<p dir="ltr">Hi Temara & all - </p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm not sure what revenue tools the NDP has said No to - can you fill us in?</p>
<p dir="ltr">One thing for sure - selling off ASSETS isn't REVENUE.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The NDP (and all of us) need to shake our fear of the word "tax". Corporate taxes have been lowered way more than is necessary to prevent the flight of capital - we need to start inching them back up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tell business leaders: if you want to reduce road congestion, and if you want to be able to recruit talent and have them be more mobile, then you have to put more into the public purse.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That's my 2¢,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Eleanor<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 Jun 2015 15:37, <<a href="mailto:temara.brown@gmail.com">temara.brown@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial"> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#555555">Ask them to suggest an alternative revenue tool to fund transit and to put it on the table as an alternative to selling off Hydro One. The NDP has said no to every proposed revenue tool. But if you want to say you support investing in transit, you actually need a plan to pay for it!!</font></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#555555"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#555555"><b>Temara Brown</b></font></div> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in;font-family:Tahoma,'BB Alpha Sans','Slate Pro';font-size:10pt"> <div><b>From: </b>Louisette Lanteigne</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, June 6, 2015 2:31 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>GREN ></div><div><b>Reply To: </b>Louisette Lanteigne</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[All] Hydro One question for GREN</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(186,188,209);border-top-width:1pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div><br><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div> Hi Gren folks</div><div><br></div><div>I have the chance to meet with Andrea Horwath and Catherine Fife on Tuesday to discuss the sale of Hydro One.</div><div><br></div><div>Does GREN have a position on this matter? If so I can relay a document on our behalf.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">The primary concern I have personally is that in Canada, divesting is tricky because most major Green Infrastructure projects are actually being funded by Big Oil. Enbridge, TransCanada etc. Here is a CBC story about this:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/difficult-to-invest-in-green-energy-in-canada-without-big-oil-1.3100233" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/difficult-to-invest-in-green-energy-in-canada-without-big-oil-1.3100233</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Big oil can move their funds from green funds to oil ventures. Ontario Hydro makes 6 billion in tax revenues. Currently it is sustainable energy but the Liberals want to sell of 60% of it and they are keeping the deal secret. We need to speak up on this one.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Lulu </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><br></div></div>
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