This list of policy terms builds on the Imagine Halifax initiative and Green Party of Canada lists from 2004:
- 211
- 311
- 4P
- 911
- accounting reform
- air quality
- altermondialiste or anti-globalization movement
- alternative transferable vote aka instant runoff voting
- answer recommendation - also on list of process terms and list of process proposals; it is here to reflect use in e-government and e-democracy
- anticipatory democracy
- ape personhood
- approval voting - also on list of process terms
- arts
- auto share
- assisted living
- assisted suicide and right to die
- audit protocol - also on list of process terms
- Auditor General
- backcast to fixed time horizon - also on list of process terms - a key method in long term planning
- ballot access
- beyond a reasonable doubt
- biosecurity as contrasted to biodefense
- biodiversity
- bioregion and ecoregion - especially watershed
- bioregional democracy
- bioregional multi-member district
- bioregional steward
- BSE
- candidate survey - should Elections Canada make these easier for small groups to conduct?
- capital asset - also on list of process terms
- car co-op and start car co-op if there's none nearby
- citizen
- citizen assembly e.g. as being instituted in Ontario to agree on a proposal for an electoral reform referendum
- citizen initiative including recall election and referendum and car co-op project
- city signal infrastructure
- City Signal Infrastructure Loan
- civic best practices
- Civic Efficiency Collaborative
- climate change
- co-housing
- the commons and tragedy of the commons
- collude - also on list of process terms
- command and control - also on list of process terms
- command hierarchy - also on list of process terms
- commodity market
- Communities and Infrastructure - a Minister of State
- community emergency response team
- comprehensive outcome - also on list of process terms
- computer supported cooperative work - also on list of process terms
- conflict of interest - also on list of process terms
- conspiracy - as defined in Criminal Code of Canada
- consumable - as defined in Ecological Intelligent Design
- continuous improvement - also on list of process terms
- continuous municipal performance audit, e.g. Baltimore CitiStat method
- copyright - also on list of process terms
- creative class - also Bohemian Index and Gay Index
- credential - also on list of process terms
- critical infrastructure
- culture of life
- cultural right
- deliberative democracy - also on list of process terms
- delphi method - also on list of process terms
- deforestation
- developed nation
- disability rights
- disabled
- district borders and gerry-mandering
- do-least-harm - also on list of process terms
- e-democracy
- e-government
- e-waste - also on list of process terms
- eco-syndicalism
- eco-village
- ecological and social indicator and triple bottom line - also on list of process terms
- Ecological Intelligent Design
- economic choice contrasted with ethical choice and political choice - also on list of process terms
- economic growth and uneconomic growth esp. re: GDP
- economic inequity and (more slanted) economic injustice
- the 867 ecoregions and 8 ecozones of the Earth
- ecosystem health
- ecosystem valuation and price of Earth implied in economics
- Efficient Civics Guild
- Electoral District - a term defined by Elections Canada
- Electoral District Association - a term defined by Elections Canada
- electoral reform
- eligibility to vote
- emergency preparedness and emergency response
- energy economics as the foundation of so-called green economics
- environmental health
- environmental security
- ethic
- evidence/source/authority - also on list of process terms
- extinction
- federal political party
- Federation of Canadian Municipalities
- first responder
- financial capital - a style of capital
- financial yield vs. ecological yield
- fiscal policy
- five levels of intranet - also on list of process terms
- foreign policy
- forensic audit - also on list of process terms
- forestry
- free software
- full cost accounting - also on list of process terms
- full employment
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles - also on list of process terms
- global debt relief
- Government of Canada
- green Olympics - every Olympic Games is now called this - is it a fair call?
- green procurement - as defined in the 2004 Throne speech vs. definition by the GPC - see moral purchasing
- green tax shift
- grey
- grey governance
- guaranteed income supplement
- Health Canada
- Healthy Telecom
- heritage
- home care
- human capital - an aggregate, not a basic capital asset!
- human development
- human rights
- individual capital - an economy synonym for talent/initiative/creativity
- industrial ecology
- Instant Runoff Vote - one-winner Single Transferable Vote
- instructional capital in patents and as central to the intellectual capital debate
- intangibles - those capital assets that are not physical nor legal tender
- laws of God
- Canadian federal political party leader - a legal definition by Elections Canada, and as specialized by each Canadian federal political party
- learning organization - also on list of process terms
- legislator - also on list of process terms - this is the person who actually advances the policy in the House of Commons or wrote it as a lobbyist
- lobby - also on list of process terms
- management accounting
- management accounting for cities
- market value housing
- measuring well-being - also on list of process terms
- mediawiki-based services - also on list of process terms
- meeting and wiki meeting - also on list of process terms - __PARTIES CAN'T IMPLEMENT A METHOD IN THE Government of Canada if they don't use it internally - see eat your own dog food!
- money supply and inflation rate - as related to natural capital and individual capital - both of which are alive - and their pricing in price of Earth and price of life
- monetary reform, monetary reform and its relation to views of Economics and Economic Philosophy
- monopolies on information, e.g. patent, and why intellectual property isn't
- monorail
- moral purchasing - see also green procurement
- moral values - every body has 'em
- municipal performance audit - see also more specific continuous municipal performance audit and more general government performance audit
- municipality
- natural capital - a term extant in Liberal policy and in UN work - a capital asset style
- no jobs on a dead planet - an idiom
- nation
- Natural Capitalism
- Natural Step
- nature's services including the ecological yield of commodities
- negative income tax
- open content - also on list of process terms
- CC-by - an open content license
- CC-by-nc-sa - a Share Alike open content license
- Open Code Collaborative
- open party, i.e. one using Living Agenda, Living Platform or like methods
- open space conference - also on list of process terms
- organic farm
- organic food versus local food
- organic ranch
- participatory democracy - also on list of process terms and one of the Six Principles
- party platform comparison - should be facilitated by requirements set by Elections Canada ?
- patent
- performance audit - also on list of process terms
- persona non grata - who should not be allowed in Canada? also on list of process terms
- podcast - notably CBC podcast and CEC podcast and ECG podcast
- political Islam
- political Catholicism
- political Protestantism
- political virtues - also on list of process terms
- political Zionism
- politics as usual - also on list of process terms
- precautionary principle
- polluter pays
- poverty line
- price of life and IPCC valuation of it in developed vs. developing; also on list of process terms
- privacy
- Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- product market within service economy
- proportional representation and specific proposals for Mixed Proportional Representation, e.g. in PEI in November
- prototype
- province
- public accounts reform - a general debate in Canada focusing on Auditor-General of Canada's role and role of forensic audits
- public health as basis of public safety
- Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
- Public Service Commission
- quality management - also on list of process terms
- reflexive intranet - also on list of process terms
- refugee
- rent to own housing
- rental housing geared to income
- research - also on list of process terms - Government does it, Party does it, NGOs do it, what should we all be doing together?
- resign - also on list of process terms - big issue in government accountability
- reverse onus
- right of return
- rights
- risk management - also on list of process terms
- ruleset - also on list of process terms - how many of these are there in government anyway?
- runoff voting - notice this is not Instant Runoff Voting; also on list of process terms
- rural development
- science and technology
- Share Alike - also on list of process terms
- Senate reform - a general debate in Canada
- self-organize - also on list of process terms - something nature does, and communities do, so why can't government do it?
- service economy - also on list of process terms
- service product - as defined in Ecological Intelligent Design
- seven generations - typical time horizon for decisions - also on list of process terms
- simultaneous policy - also on list of process terms - see also simultaneous policy wiki
- Single Transferable Vote - to be implemented in BC in 2005?
- social capital - a term extant in Liberal policy
- social contract
- social economy - a term extant in Liberal policy and throne speeches
- social justice - one of the Six Principles and Ten Key Values
- social network - a very well defined term in sociology and commerce
- social software - like this wiki - also on list of process terms
- soil
- soil depletion
- source - also on list of process terms - in policy mostly relevant to whistleblower legislation and journalist protections
- species loss
- sports and recreation
- standard of evidence - also on list of process terms - to what standard are different kinds of decisions to be held, in government?
- state services - is there a catalog of all services provided by the state in Canada?
- steady state - also on list of process terms
- supportive housing
- sustainability
- sustainable development
- sustainable trades
- throughput accounting
- trademark and service mark - also on list of process terms
- transparent municipalities - also on list of process terms
- twelve levers - also on list of process terms and organizing ruleset of list of process papers - _A CORE CONCEPT_
- universal demogrant
- unsaleable - as defined in Ecological Intelligent Design
- urban autonomy - see also Province of Toronto
- urban economics
- values - see moral values and economic values and capital asset valuation
- value reporting - also on list of process terms
- value creation - also on list of process terms
- voting machine
- voting system - also on list of process terms
- water quality
- water supply
- watershed
- weight of evidence - also on list of process terms
- well-being and quality of life - also on list of process terms
- whistleblower
- wiki - also on list of process terms
- wiki best practices
- zero e-waste hardware - the platform for green systems