Climate change is the key…

Climate change is the key issue of our time. Ontario must do everything in its power to move towards a clean energy future in renewables, whether it's tax breaks for renewable energy companies and infrastructure, increased feed-in tariffs for renewables, restoring provincial funding to the Toronto Transit Commission and other public transit authorities, support for local and urban farmers, refurbishing buildings for energy efficiency, a carbon fee and dividend, and banning the transport of fossil fuels through our province. All of these measures will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and will help Canada meet its commitments in the Paris Agreement.

The only way to fund this is by increasing taxes on the ones who are creating the most emissions - who are also the ones who can most afford to pay: the wealthy. A progressive tax on assets, a financial transaction tax, fees on corporate food waste and dumping, taxes on rentier income (such as from investments or rental properties), and other revenue tools.

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