May 8: Why the Green Party approach is both left and right and thus the most pragmatic

The Writ has dropped - may the battle begin!

Today  is the beginning of an election which nobody can seem to identify a clear winner who appeals to a large majority of Ontario voters. Too bad.
While Ontario has been lurching along since the 2008 Recession, thanks to massive and unsustainable government spending, our economy has certainly not recovered in any meaningful way. Although there have been some positive moves in the last 10 years, such as the Green Energy Act, even this small bit of light is tarnished. How?  By the way it has angered so many Ontario citizens by the perception that it has been the main driver of increasing electricity prices [it is NOT!] and the complete inability of citizens to challenge the building of wind turbines that they feel may injure their health.
So, somehow the Liberals did the right thing, but in the wrong way, and thus undid much of the good they have done.
But I am not here to put down any other political party - they are all doing the best they can and trying to implement policies that they truly believe in. The only problem is that they are all so stuck in their ideologies and desire for power that their 'solutions' usually cause a bigger head ache that the problem they 'fixed'. [eg. Green energy act]

I, like many voters, truly believe that the Green Party has the BEST approach to sustainable government. This approach is fiscally conservative but socially progressive; it is an approach that is not stuck in silly 'left' or 'right' positions, but is willing to implement ideas that simply work.
For example, Toronto and Ottawa desperately need more and improved public transit, but raising even more income taxes or increasing the provincial debt, given our HUGE debt of more than $200 billion, are not options.
So what option is there?
Give cities the power and authority to debt finance their needed infrastructure.
Honestly, the powers the cities have is a left over from the middle 19th century and we are in, so I am told, the 21st century. Back then most people were farmers. Now 80% of us live in big cities and towns. Clearly this is a hugs shift. But our political system has not shifted accordingly.
So let's smarten up. Toronto has more people and more of an economy than many countries but no significant ability to raise revenues. Let's give them that power to invest in infrastructure that makes the city more productive.
And by the way, perhaps we need the province to stop using debt to finance regular business like hospital, roads and schools but reserve debt to be ONLY for infrastructure investments that make us more productive and will thus increase our GNP...
Is this a left or right wing approach. Both. And neither. We just need to get the job done without saddling our children with our excess but also with a public infrastructure that they will benefit from and thank us for.