Joe Volpe - champion of environmental economic development

Joe Volpe, a Member of Parliament since 1988 and former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, was in Winnipeg yesterday to talk about his efforts to seek the leadership of the federal Liberal Party (photo above).

Joe, in the remarks I heard, is emerging as a champion of environmental economic development.
As Joe pointed out, environmental industries are fast growing and offer much opportunity for growth. Indeed, increasingly, industries need to develop products in ways that are environmentally better. People are looking for and will increasingly purchase products which are produced in environmentally better ways. Economic growth is increasingly limited by the environmental effects or side effects of the products. As Joe Volpe pointed out, it is time to understand the emerging world in which environmental aspects are increasingly important.

As Joe Volpe pointed out it has been Liberals in Canada who have been at the forefront of developing the efforts and the innovation needed to advance environmental industries and the environment.