38ec2871_1_Manitoba_Provincial_Election__James_Beddome_Green
[0] Economy / Taxes [Greg Selinger NDP] Expand jobs, education and training opportunities for people across Manitoba. Keep life affordable for Manitoba families, from heating your home to insuring your car. Increase small business threshold to $500,000 (the income level at which businesses start paying provincial tax). Eliminate school taxes for seniors and farmland ($49 million). Create a $30 million Manitoba Energy Jobs Fund providing low-interest loans to companies that manufacture parts for hydro dams, electrical transmission and alternative energy to help them expand and hire. Along with a new Energy Opportunities Office to promote local expansion in Manitoba's clean energy economy. [Hugh McFayden PC] Will balance the budget by 2018. Join the New West Partnership with Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia to lower trade barriers and increase trade and economic activity. Increase the number of apprentices that receive training in Manitoba apprenticeship program. Encourage post-secondary institutions to focus on market needs and practical training. provide a 10 per cent training credit for businesses to be applied against an eligible company's total payroll tax. Make the Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit permanent. Ensure a clear credit transfer system is in place for students to transfer credits between post-secondary institutions. Remove the current cap on business stream applications of the Provincial Nominee Program in order to attract more immigrants wanting to set up business here. Pledge not to raise taxes for Manitoba families, Implement targeted tax relief for families and targeted tax incentives to promote training, investment and innovation for Manitoba businesses. Commitment to develop a new municipal funding model with the input of municipal leaders. Eliminating waste and mismanagement and shifting those resources to support services Manitoba families count on. [Jon Gerard Liberal] Legislation to allow businesses to set their own Sunday shopping hours. $1.9 million in first year to connect communities with broadband Internet access. Further investments so every Manitoba community has broadband access by 2015. [James Beddome Green] 
Promote local production of goods and services used in Manitoba. Diversify the eocnomy to avoid over-reliance on any one industry or sector such as hog operations or hydro. Implement a made in Manitoba purchasing policy for the provincial government. Abandon export-oriented agriculture and forestry to ensure Manitobans benefit from Manitoba food and wood products. Shift taxes from payroll to pollution. Commit to balancing the budget, reducing the debt and being fiscally prudent. Investigate the feasibility of a Manitoba owned bank. Create a fossil-fuel tax to encourage conservation and help pay for transportation and related costs. Adjust MPI fees to include a per-kilometre driven charge so people are paying insurance in proportion to their chances of causing or being involved in an accident. Change the standard work week from 40 to 32 hours.
2011 Manitoba Provincial Election
James Beddome Green