Courting Environmental Disaster06 September 2005Harper Plans Tax Break for Family Fishing Businesses02

Courting Environmental Disaster06 September 2005Harper Plans Tax Break for Family Fishing Businesses02

smart environmental policy go hand-in-hand.  The Liberal Government believes in introducing new market mechanisms, tax measures and incentives for business to spur innovation in Canada in order to protect the

tax revenues with municipal governments, Canada is demonstrating that the environmental and economic

smart environmental policy go hand-in-hand.  The Liberal Government believes in introducing new market mechanisms, tax measures and incentives for business to spur innovation in Canada in order to protect the

Courting Environmental Disaster06 September 2005Harper Plans Tax Break for Family Fishing Businesses02

heighten public awareness to the economic benefits of environmental solutions minimizing the wasting of resources; andd) establish a program of tax credits to promote environmental solutions in the areas of

and financial incentives to reduce emissions from vehicles and industry."The current tax structure does not take into account the ongoing environmental and human health costs of burning fossil fuels," explains Harris. "The Green Party's gradual tax shift will ensure that those who fail to reduce greenhouse

support the principles of sustainable developmentimplementing mechanisms to tax, as well as regulating environmental costs of their production and consumptionachieving greater resource and energy efficiency and

east-west power grid interconnections are just a few promising possibilities.In terms of tax measures, as I mentioned earlier, we have created a new environmental exception to the depreciation rules, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by providing a tax preference for cleaner power generation equipment.And we will continue to look for other ways to use the tax system to advance environmental goals.As through the gas tax will be dedicated to sustainable infrastructure.Second, in addition to the gas tax, we environmental projects to be advanced.And third, half of that new funding through the Green Municipal Funds will