the section on identifying what the crisis is and how to solve it is central to any support i may give to the green party - and, remember, i haven't decided to actually vote for them yet, i've just ruled out the other options and reduced the decision to green or spoil.

in canada, the liberals have historically supported infrastructure spending by printing interest-free money through the bank of canada, although it was only ever a minor part of the funding, and it was mostly phased out by the elder trudeau (this was a part of canada's reaction to the nixon shock). but, from roughly 1940-1970, we printed a lot of money, and we used that money to built much of the infrastructure that is today causing much of the problems - bridges and roads but also power plants, which were at the time mostly publicly owned. it is frustrating that the liberals argued that we didn't have to pay the bankers when we were causing the problem, but are now insisting that the bankers get their cut when it's time to solve it. like most decent people, i really hate the vampires in the insurance industry. and, yet, despite all my rage...

let's avoid that.

so, it was easy to believe the liberals when they said they were going to do this, and deflating to see what they've actually done.

the plank in the green party platform specifies no P3s, and that's a good thing, it's what i want to hear. this is the way we solve this - not through tax incentives or faith in the markets but by printing the money and fucking doing it.

so, i would float this document to the various democratic leadership campaigns as a funding policy and general strategy that i can actually support.

so, that's the good stuff.