About the Green Party...

[Daniel Robitaille]

Chris Powell wrote:

> I do not feel that this is the place to promote any single party or
> state what My Political View is but I have attached links to 3 of the 4
> National Parties published platforms (the Conservatives are slated to
> release their platform on October 7, 2008).
> 
> Liberal: http://www.liberal.ca/pdf/platform/2008lp_action_plan_e.pdf
> 
> NDP: http://www.ndp.ca/xfer/campaign2008/Platform_2008_EN.pdf
> 
> Green: http://www.votefortomorrow.ca/Looking_Forward.pdf
> 
> As a personal observation and not something to insight a flame war or
> anything else but the Green Party that is the foundation of this entire
> thread has a platform that in total is 8 pages long compared to 46 pages
> for the NDP and 76 pages for the Liberals.  A young and inexperienced
> party or not this level of non-disclosure of what your proposed plans
> are scares me just a little (even their budget posted on their site is a
> three page condensed version of what will be changed instead of what is
> going to be done???). 

As a note, the 8-page Green party platform you refer to is only a very thin
subset of their actual policy book:
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/visiongreen

And I really mean "book" since it is 121 pages long...

The section about their policy on FLOSS is on page 16 of their pdf document.