When I became president I started
getting emails
from the Canadian Chamber of
Commerce and the BC Chamber of Commerce
saying things like
"the BC Chamber of Commerce supports
Enbridge"
and I was like, well I don't, so how can you
possibly be saying that and
you're using my voice to say something
that I disagree with. 
I started emailing the then
president
of the BC Chamber of Commerce saying "Why
don't I see anything about renewable
energy?
"Why don't we support that?" and his answer
was always
"It's not in our policy." And then I found
out that I could write
policy! So I wrote a policy calling on
the Provincial government
to invest in clean technology and
renewable energy in the same fashion
that they do
with with fossil fuel industry.
To transition the subsidies. After it
passed at the BC
Chamber level, I took it to the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce. I nationalized it.
I went to Ottawa with my policy. There I
got
called into the Ottawa Chamber and they
asked me about a few things. It was
the Alberta
Chamber where I had to dilute the policy
and make a decision on whether i wanted
this
policy to be on the books of the
Canadian Chamber and in a diluted fashion
or not at all.
What you'll see when you go to these
conventions is that the
fossil fuel companies are paying for a
lot of the luncheons
and and whatnot and it was through that
entire process
that I truly saw how corporate cronyism
is influencing the decision-making
process
in Canada. These these large
industries have been placing their
people in influential positions
for decades; that's on chamber boards
boards of trades
bank boards. And through the chamber network a lot of the politicians would
would come and speak and I witnessed
corporate cronyism.
We NEED to get other people in those
decision-making positions!
I'm Kim Darwin and I'm ready to fight
for a better future for
all of us as your next leader of the BC
Green Party.
