The B.C. Green party was the first out of the blocks with its 2009 election platform, releasing British Columbia’s Green Book on March 19.

On April 9, the B.C. NDP revealed its platform, followed by the B.C. Liberals on April 15.

Due to the Green party’s smaller size and lack of MLAs, leader Jane Sterk and its other candidates have garnered less attention.

Here are 10 ways that the Greens’ platform distinguishes them from the New Democrats and the Liberals, as the party strives to elect its first MLA in provincial history.

The Greens would:

1. Re-establish a provincial police force.

2. Raise the carbon tax to $50 per tonne of emissions, and "Tax all GHG emitting industries". (The Liberals, who introduced the tax, would triple it over time. The NDP would scrap the tax.)

3. Cancel the Gateway highway-expansion program. (The Liberals are pushing Gateway, and the NDP is not opposed to it.)

4. End drug prohibition.

5. Take tasers away from all law-enforcement agencies in the province.

6. Move the province toward a “steady-state economy” that would avoid the shocks of economic highs and lows, and allow for better environmental protection than unfettered economic growth.

7. Create “green-collar jobs”. These have been largely undefined to date, but they emphasize job creation that does not diminish natural resources to the extent that unfettered economic growth does. (Both the NDP and the Liberals tout increased growth, though the one of the Liberals’ six pillars concerns making do with less.)

8. Seek a moratorium on gambling licences and a “gradual phase-out of the most addictive forms of gambling such as slot machines and on-line gambling”. (The Liberals have seen this sector grow exponentially under their tenure.)

9. Repeal Bill 30, which removed local-government decision making on some zoning issues.

10. Return B.C. Ferries to the status of Crown corporation. (The Liberals want business as usual, and the NDP promises only to return “accountability” to B.C. Ferries.)