prescription drug treatment.A sustainable health care system needs more than just increased tax dollars. It needs:Support - through health-conscious environmental policies.Relief - through practical promotion of healthy

for environmental initiatives such as an energy retrofit program that helps homeowners reduce energy bills and pollution through efficiency; and a one-cent increase in the gas tax transfer to

the decrease in the lowest personal income tax rate.Introducing “Smart Incentives”, replacing the Liberals’ sweeping corporate tax cuts with targeted tax measures to spur corporate investment, encourage new environmental technologies, and promote training to improve growth and employment.And we’ll invest in peoples’ real priorities:Reinvesting funds the Liberals want to waste on corporate tax cuts into

Green Communities Canada | Green Communities News Archive HomeAbout Our MembersAbout Green Communities CanadaNews and EventsGreen Communities News ArchiveSubscribe to Green Community NewsUnsubscribe from Green Community NewsOur ProgramsJoin Green Communities CanadaDownloadsPrivacy PolicySite Map Green Communities News 473 473: 9 January 2006GAS TAX FUNDS. As reported inGCNews 472, the Town of Smiths Falls has committed a share offederal gas tax funds to the Rideau Environmental Action League.Please notifyus of other Canadian communities making similar commitments.DODGING DEPARTS. After nearlyseven years as Program Coordinator with Clean Nova Scotia and mostrecently Acting Executive Director, Donald Dodge has accepted aposition with the NovaScotia Department of Energy working in climate change policy,strategy and implementation. Says Donald: "It is an incredibleopportunity to not only grow personally but to also continue workingwith the EGH in a different capacity." Donald will be on the job atCNS until 20 January.SANTA PRAISED

Green Communities Canada | Green Communities News Archive HomeAbout Our MembersAbout Green Communities CanadaNews and EventsGreen Communities News ArchiveSubscribe to Green Community NewsUnsubscribe from Green Community NewsOur ProgramsJoin Green Communities CanadaDownloadsPrivacy PolicySite Map Green Communities News 472 472: 19 December 2005REAL GREAT FUNDING. SmithsFalls Town Council has approved a $13,000 annual commitment toRideau Environmental Action League (REAL),beginning 2006. The money, from the Town's portion of the federalgas-tax transfer program, represents $1.50 per resident.Councillor Ken Graham described it as an "investment," noting manyof the organization's projects have saved the town money. "I don'tknow if we're a first in Canada, but if not we're close," says SusanBrandum. REAL now plans to make similar appeals to the othercommunities in which it works.EN FRANÇAIS. GCC's EnerGuide forHouses website isnow fully bilingual. Thanks to EnviroCentre for help with thetranslation and Quid Novis for site

in environmental issues and not put the burden solely on individual taxpayers.There is one tax

lead to boom-and-bust cycles in BCт€™s resource sector; policy solutions for jobs and environmental sustainability; a worker transition strategy for implementing the Kyoto Accord on climate change; environmental tax shifting; economic analysis of fish farms and offshore oil expansion in BC; and more.Until early

just increased tax dollars. It needs:Support - through health-conscious environmental policies.Relief

initiative from Canada's leading environmental rights organizations.The Green Budget Coalition recommends that tax revenue from adjusted fuel taxes be reinvested specifically on disease prevention and

lead to boom-and-bust cycles in BCт€™s resource sector; policy solutions for jobs and environmental sustainability; a worker transition strategy for implementing the Kyoto Accord on climate change; environmental tax shifting; economic analysis of fish farms and offshore oil expansion in BC; and more.Until early