Pirate Party Canada · @piratepartyca
18th Sep 2015 from TwitLonger
Second Q: Energy & Environment
In the last campaign, the NDP put a cost of $21 billion on its carbon-pricing policy. What is the cost of your planned cap-and-trade proposal.
We need to move toward a new information and new energy economy. This would mean ensuring our patent laws cannot be used to stifle competition. For example, an oil company should not be able to buy a patent to hoard it and prevent cheap advance battery technology from being used for new affordable and more efficient electric car. Canada have no shortage of innovative people and company. The government have a duty to make sure those individual or group can innovate freely. Our plan involved creating a Nationwide Research Collection Centre (NRCC) that would link researchers and agencies across the country. Through innovation we can progressively move toward a new socio-economic order that is sustainable. But if the government continue to extend patent and copyright terms to satisfy their cronies and lobbyist, innovation and creativity suffers.
Retort to leader's responses:
We should avoid raising taxes unless absolutely necessary. We cannot sacrifie environmental safety to put all our egg in one economic basket. Basic Income or BIG combined with patent and copyright reform would let the private sectors move our country forward. It will empower Canadians NOT the lobbyist and monopolist.
Related links:
https://www.pirateparty.ca/2015/08/19/policy-fostering-innovation-for-researchers-makers-and-hackers/
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