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Actually, GPO leader Mike Schreiner has been consistent in speaking in favour of Land Value Capture, which is a form of LVT, has wider understanding, and is generally supported by planners.
"We propose a combination of province-wide and urban-focused mechanisms (including a gas tax, congestion charges, commercial parking levies, and land value capture) to produce the revenue necessary — $3 billion a year — to build and operate the public transit and transportation infrastructure we need."
Of those 4 measures, 2 are applications of LVT and the other 2
are variants of LVT.
"Shift
taxes from labour and productivity to resource use, pollution
levies, and land value levies in
order to create incentives to use land and resources more
efficiently, reduce pollution and create disincentives for sprawl.
Ontario must increase royalty rates and levies for aggregates,
water taking, and mining."
He later told this newspaper his party also supported universal basic income to eliminate poverty, had policies to combat systemic racism and sexism, and supported public transit while proposing to revive the Ontario Northland Transit Commission.
“I think what separates us from the other two progressive parties is that we are honest about how we’re going to pay for things,” he said.
He proposed increased resource royalties, congestion charges in Toronto, commercial parking levies in the Greater Toronto Area and land-value capture at transit stops, as examples, for revenue generation.
“To me, that’s being fiscally responsible, not fiscally conservative,” said Schreiner.
He also mentioned Land Value Capture at his visit to Barrie a few weeks ago, part of the same tour referenced in this article.
However, Mike knows that in politics, when you're explaining, you're losing. So rather than use terminology that 99% of people won't recognize (LVT), he uses terms that are part of the common revenue vernacular right now, but that are congruent with the principles of LVT.
Erich.