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The Kingston Greens represent the Green Party of
Ontario and the Green Party of Canada in the Kingston electoral district. The financial and
political obligations of the party are met by the members of the
executive with a great deal of help from local members and
volunteers.
 Find out more about how you can help.
Find out more about Campaign 2006
Find out more about our 2003 provincial campaign.
In February, 2004, the Kingston Greens approved their first constitution.
Click here to read the Kingston Greens Constitution.
We believe that government can and should maintain its
integrity while serving the people. This is a crucial point,
one which isn’t highlighted enough in today’s politics;
if the ruling party cannot be counted on to act according to
their principles, then the people can never be certain of what
they will be getting when they vote a party into government.
Governance with integrity is the cornerstone of a democracy.
This is the Green Party’s starting point – no broken promises.
We believe that the first concern of government ought to be the
health and well-being of all of its citizens. This ‘well-being’
does not consist only of economic prosperity, of course; it
includes intangibles such as education, safety, and happiness to
name but a few.
We believe that the way to achieve this end is through balance.
A community of people which governs itself well is one which
measures the consequences of its actions, not just short-sightedly
and narrowly as so many in politics do today, but with an eye to future
generations and to the aspects of our environment which are beyond
ourselves. Such far-sightedness is integral to our overall well-being
since what affects others will eventually affect us or our kin as well.
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We have learned the hard way that polluting the water, the air,
and the land and causing the extinction of vast numbers of animal
and plant species not only brings our own end nearer, but also makes
life here in the present much less pleasant. Not long ago summer was a
time of fun and relaxation here in Kingston; today, because of the
intensity of the smog, for many it is a time to dread. Not long ago Lake
Ontario was a clean lake to swim in and fish from; today, much of the
lake is off-limits for swimming and those who eat fish from its waters do
so at their own risk.
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We of the Kingston Greens say that the time for action has come.
We need to take control of our future and ensure that it is a prosperous
one for us, for our children, and for the others with whom we share this
planet. To this end, we reject the traditional right/left continuum along
which all other parties in the country (and the world) situate themselves;
instead, we embrace those solutions which best fit the problem at hand.
See the sections on Kingston Greens Values
and our Election Platform
for the details of this balanced approach.
Bridget Doherty - (GPO Candidate)
Click here for information about Bridget Doherty, Green Party
of Ontario candidate for Kingston and the Islands.
Eric Walton - (CA President - GPC Candidate)
Eric Walton is a political studies graduate of Queen's University. He was
co-founder and owner of two local small businesses and one non-profit (KEAP -Kingston Environmental Action Project). He is
now Constituency Association Strategist for the Green Party of Ontario
President's Council. He co-produced and directed "The Nature Of Things"
documentary film "Ancient Futures - Learning From Ladakh" (now available at the
Kingston Public Library)
Click here for information about Eric Walton, Green Party
of Canada candidate for Kingston and the Islands.
Morgan Wade - (Web Communications)
Morgan works as an information technology specialist in the Kingston area.
He has a Master's degree in Philosophy and Political Theory from Dalhousie and
McMaster Universities.
George Clark - (Executive-At-Large)
George Clark was born in the United States and moved to Canada and a teaching position at
Queen's University in 1965. He admired Pearson, became a Trudeau fan,
moved to the NDP in the 80s. In the Mulroney-Chretien era, Clark became
actively involved in social and public affairs in Canada. After some years
with the NDP, he joined the Greens seeing them as the only party with a
real sense that humanity must live on and in this earth, that we'll have no
second chance if we degrade the global environment, the world we live in
and of which we are a part.
Wilfred Sorensen - (Executive-At-Large)
Wilfred was born in Denmark and came to Kingston in 1941 at age 11. He has a
bachelor of architecture degree from McGill University and has practiced
architecture in Kingston for 35 years. He now runs Bubble Action Pumps Ltd.
a company that makes circulating pumps for solar water heating systems powered by heat energy instead of electricity.
As a hobby, he tends the family
wood lot by thinning and pruning and increasing the variety and quality of
trees in it. He would like to see Kingston become more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly
and would like to add to Kingston's beauty and health by adding to and protecting the city's trees.
Jude Larkin - (CFO)
Jude is a nature-loving health nut. During the day she works for Hummingbird Ltd as a computer programmer.
Jude spent 10 months working with horses in England and has travelled all over North America to
wild places to cave, kayak, canoe, hike, ski and climb. She grew up in Ottawa but has lived
longer in Kingston and prefers it because of its smaller size. Jude has a BSc in Biophysics from
Guelph and the same in Computing and Information Science from Queen's. Aside from the Peace
Petition Caravan Campaign, various marches and
sending money to causes she has not been involved in politics until just recently.
Jude decided to join the Kingston Greens team when she discovered the Green party platform
is so sensible decided she wanted to help promote it.
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