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In this edition of the Bruce Grey Owen Sound Newsletter we talk about climate change and the NDP’s ‘New Deal for People’ …
- Chris Stevens, our candidate in October, talks about the things he’s committed to work on if he’s elected, because “the cost to Canadians – of poor paying jobs and a climate in crisis – is too high.”
- Our President Matt Trowbridge makes the link between inequality and climate change: “Global warming is all about inequality, both in who will suffer most its effects and in who created the problem in the first place.”
- BGOS NDP Executive member and former Globe & Mail columnist Michael Valpy parses the polls and finds people are worried about climate crisis and inequality. “Since 1980, the bottom 90 per cent of the working-age population has had no real income gains while the earnings of the top 0.1 per cent have increased on average by 500 per cent.”
- Karen Gventer, our candidate in the Provincial election, looks at the NDP’s Ontario and federal climate policies: “instead of giving billions in subsidies to huge oil and gas companies, we’ll invest in a future where Canadians have good jobs, clean air and water.”
- David McLaren, BGOS NDP candidate in 2015, provides some independent research that links inequality with climate change. As the Grey Bruce Public Health Unit might put it: “health improves with income. If you can afford to beat the heat, you’re already healthier.”
