Recommendations for Budget 2005

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Executive Summary

Priority Recommendations

Pollution Dividend for Health Care & a 21st Century Economy
Green Car — Protecting the Climate and Canadian Jobs
Toxic Substances Tax

Oceans Action Plan

Recommendations

Ecological Fiscal Reform
Transit Renewal and Sustainable Cities Strategy
Shifting Tax Incentives from Virgin Mineral Extraction to
Recycling of Metals

Assessing the Sustainability of Federal Budget Measures

Clean Air and Climate Change
National Green Power Strategy
National Energy Efficiency Strategy
Shifting Subsidies from Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Power to Renewable
Energy and Efficiency

Healthy Communities and Toxics Cleanup
Building Capacity for Municipalities to Protect Water from Source to Tap
Removing the GST Pesticide Exemption
Clean Canada Fund

Protecting Canada’s Natural Capital
National Wildlife Areas
Realizing the Full Potential of the Ecological Gifts Program
Biodiversity Conservation Data Network
National Conservation Fund

The Green Budget Coalition is comprised of 20 of Canada’s leading environmental and conservation organizations.

For further information contact:
Andrew Van Iterson, Program Manager
Green Budget Coalition
85 Albert St., Suite 900
Ottawa, ON K1P 6A4
Tel:613-562-3447 ext.243