil and gas
Green's promise
Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects
"Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects. No public funds should support continued fossil fuel expansion." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Pollution
Green's promise
Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping
"Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping, ensuring major international polluters pay their fair share. Work with global partners, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to develop a fair and effective system." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Culture, Arts, & Media
News and journalism
Green's promise
Prohibit Canadian businesses from deducting advertising costs on foreign-owned sites, like Google and Facebook
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Oil and gas
Green's promise
Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects
"Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects. No public funds should support continued fossil fuel expansion." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Minority Rights, Fair Government, & Democracy
Tax fairness
Green's promises
Increase the corporate tax rate from 14% to 21% for businesses with profits over $100M
"Increase the corporate tax rate from 14% to 21% for businesses with profits over $100 million ($44 billion in revenue)." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Introduce a permanent 15% Excess Profit Tax on large corporations, including banks, grocery chains, and fossil fuel companies
"Introduce a permanent Windfall Tax (Excess Profit Tax) on large corporations, including banks, grocery chains and fossil fuel companies, to prevent profiteering at the expense of Canadians. This tax will apply at a rate of 15% on profits exceeding 120% of a company’s average profits over the previous four years, ensuring that large corporations contribute fairly when they generate excessive gains." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Implement a 0.35% Financial transaction Tax on trades involving stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies, to curb speculation
"Implement a 0.35% Financial Transactions Tax (Tobin Tax) on trades involving stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies. This measure will help curb speculative trading practices that destabilize markets and generate significant revenue for social, economic, and environmental programs."
Apply a corporate tax on transnational e-commerce companies operating in Canada
Implement a progressive wealth tax on net wealth above $10M
"Implement a progressive wealth tax on net wealth above $10 million. The tax would apply at a rate of 1% on net wealth over $10 million, 2% on net wealth over $50 million, and 3% on net wealth over $100 million. This policy would impact only .5% of Canadian households." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Apply a net wealth-based exit tax of 35% on assets over $10M for individuals renouncing Canadian tax residency
"Strengthen Canada’s exit tax to prevent the ultra-wealthy from avoiding taxes by moving assets abroad. We will apply a net wealth-based exit tax of 35% on assets over $10 million for individuals renouncing Canadian tax residency, ensuring those who have benefited the most from Canada’s economy must contribute significantly before leaving. Loopholes that allow tax avoidance through corporate structures and exempt assets will also be closed." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Apply a progressive tax only to profits over $10M, and limit the ability to deduct past investment losses to a maximum of 10 years
"Ensure fair taxation of extreme capital gains by applying a progressive tax only to profits over $10 million. To prevent wealthy investors from avoiding taxes indefinitely, we will also limit the ability to deduct past investment losses to a maximum of 10 years." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Revise the Select Luxury Items Tax to remove loopholes, increase tax rates on private jets and super-yachts, and exempt Canadian-made vessels
"Revise Canada’s Select Luxury Items Tax Act to eliminate the “lesser of” rule and apply a flat luxury tax rate (e.g., 10% or higher on the full purchase price).
» Increase the tax rates for extreme wealth purchases (e.g., higher rates for private jets and superyachts.)
» Close corporate loopholes that allow businesses to buy these assets to avoid the Select Luxury Items Tax.
» Exempt Canadian-made commercial and recreational vessels from the Select Luxury Items Tax, to support small manufacturers and coastal industries."
— Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Work with international partners to implement a global minimum corporate tax and combat tax evasion
End tax agreements with known tax havens
Close stock options and capital gains tax loopholes
"Close stock options and capital gains tax loopholes, which primarily benefit wealthy executives." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Tax hidden funds and require proof of foreign business operations
"End off shore tax evasion by taxing hidden funds and requiring proof of foreign business operations." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Focus the CRA on identifying hidden wealth and recovering tax revenue lost in offshore tax havens, rather than auditing low-income Canadians
Eliminate the 50% corporate meals and entertainment expense deduction
Review and phase out corporate subsidies that don't deliver proven economic, environmental, or social benefits
"Review and phase out corporate subsidies that fail to deliver proven economic, environmental, or social benefits, with priority given to eliminating subsidies that:
» Distort markets without improving public well-being.
» Contribute to corporate concentration of key industries.
» Benefit large corporations disproportionately over small businesses and workers.
» Are provided to corporations with majority foreign ownership, particularly U.S.-based firms, undermining Canadian economic sovereignty.
» Fail to pass a cost-benefit analysis."
— Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Mandate full public reporting on corporate tax benefits, grants, and loans
"Increase transparency on business subsidies by mandating full public reporting on corporate tax benefits, grants, and loans — including which corporations receive them and their economic impact." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
Create an independent Federal Tax Commission to continuously review tax fairness
Biography
submitted by the candidate or their team
Born and raised in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan, Valerie has strong prairie roots and understands the unique opportunities and challenges Canadian rural life holds.
Valerie feels it is important to give voters in the Yorkton—Melville riding an option to vote for a representative that is committed to a greener planet with sustainable, self-reliant local communities.
As a descendant of settlers, Valerie advocates for all levels of government to work alongside Indigenous peoples to help mitigate the inevitable future effects of climate change, as well as create the relationships necessary to accomplish true reconciliation.
Valerie is a professional educator and holds a Master of Education degree with a thesis titled “Treaty Education and Reconciliation: things non-Indigenous people should know but don’t about Treaty 4”, and is committed to helping people and organizations decolonize.
Worried about the upward trend in divisive politicking, Valerie is committed to working towards implementing electoral reform with Proportional Representation. She served a two-year term as a director holding the position of co-chair for Fair Vote Canada, a non-profit, non-partisan organization lobbying for electoral reform in Canada. Valerie wants all voters to feel that their vote counts and to be active participants in their democratic system. She believes that honest, collaborative, transparent work from elected representatives is the only way to reinstill trust in our democracy.
Reason for running
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I believe the world needs more of the values the Green Party holds and I represent. Values like collaboration, sustainable practices, and electoral reform are necessary to move us forward in a way that supports people and the planet for generations to come.
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