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Affordability & Housing
Tax measures and rebates
Green's promise
"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 — 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. 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, 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
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. 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 $100 million ($44 billion in revenue)." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"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 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."
"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
"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
"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 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
"Close stock options and capital gains tax loopholes, which primarily benefit wealthy executives." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"End off shore tax evasion by taxing hidden funds and requiring proof of foreign business operations." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25
"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
"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
Biography
I’m John Kidder. I’m running in Mission-Matsqui-Abbotsford for the Green Party of Canada.
This election, more than ever before, Canada needs your vote. It will be the most important election we will ever experience. Because of Mr. Trump’s unpredictable challenges, the election is becoming a referendum-style choice between Mr. Poilievre and Mr. Carney. Smaller parties are likely to get squashed between them.
Brad Vis is a fine MP, and an altogether good man. He is the sure winner in Mission-Matsqui-Abbotsford. So there will be a lot of second votes in play.
If you’re not firmly committed to Brad, and even if you are, please consider voting for me. Everyone in Canada deserves a chance to vote Green, so that at least the popular vote has a chance of reflecting the popular will.I want to finish second, with enough votes to fairly reflect your feelings.
I ran for election as a Green here in Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon in 2019. I know people get the climate crisis. People know we can’t trust the growing divide between the very rich and everyone. And Mr. Trump brings us new, profoundly unconventional problems. We need better than the profoundly conventional solutions proposed by all the other parties.
I suggest that you vote Green. For forty-five years so far, working from the same basic values all over the world, Greens pioneer policies that later became accepted law. Our platform (link here) has new ideas to make the economy work better for everyone, to better share the wealth generated by our enterprises, and to work within our environment in a manner respectful of all beings and of all our relations. It’s not conventional.
I have made my living as a cowboy, a farmer, a range manager, a miner, a fish worker and a warehouseman. I was an environmental economist, an early computer adapter and an entrepreneur in electronic music, software and fibre optics. I have lived around Canada – I was born and raised mostly in the North, in Québec and Ontario. I lived and worked all over the southern interior and south coast of BC for years. My family grew up in Vancouver and Ashcroft.
I know how the land, the air, the water, and human effort and capital work to give us all our livings.We all know Canada is one of the most fortunate nations in the world. It’s not broken, but we have surely taken some wrong turns. We have a duty to keep our land fruitful, prosperous, compassionate, and generous, and to make it better when we can.
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