If you believe . . . that it is important to find solutions to issues listed below, please consider voting Green, and if you live in Saskatoon-Humboldt, my name is Sandra Finley!
Hi John,
I am excited – – there is an excellent chance that Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, will be elected! History-in-the-making! And maybe environmental sanity to go with it.
The threat to democracy has mobilized people to vote.
34% more Canadians voted in the advance polls than before. People are having fun being part of the movement!
I can do my part by tabling the real issues. But it is not the usual way of doing “politics”!
I am campaigning on important issues, as I see them (below).
It is a test of whether, as a community, we are ready to move out of adolescence into maturity. Mature people take responsibility. They do their best with the tools available to them. (We tend to offer reassurances – security and comfort – to children.)
Maturity is also about losing our fear. Working with each other is empowering; it is a way of losing our fear.
We are in the middle of a huge wave-of-change in the way we collectively see ourselves and our connections to the rest of the world. It is a challenging but also wonderful time to be alive, the most exciting in my life-time.
As you know, I run an activist email network. I believe in putting words into action.
/Sandra
From my election brochure
• Corporatocracy or True Democracy? Move corporations out of Government and Universities.
• “Small” nuclear reactors are still reactors. I am in solidarity with the people of Japan (Fukishima). We do our part to stop the nuclear industry. After Fukishima, the world is “no” on nuclear. The Govt of Sask sent $30 million (our money) to the University earmarked for nuclear industry. Conflicts-of-interest ignored. University back-doors for industry. Nuclear reactors for Tar Sands suck up all the money. Token money for Renewable energy and conservation unless we fight for it.
• The South Saskatchewan River is the most threatened in Canada. Don’t run the well dry. Cattle operations, each with 36,000 cattle? No. We need a National Water Policy. (INSERT: Click on Science says South Sask River is most endangered in Canada)
• Census: “guilty” is under appeal. Not Lockheed Martin (American military) in Canadian census. Smart, ethical economy is not an economy based on war.
• Learn from George Bush in Saskatoon. Requested arrest. No one is above the law. Bush was not arrested. The leadership of Canada believes no one cares if they break the law. No rule of law means no Democracy. Danger zone. We have to stand up for democracy.
• We paid down debt. From $.37 out of every tax dollar down to $.14 for debt servicing. In last 3 years the Govt has piled up more than $100 billion in debt. Nice for bankers and their friends. Not nice for us. I want the Green Smart economy.
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OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES, RESPONSES TO EMAILS THAT HAVE COME TO ME IN MY ROLE OF CANDIDATE:
I am particularly concerned about the first three (the others are important, but the first three affect our survival on this planet.)
2011-04-20 MS, Parkinson’s, Autism, Fibromyalgia, Cancers, Mental unhealth = one disease?
2011-04-23 Science and logic. Depression is DETERMINANT of heart disease?… Depression and heart disease are both SYMPTOMS of poisoning. You have one, you may have the other.
2011-04-23 ONE disease, different manifestations. Proposal: “Disease” organizations form a coalition against poisons.
2011-04-23 The role of values when it comes to governing ourselves. Cruelty to animals a case in point.
2011-04-28 The CBC. Media in a democracy.
2011-04-29 Policy Questions on Church-State Separation and Science from Educational Charity Centre for Inquiry
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IMPORTANT ISSUES FROM OUR ON-GOING WORK.
Nobody asked about climate change. The push for nuclear in Saskatchewan is about an energy source to heat up tar so it will flow (tar sands expansion). It is addressed in:
2011-04-22 The Drone-ification of America. (correction: .. of NORTH America)
Etc. – please go to the blog www.sandrafinley.ca . See “categories” in the right-hand sidebar, or other buttons.
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There is a good chance that we are witnessing North American history-in-the-making: the Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, is slightly ahead of incumbent Gary Lunn in the polls.
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You can watch a special preview (“May in Your House”—a 30-minute TV special that shares the extraordinary story of Elizabeth and the values that are the core of the Green Party. This mini-documentary explores the practical, realistic Green Party approaches to real problems faced by Canadians: climate change, jobs, health care, education, pensions, youth unemployment, and more.)