2020- 2022 Policy Process | Green Party of Canada
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G21-P016 Make Community Wealth an Economic and Social Priority | VGM-2 Amended Version
Submitter Name
Lynn Burrows
Ratification Vote Results: Adopted
Proposal
This is the amended proposal adopted by GPC membership at the VGM-2.
The GPC will advocate for Community Wealth, by supporting initiatives such as great public and green spaces, caring for the homeless, affordable housing, childcare, and transit, safe bike lanes, active non-profits, community economic development, reconciliation with Indigenous communities and other projects that increase social/ecological capital and personal well-being.
Objective
Community wealth includes initiatives like great public and green spaces, caring for the homeless, affordable housing, childcare, and transit, safe bike lanes, active non-profits, community economic development, reconciliation with Indigenous communities, and other projects that increase social/ecological capital and personal well-being without increasing GDP/economic growth.
Benefit
Increased community wealth, contrasted with individual wealth, is an essential goal of a steady-state economy in which material resource use is no longer increasing. New ideas need expression in three words or less, to capture the public imagination. The term “community wealth” could clearly differentiate the GPC from other parties.
Supporting Comments from Submitter
Taken separately, each component of community wealth has examples all over the world. The term has recently been used to describe a limited form of community-wealth building in Preston UK and Cleveland, Ohio. https://failedarchitecture.com/community-wealth-building-an-idea-afraid-of-its-own-radical-potential/
Green Value(s)
Ecological Wisdom, Sustainability, Participatory Democracy, Social Justice, Respect for Diversity, Non-Violence
Relation to Existing Policy
Add to current GPC policy.
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