Recommendations for Budget 2007:
Opportunities for a Greener Canada

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Executive Summary

Greening Canada’s Economy

Priority Recommendations:

• Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Commencing a Comprehensive Strategy
• The Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories
• Supporting Healthy Ecosystems, Economies, and Communities
• Species At Risk Act: Fulfilling its Mandate
• Canadian Environmental Protection Act: Strengthening Implementation
• Oil Sands: Leveling the Playing Field with Other Energy Sources

Ongoing Recommendations:

Protecting Canada’s natural capital:

• Restoring and Enhancing the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Region
• Advancing an Oceans Agenda for Canada
• Preserving Canada’s Protected Areas
• Extending Ecogift Tax Incentives to Inventory Lands
• Conserving Our Migratory Birds

Advancing a green economy through ecological fiscal reform:

• Reducing Industry GHG Emissions with Regulated Targets-and-Trading System
• Drive Green: Company Car Tax Shift
• Switch Green: Energy Star Appliance Feebate
• Shifting Mining Incentives to Minerals Recycling

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For further information, please contact:
Andrew Van Iterson
Program Manager, Green Budget Coalition,
85 Albert St., Suite 900
Ottawa, ON, K1P 6A4
613-562-8208 ext. 243
avaniterson@naturecanada.ca