Christine Kinnie

The Green Party of Canada is committed to bold action for a fairer, sustainable future: investing in affordable housing, ensuring fair taxation, expanding healthcare, fostering a green economy, and strengthening democracy.

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Affordability & Housing

Tax measures and rebates

Promesse de Green

Raise the Basic Personal Amount for income tax to $40,000

"Eliminate federal income taxes for low income Canadians and decrease the tax burden on Canadians earning $100,000 or less by raising the Basic Personal Amount to $40,000." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Climate Change & the Environment

Green jobs

Promesse de Green

Ensure clean economy subsidies serve workers and communities by requiring strong labour, environmental, and transparency conditions on all public funding

"Ensure clean economy subsidies serve workers and communities — not just corporate profits by requiring strong labour, environmental, and transparency conditions on all public funding." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Oil and gas

Promesse de Green

Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects

"Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects. No public funds should support continued fossil fuel expansion." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Pollution

Promesse de Green

Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping

"Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping, ensuring major international polluters pay their fair share. Work with global partners, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to develop a fair and effective system." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Jobs, Businesses, & Labour

Oil and gas

Promesse de Green

Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects

"Eliminate all fossil fuel subsidies immediately, including tax write-offs for LNG, oil, gas, and coal projects. No public funds should support continued fossil fuel expansion." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Minority Rights, Fair Government, & Democracy

Tax fairness

Promesses de Green

Increase the corporate tax rate from 14% to 21% for businesses with profits over $100M

"Increase the corporate tax rate from 14% to 21% for businesses with profits over $100 million ($44 billion in revenue)." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Introduce a permanent 15% Excess Profit Tax on large corporations, including banks, grocery chains, and fossil fuel companies

"Introduce a permanent Windfall Tax (Excess Profit Tax) on large corporations, including banks, grocery chains and fossil fuel companies, to prevent profiteering at the expense of Canadians. This tax will apply at a rate of 15% on profits exceeding 120% of a company’s average profits over the previous four years, ensuring that large corporations contribute fairly when they generate excessive gains." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Implement a 0.35% Financial transaction Tax on trades involving stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies, to curb speculation

"Implement a 0.35% Financial Transactions Tax (Tobin Tax) on trades involving stocks, bonds, derivatives, and currencies. This measure will help curb speculative trading practices that destabilize markets and generate significant revenue for social, economic, and environmental programs."

Apply a corporate tax on transnational e-commerce companies operating in Canada
Implement a progressive wealth tax on net wealth above $10M

"Implement a progressive wealth tax on net wealth above $10 million. The tax would apply at a rate of 1% on net wealth over $10 million, 2% on net wealth over $50 million, and 3% on net wealth over $100 million. This policy would impact only .5% of Canadian households." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Apply a net wealth-based exit tax of 35% on assets over $10M for individuals renouncing Canadian tax residency

"Strengthen Canada’s exit tax to prevent the ultra-wealthy from avoiding taxes by moving assets abroad. We will apply a net wealth-based exit tax of 35% on assets over $10 million for individuals renouncing Canadian tax residency, ensuring those who have benefited the most from Canada’s economy must contribute significantly before leaving. Loopholes that allow tax avoidance through corporate structures and exempt assets will also be closed." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Apply a progressive tax only to profits over $10M, and limit the ability to deduct past investment losses to a maximum of 10 years

"Ensure fair taxation of extreme capital gains by applying a progressive tax only to profits over $10 million. To prevent wealthy investors from avoiding taxes indefinitely, we will also limit the ability to deduct past investment losses to a maximum of 10 years." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Revise the Select Luxury Items Tax to remove loopholes, increase tax rates on private jets and super-yachts, and exempt Canadian-made vessels

"Revise Canada’s Select Luxury Items Tax Act to eliminate the “lesser of” rule and apply a flat luxury tax rate (e.g., 10% or higher on the full purchase price).

» Increase the tax rates for extreme wealth purchases (e.g., higher rates for private jets and superyachts.)

» Close corporate loopholes that allow businesses to buy these assets to avoid the Select Luxury Items Tax.

» Exempt Canadian-made commercial and recreational vessels from the Select Luxury Items Tax, to support small manufacturers and coastal industries."

Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Work with international partners to implement a global minimum corporate tax and combat tax evasion
End tax agreements with known tax havens
Close stock options and capital gains tax loopholes

"Close stock options and capital gains tax loopholes, which primarily benefit wealthy executives." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Tax hidden funds and require proof of foreign business operations

"End off shore tax evasion by taxing hidden funds and requiring proof of foreign business operations." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Focus the CRA on identifying hidden wealth and recovering tax revenue lost in offshore tax havens, rather than auditing low-income Canadians
Eliminate the 50% corporate meals and entertainment expense deduction
Review and phase out corporate subsidies that don't deliver proven economic, environmental, or social benefits

"Review and phase out corporate subsidies that fail to deliver proven economic, environmental, or social benefits, with priority given to eliminating subsidies that:

» Distort markets without improving public well-being.

» Contribute to corporate concentration of key industries.

» Benefit large corporations disproportionately over small businesses and workers.

» Are provided to corporations with majority foreign ownership, particularly U.S.-based firms, undermining Canadian economic sovereignty.

» Fail to pass a cost-benefit analysis."

Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Mandate full public reporting on corporate tax benefits, grants, and loans

"Increase transparency on business subsidies by mandating full public reporting on corporate tax benefits, grants, and loans — including which corporations receive them and their economic impact." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

Create an independent Federal Tax Commission to continuously review tax fairness

Culture, Arts, & Media

News and journalism

Promesse de Green

Prohibit Canadian businesses from deducting advertising costs on foreign-owned sites, like Google and Facebook

Biographie

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A South Surrey local, public school secretary, and mature student at KPU, Christine Kinnie is fighting for affordable housing, fair taxation, expanded healthcare, and a just, sustainable future. She believes politics should serve people and planet—not profit.

My name is Christine Kinnie, and I am proud to be the Green Party of Canada candidate for South Surrey – White Rock. My roots in this community run deep. My great-grandparents lived on a small farm in Ocean Park, and the house is one of the last original homes still standing on 18th Avenue. My grandparents both lived in White Rock, and my family still lives here, in South Surrey.

My motivation in running for office is a deep commitment to social equality, and building a future where every Canadian can thrive. I believe that politics should be about people and the planet, not profit, and I am driven by the urgency of housing affordability, the cost of living crisis, and the need for bold, compassionate leadership.

Professionally, I am a secretary for the Surrey School District. Every day I witness the great service that public schools provide to our community, in spite of overcrowding and underfunding. I also see more children and families requiring support and struggling with the burden of the rising cost of living. 

I’m an active volunteer with the South Fraser Unitarians. I currently serve as Chair of the Board, and also as a Lay Chaplain, officiating weddings, funerals and other rites of passage. 

If elected, my goals are rooted in the Green Party’s platform, with a strong focus on affordable housing, fair taxation, health care, and caring for all Canadians. We need rent-controlled and means-based social housing, not policies that incentivize and subsidize private-sector developers and investors. I’ll advocate for a fair tax system where corporations and the wealthiest pay their share, funding essential services like universal pharmacare and mental health care, while advancing disability justice to create an inclusive society. I am committed to fostering peace and security by promoting diplomacy and increasing Canadian self-reliance. I will fight to strengthen democracy through electoral reform and transparent governance. My vision is a Canada where no one is left behind, and everyone can thrive in a just, equitable, and sustainable future.


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