This news release was issued May 17, 2018, by David Robinson, the Ontario Green Party candidate in Sudbury
(SUDBURY) – The Green Party is the only party for grown-ups in this election says Sudbury’s Green Party of Ontario candidate, Dr. David Robinson.
“Grownups face reality,” says Robinson. “They put the biggest issues first. The old parties are refusing to face the facts about climate change. Ignoring it won’t make it go away.”
“Doug Ford says, 'Let’s all stick our heads stick our heads in the sand’,” says Robinson. “The Liberals and Glenn Thibeault seem to accept that climate change is here, but they won’t face the fact that they chose cap and trade back when economists thought it would work well. We know now it doesn’t.”
“As for the NDP, their leader says, 'Something needs to be done, now let’s talk about something else’,“ says Robinson. “I know many New Democrats who are heartsick at this childish behaviour, but they are still loyal to their party. As long as they stay committed they don’t have to face the huge hole in their party’s policy platform. They don’t have to work to get the facts straight. They don’t have to learn how the carbon fee and dividend works.”
“That’s not good enough,” says Robinson. “This spring’s floods in BC and New Brunswick are showing us what climate change is doing to our economy, to our homes and to our health. Maybe it will be fires later in the summer, or climate refugees trying to get into the country. The Green Party is proposing that we act like adults. Let’s lower emissions and prepare our province for a warming world.”
Robinson is an economist with expertise in carbon pricing. He says “It isn’t hard to fix the the bureaucratic monster that the Liberal’s have built. They have 80% of a carbon tax in place. The other 20% that is the cap and trade system is wasteful, bureaucratic, inefficient. It will never work well. We will simply get rid of it.”
Fixing how the province collects the money isn’t good enough, Robinson warns. “Unless we give the money we collect right back to consumers, the carbon price hurts the economy. That’s where the Liberals went wrong. That’s why Greens are completely committed to paying a Carbon Dividend to every person in Ontario.”
“The other parties see a high carbon price as nasty medicine,” says Robinson. “Greens know that it is more like changing to a healthy diet for the economy. Moving to a low-carbon economy will create jobs, cut the cost of living, make us safer, and give us a better environment to live in.”
“Any candidate that doesn’t put the biggest issue first doesn’t deserve your vote,” says Robinson. “Greens have the only platform for grown-ups.”
