e-594 (Tax system)

Petition to the House of Commons

• The ever shorter consumption cycle of goods produces large amounts of waste;
• Local businesses and crafts are valuable to any society, even in the context of global trade;
• Canada wants to reduce its carbon footprint in the near future;
• Fixing a fault, sewing back something together or giving a second life to an item that would otherwise be thrown away would cost less and the consumer would be incentivised to consider a repair;
• Local businesses would benefit from the demand for their services and specific crafts could be preserved as they would become relevant again; and
• The fact of caring for what one owns and respecting the value of hard work done by a neighbour would translate directly to a reduction in pollution, be it by reducing the amount waste produced by thrown away depleted goods or by decreasing the distance traveled by the sum of goods bought in one’s lifetime of consumption.