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Α — Green Party Platform: “Change. Vote For It.”

Raw platform documentation sourced from the Green Party of Canada’s published platform PDF (cdn.greenparty.ca, April 17, 2025) and supplementary coverage. Commitments are presented in the party’s own structure. No editorial commentary. Dollar figures, timelines, and mechanisms are quoted directly. Where detail is absent, that absence is noted as fact.

Source date: April 17, 2025. Co-leaders: Elizabeth May and Jonathan Pedneault.

Source integrity note: The Green Party platform was released as a PDF on April 17, 2025 — the day after being excluded from the leaders’ debates. The platform PDF is available on greenparty.ca. The Green Party was described by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives as “long on ambition but short on details” and “largely uncosted.” Commitments frequently use language such as “support,” “promote,” and “ensure” without implementation mechanisms or cost estimates. Fetch count: 3 (platform PDF + CBC/CTV comparisons).

Fiscal Framework

Revenue Measures

Increase corporate tax rate from 15% to 21% for businesses with profits over $100 million (small business rate maintained at 9%)
15% excess profit tax on large corporations (profits exceeding 120% of 4-year average)
0.2% Financial Transactions Tax on stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies
Graded net wealth tax on households with more than $10 million
Full inclusion of capital gains (100% inclusion rate)
5% surcharge on banks
Limit stock option deduction to $200,000
Boost luxury taxes on cars and planes
End tax haven agreements
Tax measures on transnational digital companies
Address transfer pricing and international tax avoidance
Export tax on key resources (oil, gas, uranium, potash)

Tax Cuts

Raise Basic Personal Amount to $40,000 for Canadians earning $100,000 or less
Eliminate federal income taxes for low-income Canadians

Absence noted: No fiscal framework is published. No aggregate revenue projection. No deficit target. No debt-to-GDP trajectory. No year-by-year spending plan. The revenue measures are listed individually but never totalled. The BPA increase to $40,000 (from current ~$16,129) would reduce federal revenue by an estimated $30–40B/year — this is not offset against the revenue measures. The CCPA described the platform as “uncosted.” This is the only major party platform with no fiscal framework.

Climate and Energy

Fossil Fuels

Stop all new fossil fuel projects
Phase out bitumen production by 2035
Full phaseout of fossil fuel production and exports by 2045
Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies
Ban all new pipeline and oil and gas development projects
Ban new nuclear development
Carbon pricing floor of $265/tonne by 2030

Clean Energy

100% renewable electricity by 2030
National east-west electric power grid (100% renewable)
Nationwide building and home retrofit program
Zero-carbon public ground transportation by 2040
High-speed rail: Toronto–Ottawa–Montreal–Quebec City and Calgary–Edmonton corridors

Environmental Protection

Protect 30% of lands and waters by 2030; expand to 50% by 2050
Wildlife corridors, parks, urban biodiversity, marine protected areas
Sign Global Plastics Treaty; National Plastics Pollution Strategy
Mandate producer responsibility for plastic waste
Clean water strategy
National emergency response agency

Absence noted: $265/tonne carbon price by 2030 (current: ~$80/tonne) represents a 231% increase in 5 years. No economic impact assessment is provided. Phase out bitumen by 2035 would eliminate approximately 5% of Canadian GDP (oil sands contribute ~$120B/year). No transition plan, worker retraining budget, or fiscal replacement for lost resource revenue is specified. 100% renewable electricity by 2030 is 5 years away and would require replacing ~20% of Canada’s electricity generation (fossil fuel portion). Alberta’s grid is 89% fossil fuel. No costing for this transformation. Ban on new nuclear eliminates a zero-emission baseload technology. No rationale provided for excluding nuclear from the clean energy mix. No costing for high-speed rail.

Healthcare

Increase federal health transfers (no amount specified)
Pass law ensuring every Canadian has access to a family doctor
Hire 7,500 new family doctors, nurses, and nurse practitioners over five years
Train 50,000 personal support workers
Universal pharmacare (launch next year with essential medicines list)
Expand Canadian Dental Care Plan to all eligible Canadians
Mental health services fully insured under Canada Health Act
Expand supervised consumption sites
Completely decriminalize drug possession for personal use
Bring long-term care under Canada Health Act
End for-profit long-term care facilities
Dedicated Seniors’ Care Transfer to provinces

Absence noted: No costing for any healthcare commitment. 7,500 health workers over 5 years = 1,500/year — the smallest health workforce commitment of any party (NDP: 35,000 nurses alone). “Pass law ensuring every Canadian has access to a family doctor” is a statement of intent, not a mechanism — no legislation can guarantee access without the workforce to deliver it. No costing for pharmacare, dental expansion, or mental health integration into CHA. End of for-profit LTC: no transition plan, no compensation for existing operators, no timeline.

Housing

Build 1.2 million permanently affordable homes within seven years
Build/acquire 300,000 “deeply affordable” units
Restore CMHC mandate for direct non-market housing financing and development
Eliminate GST on non-market housing construction materials
Stop corporations from buying single-family homes
Permanent ban on foreign ownership of residential real estate
Close real estate money-laundering loopholes
Eliminate unfair tax advantages for REITs
Strengthen rent control and tenant protections
Promote intergenerational co-housing
National eviction moratorium
Rent and vacancy controls
Expand green retrofitting programs

Absence noted: Two different housing numbers appear across sources: 1.2 million over seven years (171,000/year) and 300,000 “deeply affordable.” The relationship between these numbers is unclear — are the 300,000 included within the 1.2M, or additional? No costing for either target. No construction workforce strategy. 171,000/year is below current national starts (~240,000) — this appears to be an affordable housing target, not total starts. National eviction moratorium is a demand with no mechanism (eviction law is provincial). No dollar figure for CMHC mandate restoration.

Education

Abolish tuition: ~$10.2 billion annually
Eliminate federally held student debt: >$22 billion (one-time)
Additional $10 billion for post-secondary and trade school supports
Remove 2% cap on Indigenous student funding
Expand Canada Graduate Scholarships

Absence noted: Tuition abolition at $10.2B/year is one of the largest single spending commitments across all party platforms. It is not included in any fiscal framework because no fiscal framework exists. Post-secondary education is provincial jurisdiction under s.92 — federal tuition abolition would require provincial cooperation or operate through spending power conditionality. No mechanism specified.

Defence and Foreign Policy

Defence

No commitment to NATO 2% GDP target
Suspend F-35 contract; consider French Rafale or Swedish Gripen instead
Join Norwegian-German Type 212CD submarine development
Increase domestic artillery and ammunition production; boost reserves
Strengthen Arctic and coastal security patrols
Revise Canadian Military Doctrine regarding U.S. sovereignty threats
Ramp up investments in shipyards (NSS capacity)

Foreign Policy

Create “economic NATO” with like-minded democracies
Bar Trump from G7 summit
Re-evaluate intelligence sharing with Five Eyes
Re-examine Criminal Code treason/sedition regarding annexation coercion
Recognize Palestinian state
Stop selling weapons to countries that abuse human rights
Support ICC and ICJ
Offer UN alternative headquarters in Canada
Fund USAID program gaps from Trump cuts
Support Ukraine through economic and moral support (not military)

Absence noted: No commitment to NATO 2% makes the Green Party the only party without a NATO spending target. No defence spending figure at all. Suspending the F-35 faces the same exit penalties ($4–7B) identified in the NDP and Bloc analyses. The Rafale and Gripen are 4th/4.5th generation fighters vs. the F-35’s 5th generation — a capability downgrade. “Economic NATO” is aspirational with no negotiation partner identified. Offering UN alternative headquarters is novel but no costing or site is identified. Supporting Ukraine through “economic and moral support” without military aid is a significant departure from all other parties.

Employment and Income

Raise federal minimum wage to $21/hour, indexed to inflation (cost: $56M/5yr)
Lower EI eligibility to 12 weeks
Extend EI benefits to 50 weeks
EI Emergency Response Fund for disasters, downturns, shutdowns
Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI) — work with provinces and Indigenous governments
Ban export of unprocessed resources (oil, minerals, timber, seafood)
National green jobs training and apprenticeship program

Absence noted: GLI (Guaranteed Livable Income) is the most fiscally significant commitment in the platform and has no costing. PBO estimated a basic income at $85–93B/year (2021). “Work with provinces” is a mechanism description, not a delivery plan. The raw resource export ban would affect approximately $150B/year in Canadian exports (crude oil, raw minerals, unprocessed timber, live seafood). No economic impact assessment. No transition plan for export-dependent industries and communities. EI reforms match NDP proposals but are similarly uncosted.

Immigration

Coordinate immigration levels with provinces based on capacity
Suspend Safe Third Country Agreement with U.S.
Build infrastructure for screening, processing, and settling arrivals
Extend refugee access to targeted U.S. citizens and permanent residents (scientists, journalists, doctors, activists, civil servants, judges, lawyers)

Absence noted: No immigration level numbers. Suspending the Safe Third Country Agreement would allow asylum claims at the land border (currently restricted), potentially increasing asylum volumes significantly. No estimate of volume impact. Extending refugee access to U.S. professionals is novel but no legal mechanism is specified — the U.S. is not a refugee-producing country under the 1951 Convention. No costing for screening/processing infrastructure.

Criminal Justice

Direct prosecutors to use restorative justice instead of trials
Limit incarceration to cases necessary for public safety
Require judges to consider systemic racism in sentencing
Boost funding for community-based mental health and treatment
Completely decriminalize drug possession for personal use

Absence noted: “Direct prosecutors to use restorative justice instead of trials” is a significant departure from current practice. No mechanism for how federal direction would apply to provincial Crown prosecutors (prosecution is largely provincial). Complete drug decriminalization has no costing, no implementation plan, and no analysis of interaction with the criminal justice system. No costing for community mental health expansion.

Indigenous

Remove 2% cap on Indigenous student funding
Implement Guaranteed Livable Income with Indigenous governments

Absence noted: The Green platform has the least detailed Indigenous section of any party. No mention of UNDRIP, TRC Calls to Action, MMIWG Calls for Justice, clean water, child welfare (Jordan’s Principle), policing, housing, or reconciliation. This is a significant gap given that Indigenous affairs is a major federal responsibility and every other party has extensive Indigenous commitments.

Electoral Reform

Absence noted: The Green Party has historically been the strongest advocate for proportional representation. The 2025 platform sources reviewed do not include specific electoral reform commitments. This may be detailed in the full PDF but is not reflected in public coverage.

Source Compilation Record

Green Party platform PDF: “Change. Vote For It.” (cdn.greenparty.ca, April 17, 2025)
CBC News platform comparison (newsinteractives.cbc.ca)
CTV News platform tracker
CCPA Platform Crunch analysis
National Observer coverage

Fetch count: 3 (platform PDF + media coverage). The platform was released as a single PDF. However, the PDF contains commitments that vary in specificity across media coverage — some outlets report different numbers for the same commitment (e.g., housing). This inconsistency suggests the platform document itself may contain ambiguous language that different outlets interpreted differently.

Absence Summary

The Green Party platform has the highest concentration of noted absences of any party analyzed:

Category	Absence
Fiscal framework	None exists
Aggregate revenue projection	Not provided
Deficit target	Not stated
Healthcare costing	No commitment costed
Housing costing	Not provided
GLI costing	Not provided (~$85–93B/yr per PBO)
Tuition abolition offset	Not provided ($10.2B/yr)
Climate transition plan	Not provided (bitumen phaseout = ~$120B GDP impact)
Defence spending	No figure at all
Indigenous platform	Least detailed of any party
Electoral reform	Not found in coverage
Raw resource export ban impact	Not assessed (~$150B/yr in exports)

This is not an editorial judgment. These are factual gaps documented against the same rubric applied to every other party.

Document generated by CanuckDUCK Research Corporation for pond.canuckduck.ca/ca/forums/political_analytics. This document applies the universal scoring rubric methodology v1.0. All parties are evaluated against the same standard.

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