Strengthening Our Communities to Improve Wellness

Green Party of Saskatchewan MLAs will begin with a focus on promoting wellness, rather than focusing on bandaging symptoms.  We will provide the tools our community needs to ensure the wellness of each citizen.  The Green Party recognizes that by meeting an individual’s basic needs there is less stress on our health care system, reductions in crime, and an increase in productivity.  Treating people after they are sick only goes so far.  Instead let’s prevent illness before it takes hold.  We believe this can be done through strengthened communities.

Green MLAs will help strengthen our communities and encourage wellness by:

• Focusing on preventative and holistic health care initiatives
• Implementing a province wide food charter
• Creating more affordable housing so that at least 50% of residents are able to own their home, rather than 15%
• Providing free, publicly funded childcare, with fairly paid and competent staff, and increase the number of spaces in daycare centers to at least the Canadian average
• Ensure the development of integrated community wellness centers such as Station 20 West, that integrate local food, life long education centers, community-based businesses, alternative housing initiatives, community organizations, child care and birthing centers
• Promotion of community kitchens, nutrition education programs, organic gardens and compost, all to provide for the ongoing food and nutrition needs of citizens
• Supporting a restorative justice approach that focuses on developing healthy relationships rather than punishing behavior that has been learned through poverty
• Implementing a Guaranteed Livable Annual Income (see www.livableincome.org)