National Policy Conference in Halifax

[duplicated from GPC National website]

A cross-country series of Green Party national policy conferences begins in Halifax November 4 with the National Policy Conference on Ecological Tax Shifting and Environmental Economics. The conference will be chaired by Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, and features four nationally known experts as speakers and panellists:

- Dr. Ronald Colman, Executive Director of GPI (Genuine Progress Index) Atlantic and Research Director for the Canadian Well-Being Index.
- Dr. Peter Victor, Professor of Environmental Economics at York University in Toronto.
- Amy Taylor, Executive Director of Ecological Fiscal Reform for the Pembina Institute.
- Andrew van Iterson, Program Manager of the Green Budget Coalition.
- Paul Lansbergen, Director of Taxation and Business Issues, Forest Products Association of Canada.
You can read all about it on the new GreenPlus website (http://www.greenplus.ca).

So, join us in Halifax on November 4, 2006, for the beginning of a stimulating and inclusive national discussion of policy alternatives that will help shape Canada's policy discourse for the foreseeable future.

Admission is free. To register now please go to http://greenplus.ca/register.html

If you can't make it to Halifax, visit our new GreenPlus website (http://www.greenplus.ca), read the discussion papers prepared by our panel of experts, have your say in the online forum, and watch for news about web coverage of the conference sessions.


For more information, please contact
Chris Alders
calders@greenparty.ns.ca
902-678-0326