Environmental Questionaire

My answers to a Toronto Environmental Alliance questionaire on eco issues:

1. Do you support the implementation of strategically placed road tolls in order to reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, and fund the expansion of, and fare reductions for the TTC?
YES

2. Do you support a gradual increase in the plastic bag fee leading to an outright ban on plastic bags within the next four years?
YES

3. Do you support the implementation of a ranked ballot system to eliminate the plague of strategic voting in Toronto’s democracy?
YES

4. Do you support the elimination of the vehicle registration fee?
NO

5. Do you support continued funding, and increased relief programs for Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods?
YES

6. Do you support a ban on gas lawnmowers, leaf blowers and edge trimmers?
YES

7. Do you support increased funding for education in backyard gardening?
YES

8. Do you support the rezoning of large areas of Toronto’s unused public lands that are currently used to grow grass into community gardens and edible tree orchards?
YES

9. Do you support the changing of property by-laws to allow people to naturalize their lawn, and not cut their grass if they so choose?
YES

10. Do you agree that the City of Toronto should begin to encourage and promote the use of backyard composting over the Green Bin program?
YES

11. Will you do everything within your power as a city councilor to ban the use of known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, and birth-defect causing chemicals by Toronto businesses?
YES

12. Do you support the idea of giving right-of-way to streetcars and buses on major TTC routes?
YES

The results will be published on www.breathetoronto.org and shared with allies at TEA, NOW Magazine, and numerous environmental and social NGO’s across the city.