Platform Archive
Archived 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership platform materials by Dr. Courtney Howard.
The Platform in 9 short videos
This page restores the archived platform from Dr. Howard's 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership campaign. It is preserved here as a direct-share archive rather than part of the main site navigation.
The original platform was framed around “Healthy Planet, Healthy People” and a national vision of wellbeing, health, equity, and dynamic stability in a rapidly changing world.
Healthy Planet, Healthy People
Nine original campaign videos and their archived platform planks from summer 2020.
National Vision of Wellbeing & Health
What gets measured gets managed. Gross Domestic Product has been our default measure of national success, but was never designed for that purpose, and doesn’t correlate well with wellbeing in high-income nations.
We need a meaningful shared goal to guide our efforts as we steer through these crises: a new North Star. The platform proposed a Wellbeing Dashboard tracking Natural Capital, Social Capital, Financial Capital, and Human Capital, along with indicators from the Canadian Index of Wellbeing.
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Nest; a healthy response to climate change
COVID-19 is showing us what a planetary health crisis feels like. Protect our civilizational nest from further crises with a healthy response to climate change.
The platform called for a long-term framework for adaptation and emissions reductions, including a Canadian Climate Accountability Act, clean electricity, electrified transport, efficient buildings, green urban environments, and sustainable healthcare.
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Dynamic stability in a rapidly changing world
Nurture dynamic stability within a rapidly-changing world.
The platform emphasized resilience, agility, a strengthened social safety net, increased funding to the WHO, support for the Green Climate Fund, human rights protection, and attention to offshored emissions and working conditions.
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Honour Indigenous Governance
Indigenous peoples are the original practitioners of planetary health. Respect the commitments: UNDRIP, TRC, and appoint Indigenous judges through the system.
The platform called for laws aligned with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, accelerated implementation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action, and Indigenous appointments through the judicial system.
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Power Up New Leaders
Being around the table matters. Close the digital divide, support more youthful and diverse voices.
The platform proposed lowering the voting age to 16, reducing barriers through campaign schools and mentorship, and ensuring access to virtual tables and the virtual economy by closing the digital divide.
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Evidence-Based Influence
No closed-doors meetings with industries where conflicts of interest exist, aim for a 1:1 ratio of meetings with for-profit and not-for-profit lobbyists and representatives.
The platform argued for research granting structures and policy processes that better align evidence, public-interest expertise, and decision-maker time.
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Fair Share
Tax on wealth and offshored profits to reduce toxic inequalities and fund a Universal Basic Income.
The platform connected inequality with decreased trust, worsened mental and physical health, decreased women’s empowerment and child welfare, and increased criminality.
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Care at the Core
End fossil fuel subsidies; fund a National Seniors Strategy, and a Community Care Act.
The platform called for shifting fossil fuel subsidies toward a low-carbon transition, universal public childcare, pharmacare, psychological care, dental care, and support for seniors and community care.
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Make What the World Needs
Innovation, research, and putting Canadians to work creating green shelter, reclaimed spaces and materials, responsibly-mined critical inputs, and local, sustainably-farmed food.
The platform proposed an agile workforce supported by forgiven student loans and free tuition, outcome-oriented research, and work aligned with needs in a rapidly changing world.
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